Local Cultures and the New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2002

Local Cultures and the New Asia

The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia

Edited by: C.J.W.-L. Wee

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812307149

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Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension between the universal status that some claim capitalism now occupies in the post–Cold War world and the particularities of the local cultures it enters should be of great concern.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia C. J. W. L. Wee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
SECTION I: THE STATE
1. Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia Kamal Malhotra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. Muddling Through: Development under a “Weak” State Edilberto C. de Jesus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
SECTION II: THE CULTURAL LINEAGES OF “ASIAN” CAPITALISM
3. Battering Down the Chinese Walls: The Antinomies of Anglo-American Liberalism and the History of East Asian Capitalism in the Shadow of the Cold War Mark T. Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
4. Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia Syed Farid Alatas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
SECTION III: THE STATE AND LOCAL CULTURES
5. From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore C. J. W. L. Wee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
6. Telephony at the Limits of State Control: “Discourse Networks” in Indonesia Joshua David Barker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
7. Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia Goh Beng Lan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
8. Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: “Thai-ness” and High Art Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Pages
- Main content: 260

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Published: January 7, 2002
ISBN: 9789812307149