This book discusses and identifies the modernizing trends, which have changed Southeast Asian countries in varying ways. After an overview of current concepts of modernity, the following chapters introduce issues of education, citizenship and ethnicity, religion, the emergence of the middle...

The market economy, the rule of law and the path of development -- All in the family: gender and identity within the household -- Group rights, distributional conflicts and the making of unequal identities -- National and sub-national institutions -- The interface between the global and national...