"Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges,...

"Alongside structural and material interventions, emotional engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development's slipstream. This book elaborates this proposition by showing that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and...

Offers a new insight into the rapidly-developing picture of economics in Southeast Asia. The countries of the region display a great variety of development experiences. Its character is increasingly dominated by the region's ever-closer integration into the wider East Asian network of primary...

"The environment is one of the defining issues of our times, and it is closely linked to questions and dilemmas surrounding economic development. Southeast Asia is one of the world's most economically and demographically dynamic regions, and it is also one in which a host of environmental issues...