Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia: Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures

315 Pages·2016·6.37 MB·English

by  Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo

GLOBALIZATION
AND DEMOCRACY
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
Edited by
Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo,
Boike Rehbein and Surichai Wun’gaeo
Frontiers of Globalization
Series Editor
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Professor of Sociology, University of California,
Santa Barbara, USA
With the onset of the twenty-fi rst century, key components of the
architecture of twentieth-century globalization have been crumbling.
American hegemony has weakened politically and economically. Laissez-
faire capitalism that shaped the neoliberal globalization has proved to
be crisis-prone and is giving way to a plurality of ways of organizing
and regulating capitalism. With the rise of emerging societies the driving
forces of the world economy are shifting not merely geographically but
structurally; industrializing societies, rather than postindustrial consumer
societies, are again propelling the world economy. Th ese changes involve
major breaks: an era of multipolarity; the affi rmation of the plurality of
capitalisms; the emergence of new modernities; and the new patterns of
East-South and South-South relations, in contrast to the North-South
relations. Th ese changes unfold on a global scale and cannot be prop-
erly understood on a national, regional or even international basis. Th ey
represent major trends breaks, although actual changes may well take
shape through a thousand small steps. Understanding these changes
requires interdisciplinary and kaleidoscopic approaches that range from
global political economy to cultural transformations. Th e series welcomes
contributions to global studies that are innovative in topic, approach or
theoretical framework. Amid the fi n-de-regime of the millenium, with
globalization in the throes of dramatic changes, the series will cater to
the growing interest in educational and study material on contempo-
rary globalization and its ramifi cations. Proposals can be submitted by
mail to the series editor: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Mellichamp Professor of
Global Studies and Sociology, Global& International Studies Program,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7065, USA.
More information about this series at
http://www.springer.com/series/14992
Chantana B anpasirichote Wungaeo • B oike R ehbein
Surichai W un'gaeo
Editors
Globalization
and Democracy
in Southeast Asia
Challenges, Responses and Alternative Futures
Editors
Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo Surichai Wun'gaeo
Chulalongkorn University Bangkok Chulalongkorn University Bangkok
Th ailand Th ailand
Boike Rehbein
Humboldt University Berlin
Germany
Frontiers of Globalization
ISBN 978-1-137-57653-8 ISBN 978-1-137-57654-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57654-5
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Boike Rehbein and Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo
Part I: Democracy and Globalization 15
2 Democracy Is Coming 17
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Part II: Southeast Asia 43
3 Th e Noisy Right and the Not-So-Silent Moderates:
Democracy and All Th at in Malaysia 45
Abdul R. Embong
4 Singapore’s Social Contract Trilemma 63
Lam Keong Yeoh , Andrew Zhi Jian Yeo , and Hawyee Auyong
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5 Th e Afterglow of Hun Sen’s Cambodia?
Socioeconomic Development, Political Change,
and the Persistence of Inequalities 87
Sok Udom Deth and Daniel Bultmann
6 Democracy and Middle Classes in Laos 111
Boike Rehbein
7 Democratization in Vietnam’s Post-Đổi Mới One-Party
Rule: Change from Within, Change from the Bottom
to the Top, and Possibilities 131
Hai Hong Nguyen and Minh Quang Pham
8 Emerging Democracy and Ethnic Identity
Crisis in Myanmar 157
Zaw Aung
9 Prosperity and Inequality in Metro Manila:
Refl ections on Housing the Poor, Climate Risk, and
Governance of Cities 177
Emma Porio
10 Th e Triangular Relations of Society–State–Market:
Social Problems in Indonesian Society in the Context
of Globalization 199
Francisia SSE Seda
Part III: Focus on Th ailand 213
11 Th ailand’s Political Crisis: Th e Perplexities of
Democracy and Society 215
Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo
Contents vii
12 Can Deliberative Democracy Be an Alternative
for the Twenty-First Century? A Case Study of Th ailand 243
Surangrut Jumnianpol and Nithi Nuangjamnong
13 Online Social Surveillance and Cyber- Witch
Hunting in Post-2014 Coup Th ailand 269
Pirongrong Ramasoota
14 Conclusions: Globalization, Democracy and Challenges 289
Chantana Banpasirichote Wungaeo
Name Index 305
Subject Index 309

Notes on Contributors
Zaw Aung is a lead researcher at Myanmar Academic Research Society (MARS).
Areas of interest are public intellectuals, Myanmar, Mekong region. Zaw received
research fellowship awards from M-POWER—CPWF Research Fellowship
Program in the Mekong Region for the year 2012–13 and from the Nippon
Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API Fellowship Program)
for the year 2013–14.
Hawyee Auyong is a research associate at the Case Studies Unit at the Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His areas
of interest include early stage economic development, labor productivity, labor
migration, labor rights. Th e recent publications are ‘Alternative Growth Paths’ in
Future Tense (2012); ‘Big Data’ in F uture Tense (2014); A Handbook on Inequality,
Poverty and Unmet Social Needs (research contributor) (2015).
Daniel Bultmann is a research fellow at the Institute of Asian and African
Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. He specializes in peace and confl ict stud-
ies, sociology of collective violence and armed groups (with a regional focus on
Cambodia). Recent publications include ‘Irrigating a Socialist Utopia.
Disciplinary Space and Population Control under the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979’
in T ranscience (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012); Inside Cambodian Insurgency. A Sociological
Perspective on Civil Wars and Confl ict (2015).
Sok Udom Deth is Dean of Academic Aff airs, Zaman University, Phnom
Penh. Areas of specialization include Cambodia’s political history and foreign
aff airs. Recent publications are ‘Geopolitics’ in Th e Routledge Handbook of
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