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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “andrew vandenberg”
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  • Security, Democracy, and Society in Bali

    Trouble with Protection

    Edited by Andrew Vandenberg, Nazrina Zuryani ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on how diverse developments are reflected in the rise of the security groups in Bali, Indonesia. Bali’s security groups pose many interesting questions. Why did they put up so many huge posters around the streets of southern Bali promoting themselves? Are their claims to represent the community plausible or are they “gangs”? How are they shaped by Indonesia’s violent past? How ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Education Policy and the Australian Education Union

    Resisting Social Neoliberalism and Audit Technologies

    by Andrew Vandenberg ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book focuses on the politics of teacher resistance to the formation and implementation of neoliberal education policies in Australia. It argues that policies such as publishing examination test results online amounts to auditing teachers’ work, and assumes incompetence from teachers, which ultimately results in diverting teachers from their true professional responsibilities. The book ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • A History of Modern Indonesia

    by Adrian Vickers ...
    Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers' book, first published in 2005, traces the history of an island country, comprising some 240 million people, from the colonial period through revolution and independence to the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Australia and Indonesia

    Can We Be Friends?; Australian Foreign Affairs 3

    Edited by Jonathan Pearlman ...
    Series Book 3 - Australian Foreign Affairs
    Australian Foreign Affairs is published three times a year and seeks to explore – and encourage – debate on Australia’s place in the world and global outlook."While we can never ignore Indonesia's potential as a threat, its potential as an ally is more important to us now than it has ever been." HUGH WHITEThe third issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the turbulent relationship between ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Competition and Cooperation in Social and Political Sciences

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Social and Political Sciences

    Edited by Isbandi Rukminto Adi, Rochman Achwan ...
    The book contains essays on current issues in Social and Political Sciences, such as the issues of governance and social order; social development and community development; global challenges and inequality; civil society and social movement; IT-based community and social transformation; poverty alleviation and corporate social responsibility; and gender issues. Asia and the Pacifi c are the ... Read more

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  • Singapore in the Malay World

    Building and Breaching Regional Bridges

    by Lily Zubaidah Rahim ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship, Lily Rahim explores the salience of historical animosities and competitive economic pressures, and Singapore’s janus-faced security and foreign economic policy orientation and ‘regional outsider’ complex. Focusing on Singapore ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Virtual Thailand

    The Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore

    by Glen Lewis ...
    Series series Rethinking Southeast Asia
    Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s first term. Incorporating political economy and media theory, the book provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics.Examining the period from the mid ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia

    by Frederik Holst ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis, the author takes multiple layers of ethnicization into account and shows how these have shaped Malaysia’s socio-political system and society in different ways. Moving beyond a center ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Post-Disaster Reconstruction

    Lessons from Aceh

    Edited by Matthew Clarke, Ismet Fanany, Sue Kenny ...
    On Sunday 26 December 2004, a tsunami of up to 30 metres high hit the northern tip of Sumatera in Indonesia, causing immediate destruction and the deaths of at least 130,000 in Indonesia alone. The scale of the devastation and ensuing human suffering prompted the biggest response endeavour to any natural disaster in history.Post-Disaster Reconstruction will be the first major book that analyses ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Hard Interests, Soft Illusions

    Southeast Asia and American Power

    by Natasha Hamilton-Hart ...
    In Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam—that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Singapore Malays

    Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-State

    by Hussin Mutalib ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    The Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the 'Malay Muslim story' in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social mobility, economy, leadership, and freedom of religious expression. The book makes a significant ... Read more

    $70.99 USD