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Local Cultures and the New Asia : The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia / ed. by C.J.W.-L. Wee.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : ISEAS Publishing, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789812301239
  • 9789812307149
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC441 .L63 2002
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia -- SECTION I: THE STATE -- 1. Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia -- 2. Muddling Through: Development under a “Weak” State -- 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 -- 4. Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia -- SECTION III: THE STATE AND LOCAL CULTURES -- 5. From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore -- 6. Telephony at the Limits of State Control: “Discourse Networks” in Indonesia -- 7. Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia -- 8. Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: “Thai-ness” and High Art -- Index
Summary: 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 -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia -- SECTION I: THE STATE -- 1. Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia -- 2. Muddling Through: Development under a “Weak” State -- 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 -- 4. Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia -- SECTION III: THE STATE AND LOCAL CULTURES -- 5. From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore -- 6. Telephony at the Limits of State Control: “Discourse Networks” in Indonesia -- 7. Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia -- 8. Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: “Thai-ness” and High Art -- Index

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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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In English.

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