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This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

This volume adopts a multidisciplinary and comparative approach to development that brings together issues that are characteristic of the lifelong scholarship of Professor Gordon White. These include a focus on the state, civil society, welfare and globalization.

The Nature of Asian Politics is a broad and thematic treatment of the fundamental factors that characterize politics in the fourteen key countries of Southeast and Northeast Asia. Bruce Gilley begins with an overview of state-society relations, then moves on to the fundamental questions of development and democracy, and finally shifts to an exploration of governance and public policy in the region. This book proposes an Asian governance model that is useful for understanding politics from Japan to Indonesia. By reviving an earlier paradigm known as oriental despotism and applying it to political theories on the Asian region, this book is likely to attract wide debate among students of Asian politics and among Western policy makers seeking to engage the region

This article focuses on an incident, a series of events in the political life of an English city. The case in question deals with a proposal to demolish over 50 houses in the Grand Union Housing Action Area in Leicester, in 1983. The demolition plan represented a desire on the part of officers and councillors of the City Council to increase the rate of replacement of the housing stock and to break away from a policy which relied almost exclusively on improvement and repair. The plan met considerable resistance from local residents, who were predominantly Asian owner-occupiers. It split the local Labour party and was eventually abandoned.
Having described the case the paper seeks to extract from it a number of general political relationships and policy considerations. The technique of using a study of the actions of individuals and groups within a particular situation to exhibit the nature of the broader social or political structure has been widely and successfully used in social anthropology (Gluckman, 1940; Epstein, 1967). While obviously limited by its particular focus, it provides a convenient and interesting way of raising important issues and opening up areas of debate.

Conjunctures and continuities in Southeast Asian politics -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Conributors -- 1. Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics -- 2. (Re)Assessing the EDSA "People Power" (1986) as a Critical Conjuncture -- 3. The Road to Doi Moi in 1986: Domestic Dimensions -- 4. The 1988 Uprising in Myanmar: Historical Conjuncture or Praetorian Redux? -- 5. Cambodia's Historical Conjunctures and Their Significance -- 6. Changing the Rules: Historical Conjunture and Transition in Indonesia -- 7. The Resistible Rise of Thaksin Shinawatra: Crisis, Change and the Collapse of Thailand's Democracy -- 8. The March 2008 General Elections in Malaysia as a Historical Conjuncture -- 9. Conclusion: Conjuntures and Continuities in Southeast Asia -- Index.

List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Contentious Emotions: An Introduction Amélie Blom and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal PART I: Bringing Emotions Back into South Asian Political Mobilisations: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 2. The Processes and Contexts of Emotional Involvement Christophe Traïni 3. Participatory and Adversarial Politics: Representing Speech Action, Collective Action and Emotion Lisa Mitchell 4. Remembering and Accessing the 'Emotion of Things': A Methodological Journey with a Jihadist Militant in Pakistan Amélie Blom PART II: Major Historical Shifts in the Public Expression of Emotions 5. Anger, Hurt and Enthusiasm: Mobilising for Violence, 1870-1920 Margrit Pernau 6. From Court to Public Sphere: How Urdu Poetry's Language of Romance Shaped the Language of Protest Carla Petievich PART III: Subverting and Cementing Power Relations with Emotions 7. Emotions as Fuel: The Passage of Anti-Sexual Harassment Legislation in Pakistan Sadaf Ahmad 8. It's Effective Because It's Affective: The Dynamics and Significance of Emotions in a Delhi Jan Sunwai Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal 9. The Deployment of Resentment in Counterinsurgency: The Case of Chhattisgarh Nandini Sundar PART IV: Directing Affects Across the Elusive Boundaries of the Political 10. Mobilising Anger in Andhra Pradesh: The Emotional Politics of the Angry Young Man and Popular Telugu Cinema Imke Rajamani 11. Hope and Nostalgia in Bengal: The Longing for Netaji in a Contemporary Millennial Movement Raphaël Voix 12. Dialectics of (De)Mobilisation: Humour in Islamic Sermons of Contemporary Bangladesh Max Stille PART V: The Emotional Dynamics of Public Controversies 13. Hurt and Censorship in India Today: On Communities of Sentiments, Competing Vulnerabilities and Cultural Wars Laetitia Zecchini 14. Death, Despair, and Democracy in Bangladesh Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury Glossary Index