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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 state-of-the-art Encyclopedia provides a detailed snapshot study of politics in Asia. Curated by two internationally recognised scholars, entries offer key insights and critical reference points in order to navigate the vastness, diversity and dynamism of Asian politics. Cross-disciplinary in approach, this pioneering Encyclopedia of Asian Politics reviews a broad range of issues such as democratisation, identity politics, political culture and terrorism, as well as the regional divisions across Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Contributors include a wealth of specialist academics and practitioners from a diverse array of fields. They provide case studies on specific countries for further insight, focussing on China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan and Vietnam among other territories. Offering a high level of detail in an accessible manner, this definitive Encyclopedia will be crucial reading for students and academics in international relations, international politics, Asian studies and Asian politics. It will also prove an excellent reference point for practitioners and professionals working in the field. Key Features: Covers the latest developments in the field of Asian politics Signposts extensive additional resources for further reading and exploration Over 50 entries organised according to key geographic regions and conceptual themes Entries written by leading scholars reviewing core topics in the current political landscape"--

"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"--

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

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Women and Politics, held at Islamabad during 24-25 November 2005