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Political, social, and economic conditions.

Relations with the US; Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar); 8 articles.

The author reports on Southeast Asian studies at Australian universities and institutes. She briefly describes courses on Asia and Southeast Asia offered at the Murdoch University. Australian National University, Victoria University of Technology, Flinders University, Monash University among others. (DÜI-Sen)

SOUTHEAST ASIA: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND TERRORISM -- SOUTHEAST ASIA: BACKGROUND, ISSUES AND TERRORISM -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INDONESIA: DOMESTIC POLITICS, STRATEGIC DYNAMICS, AND AMERICAN INTERESTS -- SUMMARY -- RECENT EVENTS: INDONESIA'S PARLIAMENTARY AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS -- Parliamentary Elections -- Presidential Elections -- OVERVIEW -- POTENTIAL ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Military-to-Military Ties and Human Rights -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- POLITICAL TRANSITION -- THE ROLE OF THE MILITARY -- AUTONOMOUS AND SECESSIONIST MOVEMENTS -- Timor-Leste -- Aceh

This Element is organized around two questions: what does populism mean in the context of Southeast Asia? And what are the causes of populist success in the region? Populism is conceived of as political strategy through which charismatic leaders establish unmediated links with otherwise unattached mass constituencies in their quest to gain and retain power. Having identified all of the cases of populism in Southeast Asia's democracies, the main argument put forward is that populist mobilization thrives in the region because parties are so weak. This weakness is in turn caused by institutional and political economic factors

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes. The first concerns hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and Southeast Asian subjects' responses to these dominant discourses. Roces introduces hegemonic discourses on ideal masculinities and ideal femininities, evaluates the impact of religion, analyses how authoritarian regimes fashion these ideals. Discussion then turns to the hegemonic ideals surrounding desire and sexualities and the way these are policed by society and the state. The second theme concerns the ways hegemonic ideals influence the gendering of power and politics. Roces argues that because many Southeast Asians see power as being held by kinship alliance groups, women are able to access political power through their ties with men-as wives, mothers, daughters, sisters and even mistresses. However, women's movements have challenged this androcentric division of power.

Southeast Asian animism in context / Kaj Århem -- Dimensions of animism in Southeast Asia / Guido Sprenger -- Seeing and knowing : metamorphosis and the fragility of species in Chewong animistic ideology / Signe Howell -- Graded personhood : human and non-human actors in the Southeast Asian uplands / Guido Sprenger -- Animism and the hunter's dilemma : hunting, sacrifice and asymmetric exchange among the Katu of Vietnam / Kaj Århem -- Wrestling with spirits, escaping the state : animist ecology and settlement policy in the Annamite Cordillera / Nikolas Århem -- Actualizing spirits : Ifugao animism as onto-praxis / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme -- Relatedness and alterity in Bentian human-spirit relations / Kenneth Sillander -- The dynamics of the cosmic conversation : beliefs about spirits among the Kelabit and Penan of the Upper Baram River, Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Animism and anxiety : religious conversion among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Matthew H. Amster -- Boundaries of humanity : non-human others and animist ontology in eastern Indonesia / Timo Kaartinen -- Gods and spirits in the Wetu Telu religion of Lombok / Sven Cederroth -- Impaling spirit : three categories of ontological domain in eastern Indonesia / David Hicks -- Southeast-Asian animism : a dialogue with Amerindian perspectivism / Kaj Århem -- End comment : to conclude in the spirit of rebirth, or, A note on animic anthropo-ontogenesis / Tim Ingold