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One of the main problems faced by teachers and students who have a scholarly interest in Southeast Asia is the lack of general, user-friendly texts in the social sciences. The absence of an introduction to the sociology of Southeast Asia is especially unfortunate. This volume attempts to meet these needs. This is, then, the first sole-authored introductory sociology text on Southeast Asia that focuses on change and development in the region, provides an overview of the important sociological and political economy writings, and considers the key concepts and themes in the field since 1945. Some multiauthored works do exist but these either are outdated or focus on specialized topics. Aimed primarily at undergraduates up to the final year, it will also be a useful reference work for post-graduates and researchers who lack such a general work.

Social change --- Social values --- Changement social --- Valeurs sociales --- Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Southeast asia --- Social science

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"Monarchies around the world play a significant role in tourism development and the tourist experience. Debates about the level of finance required to support monarchies often refer to the positive tourist attraction provided by royal pageantry, palaces, temples and churches, architecture, museum collections, and historical legacies. Up to now, the literature on tourism and monarchy has been primarily devoted to the history and experiences of Western Europe, particularly the United Kingdom. There has been little attention devoted to the relationship between monarchy and tourism development in Southeast Asia, and this is the first collection of essays to address this neglected field of study. The need to shift the focus from European to Asian royalty is important not only to begin to fill gaps in the literature on monarchy and tourism outside Europe, but also to avoid the increasing criticism of tourism studies that its major perspectives, orientations and paradigms have been based on an overly Eurocentric preoccupation. Case studies are taken from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore."--Publisher description.

Royal tourism --- Tourism --- E-books

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This book examines heritage tourism across the Southeast Asian region from different disciplinary perspectives. With material that is new and topical, it makes an important contribution to the fields of tourism studies, cultural studies, development and planning studies, and beyond. Set against a backdrop of the demands, motivations and impacts of heritage tourism, the volume focuses on disputes and conflicts over what heritage is, what it means, and how it has been presented, re-presented, developed and protected. It examines the actors involved in encounters and contestation, drawing in issues of identity construction and negotiation, and requiring the contextualization of heritage in national and global processes of identity formation and transformation. Among the questions touched upon are the ownership of heritage, its appropriate use, access to it versus conservation needs, heritage as a commodity, as entertainment and as an educational medium.

Heritage tourism --- S31/0400 --- S31/0100 --- S31/0450 --- S26/0300 --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Indo China and South East Asia--South East Asia general (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma, Papua New Guinea) --- Indo China and South East Asia--Indo-China: general (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma) --- Indo China and South East Asia--Singapore --- Taiwan--Geography, description, travel and tourism --- Tourisme culturel --- Southeast asia --- Business & economics --- Travel

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Anthropology --- Fieldwork. --- Fieldwork --- Research. --- Anthropological research --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’ within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

Political science. --- Asia --- Peace. --- Medical research. --- Quality of life. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Human geography. --- Political Science and International Relations. --- Peace Studies. --- Human Geography. --- Asian Politics. --- Migration. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Politics and government. --- Human security --- Risk management --- Southeast Asia --- Social conditions --- Non-traditional security (Human security) --- NTS (Human security) --- Security, Human --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Biomedical research --- Medical research --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- War --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Insurance --- Management --- Human rights --- Asia-Politics and government. --- Quality of Life --- Research. --- Asia—Politics and government. --- Social conditions.