Social Activism in Southeast Asia

<p><em>Social Activism in Southeast Asia</em> brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with civil and political rights globalization peace the environment migrant and factory labour the rights of middle- and working-class women and sexual identity in an overarching framework of analysis that forefronts the importance of human rights and the state as a focus for social activism in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian developmentalism and weak civil society. </p>