Civil Society Elites
Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
This innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (and indeed anywhere in the world). Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – it sheds new light on power inequalities within and beyond civil society, identifies different types of elite formation and elite interaction within and beyond civil society, and traces interactions and integration with elite groups from party politics, the state, and the business sector. This tightly edited volume, produced by a research team ranging from senior scholars to promising younger academics, analyses how such processes are influenced by reliance on foreign funding and explores how they play out in two settings – where the political space for civil society is generally shrinking (Cambodia) and where it is relatively expanding (Indonesia). However, the volume offers more than a rethinking of civil society in Cambodia and Indonesia; it looks beyond. It thus challenges a view of civil society entities as relatively isolated from the state and from political and economic society, revealing power relations that link them. Suggesting a new direction for civil society research, the book will be of great interest to the many researchers working on civil society, elites and contemporary Southeast Asian politics as well as those engaged in other areas of society in Cambodia and Indonesia. Policymakers, donors and not least civil society activists themselves will find the volume highly relevant to their work.
Keywords
Political Science; Political Process; Political Advocacy; Political Science; Political Ideologies; DemocracyDOI
https://doi.org/10.55673/tasmn8tyPublisher
NIAS PressPublisher website
https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/nias-pressPublication date and place
2023Grantor
Imprint
NIAS PressClassification
Political activism
Political structures: democracy