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Local cultures and the "new Asia" : the state, culture, and capitalism in Southeast Asia / edited by C.J.W.-L. Wee

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, [2002]

1 Online-Ressource (x, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015)

978-981-230-714-9 ( : ebook)

978-981-230-123-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-981-230-122-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967386845     

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HC441

303.440959     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Economic development -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia ; Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions ; Southeast Asia -- Economic policy ; Southeast Asia -- Social conditions ; Social values -- Southeast Asia ; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia

Capitalism ; Social aspects ; Southeast Asia ; Social values ; Southeast Asia ; Economic development ; Social aspects ; Southeast Asia ; Southeast Asia ; Economic conditions ; Southeast Asia ; Economic policy ; Southeast Asia ; Social conditions

Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension between the universal status that some claim capitalism now occupies in the post-Cold War world and the particularities of the local cultures it enters should be of great concern