Conflict, continuity and change in social movements in Southeast Asia / Abdul Rohman.
"This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationship with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia. Examining two peace movements in Indonesia - the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
| Series: | Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationship with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia. Examining two peace movements in Indonesia - the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia - to illuminate discontinuity, continuity, and change in social movements, the author uses a cultural approach to understanding why social movements persist and argues that the activists' memory, relationship with others, collective identity, and emotion as reasons for social movements to ascend and peak. It is a direct response to the argument that the availability of resources and political opportunities is the main ingredient for any social movements to rise. While having different fates, the two movements studied arose in the midst of violence between Christian and Muslim communities in Ambon, Indonesia: The Kopi Badati movement and Filterinfo. The book extends the applicability of cultural approach in explaining why social movements discontinue, continue, and change over time, without discounting the importance of available resources and political opportunities. Addressing a gap in the existing social movement studies, the book explains why a social movement disbands and why the other manages to continue and change after achieving its immediate goal. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian studies, (new)-media and communications, civil society, and international development"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (159 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1000604497 9781000604498 |