Figures of Southeast Asian modernity [electronic resource] / edited by Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, 2014.Description: xvi, 302 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.800959 23
LOC classification:
  • HN690.8.A8 F54 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Philippines / Smita Lahiri and Deirdre de la Cruz -- Domestic helper / Jos�e B. Capino -- Chinese mestizo / Richard T. Chu -- Filipino seaman / Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Public manager / Anna Romina Guevarra -- Lawless element / Orlando de Guzman -- Agriculturalist / Adam Lukasiewicz -- Bakla returnee / Martin F. Manalansan -- Call center agent / Jan M. Padios -- Community health worker / Mai M. Taqueban -- Beauty contestant / T. Ruanni F. Tupas --
Vietnam / Erik Harms -- Petty trader / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Prostitute / Christophe Robert -- Domestic investor / Allison Truitt -- Enterprising cadre / Ken MacLean -- Soviet-trained scientist / Christina Schwenkel -- Aspiring overseas student / Erik Harms -- A Cham H�roi girl / Truong Huyen Chi -- Mountain village head / Christian C. Lentz -- Photo retoucher / Nina Hien -- Cultural expert / Lauren Meeker -- Vietnamese transnational(s) / Ivan Small --
Cambodia / Jonathan Padwe -- Cham modernizer / Alberto P�erez-Pereiro -- World musician / Stephen Mamula -- Village police chief / Eve Zucker -- Broken woman / Annuska Derks -- (Buddhist) Ascetic who remembers past lives / Erik Davis -- Government official / Jenna Grant --
Laos / Jerome Whitington -- Miss Beer Lao / Holly High -- Mobile phone monk / Patrice Ladwig -- Mitigation expert / Michael Dwyer -- Hippie, interrupted / N. J. Enfield -- Beleaguered village leader / Jerome Whitington --
Thailand / Jane M. Ferguson -- Grassroots woman leader / LeeRay Costa -- Bangkok slum leader / Pilapa Esara -- Transnational farmworker / Sudarat Musikawong -- Thai Airways flight attendant / Jane M. Ferguson -- Kickboxer / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Single woman / Emily Zeamer -- Rural DJ / Julia Cassaniti -- Spirit medium / Andrew Johnson -- Hmong-Thai schoolgirl / Tracy Pilar Johnson --
Indonesia / Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist -- Telecommunications and multimedia expert / Karen Strassler -- Muslim television preacher / James Hoesterey -- Spiritual trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff -- Activist / Doreen Lee -- Ex-combatant from the Free Aceh Movement / Jesse Grayman -- NGO worker / Aryo Danusiri -- Overseas female labor migrant / Rachel Silvey -- Field agent / Johan Lindquist -- Street vendor / Sheri Gibbings -- Street kid(s) / Chris Brown -- Mr. Hajj / Dadi Darmadi -- Rich person / Joshua Barker -- Career woman / Carla Jones --
Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann -- Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter -- Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus -- Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee -- Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng -- Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster -- Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg --
Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Malay gangster / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir -- Bangladeshi worker / Md Mizanur Rahman -- Woman activist / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow -- Peri-urban tenant / Loh Kah Seng -- The people's filmmaker / Liew Kai Khiun -- Schoolteacher / Adeline Koh -- Social entrepreneur / Erik Holmberg --
Burma / Nicholas Farrelly -- Urban dumsa / Mandy Sadan -- Journalist / Thomas Kean -- Political prisoner / David Scott Mathieson -- Exile / David Gilbert and Violet Cho -- Sex worker in Thailand / Ikuko Okamoto -- Tatmadaw officer / Jacqueline Menager -- Korean soap opera junkie / Aung Si -- Entrepreneur / Nicholas Farrelly -- Indie musician / Aung Naing Thu (pseudonym).
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-284) and index.

The Philippines / Smita Lahiri and Deirdre de la Cruz -- Domestic helper / Jos�e B. Capino -- Chinese mestizo / Richard T. Chu -- Filipino seaman / Kale Bantigue Fajardo -- Public manager / Anna Romina Guevarra -- Lawless element / Orlando de Guzman -- Agriculturalist / Adam Lukasiewicz -- Bakla returnee / Martin F. Manalansan -- Call center agent / Jan M. Padios -- Community health worker / Mai M. Taqueban -- Beauty contestant / T. Ruanni F. Tupas --

Vietnam / Erik Harms -- Petty trader / Ann Marie Leshkowich -- Prostitute / Christophe Robert -- Domestic investor / Allison Truitt -- Enterprising cadre / Ken MacLean -- Soviet-trained scientist / Christina Schwenkel -- Aspiring overseas student / Erik Harms -- A Cham H�roi girl / Truong Huyen Chi -- Mountain village head / Christian C. Lentz -- Photo retoucher / Nina Hien -- Cultural expert / Lauren Meeker -- Vietnamese transnational(s) / Ivan Small --

Cambodia / Jonathan Padwe -- Cham modernizer / Alberto P�erez-Pereiro -- World musician / Stephen Mamula -- Village police chief / Eve Zucker -- Broken woman / Annuska Derks -- (Buddhist) Ascetic who remembers past lives / Erik Davis -- Government official / Jenna Grant --

Laos / Jerome Whitington -- Miss Beer Lao / Holly High -- Mobile phone monk / Patrice Ladwig -- Mitigation expert / Michael Dwyer -- Hippie, interrupted / N. J. Enfield -- Beleaguered village leader / Jerome Whitington --

Thailand / Jane M. Ferguson -- Grassroots woman leader / LeeRay Costa -- Bangkok slum leader / Pilapa Esara -- Transnational farmworker / Sudarat Musikawong -- Thai Airways flight attendant / Jane M. Ferguson -- Kickboxer / Pattana Kitiarsa -- Single woman / Emily Zeamer -- Rural DJ / Julia Cassaniti -- Spirit medium / Andrew Johnson -- Hmong-Thai schoolgirl / Tracy Pilar Johnson --

Indonesia / Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist -- Telecommunications and multimedia expert / Karen Strassler -- Muslim television preacher / James Hoesterey -- Spiritual trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff -- Activist / Doreen Lee -- Ex-combatant from the Free Aceh Movement / Jesse Grayman -- NGO worker / Aryo Danusiri -- Overseas female labor migrant / Rachel Silvey -- Field agent / Johan Lindquist -- Street vendor / Sheri Gibbings -- Street kid(s) / Chris Brown -- Mr. Hajj / Dadi Darmadi -- Rich person / Joshua Barker -- Career woman / Carla Jones --

Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan -- National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann -- Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter -- Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus -- Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee -- Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng -- Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster -- Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg --

Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied -- Malay gangster / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir -- Bangladeshi worker / Md Mizanur Rahman -- Woman activist / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow -- Peri-urban tenant / Loh Kah Seng -- The people's filmmaker / Liew Kai Khiun -- Schoolteacher / Adeline Koh -- Social entrepreneur / Erik Holmberg --

Burma / Nicholas Farrelly -- Urban dumsa / Mandy Sadan -- Journalist / Thomas Kean -- Political prisoner / David Scott Mathieson -- Exile / David Gilbert and Violet Cho -- Sex worker in Thailand / Ikuko Okamoto -- Tatmadaw officer / Jacqueline Menager -- Korean soap opera junkie / Aung Si -- Entrepreneur / Nicholas Farrelly -- Indie musician / Aung Naing Thu (pseudonym).

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