Author: B. G. GrijpstraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Common Efforts in the Development of Rural Sarawak, Malaysia
Author: B. G. GrijpstraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rural development
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The Hakkas of Sarawak
Author: Kee Howe YongPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442667982
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on communism and to the rule of Malaysia’s judicial-administrative regime. The Hakkas of Sarawak looks at how these incarcerated people struggled for survival and dealt with their defeat over the course of a generation. Using methodologies of narrative theory and exchange theory, Kee Howe Yong provides a powerful account of the ongoing legacies of Cold War oppression and its impact on the lives of people who were victimized by these policies.
Deterrents to Participation in Rural Development Programs in Sarawak, Malaysia
Author: Jennifer Ann SonganAn Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990
Author: John DrabblePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230389465
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
An Economic History of Malaysia, c.1800-1990 , provides the first general history of the Malaysian economy over the past two centuries, including a survey of the pre-colonial era. A unique feature is that it integrates the historical experiences of Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak as a case study in the onset of modern economic growth. Particular attention is paid to explaining Malaysia's signal success in achieving a relatively smooth shift away from the primary commodity export economy of the colonial period to near-NIC status by 1990.
Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture
Author: Victor T. KingPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811006725
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary fields of the social sciences, with the weight of attention devoted to anthropological research and related fields such as development studies, gender studies, environmental studies, social policy studies and cultural studies. Some of the chapters in this book are extended versions of presentations at the Borneo Research Council’s international conference hosted by Universiti Brunei Darussalam in June 2012 and a Borneo Studies workshop organised in Brunei in 2012. The volume examines some of the major debates and controversies in Borneo Studies, including those which have served to connect post-war research on Borneo to wider scholarship. It also assesses some of the more recent contributions and interests of locally based researchers in universities and other institutions in Borneo itself. The major strength of the book is the inclusion of a substantial amount of research undertaken by scholars working and teaching within the Southeast Asian region. In particular there is an examination of research materials published in the vernacular, notably the outpouring of work published in Indonesian by the Institut Dayakologi in Pontianak. In doing so, the book also addresses the urgent matters which have not received the attention they deserve, specifically subjects, themes and issues that have already been covered but require further contemplation, elaboration and research, and the scope for disciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration in Borneo Studies. The book is a valuable resource and reference work for students and researchers interested in social science scholarship on Borneo, and for those with wider interests in Indonesia and Malaysia, and in the Southeast Asian region.
Issues in Rural Development in Malaysia
Author: Victor T. KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Village Mothers, City Daughters
Author: Hew Cheng SimPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812304169
Category : Rural-Urban migration
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Presents a collection of studies on the experiences of women as they encounter the forces of modernization altering the face of contemporary Borneo. Discusses the pressing issue of urbanization and rural-urban migration as experienced by women in Southeast Asia.
Women Workers, Migration and Family in Sarawak
Author: Cheng Sim HewPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113578633X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Based on research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of them first generation migrant wage workers, this book explores the changes in women's lifestyles from traditional rural lifestyles to modern urban ones.
Capacity Building in Developing Countries
Author: Valentine U. JamesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567508049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The term capacity building refers to enabling the indigenous people of developing countries to carry out development processes successfully by empowering them through strengthened domestic institutions, provision of domestic markets, and improvement of local government efforts to sustain infrastructures, social institutions, and commercial institutions. Capacity building also involves the need to recognize indigenous interest groups, encourage local efforts, provide incentives for privatization, and coordinate local, regional, and international strategies to enhance productivity and wise use of natural and human resources. Most important, capacity building encourages a bottom-up or grassroots effort for sustainable development. The grassroots effort begins with the family unit. Capacity building addresses all areas of social, economic and health, and environmental processes through a holistic approach. The chapters of this book, written by experts in their fields, address these three areas of the developing societies.
The End of the Peasantry in Southeast Asia
Author: R.E. ElsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349254576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This book analyses the changing context and conditions of production and livelihood amongst Southeast Asia's peasants since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that with demographic growth and the nineteenth century development of great global markets based on small-scale production, the size and economic significance of peasantries throughout the region was magnified. However, such changes brought with them new forces - stronger states, more regular legal systems, a revolution in communications, intensive commercialisation - which themselves worked to undermine the foundations of peasant society and, eventually, to transform peasants into farmers, workers and citizens.