Transboundary environmental politics in Southeast Asia: Issues, responses and challenges

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Political Science

Document Type

Book Chapter

Source Title

Routledge Handbook of the Environment in Southeast Asia

First Page

147

Last Page

155

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

The porosity of borders in Southeast Asia, both in physical and in virtual terms, has led to a complex articulation between political economies and cultural ecologies. The degree of porosity enables and/or constrains commodity and cultural flows. This leads to significantly hybridized cultural, political and social systems that bear the imprints not only of European and North American colonization, but also of regional influences, both from immediate neighbours and from the larger region covering Southeast Asia and China. Some of these forces are borne by formal processes immanent in political and economic interactions in the form of trade agreements, treaties, tourism and travel, regional development initiatives such as power and energy grids and the formal mechanisms associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in all its Tracks. Others are carried by the more informal and/or invisible mechanisms associated with the migration of peoples and commodities across borders, which are outside the legitimate state-sanctioned processes.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.4324/9781315474892

Disciplines

Demography, Population, and Ecology | Political Science

Keywords

Southeast Asia--Politics and government; Southeast Asia--Social life and customs

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