Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Paul J. Carnegie, Victor T. King, Zawawi Ibrahim

   Pages 1-5

3. Of Risk, Uncertainty, Safety, and Trust: (Re)Locating Human Insecurities

   • Victor T. King

   Pages 7-19

4. “Anthropologizing Human Insecurities”: Narrating the Subjugated Discourse of Indigenes on the Deterritorialized Landscapes of the Malaysian Nation-State

   • Zawawi Ibrahim

   Pages 21-51

5. Imagined Communities, Militancy, and Insecurity in Indonesia

   • Paul J. Carnegie

   Pages 53-68

6. Space, Mobilities, and Insecurity in Maritime Sabah: The Impact of Government Bordering Practices Following the 2013 Sulu Intrusion

   • Gordon Carson

   Pages 69-88

7. How Safe Is Safe? “Safe Migration” in Southeast Asia

   • AKM Ahsan Ullah, Yusnani Mohd Yusof-Kozlowski, Maria D’Aria

   Pages 89-101

8. Can ASEAN Cope with “Human Insecurity” in Southeast Asia? In Search of a New ASEAN Way

   • Mikio Oishi

   Pages 103-119

9. Historical Injustice and Human Insecurity: Conflict and Peacemaking in Muslim Mindanao

   • Rommel A. Curaming

   Pages 121-140

10. Civil Movements and Human Insecurity: A Case from Thailand

    • Nichan Singhaputargun

    Pages 141-156

11. Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia: Impediments to Achieving a People-Oriented ASEAN

    • Ta-Wei Chu

    Pages 157-172

12. Plantation Economy, Indigenous People, and Precariousness in the Philippine Uplands: The Mindanao Experience

    • Eliseo F. Huesca Jr.

    Pages 173-192

13. Conclusion

    • Paul J. Carnegie, Victor T. King, Zawawi Ibrahim

    Pages 193-195

14. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200

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This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of ‘insecurities’ that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to ‘human security’ within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia.

• Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia
• Human Insecurity in Malaysia
• ASEAN and Human Insecurity
• Mindanao and the GRP-MILF’s Framework Agreem…
• Militants, Radicals and Islamism in Indonesia
• Human Insecurities in Southeast Thailand
• Civil Movements in Thailand
• Hydropolitics in Asia
• Natural Disasters and Volunteerism in ASEAN
• Human insecurities and Typhoon Sendong
• Relief Capacity across Southeast Asia
• Irregular Migration and Human Insecurity
• Human Insecurity in Myanmar's Borders
• Thailand and Free Movement of Workers in the A…
• Muslim Migrants along the Thai-Burma Borderland
• Mon Migrants in Sangkhlaburi
• Migration, Culture and Masculine Desires
• Human Uncertainties in Myanmar
• 10th ASEAN Inter-University Seminars on Social …

“It presents a compelling overview of human insecurities in Southeast Asia, highlighted by the extensive use of ethnography and historical analysis. Surely, this is an important reading for academics and students concerned with the region and even useful for comparative analysis with other continents.” (Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira, Journal of Human Security, Vol. 14 (1), 2018)

• School of Government, Development and, International Affairs, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

  Paul J. Carnegie

• Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Institute of Asian Studies Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam

  Victor T. King, Zawawi Ibrahim

Paul J. Carnegie is Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He has active research interests in the fields of post-authoritarian politics, human security and localised responses to militant extremism with a particular focus on Indonesia alongside Southeast Asia and the MENA region more generally. Paul is the author of The Road from Authoritarianism to Democratization in Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan). His research also appears in leading international journals including Pacific Affairs, the Middle East Quarterly, the Journal of Terrorism Research and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He has taught previously in Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Egypt and the UAE.

Victor T. King is Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Leeds University and Eminent Visiting Professor in the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and Sociology-Anthropology at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He has a wide range of research interests in the sociology and anthropology of Southeast Asia. His books include The Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformation in a Developing Region (Copenhagen: NIAS Press and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008; ebook 2011), with William Wilder The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2003; reprinted 2006), and translated into Indonesian as Antropologi Modern Asia Tenggara: Sebuah Pengantar (Yogyakarta: Kreasi Wacana, 2012), and his edited volume UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in Comparative Perspective (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2016).


Zawawi Ibrahim received his PhD in social anthropology from Monash University, Melbourne. His currently holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. He researches and writes on new Malaysian cinema and contemporary popular music, indigenous communities and their storytelling, peasantry and rural labour, the new media, and multiculturalism in Malaysia. He is the leader for IAS Popular Culture research track. His current research is on popular culture in Brunei, Islamic cinema in Indonesia and religious diversity governance in Malaysia. His books include The Malay Labourer: By the Window of Capitalism (1998); Cultural Contestations: Mediating Identities in a changing Malaysian Society (1998); Representation, Identity and Multiculturalism in Sarawak (2008), Blogging and Democratization in Malaysia (with Jun-E Tan) (2008); Social Science and Knowledge in a Globalizing World (2012); Penan Society and Imagined Development (with NoorShah M.S) (2012); and Borneo Studies in History, Society and Culture (Eds. with Victor King & Norsharina Hassan) (forthcoming). He has contributed articles to international journals, including Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Critical Asian Studies, Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Asian Studies Review, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Southeast Asian Studies (Kyoto), Seoumen Antropologi, Spectator, Situations and Positions (forthcoming).

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