Overview
- Draws upon Bourdieu’s field theory to analyse the political engagement between CSOs and the trajectory of the human rights agenda in ASEAN
- Highlights the trend of the ‘practice turn’ in IR and the efficacy of adopting such a novel approach in enhancing our understanding of ASEAN regionalism
- Avoids simplified approaches to modelling international politics as a series of rational actions
- Maps the existing dominant norms and political resources as well as social struggles among related actors
- Departs from constructivist IR analyses and offers a more sensitive and comprehensive assessment of the push for institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN
Part of the book series: Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia (CCSA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Human Rights Norm Dynamics in ASEAN
- Human Rights in Indonesia
- Indonesia and ASEAN
- Human Rights and ASEAN
- Indonesian CSOs’ Normative Positions
- Indonesian CSOs’ Political Strategies
- ASEAN Human Rights Advocacy
- Indonesian CSOs’ Power Relations
- Competing CSOs’ Advocacy
- Civil Society and ASEAN
- Civil Society and Indonesia
- Civil Society Organisations
- Bourdieu’s field theory
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
About this book
This book focuses on how Indonesian civil society organisations interact with ASEAN to shape human rights institutionalisation in the region. Using Bourdieu-inspired constructivist IR as an analytical lens, the book argues that there are pre-reflexive norms that dominate the field of interaction in the region that shape the way civil society organisations operate. This has resulted in the diverging advocacy practices, thus complicating human rights institutionalisation process in ASEAN.
Reviews
— Assoc. Prof. Anthony J. Langlois, Flinders University, Australia
“Constructivist studies of ASEAN regionalism can be as state-centric as their realist counterparts. Randy Nandyatama offers a refreshing re-examination of that orthodoxy. Focusing on human rights advocacy by civil society organizations in Indonesia, Nandyatama’s fascinating book explores their complex negotiations with the pre-existing ‘doxa’ in ASEAN regionalism—the legal–rational and socio[1]cultural norms ofthe “ASEAN Way”—that shape the conditions of normative and political possibility for human rights in Southeast Asia. I highly recommend it”.
— Professor See Seng Tan, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
“Indonesian democracy remains flawed as long as the human rights of its minority groups are threatened. Yet the book examines newer dynamics spurred by Indonesian CSO attempts at transnational advocacy –in a region with an ambiguous relationship with human rights – especially when its principles infringe on the interests of states and powerful domestic actors. These dynamics are deciphered through detailed empirical analysis and distinctive use of a Constructivist IR approach influenced by Bourdieu’s sociology”.
— Prof. Vedi Hadiz, University of Melbourne, Australia
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Randy W. Nandyatama is Assistant Professor in International Relations at Gadjah Mada University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indonesian Civil Society and Human Rights Advocacy in ASEAN
Book Subtitle: Power and Normative Struggles
Authors: Randy W. Nandyatama
Series Title: Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3093-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3092-7Published: 01 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3095-8Published: 02 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3093-4Published: 31 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2661-8354
Series E-ISSN: 2661-8362
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Science, International Organization, Asian Politics, Regionalism