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Introduction: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Introduction: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Southeast Asia vii Introduction: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Southeast Asia W.D. Wilder University of Durham The six papers printed below were originally presented at a meeting of ASEASUK (Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the U.K.) in a symposium concerned with concepts of, and attitudes toward, wealth and poverty in Southeast Asia. Four of the six papers are focused on Southeast Asia "now", that is, the region since 30 April 1975, the benchmark date established by the fall of Saigon, an event symbolic of the victory of the poor over the rich. Two further papers are addressed to antecedent conditions, i.e., the 1950s and 1960s in the main, conditions that can now, in the 1980s, be seen as a framework for the respective nation=states (Indonesia and Kampuchea). Two issues stand out: the definition of poverty, and the alleviation of poverty. If the wealth-issue is not given the same prominence in the papers, it is perhaps because the "wealthy" tend to be more blind to their own predicament than are the poor; they must be concerned with the future rather than with everyday existence. Hence the papers in this collection concerned with wealthy classes in Southeast Asia - the papers http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Journal of Social Science Brill

Introduction: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Wilder, W.D.
Asian Journal of Social Science , Volume 14 (1): iii – Jan 1, 1986
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1568-4849
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10.1163/080382486X00029
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vii Introduction: Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Southeast Asia W.D. Wilder University of Durham The six papers printed below were originally presented at a meeting of ASEASUK (Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the U.K.) in a symposium concerned with concepts of, and attitudes toward, wealth and poverty in Southeast Asia. Four of the six papers are focused on Southeast Asia "now", that is, the region since 30 April 1975, the benchmark date established by the fall of Saigon, an event symbolic of the victory of the poor over the rich. Two further papers are addressed to antecedent conditions, i.e., the 1950s and 1960s in the main, conditions that can now, in the 1980s, be seen as a framework for the respective nation=states (Indonesia and Kampuchea). Two issues stand out: the definition of poverty, and the alleviation of poverty. If the wealth-issue is not given the same prominence in the papers, it is perhaps because the "wealthy" tend to be more blind to their own predicament than are the poor; they must be concerned with the future rather than with everyday existence. Hence the papers in this collection concerned with wealthy classes in Southeast Asia - the papers

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Published: Jan 1, 1986

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