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lse-4-e-15-978-1-909890-79-40301Ubiquity Press15978-1-909890-79-40610.31389/lsepress.cov01internal-reference4DGE201022<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</TitleText><Subtitle>Insights for a post-pandemic world</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.cov1B01Hyun Bang ShinHyun BangShinDepartment of Geography and Environment; Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceHyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, gentrification, displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.2B01Murray MckenzieMurrayMckenzieSaw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceMurray Mckenzie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Research Officer at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and a strategic planning consultant. He holds a PhD in Geography and Urban Studies from UCL and an MA in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the roles of the arts, culture, and their contestation in processes of urban growth and change.3B01Do Young OhDo YoungOhLingnan UniversityDo Young Oh is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He was previously a Research Officer, based jointly at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning. His research interests focus on comparative urbanism and postcolonialism in East Asia.01eng34223User DefinedEcon Geography23User DefinedSociology23User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSoutheast Asian Studies23User DefinedUrban Studies12COVID-1912Southeast Asia12Communities12Mobilities12Migrants12Urbanization12Economy10SOC05300010SOC01500010SOC04200093GTM93RGC93GTP93KCM01010302 Read online or download for free Scroll down to open individual chapters COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. <details><summary>Click here to read praise for COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</summary> “The ongoing pandemic is not only having profound material impacts on and across regions; it is also giving rise to new ways of seeing pre-COVID-19 worlds and possible futures. This volume documents a wide variety of pandemic effects and experiences in ways that draw upon, and invigorate, critical social science. That this is achieved through work on Southeast Asia makes the volume particularly welcome and significant.” Professor Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore “This important collection is the first regionally focused, yet universally relevant, set of essays to explain the geographical and social dimension – cause, effect, response – of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirically grounded, yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.” Professor Roger H. Keil, York University, Canada </details>0202COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact is highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. In this regard, this edited volume brings together the voices of researchers who work on and in Southeast Asia to show how COVID-19 reveals existing contradictions and inequalities in our society, compelling us to question what it means to return to 'normal' and what insights we can glean from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. This volume also contributes to ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production.04Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world Introduction and Part I: Urbanisation, Infrastructure, Economies, and the Environment The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback Part II: Migrants, (Im)mobilities, and Borders Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland Part III: Collective Action, Communities, and Mutual Aid Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-lse/files/media/cover_images/020f855a-b846-4217-9a77-9d126e661f56.pngLSE Press01LSE Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.covLondon04202201061315978-1-909890-78-71315978-1-909890-77-00615978-1-909890-76-3lse-4-e-15-978-1-909890-78-70301Ubiquity Press15978-1-909890-78-70610.31389/lsepress.cov01internal-reference4DGE201029<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</TitleText><Subtitle>Insights for a post-pandemic world</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.cov1B01Hyun Bang ShinHyun BangShinDepartment of Geography and Environment; Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceHyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, gentrification, displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.2B01Murray MckenzieMurrayMckenzieSaw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceMurray Mckenzie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Research Officer at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and a strategic planning consultant. He holds a PhD in Geography and Urban Studies from UCL and an MA in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the roles of the arts, culture, and their contestation in processes of urban growth and change.3B01Do Young OhDo YoungOhLingnan UniversityDo Young Oh is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He was previously a Research Officer, based jointly at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning. His research interests focus on comparative urbanism and postcolonialism in East Asia.01eng34223User DefinedEcon Geography23User DefinedSociology23User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSoutheast Asian Studies23User DefinedUrban Studies12COVID-1912Southeast Asia12Communities12Mobilities12Migrants12Urbanization12Economy10SOC05300010SOC01500010SOC04200093GTM93RGC93GTP93KCM01010302 Read online or download for free Scroll down to open individual chapters COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. <details><summary>Click here to read praise for COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</summary> “The ongoing pandemic is not only having profound material impacts on and across regions; it is also giving rise to new ways of seeing pre-COVID-19 worlds and possible futures. This volume documents a wide variety of pandemic effects and experiences in ways that draw upon, and invigorate, critical social science. That this is achieved through work on Southeast Asia makes the volume particularly welcome and significant.” Professor Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore “This important collection is the first regionally focused, yet universally relevant, set of essays to explain the geographical and social dimension – cause, effect, response – of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirically grounded, yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.” Professor Roger H. Keil, York University, Canada </details>0202COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact is highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. In this regard, this edited volume brings together the voices of researchers who work on and in Southeast Asia to show how COVID-19 reveals existing contradictions and inequalities in our society, compelling us to question what it means to return to 'normal' and what insights we can glean from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. This volume also contributes to ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production.04Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world Introduction and Part I: Urbanisation, Infrastructure, Economies, and the Environment The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback Part II: Migrants, (Im)mobilities, and Borders Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland Part III: Collective Action, Communities, and Mutual Aid Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-lse/files/media/cover_images/020f855a-b846-4217-9a77-9d126e661f56.pngLSE Press01LSE Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.covLondon04202201061315978-1-909890-79-41315978-1-909890-77-00615978-1-909890-76-3lse-4-e-15-978-1-909890-77-00301Ubiquity Press15978-1-909890-77-00610.31389/lsepress.cov01internal-reference4DGE201002<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</TitleText><Subtitle>Insights for a post-pandemic world</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.cov1B01Hyun Bang ShinHyun BangShinDepartment of Geography and Environment; Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceHyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, gentrification, displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.2B01Murray MckenzieMurrayMckenzieSaw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceMurray Mckenzie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Research Officer at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and a strategic planning consultant. He holds a PhD in Geography and Urban Studies from UCL and an MA in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the roles of the arts, culture, and their contestation in processes of urban growth and change.3B01Do Young OhDo YoungOhLingnan UniversityDo Young Oh is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He was previously a Research Officer, based jointly at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning. His research interests focus on comparative urbanism and postcolonialism in East Asia.01eng34223User DefinedEcon Geography23User DefinedSociology23User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSoutheast Asian Studies23User DefinedUrban Studies12COVID-1912Southeast Asia12Communities12Mobilities12Migrants12Urbanization12Economy10SOC05300010SOC01500010SOC04200093GTM93RGC93GTP93KCM01010302 Read online or download for free Scroll down to open individual chapters COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. <details><summary>Click here to read praise for COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</summary> “The ongoing pandemic is not only having profound material impacts on and across regions; it is also giving rise to new ways of seeing pre-COVID-19 worlds and possible futures. This volume documents a wide variety of pandemic effects and experiences in ways that draw upon, and invigorate, critical social science. That this is achieved through work on Southeast Asia makes the volume particularly welcome and significant.” Professor Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore “This important collection is the first regionally focused, yet universally relevant, set of essays to explain the geographical and social dimension – cause, effect, response – of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirically grounded, yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.” Professor Roger H. Keil, York University, Canada </details>0202COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact is highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. In this regard, this edited volume brings together the voices of researchers who work on and in Southeast Asia to show how COVID-19 reveals existing contradictions and inequalities in our society, compelling us to question what it means to return to 'normal' and what insights we can glean from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. This volume also contributes to ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production.04Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world Introduction and Part I: Urbanisation, Infrastructure, Economies, and the Environment The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback Part II: Migrants, (Im)mobilities, and Borders Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland Part III: Collective Action, Communities, and Mutual Aid Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-lse/files/media/cover_images/020f855a-b846-4217-9a77-9d126e661f56.pngLSE Press01LSE Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.covLondon04202201061315978-1-909890-79-41315978-1-909890-78-70615978-1-909890-76-3lse-4-e-15-978-1-909890-76-30301Ubiquity Press15978-1-909890-76-30610.31389/lsepress.cov01internal-reference4BCB202<TitleType>01</TitleType><TitleText textcase="02">COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</TitleText><Subtitle>Insights for a post-pandemic world</Subtitle>01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.cov1B01Hyun Bang ShinHyun BangShinDepartment of Geography and Environment; Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceHyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. His research centres on the critical analysis of the political economy of urbanisation, gentrification, displacement, urban spectacles, and urbanism, with particular attention to Asian cities. He is a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation and an editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.2B01Murray MckenzieMurrayMckenzieSaw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre The London School of Economics and Political ScienceMurray Mckenzie is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and Research Officer at the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and a strategic planning consultant. He holds a PhD in Geography and Urban Studies from UCL and an MA in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the roles of the arts, culture, and their contestation in processes of urban growth and change.3B01Do Young OhDo YoungOhLingnan UniversityDo Young Oh is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He was previously a Research Officer, based jointly at the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he completed his PhD in Regional and Urban Planning. His research interests focus on comparative urbanism and postcolonialism in East Asia.01eng34223User DefinedEcon Geography23User DefinedSociology23User DefinedAnthropology23User DefinedSoutheast Asian Studies23User DefinedUrban Studies12COVID-1912Southeast Asia12Communities12Mobilities12Migrants12Urbanization12Economy10SOC05300010SOC01500010SOC04200093GTM93RGC93GTP93KCM01010302 Read online or download for free Scroll down to open individual chapters COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes. <details><summary>Click here to read praise for COVID-19 in Southeast Asia</summary> “The ongoing pandemic is not only having profound material impacts on and across regions; it is also giving rise to new ways of seeing pre-COVID-19 worlds and possible futures. This volume documents a wide variety of pandemic effects and experiences in ways that draw upon, and invigorate, critical social science. That this is achieved through work on Southeast Asia makes the volume particularly welcome and significant.” Professor Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore “This important collection is the first regionally focused, yet universally relevant, set of essays to explain the geographical and social dimension – cause, effect, response – of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirically grounded, yet theoretically generative, the superb and comprehensive COVID-19 in Southeast Asia is an indispensable resource and an encyclopedic snapshot of life during a global health emergency.” Professor Roger H. Keil, York University, Canada </details>0202COVID-19 presents huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact is highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. In this regard, this edited volume brings together the voices of researchers who work on and in Southeast Asia to show how COVID-19 reveals existing contradictions and inequalities in our society, compelling us to question what it means to return to 'normal' and what insights we can glean from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. This volume also contributes to ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production.04Introduction: Insights for a post-pandemic world Introduction and Part I: Urbanisation, Infrastructure, Economies, and the Environment The urbanisation of spatial inequalities and a new model of urban development Digital transformation, education, and adult learning in Malaysia Data privacy, security, and the future of data governance in Malaysia Economic crisis and the panopticon of the digital virus in Cambodia Property development, capital growth, and housing affordability in Malaysia Business process outsourcing industry in the Philippines Global precarity chains and the economic impact on Cambodia’s garment workers The dual structure of Vietnam’s labour relations Southeast Asian haze and socio-environmental–epidemiological feedback Part II: Migrants, (Im)mobilities, and Borders Logistical virulence, migrant exposure, and the underside of Singapore’s model pandemic response The new normal, or the same old? The experiences of domestic workers in Singapore Questioning the ‘hero’s welcome’ for repatriated overseas Filipino workers Exposing the transnational precarity of Filipino workers, healthcare regimes, and nation states The economic case against the marginalisation of migrant workers in Malaysia Emergent bordering tactics, logics of injustice, and the new hierarchies of mobility deservingness The impacts of crisis on the conflict-prone Myanmar–China borderland Part III: Collective Action, Communities, and Mutual Aid Rethinking urbanisation, development, and collective action in Indonesia Community struggles and the challenges of solidarity in Myanmar Gotong royong and the role of community in Indonesia Rewriting food insecurity narratives in Singapore Happiness-sharing pantries and the ‘easing of hunger for the needy’ in Thailand Being-in-common and food relief networks in Metro Manila, the Philippines Community responses to gendered issues in Malaysia Building rainbow community resilience among the queer community in Southeast Asia Postscript: in-pandemic academia, scholarly practices, and an ethics of care46http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/47Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)040901https://storage.googleapis.com/rua-lse/files/media/cover_images/020f855a-b846-4217-9a77-9d126e661f56.pngLSE Press01LSE Press01Publisher’s corporate websitehttps://press.lse.ac.uk02Publisher’s website for a specified workhttps://press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.31389/lsepress.covLondon0420220106026.14in030.71in081.06lb019.21in1315978-1-909890-79-41315978-1-909890-78-71315978-1-909890-77-0