The handbook explores the nature and implications of civil society across Southeast Asia, engaging with both theoretical approaches and empirical nuance for a systematic, comparative and informative approach.

Eva Hansson is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations at Södertörn University, Sweden and Coordinator of the Stockholm Center for Global Asia, Stockholm University, Sweden. She has co-edited, with Meredith L. Weiss, Political Participation in Asia (Routledge, 2018).

Meredith L. Weiss is a Professor of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, SUNY, USA. She is author most recently of The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Southeast Asia (2020) and previously edited the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia (2015).

1. Civil society in politics and Southeast Asia in civil society: Conceptual foundations Part I. Spaces and platforms 2. From activist media to algorithmic politics: The internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia 3. Contemporary arts in and for civil society 4. Spatial perspectives: Civil society activism as struggles for space in urbanising Southeast Asia 5. Legal mobilization and civil society: On the use and usefulness of strategic litigation in Southeast Asia Part II. Place within politics 6. Civil society and efforts at regime change in Southeast Asia 7. Civil society and the contentious politics of democratization and autocratization in Myanmar 8. Civil society activism beyond the nation-state: Legitimating ASEAN? Part III. Resources and tactics 9. Failing financing of civil society in Southeast Asia, Rosalia Sciortino 10. Civil society leadership 11. Violence and civil society in Southeast Asia Part IV. Identity formation and claims 12. Civic society and gender advancement in Thailand 13. The LGBT movement in Vietnam 14. Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities 15. Religion and civil society in Southeast Asia Part V. Advocacy 16. Organized labour and autocratization in Southeast Asia 17. Business associations and civil society in Southeast Asia 18. Vernacularising human rights in Southeast Asia 19. Civil society and environmentalism: Crossing frontiers of activism 20. Multi-level migrant civil society activism in Southeast Asia 21. Southeast Asia's glocalized civil society landscapes: National topographies and transnational contours