Community Movements in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages Environment Bulletin of the School of

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad is a PhD student at La Trobe University

Discusses silk moths

and photographs

Community Movements in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages Environment Bulletin of the School ofDerived from the terms community and social movement, Shigeharu Tanabes concept of community movements is the process by which people create alternative communities, practices, and worlds that resist the influence and imposition of hegemonic political structures. Community movements enable us to capture the reality of power relations as they arise from and involve small scale, face to face interactions, rather than the assumed existence of social