Papers on Southeast Asia
A series of monographs from the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies.
66. Indonesian Islam in a new era: how women negotiate their Muslim identities
edited by Susan Blackburn, Bianca Smith and Siti Syamsiyatun, 2008, rrp $39.95. ISBN 978 1 876924 54 6
Indonesian Islam in a new era examines the religious practices and identities of Indonesian Muslim women in the post-Suharto era. After 1998 Indonesian Islam changed socially and nationally as society underwent sweeping alterations. Based on new empirical research by sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists from Indonesia and Australia, the book underscores the negotiations Muslim women have made in arenas such as schools, organisations, popular culture and village life. Whereas theology has until recently dominated studies of women and Islam in Indonesia, this book breaks new ground by examining from social science perspectives how Indonesian women negotiate their Muslim identities.
65. East Timor: beyond independence
edited by Damien Kingsbury and Michael Leach, rrp AU$36.95, ISBN 978 1 876924 49 2
This is the most comprehensive study of East Timor since independence, examining the major themes of development, borders and security, politics and justice, resource and land management, education, and language policy. Though the country was initially lauded as a case study in successful state-building, the crisis of 2006 demonstrated that East Timor had more in common with other post-colonial, post-conflict societies than some of these earlier optimistic assessments.
East Timor continues to attract the interest and attention of governments, scholars, development institutions and aid workers as a society rebuilding itself after almost a quarter of a century of profound trauma, and consecutive eras of colonialism.
Covering the era from the independence referendum in August 1999 to the political crisis in 2006, and future prospects and challenges, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding the challenges facing the first new nation of the 21st century.
64. The First Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928
translated and with an introduction by Susan Blackburn, 2008, ISBN 978 1 876924 48 5
Every year on 22 December, Indonesia celebrates Women's Day, commemorating the start of the first Indonesian women's congress in 1928, and leading to the first federation of women's organisations. Susan Blackburn has translated the congress report into English and prefaced it with an Introduction that sets the background to the congress and analyses its proceedings.
63. Dilemmas of public university reform in Malaysia
by Machi Sato, rrp AU$24.95, ISBN 978 1 876924 41 6
Since the mid-1990s, tertiary education in Malaysia has experienced great transformation. Legislation was introduced to make the system more democratic and international. Focusing on public universities, this book analyses recent reforms in the sector, and seeks to initiate an urgently-needed debate on how the reforms should be implemented.
This study is based on extensive interviews with academics from public universities at Malaysian institutions, because it is individual academics who play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the credibility and reputation of universities. Their stories give a clear picture of public universities that are juggling different expectations and pressures from the social, political and economic environments. The question is how this elusive balance can be achieved.
62. Violence in between: conflict and security in archipelagic Southeast Asia
edited by Damien Kingsbury, 2005, $44.95, ISBN 1 876924 37 3
A recent series of terrorist attacks, the uncovering of a large terrorist network and a string of continuing regional conflicts have raised an awareness that Southeast Asia is amongst the world's most troubled areas. This book analyses local terrorism and state repression in this populous, strategically important region.
61. Chinese Indonesians: Remembering, distorting, and forgetting
edited by Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker, 2005, $36.95 ISBN 981 230 286 7
This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject of the Chinese in Indonesia, looking at history, politics, legal issues, culture, religion, and violence against the Chinese. The authors, from Australia, Indonesia, Europe, and Singapore, seek the realities behind the myths that form the basis for the racism and xenophobia the Chinese have often experienced in Indonesia.
60. On feminism and nationalism: Kartini's letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903
translated by Joost Coté, 2005, $36.95 ISBN 1 876924 35 7
Kartini's pioneering work for the freedom and education of women has made her an Indonesian national hero. The letters to a European contemporary are amongst the most powerful of her surviving correspondence.
59. The rise and fall of communism in Sarawak, 1940ñ1990
Vernon Porritt, 2004, $39.95, ISBN 1 876924 27 6
As Sarawak evolved from a British colonial outpost to statehood in the Federation of Malaysia, social and political stability was threatened by communist insurgency. This book explains how communism was nurtured among the youth of Sarawakís ethnic Chinese community from the early 1940s, how it grew into a powerful guerrilla movement that survived for decades, and how the movement was finally overcome through an amnesty in 1990.
58. The return of the exiles: Australia's repatriation of the Indonesians, 1945-47
Frank C Bennett Jr, 2003, $59.95 ISBN 1 876924 11 X
In assisting the return of Indonesian political dissidents who had received refuge in Australia during the Second World War, the Australian government in effect supported the independence movement in Indonesia, much to the consternation of Dutch colonial interests. This book tells the story of the politics surrounding one return voyage.
57. Dancing with the devil: A personal account of policing the East Timor vote for independence
David Savage, 2002, $29.95 ISBN 1 876924 10 1
The memoir of the Australian Federal Officer from his duty with the UN policing team during the independence ballot paper in East Timor. David Savage was based in the dangerous district of Maliana, and was witness to many key incidents, both uplifting and heart-breaking.
56. Javanese grammar for students
Stuart Robson, 2002, $21.95 ISBN 1 876924 12 8
A straightforward guide to grammar for English-speaking students of the Javanese language.
55. Love, sex and power: Women in Southeast Asia
edited by Susan Blackburn, 2001, $26.95. ISBN 1 876924 02 0
From women as victims, to women as agents actively seeking to empower themselves, this book explores ways in which religion, education, work and romance affect power relations between men and women. This collection is must for anyone interested in the changing nature of womanhood in Southeast Asia.
53. Pink fits: Sex, subcultures and discourses in the Asia-Pacific
Alison Murray, 2001, $29.95, ISBN 1 8769 2401 2
This confronting book explores ideas and practices of sex work and sexuality in the diverse urban subcultures of Southeast Asia. With extensive primary research, Alison Murray has canvassed changing sexualities, street prostitutes, gay styles and lesbian communities in Asia, Thai sex workers in Sydney, and various official, informal and overseas aid responses to the AIDS virus. Murray challenges the depiction of the Asian sex worker as helpless victim, and the strident moralising of many Western commentators, as obstacles to responsible policies.
52. Foreign devils and other journalists
edited by Damien Kingsbury, Eric Loo and Patricia Payne, 2000, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 1183 0
The role of the media is culturally determined, and when the media, and public figures, cross cultural boundaries, they find that they are used and interpreted in a variety of ways. Leading academics on the media in Southeast Asia provide provocative essays focussing on key issues in reporting on and within the region. Political control, freedom of expression and cultural difference all come in to play.
47. The landscape palimpsest
by Sophia McAlpin, 1997, $21.95. ISBN 0 7326 1165 2.
This book maps the history of early 19th century British landscape paintings of Malaya, from the nature that inspired them, the artists who painted them, and the ideas and values that both consciously and subconsciously were to influence the ways in which this foreign landscape was to be seen and subsequently recorded by the colonial 'eye'.
45. New directions in Australian foreign policy: Australia and Indonesia 1945-50
edited by John Legge, 1997, $17.95. ISBN 0 7326 1159 8.
Indonesia's proclamation of an independent republic in August 1945 presented Australia with her first major challenge in meeting the changed circumstances of the postwar world. This book raises a number of questions about Australia's role during the period and about the validity of earlier perceptions of that role.
44. Women creating indonesia: The first fifty years
edited by Jean Gelman Taylor, 1997, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 1156 3.
The first half of the twentieth century was a period of intellectual ferment in the new colonial state when thinkers, writers, politicians and workers of all religious and ethnic groups were debating and organising to generate a new society. This book brings together papers first presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia's fourth Women in Asia conference, which was held in Melbourne in October 1993.
43. Empires, imperialism and Southeast Asia: Essays in honour of Nicholas Tarling
edited by Brook Barrington, 1997, $37.95. ISBN 0 7326 1153 9
42. In their own words: Working women of Yogyakarta
by Jessica Wright, 1997, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 1143 1.
40. Developing Jepara: State and society in New Order Indonesia
by Jim Schiller, 1996, $32.95. ISBN 0 7326 1012 5.
Most Indonesians live outside Jakarta, outside the major urban centres and, in their everyday life, deal with the district, subdistrict or village face of the Indonesian government. This book investigates state-society relations at the local level in the kabupaten) of Jepara in Central Java.
36. Kulap in Oz: A Thai view of Australian life and society in the late 1940s
Translated and edited by Scot Barmé, 1996, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 0628 4
Kulap in Oz presents a view of Australian life and culture in the late 1940s as recorded by Thai journalist-author Kulap Saipradit [1905-1974]. Among other things, Kulap relates the experiences of the first Thai students to study in Australia, discusses the status of Australian workers, women and students; and describes the role of the media and the nature of the political system. In the process he presents us with a critical commentary on contemporary life and politics in Thailand.
35. Falling out of touch: A study on Vietnamese Communist policy towards an emerging Cambodian Communist movement, 1930-1975
by Thomas Englebert and Christopher E. Goscha, 1995, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 0604 7.
This path-breaking study of an alliance ending in disenchantment draws on previously inaccessible archives in Hanoi, on interviews with participants and on a range of French and Thai archival sources.
33. Pathway to dependence: Commodity relations and the dissolution of Semai society
by Colin Nicholas, 1995, $15.95. ISBN 0 7326 0562 8
30. Rama III and the Siamese expedition to Kedah in 1839: The dispatches of Luang Udomsombat
translated by Cyril Skinner, edited by Justin Corfield, 1993, $27.50. ISBN 0 7326 0521 0
Written by a court official, these dispatches present an extensive contemporary account of Rama III, life at the Thai Court, and communications between a nineteenth century army in the field and its commanders in Bangkok. This, the only English translation in print, includes extensive translators notes, and British press coverage of the Kedah uprising. This is an important book for both Thai and Malay historians, as well as those interested in the system of government and military campaigning in 19th century Asia.
29. Educational refugees: Malaysian students in Australia
by Curtis Andressen, 1993, $21.95. ISBN 0 7326 0460 5
28. Indonesian political biography: In search of cross-cultural understanding
edited by Angus McIntyre, 1993, $21.95. ISBN 0 7326 0474 5
24. Quartering: A story of a marriage in Indonesia during the eighties
edited by David Hill, 1991, $15.95. ISBN 0 7326 0271 8
20. Truth and power: Robert S Hardie and land reform in the Philippines
by Paul Monk, 1990, $17.95. ISBN 0 7326 0152 5
Monash University theses on Southeast Asia 1961-1987
edited by Vivian Nash, 1988, $11.00. ISBN 0 7326
A bibliography of Dutch language primary sources concerning Southeast Asia from 1600 to 1940 in major Australian libraries
compiled by MR Fernando, 1991, $15.95. ISBN 0 7326 0237 8