Associate Professor Susan Blackburn
- Tel: +61 3 990 52384
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: Susan.Blackburn@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W10.16 10th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton campus
Biography
Susan Blackburn has a BA (Honours) from Adelaide University and a PhD and Diploma of Education from Monash University. Her thesis concerned Indonesian nationalism.
Since graduating Dr Blackburn has taught at Victoria University of Technology (Melbourne), Griffith University (Brisbane) and, since 1991, at Monash University. Her research has been in the areas of Indonesian history and politics, the Indonesian women’s movement, and foreign aid. She has just completed a research project with Oxfam Australia on their assistance to women in postconflict situations.
Her current teaching is in the areas of the Politics of Development, Gender in Asian Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, and Foreign Aid and Non-Government Organisations, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr Blackburn has been supervising post-graduate theses since 1988. Her students have successfully completed MA and PhD theses in topics related to Asian politics, women in development, Australian foreign aid and the politics of development. She is interested in supervising further students in these and related areas.
Recent Publications
Commercial Books
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Women and the State in Modern Indonesia Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
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Practical Visionaries: A Study of Community Aid Abroad Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1993
Edited Books
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Indonesian Islam in a New Era: How Women Negotiate their Muslim Identities Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2007, edited and with an introduction jointly with Bianca Smith and Siti Syamsiyatun.
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The First Indonesian Women’s Congress of 1928 Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2007, edited and with an Introduction by me.
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Love, Sex and Power, Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2001, edited and with an Introduction by me.
Book Chapters
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‘Women’s suffrage and democracy in Indonesia’ in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds) Women’s Suffrage in Asia: Gender, nationalism and democracy, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp. 79-105.
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‘Gender Relations in Indonesia: What Women Want’, in Grayson J. Lloyd and Shannon L. Smith (eds), Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001, pp.270-282.
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‘Political relations among women in a multi-racial city: Colonial Batavia in the twentieth century’, in Kees Grijns and Peter J.M. Nas (eds), Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-cultural Essays, Leiden, KITLV Press, 2000
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Barbara Hatley and Susan Blackburn, ‘Representations of women’s roles in household and society in Indonesian women’s writing of the 1930s’ in Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg and Ratna Saptari (eds), Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000
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‘The Indonesian Elections of 1999: Where were the women?’ (pp. 87-98) in Susan Blackburn (ed) Pemilu: the 1999 Indonesian Election Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1999
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‘Introduction’ in Susan Blackburn and Bob Stensholt (eds), The Simons Report: Where to now with overseas aid? Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1999
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"Western Feminists Observe Asian Women: An Example from the Dutch East Indies", in Jean Gelman Taylor (ed) Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years, Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1997
Journal Articles
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"Women and the nation", Inside Indonesia No.66 (2001) pp.6-8.
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"Gender Violence and the Indonesian Political Transition", Asian Studies Review Vol.23 no.4 (December 1999) pp.431-446.
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"Women and Citizenship in Indonesia", Australian Journal of Political Science Vol.34 no.2 (July 1999) pp.189-204.
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"Winning the Vote for Women in Indonesia", Australian Feminist Studies Vol.14 no.29 (April 1999) pp.207-218.
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(with Sharon Bessell) "Marriageable Age: Political Debates on Early Marriage in Twentieth Century Indonesia" Indonesia no.63 (April 1997) pp. 107-141.
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"Introduction" pp. 1-5 and edited "Women and the State in Asia" section in Asian Studies Review vol.17 no.3 (April 1994) pp. 1-117
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"Gender Interests and Indonesian Democracy", Australian Journal of Political Science vol.29 no.3 (November 1994) pp.556-574.
Postgraduate Supervision
Postgraduate research students currently being supervised include:
- Sylvia Yazid, Thesis Title: Promoting the rights of Indonesian women migrant workers: NGOs’ roles in influencing Indonesian policies toward migrant workers