CALL FOR PAPERS
24th ASEASUK Conference
Liverpool John Moores University 21-22 June 2008
If you are interested in convening a panel please contact Dr Ben Murtagh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you are interested in presenting a paper in one of the proposed panels
below, contact the panel convenor directly.
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The middle class in Southeast Asia: consumption, lifestyles and identities
Convenor: Prof V T King
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With the rapid economic development and modernisation in Southeast Asia,
transformations in occupational structures and the increasing access to
education and training, the new middle class is appearing ever more frequently
on social science research agendas. The comparative research coordinated by
Michael Hsiao on 'the middle classes' in East and Southeast Asia has provided
us with a range of useful issues for investigation, including boundaries;
social characteristics; lifestyles and identities; and political views and
activities. An interesting dimension is that significant elements of the middle
class are of relatively recent origin and from modest backgrounds. How do they
express their middle classness? What are the world-views, identities and
lifestyles of young middle class people and the second-generation middle class?
Can we talk of 'a' middle class or 'multiple middle classes'? Are there
differences between the middle class in different Southeast Asian
countries, particularly with the emergence of consumerism and the influence of
the market and globalization in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos?
The focus of the panel is on consumption practices, lifestyles and identities
and also seeks to develop certain of the themes raised by Richard Robison and
David Goodman in their work on 'the new rich' and Joel Kahn's work on
culturalisation and Southeast Asian identities.
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Indonesian/Malay manuscript studies
Convenor: Dr Annabel Gallop
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Papers are welcomed on all aspects of the study of the writing traditions of
maritime Southeast Asia. Of particular interest would be contributions on
manuscript illumination and the art of book; documents and chancery practice in
the courts of the archipelago; Islamic manuscripts from the southern
Philippines and the majority-Buddhist states of mainland Southeast Asia; and
previously undescribed manuscript collections.
Southeast Asian arts in transnational perspective
Convenors: Dr Matthew Isaac Cohen and Dr Laura Noszlopy
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Studies of the performing arts and visual cultures of Southeast Asia have until
recently emphasised local origins and significance over international links and
cross-cultural flows. This academic focus is at odds with the region's long
history of intercultural exchange, and the interest of many Southeast Asian
arts workers in situating their practice in relation to extra-local
configurations. This panel examines the arts of Southeast Asia and their
dy-namics of movement and exchange across national boundaries, with an emphasis
on the period of WWII to the present. Possible topics include: cultural
diplomacy, intercultural collaboration, local artistic practice in relation to
the global arts market, performance and art for tourism, diasporic arts, the
inter-national circulation of mediated performance (via the internet, VCD etc),
ASEAN art projects and teaching Southeast Asian arts outside the region.
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Civil society in Southeast Asia: new themes
Convenor: Dr Gerard Clarke
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Civil society has been a significant locus of concern in the field of
South-East Asian Studies for almost two decades now and this panel will
consider recent research which makes a theoretical or empirical contribution to
this evolving literature. The panel organiser welcomes papers that look at
civil society from one or more of the following perspectives, loosely
interpreted: * Macro: the changing nature of civil society across the
South-East Asian region and the political, economic and social consequences
that arise, for instance in the context of globalisation, economic integration,
or political mobilization; * Meso: the (changing) nature or structure of civil
society in individual Southeast Asian nations, including the political,
economic or social drivers behind any reported change; * Micro: the activities
of individual civil society organisations (CSOs) or groups of CSOs and their
political, economic or social implications.
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Sinful pleasures: attitudes towards and depictions of vices in Southeast
Asia
Convenor: Dr James Warren
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Humans have long indulged in activities and substances that while stimulating
and pleasurable also have detrimental effects upon the participant or user,
especially if done to excess. These activities and substances include
commonplace habits such as gambling, smoking, and drinking alcohol; they are
often addictive and in the West are collectively grouped together as 'vices'.
Most religions have injunctions against some or all of these forms of
behaviour. Their dichotomous nature means secular attitudes towards these vices
are diverse and often contradictory; ranging from tolerance, and sometimes even
encouragement, to condemnation and criminalisation. In turn, these differing
responses are conditioned by political, economic and cultural factors that
change over time. Crucially, because of the potential for contradictory
attitudes, vices frequently become areas of contestation between, for example,
the state and its citizens or the colonisers and the colonised.
Studies of attitudes and policies towards vices can thus reveal much about the
society or culture in which they occur. South East Asia is no different in this
regard but to date this topic remains a little explored area. This panel seeks
papers dealing with any aspect, past or present, of attitudes to and portrayals
of vices in Southeast Asia.
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Emerging scholars' panel
Convenor: Dr Ben Murtagh
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This panel presents a space for doctoral students working on any subject
relating to South East Asia to present their research. It is an opportunity to
try out new presentation techniques, to gain experience in presenting papers
and also to meet colleagues working across the UK and beyond. All this is in a
positive and supportive environment.
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Liverpool and Southeast Asia
Convenor: Dr Nick White
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2008 is Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture, and the city's
council has proudly identified Liverpool as the 'World in One City'. In both
popular and academic discourse that 'World' is usually assumed to mean the
'Atlantic' given Liverpool's dominant role in the 18th-century slave trade, and
its 19th-century centrality in European emigration to North America. This panel
is not seeking to polemically downgrade 'Atlanticism' in Liverpool's modern and
contemporary history. But the papers presented here do hope to emphasise
another Scouse past and present, one which is intimately tied up with Asian
trade, shipping and migration. In this context, it is apposite that ASEASUK's
2008 conference is taking place in Liverpool. Liberated from both the Atlantic
slave trade and the East India Company's monopolies on trade to 'The East',
Liverpool merchants had a central impact in the 'opening up' and European
colonisation of Southeast Asia
from the early-nineteenth century. Here was a 'provincial' significance which
challenges Cain and Hopkins's focus on the City of London in the expansion of
British imperial interests. Admittedly, the grand Liverpool-Asia trading
concerns shifted their centre of operations to London as the 19th century
progressed. Nevertheless, Liverpool could still boast the headquarters of the
leading British shipping companies to Southeast Asia as late as 1980. Southeast
Asian imports - rubber particularly - have had a profound influence on
Merseyside's economic life until very recently. Moreover, significant, if not
marginalised and forgotten, Southeast Asian communities remain in Liverpool to
the present day.
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