H-SEASIA: CFP - Transnational Activism in Southeast Asia
From: "Valerie Yeo" <hseasia@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <H-SEASIA@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 2:40 AM
> Subject: H-SEASIA: CFP - Transnational Activism in Southeast Asia
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>> From: Michele Ford <michele.ford@arts.usyd.edu.au>
>> Date: Nov 17, 2006 8:09 AM
>>
>> Call for papers for Panel on "Transnational Activism in Southeast
>> Asia", EUROSEAS Conference, 12-15 September 2007, Naples.
>>
>> Convenors (please contact us both if you are interested in
>> participating):
>>
>> Edward Aspinall, Australian National University
>> (edward.aspinall@anu.edu.au)
>> Michele Ford, University of Sydney (michele.ford@arts.usyd.edu.au)
>>
This panel focuses on the new modes of transnational activism which
are transforming the landscape of social and political engagement in
Southeast Asia, as in other parts of the world. The panel has four
main aims. Firstly, we hope to encourage broad participation from
scholars looking at different forms and sites of transnational
activism, different countries, borderlands and geographic regions,
and with a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The goal is to allow for
preliminary mapping of the nature, extent, and pathways of transnational activism in Southeast Asia. Second, we aim to situate the new transnational activism within broader process of economic and cultural globalization, elucidating the connections the new activism
has with other phenomena (such as migration flows and the spread of
new communication technologies and media). Third, we will view
transnational activism critically. Much literature on global civil
society? adopts a celebratory tone because it examines only the
emancipatory potential of the new activism, as well as its capacity
to enable and facilitate local initiatives. In this panel, we hope also
to focus on how the new transnational activism can entrench
domination and inequality, and how it can limit and constrain choices by local
actors. Fourthly, and following from this observation, the panel
will examine efforts by activists in Southeast Asia to resist new forms
of hegemony in international activist networks and to set or at least
negotiate their own agendas.
>>
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>> Dr Michele Ford
>> Indonesian Studies
>> Brennan-McCallum, A18
>> The University of Sydney NSW 2006 >> Australia
>>
>> Phone: +61 2 9351 7797
>> Fax: +61 2 9351 2319