Southeast Asia

Contents:

Session 15: Apa itu Pramoedya? (What is Pramoedya?)

• Beholding a Landmark of Guilt: 1960s Pramoedya and the Present Regime, Ben Abel
• Voices Carried: The Incorporation of Indonesia's Feminist Literary Tradition
• in the Works of Pramoedya, Julie Shackford-Bradley
• "Strangers Who Are Not Foreign": Pramoedya's Disturbing Language on the Chinese of Indonesia, Sumit K. Mandal
• Pramoedya: Autodidact, Example, Guide, Alex G. Bardsley

Session 16: Southeast Asian Protest and Social Movements Theory: A Dialogue

• State Structure and Collective Action in the Philippines , Vincent G. Boudreau
• The Mobilization Process in the "Four Eights" Democratic Movement in Burma, Kyaw Yin Hliang
• Lightning Strikes Twice: Thailand's Two Democracy Movements, 1973 and 1991-92, Jim Logerfo

Session 17: Images of the Past, Realities of the Present:The Use of History in Burma Today

• The Reconstruction of King Bayinnaung in Burma in Thai Chronicles, Sunait Chutintaranond
• Bodawhpaya's Foreign Policy, Euan Bagshawe
• Bayinnaung in Burmese Literature, U Saw Tun
• Cakravarin Amongst Cakravartins, Michael Aung-Thwin

Session 38: New Ethnography in Cambodia, Part One: Continuities and Changes, Pre- and Post-1975 (See Session 63)

• Plus Ça Change?: Social Relations in a Khmer Village , May Ebihara
• Political and Economic Change in the 1990s and Risk-Related Sexual Behavior Among Young Cambodians, Chou Meng Tarr
• The Psychosocial Origins of Cambodian Violence, Alexander Laban Hinton

Session 39: The State in Southeast Asia

• Nationalism, Revolutionary Socialism, and Post-Socialist Reform: Comparative Reflections on State-Society Relations in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Laos, Thaveeporn Vasavakul
• Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences, Vicente Rafael
• Locating the Dominant, Anthony Day
• Knowledge and the State in Southeast Asian History, Craig J. Reynolds

Session 40: Challenges of Democratization in Southeast Asia

• The Winds of Democratic Change in Thailand, Clark D. Neher
• Democratization in Singapore, Nara Ganesan
• Democracy on Hold: Malaysia in the 1990s, Diane K. Mauzy
• Democracy, Human Rights, and Philippine Foreign Policy , Ross Marlay

Session 62: State and Society in Late New Order Indonesia

• Armed Forces and Society in the 1990s, Salim Said
• Soeharto's Political Strategy in the 1990s: A Comparison of Labor and Religious Politics, R. William Liddle and Blair A. King
• The Rise of Indonesian Labor, Bama Athreya
• The Impact of the New Order on Center-Region Relations: An Interregional Comparison, Michael Malley

Session 63: New Ethnography in Cambodia: Memories of the Past, Struggles for the Future, Part Two ( See Session 38)

• Violence and Memory: The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide in Cambodia, Judy Ledgerwood
• Cambodian Political Cartoons and the Representation of Hierarchy, John Marston
• Patronage, Favoritism, Corruption: A Khmer Trend? John Vijghen
• Culture Into Nation: Conflict and Lack of Consensus in Cambodia, Carol Mortland

Session 64: Recent Research on Burmese Art

• Kyanzittha's Standing Image of the Buddha, Richard M. Cooler
• Telling Lives: Narrative Allegory on a Burmese Silver Bowl , Robert S. Wicks
• Sources, Dates, and Relationships for the Art of the Pyu , Robert L. Brown

Session 82: Materializations of Modernity in Indonesia

• The Tooth of Time or, Taking a Look at the "Look" of Clothing in Late 19th-Century Art, Patricia Spyer
• The State on the Skin: Clothes, Shoes and Neatness in (Colonial) Indonesia, Henk Schulte Nordholt
• Eating the Book in Biak, Irian Jaya: The Shock of Modernity on a Colonial Frontier, Danilyn Rutherford

Session 83: Capitalist Development, Clientelism and Rent-Seeking in Southeast Asia

• Southeast Asian Capitalism: Nature and Implications, K. S. Jomo
• Clientelism and Economic Growth in Thailand, Ansil Ramsay and Richard F. Doner
• Indonesia and Thailand in the International Economy: Clientelism and National Competitiveness, Alasdair Bowie and Danny Unger
• Corruption's Obstructions: Authority and Power in the Philippine Political Economy, Paul Hutchcroft

Session 92: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Traditions and Modernities in Contemporary Southeast Asia

• Mass Media and the Development of a "Superstar" Ethos in Sundanese Wayang Golek of West Java, Indonesia , Andrew N. Weintraub
• State-Culture and Political Gravity: Exploring the Upland-Lowland Divide in Mainland Southeast Asia, Hjorleifur R. Jonsson
• Performance, Ritual, and Meaning in Northern Thai Temple Festivals, Pamela A. Myers-Moro
• The Game of Hui: An Economic Analysis of Private Financial Arrangements in Vietnam, Trien T. Nguyen

Session 108: The Transformation of Vietnamese Political Economy in Asian Regional Context: Case Studies of the State, Firms, and Foreign Capital in the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries (Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group)

• The Contemporary Restructuring of East Asian Apparel Production: Implications for the Vietnamese Garment Industry, David A. Smith
• Can the Vietnamese State Play a Developmental Role? Integrating the Vietnamese Textile and Garment Industries into the Global Economy, Ngoc (Angie) Tran
• The Competitiveness of State and Non-State Enterprises and the Transformation of the Textile and Garment Industries in Vietnam, Hy V. Luong

Session 109: Updating Thai History: New Sources, New Interpretations

• Lan Na History in Lu Legends, Ratanaporn Sethakul
• Palm-Leaf Manuscripts and History-Writing in Premodern Northern Thailand, David K. Wyatt
• A Villain in Thai History Who Was Framed by the Plot of Historians, Thongchai Winichakul
• Chotmaihet Revisited: An Assessment of Early Bangkok Manuscript Sources, Lorraine Gesick

Session 115: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Families, Education, and Citizensin Southeast Asia

• Emergent Debates and Policy Directions: Women's Reproductive Rights in the Philippines, Maria Lourdes O. Acosta
• Tastes for Child Quality Amidst Multicultural Modernity: Chinese Lunar Birth Timing in Singapore, Daniel Goodkind
• National Education Reform Policies as Seen in Practice at the Local Level: A Philippine Case Study, Martha A. Adler
• Shifting Boundaries: A Century of Chineseness in Cambodia, Penny Edwards

Session 133: The State, the Churches and "the Left": Ongoing Conflicts in the Struggle to Define Social Progress in the Philippines

• Ramos Plays Cards Differently: Church-State Relations Since 1992, Robert L. Youngblood
• Constructing BCC-CO Ideology in the Philippines: Intellectual, Cultural, and Political "Bricolage," Catherine Coumans
• Local Development or Exploitation in a Scavenger Community, Cebu City, Philippines: "Model or Muddle," Kathy Nadeau

Session 134: Past Forgetting: War and Revolution in Vietnamese Memory: Part One (See Session 157)

• Reading Revolutionary Prison Memoirs, Peter Zinoman
• Framing the National Spirit: Viewing and Reviewing Painting Under the Revolution, Nora A. Taylor
• "The Motherland Remembers Your Sacrifice": Commemorating the War Dead in North Viet Nam, Shaun Kingsley Malarney
• Museum-Shrine: Revolution and its Tutelary Spirit in My Hoa Hung Hamlet, Christoph Giebel

Session 135: Direction and Priorities of Research on Southeast Asia (Sponsored by the Southeast Asia Council): Part One (See Session 158)

• Post-May 1992 Debates among Thai Public Intellectuals: Globalizers vs Communitarians, Kasian Tejapira
• Direction and Priorities of Research in Myanmar, Myo Myint
• Toward a National and Modern Historiography of Vietnam , Phan Huy Le

Session 156: The Contemporary Stage in Singapore, Malaysia,and the Philippines: Trauma, Trust, and Transition

• (I)n Admissable Poetics in the Republic: Abstracting the Nation in the Malaysian Plays of Kee Thuan Chye, Shirley Geok-lin Lim
• Sterilized Scalpels, Sharp Needles, Ruptured Sutures: Kee Thuan Chye's Operation in We Could **** You Mr. Birch, Daizal R. Samad
• Naming the Unnamable: Constructing Homosexualities in Philippine Contemporary Theater, Chris B. Millado
• Gender "Roles": Women Writing for Singapore's Stage, Laurel Means

Session 157: War and Revolution in Vietnamese Memory, Part Two (See Session 134)

• Re-presenting Vietnam's War Experience: The Manufacture of Nostalgia in Vietnam's Tourist Industry, Laurel Kennedy and Mary Rose Williams
• Heroic Mothers and Grasping Wives: Remembrance and Amnesia in Postwar Vietnam, Hue-Tam Ho Tai

Session 158: Direction and Priorities of Research on Southeast Asia: Part Two (See Session 135)

• Direction and Priorities of Research in the Philippines , Doreen G. Fernandez
• Writing Indigenous History in Malaysia: Approaches and Problems, Cheah Boon Kheng
• Beyond Authenticism and Academism: Priorities for Future Indonesian Studies, Ariel Heryanto

Session 178: Proper Conduct: Ethnographies of Citizenship in 20th Century Philippines

• Memory and Amnesia: Rizal Day Celebrations, 1898-1995, Ambeth R. Ocampo
• Malling the Philippines: Consumers, Flaneurs, and Citizenship , Eva-Lotta Hedman
• "Opportunities for Improvement": Home Economics and Practical Instruction in Philippine Education, Fenella Cannell

Session 179: New Readings of the Chirographic: Recent Work in the Manuscript Traditions of Indonesia

• Contending Voices of Reason and Passion: Prose and Verse in the Malay Manuscript World, Ian Proudfoot
• On Writing the Not-To-Be-Read: Material Components of Textual Magic Among the Batak, Uli Kozok
• An Overview of Islamic Texts in the Bugis Literary Tradition , Roger Tol
• Encyclopedism, Systematics, Precriptivism in Javanese Intellectual History: Suryanagara's Compleat Illuminator and Mid-Nineteenth Century Yogyakarta Manuscript Painting, Timothy E. Behrend

Session 202: Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship, Family Coalitions and Power in the Philippines

• "Islamic Family Organizations" in Cotabato: The Formalization of Kin Networks by an Emergent Muslim Counterelite , Thomas M. McKenna
• Kinship, Success and Political Culture in a Tagalog Coastal Community, Susan D. Russell
• Kinship and Art in Philippine Society, Sally Ann Ness
• A Visayan Family in Flux: Local Concerns and Global Processes , Jean-Paul Dumont

Session 203: Local Readings of Global Culture

• Material Women, Material Men: Constructing Consumer Culture in Indonesia's Peripheries, Nancy Melissa Lutz
• "It's a Mall World After All": Shopping Centers, Materialism and Discourses of Cultural Panic in Thailand's Age of Globalization, Erick D. White

Session 204: The Issue of Order: History, Culture, and Politics in Postcolonial Southeast Asia

• Mass Politics and Aristocratic Power in Postwar Malaya , Donna Amoroso
• The Cult of Antiquity in Postcolonial Vietnam, Patricia M. Pelley
• The "Birth" of Military Rule in Burma, Mary P. Callahan
• Islamic Orthodoxy in Postcolonial Malaysia, Shanti Nair

Session 223: Transforming the Arts of Ritual into the Rituals of Art

• Innovations as Reflections of Cultural Change, Hardja Susilo
• The Exorcist: The Symbiosis of Believers, Scholars, Officials, and Tourists through Javanese Ruwatan Performance, Nancy I. Cooper
• A Kenyah Warrior Dance: From Ritual to Entertainment, Ang Swee Lin
• Filipino Rituals as Icon and Performance: Survival and Recontextualization within a Development Dynamic, Ricardo Trimillos

Session 224: ROUND TABLE: Building Ethnic Identity in Burma (Sponsored by the Burma Studies Group)

Session 232: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS: Economic Reform and Regional Interactions in Southeast Asia

• Singapore's Rapid Industrialization: A Re-assessment, Leonard J. Perry
• Pies in the Sky: "Philippines 2000" and Agrarian Reform in the Philippines, J. R. Nereus O. Acosta
• Land Use Conversion and Urban Growth in the Northern Coast of West Java, Indonesia, Tommy Firman
• The Rise of Sub Economies: Growth Areas and Political Cooperation in ASEAN, Pushpa Thambipillai
• Thailand's Foreign Policy in the 1990s, Corrine Phuangkasem