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Asia Research Centre
Asia Research Centre
2006 Annual Report
wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au
Asia Research Centre 2006 Annual Report
www.murdoch.edu.au
Contents
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Staff
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Centre management
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Director’s report
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Budget
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Grants
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Public seminar series
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Student supervision and completions
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Publications
Staff
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Professor Garry Rodan, Director
Associate Professor David Brown
Dr Carolyn Brewer
Dr Yingchi Chu
Dr Kazuhiro Harada
Professor David Hill
Dr Jane Hutchison
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Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya
Associate Professor Terence Lee
Professor Sam Makinda
Professor Gary Meyers
Professor Ian Scott
Dr Miyume Tanji
Dr Jeannette Taylor
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Dr Ranald Taylor
Associate Professor Malcolm Tull
Associate Professor Carol Warren
Professor James Warren
Dr Ian Wilson
Associate Professor Sandra Wilson
Centre management
Centre Board
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Associate Professor David Brown, Politics & International
International Advisory Panel
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Professor Kevin Hewison, Director, Carolina Asia Centre,
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Professor Richard Higgott, Director, Centre for the Study of
Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities;
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Professor David Hill, Asian Studies, School of Social Sciences
University of North Carolina;
and Humanities;
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Dr Jane Hutchison, Politics & International Studies, School
of Social Sciences and Humanities;
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Professor Gary Meyers, School of Law;
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Professor Vijay Mishra, English, School of Social Sciences
and Humanities;
Affairs, United Nations;
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Director, Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore;
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Associate Professor Carol Warren, Asian Studies, School of
Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Professor Krishna Sen, Department of Media &
Information, Curtin University of Technology;
School;
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Professor Anthony Reid, Director, Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles and
Professor Garry Rodan, on leave from Politics &
Associate Professor Malcolm Tull, Murdoch Business
Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Research School of Pacific
and Asian Studies, Australian National University;
International Studies, School of Social Sciences and
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Professor Jomo K.S., Assistant Secretary-General on
Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social
Ms Sally Mansfield, Western Australian State Director,
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade;
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Globalisation & Regionalisation, University of Warwick;
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Professor Lynn T. White, Director, Woodrow Wilson School
of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University.
Director’s report
During 2006, the Asia Research Centre
experienced another productive year of
The Flagship Project
academic publications, Ph D completions
The publication of Dr Kanishka Jayasuriya’s
and assorted public seminars, lectures
sole authored book Statecraft, Welfare and
and symposia. This included the Centre
the Politics of Inclusion (Palgrave Macmillan)
facilitating broad engagement within and
marked another milestone in the Political
beyond academic communities on a range
Regimes and Governance in East and
of issues vital to understanding dynamics
Southeast Asia project. His book provides
in East and Southeast Asia and Australia’s
a comparative analysis of innovative new
relationships with the region. In meeting
forms of welfare governance in Korea,
the resource challenges of achieving such
Thailand, Brazil and the UK.
a breadth of activities, the Centre drew on
integrated with those of government.
Significant differences between Hong Kong
and Singapore were explored through
case studies of various bodies including
the Hong Kong Airport and Hospital
Authorities, railway companies in both
Hong Kong and Singapore and bodies
concerned with environmental issues in
Singapore.
Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia After 9/11
(Routledge), edited by Professors Garry
Dr Jayasuriya examines the socialisation,
Rodan and Kevin Hewison, brought yet
political language and institutions
another flagship study to conclusion. This
collaboration.
associated with neo-liberal market models
collection imparts a political economy
of welfare delivery that are emerging,
perspective on the ‘war on terror’,
Publications and Project
Progress
explaining how social democratic ideas
examining the interplay of security and
of welfare are being supplanted by the
economics in shaping political regimes and
notion of welfare as a form of economic
modifying market systems. Contributors
participation and inclusion – an important
ask whether the new war on terror is
social and political development in parts of
aiding or abetting the reproduction of
external sources of income and embarked
on significant international research
The output of publications for 2006
boasted four sole-authored books and two
jointly-edited books, a special guest-edited
edition of an international journal as well as
11 book chapters and 13 refereed journal
articles. In addition to this, the Centre’s
online Working Paper series generated
eleven new papers, bringing the total in the
longstanding series to139 by the end of
the year. Meanwhile, as more phases of the
Centre’s flagship project Political Regimes
and Governance in East and Southeast Asia
either concluded or reached advanced
stages of the writing up process, other
studies such as Mediating Transition to PostAuthoritarian Indonesia and Port Privatisation
in the Asia-Pacific were launched.
East and Southeast Asia.
Another study under the rubric of the
flagship project that was also concluded
in 2006 involved a special guest-edited
issue of Public Organization Review. Entitled
‘Symposium on Statutory Bodies in Hong
Kong and Singapore: Issues and Cases of
Organizational Autonomy and Integration’,
the collection was jointly edited by
Professors Ian Scott and Ian Thynne.
Contributors focused on the conditions
under which statutory bodies have, in some
cases, been able to increase their autonomy
from government while, in others, their
functions have become more closely
existing political and economic regimes
in the region. A thematic argument made
by different authors is that neoliberal
globalisation – in the new security context
– is able to accommodate a range of
political regimes rather than exerting any
uniform pressure towards liberal politics.
A further study belonging to the flagship
project, Political Regimes and Media in Asia,
was in an advanced stage of publication
preparation by the end of 2006. The jointly
edited book by Professor Krishna Sen
and Dr Terence Lee will be published by
Routledge in 2007.
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The significance of privatisation for security
responses in the region post September
11 was also considered at the meeting.
The research group is working towards an
edited book with the UK publisher Ashgate.
Another new study was launched in
2006 with an October workshop entitled
Mediating Transition to Post-Authoritarian
Indonesia and involved academic and
professional analysts of Indonesia’s
media from Australia, Asia and the US.
The project, which examines the nature
and determinants of media directions in
contemporary Indonesia, is headed by
Professors David Hill and Krishna Sen
and will eventuate in an edited book.
The factors enabling or hampering the
media contributing to political pluralism
in Indonesia are a particular focus of the
project.
Other Projects
In conjunction with the flagship project, a
range of other individual and collaborative
projects by Centre Fellows were completed,
progressed or initiated.
Among these was Dr John McCarthy’s soleauthored book, The Fourth Circle: A Political
Ecology of Sumatra’s Rainforest Frontier
(Stanford University Press). This addresses
the politics of environmental change in
rural Aceh – one of the richest areas of
tropical rainforest in Indonesia. His book
pays special attention to customary (adat)
village and state institutions and the factors
shaping their operations and effectiveness.
Dr McCarthy explains how key actors
interact to manage local resources in ways
that eclipse both adat and formal state
management structures. In particular, the
Also approaching completion was the
Fall of Soeharto and Indonesian History, to a
Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery
UK publisher for consideration. The other
grant supported study entitled Contestation
study, Dr Ian Wilson’s Violence, Criminality
or Regulation? New Politics in Southeast
and the State in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, is
Asia. The second and final workshop for
expected to be completed by early 2007.
this study was held at Murdoch University.
The projected outcome is a special issue
of an international journal to be edited by
Professor Garry Rodan and Dr Kanishka
Jayasuriya.
Two individual studies on Indonesia
that also belong to the Political Regimes
and Governance project were nearing
completion by the end of 2006. The first
of these by Max Lane resulted in the
submission of his manuscript, Aksi, The
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Among the studies linked to the flagship
project initiated in 2006 was Port
Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience,
headed by Associate-Professor Malcolm
Tull and his University of Wollongong
collaborator Dr James Reveley. A workshop
held at Murdoch University in July brought
a range of international scholars together
to evaluate the impact of various port
privatisations in the Asia-Pacific since the
1980s on economic efficiency, regulatory
frameworks and commodity supply chains.
book explains how intricate district level
webs of power and interest coalescing
around local resources and embedded
in wider social structures are reaping a
devastating environmental toll. The book
is the culmination of work begun during
Dr McCarthy’s Ph D candidature at the Asia
Research Centre and extended on during
his post-doctoral appointments in the
Netherlands and at the Centre.
Three other sole-authored books published
in 2006 had their geneses in Ph D research
undertaken at the Asia Research Centre.
The first of these was Myth, Protest and
Struggle in Okinawa (Routledge) by Dr
Miyume Tanji. Dr Tanji’s study provides
a rich documentation and analysis of the
long history of political and social activism
in Okinawa, with a particular focus on
the contemporary shift away from protest
movements led by political parties and
collective organisations such as trade
unions towards informally organised,
small and individual-based new social
movements. Dr Tanji observes an enduring
sense of marginalisation characterising
Okinawan identity politics that is likely
to be exploited long after the removal of
American military bases from the island.
Tsukasa Takamine’s Japan’s Development
Aid to China: The long-running foreign policy
of engagement (Routeledge) analyses
developments in Japan’s aid to China
since 1979. Dr Takamin’s book offers new
insights into the way Japanese aid policymaking functions. Contrary to the widely
held view that Japan’s aid to China is given
for reasons of commercial self-interest, Dr
Takamine maintains that the objectives
are much more complex and dynamic.
Fellows and Ph D students of the Centre
He explains shifts in Japan’s China policy
(who are now scattered around different
in the 1990s against the background of
universities throughout the world) continue
international developments and domestic
to collaborate in a theoretically distinctive
changes in both countries.
approach to understanding political
The third book arising out of postgraduate
research is Christopher Hill’s Survival and
Change: Three Generations of Balinese Painters
economy. This book is already adopted
in undergraduate and graduate courses
at a wide range of universities in the US,
Europe, UK and Australasia.
(Pandanus Books), which explores the
work of Balinese artists in the context of
Among the other projects in train during
extraordinary political and social changes
2006 were two further ARC Discovery
during the twentieth century. Analytical
grant projects, including Professor James
attention is also paid to the dynamics of art
Warren’s Captivity Remembered: Slavery,
consumers, including changing perceptions
Islam and Identity Formation in the Sulu
of Westerners about non-Western art. His
Zone, 1768-1898. During the year Professor
analysis thus not only provides insights
Warren undertook archival research at
into the beliefs and techniques informing
the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Balinese art practice, but also the impact of
and presented some of his preliminary
Western consumer demand.
findings at scholarly seminars in Manila.
The writing phase of Professor David Hill’s
An established international reputation
Secular modernisers in the Indonesian media:
the Centre has earned for innovative work
A biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922 – 2004)
on political economy of the Asian region
benefited in 2006 from a Senior Visiting
was consolidated in 2006 with the third
Research Fellowship at the Asia Research
edition of The Political Economy of South-
Institute, National University of Singapore.
East Asia, published by Oxford University
The book on Mochtar Lubis is projected for
Press. Sub-titled Markets, power and
completion by the end of 2007.
contestation and jointly edited by Professors
Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard
Progress on Dr Ian Wilson’s and Associate
Robison, the central question the book’s
Professor David Brown’s project An Empirical
contributors grapple with is what kinds
and Conceptual Investigation of Ethnicized
of political regimes are evolving in the
Gang Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia was
contested processes of building new market
also significant. The project is supported by
systems in the region? As has been the
a United States Institute of Peace grant and
case with previous edited political economy
during 2006 the first in what is anticipated
collections, this book is a demonstration
to be a series of international journal
of how existing, emerging and previous
articles appeared.
Research Collaboration
A feature of some of the major projects
completed or undertaken during the year
was the depth of international research
collaboration involved. Such collaboration
remains central to the Centre’s modus
operandi in pursuit of ambitious and
innovative research of the highest quality.
The publication of the special guest-edited
issue in September of Public Organization
Review – ‘Symposium on Statutory Bodies
in Hong Kong and Singapore: Issues and
Cases of Organizational Autonomy and
Integration’ – was the outcome of a jointly
funded project between the Asia Research
Centre and the Centre for Civil Society
and Governance at the University of Hong
Kong. Further collaboration between the
two centres is anticipated.
Another study in an advanced stage of
progress – Contestation or Regulation? New
Politics in Southeast Asia – involves close
collaboration between the Asia Research
Centre and the Asia Research Institute at
the National University of Singapore. The
study has not only been supported by an
ARC Discovery project grant but also by
contributions from the two centres.
Among the new projects initiated in 2006,
Mediating Transition to Post-Authoritarian
Indonesia was significant for reaching not
only to established researchers in other
academic institutions in Asia and the US,
but for forging links with emerging scholars
in the region as well as journalists and
other practitioner groups. The financial
support of the Asia Pacific Futures Research
Network, backed by the Australian Research
Council, made this possible.
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Law School, outlined what he sees as
collaboration during 2006 involved
Seminars and Public
Engagement
the appointment of Associate-Professor
The Centre hosted a wide range of public
with Australia. Subsequently, Professor
Malcolm Tull as principal investigator for
lectures, seminars and symposia during
Keiichi Tsunekawa of the University of
the History of Marine Animal Populations
2006, underlining the importance it
Tokyo examined the nature and regional
(HMAP) activities in Southeast Asia and a
attaches to engagement between academic,
implications of contemporary nationalism
member of HMAP’s international Steering
policy and wider public communities.
in Japan. Finally, Professor Takashi Shiraishi,
Group. HMAP is the historical component
Contributions by Centre fellows to the mass
of the National Graduate Institute for Policy
of the Census of Marine Life, a US$1 billion
media during the year were also significant
Studies in Tokyo offered his reflections on
in enhancing such engagement.
East Asian community building.
One avenue through which the Centre
In conjunction with this dedicated seminar
fostered public engagement involved
series, the Centre also convened a public
the Public Seminar Lecture and Series.
symposium in Perth city on the proposed
Among the nine guests this year was Dr
Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement,
Brendon Nelson, the Federal Minister for
examining the economic and political
Defence, who spoke to the topic ‘Regional
issues likely to affect the prospects of such
Instability and Australian Responses’ and Dr
an agreement.
A major new development in the Centre’s
institutionalised international research
project sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation and various governments.
HMAP ‘aims to improve our understanding
of ecosystem dynamics, specifically with
regard to long-term changes in stock
abundance, the ecological impact of
large-scale harvesting by man, and the
role of marine resources in the historical
development of human society’.
Through Associate-Professor Tull, the Asia
Research Centre is the collaborating partner
for HMAP’s activities in the Southeast Asian
region.
Japan’s strategic vision for Asia and
the implications for bilateral relations
Aloysius L. Madja, the Indonesian Consul
in Perth, who examined issues relevant to
This symposium brought two outstanding
Australian-Indonesian relations, including
Japanese and Australian analysts together:
international terrorism, illegal fishing and
Professor Yukiko Fukagawa and Associate-
the independence movement in West
Professor Ann Capling. The former is not
Papua.
only a well-published expert on trade
issues in the School of Political Science and
In view of the fact that 2006 was the
Economics at Waseda University but also
50th anniversary of the Australia-Japan
a key policy advisor who worked on the
Friendship Treaty, a special seminar series
University in Shanghai which is intended to
Japan-Korea FTA on behalf of the Japanese
– Japan’s Role in Asia – was held, bringing
government.
pave the way for future collaboration with
three high profile Japanese speakers to
the Research Centre for Visual Culture and
Perth. The first guest, Professor Yasuji
The latter has published significant works
the International Public Relations Centre at
Ishigaki, former Japanese diplomat and
on Australian trade matters as well as
Fudan University.
now a professor at the Tokai University
on the multilateral trading system and
During 2006, a Memorandum of
Understanding was signed with Fudan
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global economic governance and is head
of the Political Science Department at the
University of Melbourne.
The symposium attracted business people,
public bureaucrats, representatives from
NGOs and others. Like the Japan’s Role in
Asia series, the symposium was possible
because of financial support from the 2006
Australia-Japan Year of Exchange Grassroots Support scheme.
The other public symposium held in 2006
was China’s Rise: Force for Regional Stability
or Regional Friction? This was a joint exercise
in collaboration with the US Consulate
in Perth, The West Australian newspaper
and the Western Australian office of the
Department of Foreign Affairs.
It presented three speakers: Dr Ellen Frost,
who is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for
International Economics and an Adjunct
Fellow at the National Defense University’s
Institute of National Strategic Studies in
the US, Professor Stuart Harris from the
Department of International Relations at
the Research School of Pacific and Asian
Studies at the Australian National University
and Professor Samuel Makinda of the Asia
Research Centre.
Public interest in the symposium exceeded
seating capacity, nevertheless over 100
people were able to attend the event in
Perth city and it also enjoyed prominent
media coverage.
Another means by which the Centre sought
in 2006 to facilitate public engagement
was through opinion pieces in national and
international newspapers and magazines.
This included articles in The Age, the Wall
Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic
Review.
The eight pieces published covered such
topics as Australian aid and foreign policy
in the Asia-Pacific, the significance of
election results in the region and analysis
of the controversy over the Singapore
government’s restrictions on protest groups
at the World Bank meeting in the city-state.
Centre fellows also gave interviews during
the year for national television and radio
programmes as well as national and
international newspapers and electronic
news providers such as Bloomberg, Reuters
and Dow-Jones.
Postgraduates
The second was Jay Ram Adhikari’s Political
There were three Ph D completions during
2006: Kathleen Turner’s Identity and
the State: A Study of Communal Conflict
in Ambon, Indonesia; Narrelle Morris’
Destructive Discourse: ‘Japan-bashing’ in the
United States, Australia and Japan in the 1980s
and 1990s; and Henry Chen Ta-Yuan’s
Taiwanese Offshore Fisheries in Southeast
Asia, 1936-1977. The first two theses
were respectively supervised by AssociateProfessors David Brown and Sandra
Wilson while Professor James Warren and
Associate-Professor Malcom Tull jointly
supervised the third.
Livelihood Linkages in Nepal which started in
Two new Ph Ds also began during the
year. The first of these was Stephanie
Chok’s study the Ethics of Corporate Social
Responsibility(CSR): where do labour rights
fit in? which began early that year and is
being supervised by Associate-Professor
Carol Warren.
Conflicts, Environmental Security and Rural
late 2006 and which is jointly supervised
by Associate Professor Carol Warren and Dr
Rajat Ganguly.
Apart from the major publications
mentioned above by students who had
previously completed Ph Ds at the Centre,
some of the existing students – notably Loh
Kah Seng, Carolin Liss and Donna Turner
– also had work published in international
journals and edited books during the year.
Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri also
jointly authored a small monograph for the
Australian Institute of International Affairs
as part of its dedicated compilation on
Australia’s White Policy Paper on Overseas
Aid that was geared towards fostering
debate within influential policy audiences
and communities.
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Future Directions
heightened as the Asian region continues to change in a host of
For the foreseeable future, the Australian higher education funding
Centre has historically been very strong – such as analyses of political
system will involve greater recognition of research outputs, notably
economy, political change and the environment – will remain
academic publications. The current government is committed to the
relevant. Meanwhile, building up capacity in areas such as security
introduction of its Research Quality Framework (RQF) in 2008, with
and processes of public governance would be advantageous.
ways that affect Australia’s future. Consequently, areas in which the
guidelines and assessment panels to be finalised in 2007.
The Centre’s capacity to expand work on regional conflict issues will
This will require all universities to submit designated research
be significantly enhanced by the arrival of Dr Rajat Ganguly from
clusters to external assessment for research quality and impact.
the University of East Anglia. Appointed in March 2006, Dr Ganguly
Although the Australian Labor Party has said it will abolish the RQF
starts his tenure track appointment as a senior lecturer in Politics and
if it wins government, it nevertheless also emphasises the need for
International Studies in 2007. Dr Ganguly has written extensively
concentration in research funding to reflect research quality – a
on ethnic conflict and South Asian politics and security. Recent or
process to involve external, independent assessment and to include
current projects by Dr Ganguly cover insurgency movements and
bibliometrics.
counterinsurgency operations, ethnic secession politics, military and
non-military approaches to conflict management, and the politics,
The Asia Research Centre’s longstanding emphasis on high quality
foreign policy and security of South Asian states, particularly India,
academic research publications and graduate training is consistent
Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
with the priorities of future research funding regimes in Australia. It
is therefore well placed to compete nationally for research money.
As is documented in this report, 2006 was another active year in the
However, given the comparatively modest levels of public funding for
Centre’s initiatives in promoting public engagement on major policy
Australian universities, it will also be necessary to continue to develop
issues – both by distilling academic research for public debate and
additional sources inside and outside Australia to support ambitious
by hosting guest speakers and forums that incorporate non-academic
research agendas and to provide for more research staff in support of
participants. The importance of these activities will not be diminished
such agendas.
by the RQF or any comparable funding system. On the contrary,
while the Centre does not principally undertake applied research,
This means targeting a wider range of international academic and
the research it undertakes is intended to provide for better-informed
policy-oriented foundations, including as joint applicants with
public debate on issues of policy importance. In this respect, the
some of our strategic research partners overseas where that opens
contributions of outgoing Centre Board member, Ms Sally Mansfield,
up new opportunities. It also means shoring up international
to new ways of fostering that engagement have been significant and
research collaboration as a modus operandi for assembling the most
valued. Ms Mansfield completed her term as State Director of the
competitive and appropriately sized research teams to compete in
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in late 2006, taking up a
the international grants market. The extensive international research
post in Paris as Australian Permanent Delegate to UNESCO.
networks forged over the last decade or more by the Centre will thus
need to be further bolstered and complemented.
Whatever the future funding system in Australia, the importance
Garry Rodan
of high quality research on contemporary Asia is only likely to be
Director
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Budget
2006 Actual Income
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$428,787 (including carryover)
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Expenditure on salaries,
conferences, seminar series and
project expenses: $246,880.
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Balance: $181,907
2007 Budget Income
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$206,900 (including carryover)
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Expenditure on salaries,
conferences, seminar series and
project expenses: $130,487
Grants
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Australian Research Council
(ARC) Discovery Grant, Captivity
Remembered: Slavery, Islam and
Identity Formation in the Sulu
Zone, 1768-1898, James Warren,
$121,000
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Australian Research Council
(ARC) Discovery Grant, Secular
Modernisers in the Indonesian Media:
A Biography of Mochtar Lubis (19222004), David Hill, $75,000
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History of Marine Animal
Populations (HMAP), Southeast
Asia Case Studies, USD$35,000.
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2006 Australia-Japan Year of
Exchange Grass-roots Support,
Public Lecture Series, Japan’s Role in
Asia: New Dynamics, New Directions,
$17,500.
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2006 Australia-Japan Year of
Exchange Grass-roots Support,
Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement:
How likely and who benefits?
Symposium, $5,000.
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Research Excellence Grant
Problems and Prospects, led by Garry Rodan;
Scheme (REGS) Murdoch
Statutory Bodies in Singapore and Hong Kong,
University, Contemporary Asia
involving Ian Scott and Jeannette Taylor; US
Area of Research Strength Award
Institute for Peace, An Investigation of Gang
for Capacity Building:Security,
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ARC Asia Pacific Futures
Research Network, Mediating
Transition to Post-Authoritarian
Indonesia Workshop, $10,000.
Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore, Mediating
Transition to Post-Authoritarian
Indonesia, SGD$ 8,000 David Hill.
Terrorism and New Forms of Political
Violence and Political Regimes and
Governance in East and Southeast
Asia, $14,374.
Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia, David
Brown and Ian Wilson; ARC Discovery
Grant, Contestation or Regulation? a new
politics in Southeast Asia, Garry Rodan and
Kanishka Jayasuriya; International Centre
for Excellence in Asia Pacific Studies
(ANU) grant, Articulating environmental
Continuing projects relating to previous
and social science approaches towards
external grants, including: Political Regimes
effective, collaborative management of coastal
and Governance in East and Southeast Asia:
ecosystems in Indonesia, Carol Warren.
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Workshops
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Port Privatisation: The Asia Pacific Experience, 17 July
(pictured right)
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Mediating Transition to Post-Authoritarian Indonesia,
9-10 October (pictured below)
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Contestation or Regulation? A New Politics in Southeast Asia,
19-20 December. A Joint Workshop with Asia Research
Institute, National University Of Singapore (pictured bottom)
Japan’s Role in Asia Seminar Series
Professor Takashi Shiraishi
Professor Yasuji Ishigaki
Professor Keiichi Tsunekawa
National Graduate Institute for Policy
Tokai University Law School. Japan’s
Strategic Vision for Asia and its Partnership
with Australia.
University of Tokyo. Dependent Nationalism
in Contemporary Japan and Its Implications for
the Regional Order in the Asia Pacific.
Studies, Tokyo. Reflections on East Asia
Community Building.
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Public Symposiums
Vice Consul Dr Yuichi Inouye, Consulate General of Japan in Perth,
Professor Yukiko Fukagawa, Associate Professor Ann Capling and
Professor Garry Rodan
Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement: How likely and who benefits?
Professor Yukiko Fukagawa Waseda University and AssociateProfessor Ann Capling, University of Melbourne with assistance
from a 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange Grass-roots Support
Professor Sam Makinda, US Consul General in Perth Robin McClellan, Dr
Ellen Frost, Professor Garry Rodan and Professor Stuart Harris
China’s Rise: Force for Regional Stability or Regional Friction?
Dr Ellen Frost, Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International
Economics, Adjunct Research Fellow at the National Defense
University’s Institute of National Strategic Studies in the United States.
grant.
Professor Stuart Harris, Department of International Relations,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University and former head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade.
Professor Samuel Makinda, Chair for Security, Terrorism and
Counter-Terrorism Studies, Murdoch University. Member, Australian
Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee for International
Security Issues and member, Council for Security and Cooperation in
the Asia-Pacific.
Kanishka Jayasuriya asks a question of the speaker during the
China’s Rise symposium.
Ann Capling alongside Sally Mansfield engages the audience during the
Japan-Australia Free Trade Agreement symposium.
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Public seminar series
The Honourable Dr Brendan Nelson,
Federal Minister for Defence. Regional
Instability and Australian Responses.
Dr Aloysius L. Madja, Indonesian
Consul in Perth. International Terror, Illegal
Fishing and Papua: Issues and Implications
for the Indonesian - Australian Relationship.
12 Dr Kazuhiro Harada, Visiting Fellow,
Asia Research Centre. From Coercion
to Collaboration: Participatory Forest
Management in Indonesia.
Dr Rajat Ganguly, University of East
Anglia, UK. Insurgency: Motivation,
Capability and Opportunity Structure.
Professor Robert G Sutter, Georgetown
University with the US Consulate in
Perth. Bush and US Foreign Policy in Asia:
Implications for the Region.
Dr Andrew Rosser, Institute of
Professor Richard Robison, Institute
of Social Studies, The Hague, The
Netherlands. Liberal Markets, Illiberal
Governance.
Dr Nathan Quimpo, University of
Amsterdam. Ethnic Conflict, Islamist
Insurgency and the Peace Process in
Mindanao, Southern Philippines.
Professor James Perry, Indiana
University. Radically Rethinking How We
Motivate Public Servants.
Michael Fernandez, Singapore. Nine
Years in Changi and After.
Asia Research Centre 2006 Annual Report
Development Studies, University of
Sussex, UK. The Political Economy of State
Building in Timor Leste.
Student supervision and completions
2006 Postgraduate Students
Name
Thesis Title
Centre Supervisor
Jay Ram Adhikari
Political conflicts, environmental security and rural livelihood linkages in
Nepal
Carol Warren
James Boyd
In Pursuit of an Obsession: Japanese interest in Mongolia, 1878-1945
Sandra Wilson
Toby Carroll
The Politics of the World Bank’s Socio-institutional Neoliberalism
Garry Rodan and Kanishka
Jayasuriya
Stephanie Chok
The ethics of Corporate Social Responsibility: where do labour rights fit
in?
Carol Warren*
David Flynn
US Militarism in Southeast Asia: Maritime Security and Anti-terror
Initiatives in the Malacca and Singapore Straits
Jane Hutchison
Martin Gwyn-Fawke
Trafficking of Small Arms and Light Weapons through South East Asia and
its shared supply chain with the trafficking of People and Narcotics
Sam Makinda
Shahar Hameiri
State Building or Societal Transformation? Regulation and Conflict at the
Fringes of the Global Order
Garry Rodan and Kanishka
Jayasuriya
Stuart Latter
The Political Economy of US Democracy Promotion in Southeast Asia
Garry Rodan, Kanishka
Jayasuriya, Sam Makinda
Carolin Liss
Piracy - Crime on the Seas in Southeast Asia
James Warren
Elaine Llarena
A participatory approach to crisis and risk communication in response to
new and emerging diseases in Southeast Asia
Garry Rodan*
Loh Kah Seng
The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern
Singapore
James Warren
Julia Perkins
Reclaiming a Cultural Aesthetics: JAKER (Jaringan Kerja Kebudayaan
Rakyat) and an Indonesian Radical Cultural Tradition
David Hill*
Kurt Stenross
The seafarers and maritime entrepreneurs of Madura, Indonesia: History,
culture, and their role in the Java Sea timber trade
James Warren and Carol
Warren
Tan Teng-Phee
A Social History of New Villages in Post-war Malaya/Malaysia.
James Warren
Donna Turner
Shaping Labour in Malaysia’s Shift to the Knowledge Economy
Garry Rodan
*Co-supervised by academics outside the Asia Research Centre
2006 Postgraduate Completions
•
Kathleen Turner. Identity and the
State: A Study of Communal Conflict
in Ambon, Indonesia. Supervisor:
David Brown.
•
Narrelle Morris. Destructive
Discourse: “Japan-bashing” in the
United States, Australia and Japan in
the 1980’s and 1990’s. Supervisor:
Sandra Wilson.
•
Chen Ta-Yuan (Henry). Taiwanese
Offshore (Distant Water) Fisheries
in Southeast Asia, 1936 - 1977.
Supervisors: James Warren and
Malcolm Tull.
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Publications
Books
Book Chapters
David Brown
‘Contending Nationalisms in Southeast
Asia’, in Gerard Delanty and Krishan Kumar
(eds) The SAGE Handbook of Nations and
Christopher Hill
Survival and change: Three Generations of Balinese Painters,
Canberra: Pandanus Books, 110 pp.
Nationalism, London/Thousand Oaks/ New
Delhi: Sage, pp. 461-472
Jane Hutchison
‘Poverty of Politics in the Philippines’, in
Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard
Robison (eds) The Political Economy of SouthEast Asia: Markets, power and contestation,
Kanishka Jayasuriya
Statecraft, Welfare and the Politics of Inclusion, Palgrave
Macmillan, 208 pp.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006,
pp. 39-73
Kanishka Jayasuriya
‘Beyond New Imperialism: State and
Transnational Regulatory Governance in
East Asia’, in V.R. Hadiz (ed.) Empire and
Neoliberalism in Asia, Oxford: Routledge,
John McCarthy
The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra’s Rainforest
Frontier, Stanford University Press, 392 pp.
pp. 38-51
‘Pathways from the EconomicCrisis’, in G.
Rodan, K. Hewison and R. Robison (eds)
The Political Economy of South-East Asia:
Markets, power and contestation, 3rd edition,
Oxford University Press, pp. 258-82 (with
Andrew Rosser)
Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison (eds)
Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after 9/11, London: Routledge,
264 pp.
‘Economic Constitutionalism, Liberalism
and the New Welfare Governance’, in R.
Robison (ed.) The Neo Liberal Revolution,
PalgraveMacmillan, pp.234-53
Carolin Liss
‘Private Military and Security Companies in
Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds)
the Fight against Piracy in Southeast Asia’,
The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, power and
contestation, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 360 pp.
Maritime Terrorism and Securing the Malacca
in Graham Gerard Ong-Webb (ed.) Piracy,
Straits, Singapore: Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies, pp.103-133
Garry Rodan
‘Neoliberal globalization, conflict and
Miyume Tanji
security: new life for authoritarianism in
Asia?’ in Vedi R. Hadiz (ed.) Empire and
Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa, London: Routledge,
256 pp.
Neoliberalism in Asia, London: Routledge,
pp. 105-22 (with Kevin Hewison)
‘Theorising Markets in South-East Asia:
Power and Contestation’, in Garry Rodan,
Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds)
Tsukasa Takamine
Japan’s Development Aid to China: The long-running foreign policy
of engagement, London: Routledge, 226 pp.
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The Political Economy of South-East Asia:
Markets, power and contestation, Melbourne:
Oxford University Press, pp. 1-38 (with
Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison)
Ian Scott
‘The government and Statutory bodies in
Hong Kong: Centralization and Autonomy’,
Public Organization Review, 6 (3):185-202
Tsukasa Takamine
‘The Political Economy of Japanese Foreign
Aid: The Role of Yen Loans in China’s
Economic Growth and Openness’, Pacific
Affairs, 79 (1): 29-48
Miyume Tanji
‘The Unai Method: The Expansion of
Women-only Groups in the Community of
Protest Against Violence and Militarism in
Okinawa’, Intersections: Gender, History and
Culture in the Asian Context, 13, August
Jeannette Taylor
‘Performance Measurement in Australian
and Hong Kong Government Departments’,
Public Performance and Management Review,
29 (3): 338-361
‘Statutory Bodies and Performance
Reporting: Hong Kong and Singapore
Experience’, Public Organization Review,
6(3): 289-304
‘Singapore: Globalisation, the State, and
Politics’ in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and
Richard Robison (eds) The Political Economy
of South-East Asia: Markets, power and
contestation, Melbourne: Oxford University
Press, pp. 137-69
‘Neoliberalism and Transparency: Political
Versus Economic Liberalism’ in Richard
Robison (ed.) The Neoliberal Revolution:
Forging the Market State, London: Palgrave,
pp. 197-215
‘Introduction-Globalization, Conflict and
Political Regimes in East and Southeast
Asia’ in Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison
(eds) Neoliberalism and Conflict in Asia after
9/11, London; Routledge, pp. 1-23
James Warren
‘Who were the Balangingi Samal? Slave
Journal Articles
Terence Lee
‘Creativity and cultural globalisation
in suburbia: mediating the PerthSingapore “network”’, Australian Journal of
Communication, 33 (2-3): 21-42
Loh Kah Seng
‘Beyond Rubber Prices: Negotiating the
Great Depression in Singapore’, South East
Asia Research, 14 (1): 5-31
Ian Wilson
‘Continuity and change: The changing
contours of organized violence in post–New
Order Indonesia’, Critical Asian Studies, 38
(2), June: 265-297
Sandra Wilson
‘Family or State? Nation, War, and Gender
in Japan, 1937-45’, Critical Asian Studies, 38
(2), June: 209-38
‘Records and Voices of Social History: The
Case of the Great Depression in Singapore’,
Southeast Asian Studies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu),
Kyoto University. 44 (1): 31-54
‘New winds in economic history: A look
at writings on the Great Depression in
Southeast Asia’, Crossroads, 17 (2): 66-92
Raiding and Ethnogenesis in Nineteenth
Garry Rodan
Century Sulu’, in Charles Keyes (ed.) On the
‘Singapore in 2005: Vision of a “vibrant
Margins of Asia: Diversity in Asia States, Ann
and cosmopolitan” city-state without
Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, pp.
political pluralism’, Asian Survey, 46 (1):
53-68
180-6
Donna Turner
‘Malaysia’s regime of labour control and
the attempted transition to a knowledge
based economy: the problematic role of
migrant labour’, Review of Indonesian and
Malaysian Affairs, 39 (2): 45-68
Centre Working Paper
Series
Toby Carroll ‘Auctioning off Manila’s Water Services:
Market Extension, the World Bank and
Socio-institutional Neoliberalism ’, WP138,
October
Chen Ta-Yuan (Henry)
‘The Political Foundation of the Taiwanese
Fishing Industry’, WP135, September
‘Japan and the Birth of Takao’s Fisheries in
Nanyo 1895-1945’, WP139, November
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Yasuji Ishigaki
‘Japan’s Strategic Vision for Asia and
its Partnership with Australia’, WP136,
September
Jessica Koch
‘Economic Development and Ethnic
Separatism in Western China: A New Model
of Peripheral Nationalism’, WP134, August
Terence Lee
‘Creativity and Cultural Globalisation in
Suburbia: Mediating the Perth-Singapore
“Network”’, WP132, August
‘Media Research and Political
Communication in Singapore’, WP130,
April (with Lars Willnat)
Newspaper and Magazine
Articles
Conference Papers
Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri
‘Aid Misses the Mark’, The Age, 8 June
‘Attempting to Limit Politics Through
Power Relations in Post-war Singapore
Historiography’, WP137, September
Garry Rodan ‘Cole removal about politics, not
diplomacy’, The Age, September 15
‘Howard’s Doctrine’, On Line Opinion, 28
November 2006
David Hill
‘Southeast Asia seizes the moment’, The
Australian (Higher Education supplement), 12
April
Loh Kah Seng
‘The Ambivalence of Relocation: The
Experiences of Individuals Affected by
Leprosy in Singapore’. Translated into
Japanese by Kay Yamaguch, Seisho, 63 (4)
2006: 23-30
May
Garry Rodan and Kanishka Jayasuriya
‘Conflict and the New Political Participation
in Southeast Asia’, WP129, February
Keiichi Tsunekawa
‘Dependent Nationalism in Contemporary
Japan and Its Implications for the Regional
Order in the Asia Pacific’, WP133, August
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Assistance Strategy in the Philippines’,
North-South Development Issues and the
Global Regulatory Framework, Institute for
Social Studies, the Hague, the Netherlands,
6-7 April
‘Auctioning off Manila’s Water Services:
The World Bank, Market Extension and
Socio-institutional Neoliberalism’, 2006
Oceanic Conference on International Studies,
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 5-7
July
‘The World Bank’s Socio-institutional
Neoliberalism: A Case Study from
Indonesia’, Workshop on the World Bank, Lee
Kwan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore, 18 September
Stephanie Chok
‘Singapore “Exceptionalism”? Authoritarian
Rule and State Transformation’, WP131,
“Participation” and “Partnership”: A
Case Study of The World Bank’s Country
Shahar Hameiri
‘What really went wrong in Solomons’, The
Age, April 24
Loh Kah Seng
‘“Black Areas”: The Urban Kampongs and
Toby Carroll
Garry Rodan
‘Singapore’s Levers of Power’, The Wall
Street Journal(Asia), 10-12 February: 13
‘A Singapore Surprise’, The Wall Street
Journal (Asia), 9 May
‘Taking it personally: the challenges of an
Asian/feminist/activist researcher doing
tourism research in Asia’, Questions on
Methodology: Researching Tourism in Asia,
Asia Research Institute, National University
of Singapore and University of Otago, New
‘Lion City Baits Mousy Opposition’, Far
Eastern Economic Review, May: 11-17
Zealand, 5 - 6 September, Singapore
‘Singapore’s Founding Myths vs. Freedom’,
Far Eastern Economic Review, October: 13-17
‘Assessing media impact on local elections
David Hill
in Indonesia’, PILKADA: The Local District
Elections, Indonesia 2005: A Multidisciplinary
Analysis of the Process of Democratization
and Localization in an Era of Globalization,
Indonesia Study Group, Asia Research
Institute, National University of Singapore,
17-18 May
‘Electoral Politics and the Internet in
‘Ethics and Institutions in Biographical
Writing on Indonesian Subjects’,16th
Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies
Association of Australia, Wollongong, 27
June
Media in the Land of Papua’, Mediating
‘Terjemahan karya sastra dalam
mengajarkan Bahasa Indonesia untuk
Penutur Asing’ [Literary translation in
the teaching of Indonesian to Foreign
Speakers], International Conference on the
Teaching of Indonesian language to Foreign
Speakers (KIPBIPA VI 2006), Sultan Ageng
Tirtayasa University, Serang, Indonesia,
11-14 July
8-10 October (co-convenor)
‘Politik identitas Indonesia/Melayu’
[Indonesian/Malay Identity Politics] (Plenary
address), XVIIth International Literature
Conference, Association of Indonesian
Scholars of Literature (HISKI), Jakarta,
Indonesia, 7-10 August
Carolin Liss
Indonesia’, Australian Political Science
Association Conference, Newcastle, Australia,
25-27 September
‘Pressures on the Borders of the State: Local
Transition to Post-Authoritarian Indonesia,
co-sponsored by the Asia Research Centre,
Murdoch University and the Asia Research
Institute, National University of Singapore,
Kanishka Jayasuriya
‘Regulating the Global Poor: Contractual
Architecture of Transnational Welfare
Regulation’, 2006 Oceanic Conference
Garry Rodan
‘Singapore “Exceptionalism”? Authoritarian
Rule and State Transformation’, Learning
to Lose: Adapting to Democracy in OneParty Dominant Systems, Munk Centre for
International Studies, University of Toronto,
31 March—1 April
Sandra Wilson
‘Enthroning a New Emperor: the 1928
Ceremonies and the Construction of
National Identity in Japan’, 58th Annual
Meeting of the (US) Association for Asian
Studies, San Francisco, April
‘Exhibiting the New Japan: the Tokyo
Olympics of 1964 and Expo ’70 in Osaka’,
16th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies
Association of Australia, University of
Wollongong, June
on International Studies, University of
Melbourne, 5-7 July
‘Maritime Security in Southeast Asia:
Between a rock and a hard place?’, British
International Studies Association 2006 Annual
Conference, Cork, 18-20 December
Other Publications
Toby Carroll and Shahar Hameiri
‘The Politics of AusAid’s White Paper’,
Policy Commentary on Australia’s White Paper
on Overseas Aid, The Australian Institute of
International Affairs (AIIA)
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