Asia Research Centre - Research Publications

Books

David Hill

Journalism and Politics in Indonesia: A Critical Biography of Mochtar Lubis (1922-2004) as Editor and Author, Routledge.

Caroline Hughes

Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor, Cornell University SEAP

Rajat Ganguly (ed.)

Ethnic Conflict, Vols. I-IV, Sage

Carol Warren

Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal, Routledge (with John McCarthy)

Sandra Wilson

Interpreting Occupied Japan: the Diary of an Australian Soldier, 1945-1946, Basil Archer, edited and with an Introduction by Sandra Wilson, Hesperian Press.

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Book Chapters

David Brown

‘Ethnic and Nationalist Politics in Southeast Asia’, in Mark Beeson (ed.) Contemporary Southeast Asia (2nd edn), Palgrave Macmillan, pp.143-156.

Rajat Ganguly

‘Introduction’, in Rajat Ganguly (ed.) Ethnic Conflict, Vols. I-IV, Sage, pp. xvii-xxvii

David T. Hill

‘Ethics and Institutions in Biographical Writing on Indonesian Subjects’, in Barbara Harrison (ed.) Life Story Research, 4 vols., Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series, Vol. IV, Part 5, pp.146-161.
‘Activist, hacktivist, dan perlawanan anti-Negara’ [Activists, Hacktivists and Anti-State Opposition] (Foreword), in Hendracaroko Marpaung, Ulah Hacker Politik Membebaskan Timor Lorosa’e: Timor Timur Menyerang Indonesia [The tactics of political hackers in freeing Timor Lorosa’e: East Timor Attacks Indonesia], Galang Press, pp. 9-15.
‘Assessing Media Impact on Local Elections in Indonesia’ in Maribeth Erb and Priyambudi Sulistiyanto (eds) Deepening Democracy in Indonesia?: Direct Elections for Local Leaders (Pilkada), ISEAS Press, pp.229-255.

Caroline Hughes

‘Reconstructing Political Authority Through Elections’, in Joakim Ojendal (ed.) Beyond Democracy in Cambodia, NIAS, pp. 31-70.

Kanishka Jayasuriya

'New Modes of Regionalising Governance in Asia' in Nicholas Thomas (ed.) Governance and Regionalism in Asia, Routledge, pp.321-333

Terence Lee

‘Media Management and Political Communication in Singapore’, in Lars Wilnat and Annette Aw (eds) Political Communication in Asia, Routledge, pp. 93-111. (with Lars Wilnat)

Carolin Liss

‘Framing Terrorism in the Southern Philippines: Foreign Media and the Abu Sayyaf’ in Arndt Graf, Peter Kreuzer, Rainer Werning (eds) Conflict In Moro Land: Prospects For Peace, USM PRESS, pp. 115-46.

Samuel M. Makinda

‘Domestic Terrorism in Asia and lessons for Africa’, in Wafula Okumu and Anneli Botha (eds) Domestic Terrorism in Africa: Defining, Addressing and Understanding its Impact on Human Security, Institute for Security Studies, pp. 97-101.

Garry Rodan

‘Goh’s Consensus Politics of Authoritarian Rule’, in Bridget Welsh, James Chin, Arun Mahizhan and Tan Tarn How (eds) Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore, Singapore University Press, pp. 61-70.

Carol Warren

‘Communities, environments and local governance in Reform Era Indonesia’, in Carol Warren and John McCarthy (eds) Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal, Routledge. pp. 1-25. (with John McCarthy)
‘Locating the Commonweal’, in Carol Warren and John McCarthy (eds) Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal, Routledge, pp. 227-253. (with John McCarthy)
‘Off the Market? Elusive links in community-based sustainable development initiatives in Bali’, in Carol Warren and John McCarthy (eds) Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the Commonweal, Routledge, pp. 197-226.

James Warren

‘Scientific Superman: Fr. Jose Algue, Jesuit Meteorology and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897- 1924’, in Alfred McCoy and Fransisco Scarano (eds) Colonial Crucible: Transitions and Transformations in American Empire, University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 508-519.
‘The Sulu Zone: Commerce and the Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Polity, 1768-1898’, in Geoff Wade (ed.) Southeast Asia and China (17th-18th century), Vol.3, Routledge Curzon, pp. 223-229.
‘Singapore History through the Looking Glass: Reflections on Museums, Memory, History and the Arts’, in The Past in the Present: Histories in the Making, National Heritage Board, pp. 11-36.

Ian Wilson

‘DKI Jakarta’, in Iem Brown (ed.) The Territories of Indonesia, Routledge Europa Territories of the World Series, pp.74-83.

Sandra Wilson

‘Reading Basil Archer’s Diary’, in Basil Archer, edited and with an Introduction by Sandra Wilson, Interpreting Occupied Japan: the Diary of an Australian Soldier, 1945-1946, Hesperian Press, pp. xvi-xxxiii.

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Guest Edited Journal Collections

Shahar Hameiri and Kanishka Jayasuriya

‘Risk, regulation and new modes of regional governance in the Asia-Pacific’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 63 (3).

Journal Articles

Janet Borland

'Makeshift Schools and Education in the Ruins of Tokyo, 1923', Japanese Studies, 29 (1): 131 - 43.

Shahar Hameiri

‘Risk Management, Neoliberalism and the Securitisation of the Australian Aid Program’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(3): 357-71.

David T. Hill

'In the shadow of other lives: reflections on Dan Lev and writing biography', RIMA (Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs), 42(2): 147-60.

Caroline Hughes

‘Cambodia in 2007: Development and Dispossession’, Asian Survey 48.1 (2008): 69-74.

Jane Hutchison

‘Land titling and poverty reduction in Southeast Asia: realizing markets or realizing rights?’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 62(3): 332-44

Loh Kah Seng

‘“Our lives are bad but our luck is good”: A Social History of Leprosy in Singapore’, Social History of Medicine, 21(2): 291-309.

Ian Scott

‘Managing Integrity: The Regulation of Post Public Employment in Britain and Hong Kong’, Public Organization Review, 8(4): 365-380

Malcolm Tull

‘The Performance of Western Australian Ports’, Ocean Economics Review of China, 2(1), June: 1-33. (with Fred Affleck)
'Restricting Fishing: A Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Of Artisanal Shark And Ray Fishing In Cilacap’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 44(2), August: 263 – 288. (with Simon Vieira)

Sandra Wilson

‘War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan’, International Journal of Asian Studies, 5(2) July: 187-218.

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Centre Working Paper Series

Loh Kah Seng

‘Fires and the Social Politics of Nation-Building in Singapore’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 149.

Terence Lee and Cornelius Kan

‘Blogospheric Pressures in Singapore: Internet Discourses and the 2006 General Election’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 150.

Kanishka Jayasuriya

‘From British Subjects to Australian Values: Australia–Asia Relations as Citizenship Building’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 151.

Carolin Liss

‘Privatising the Fight against Somali Pirates’, Asia Research Centre Working Paper No. 152.

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Media Publications

Shahar Hameiri

'The politics of the financial crisis' Bangkok Post, 7 October (with Toby Carroll).

David T. Hill

'Big neighbour fading from our radar', The Australian (Higher Education supplement), 12 March p.25, ; Reprinted in The Jakarta Post, 19 March
'Promoting Linguistic Assets', Campus Review, 22 April, p.10.

Loh Kah Seng

'Approaching Life and Death: History and Memory in Interviews with Individuals Formerly Suffering from Leprosy in Singapore'. s/pores. 1(2), January,
'Introduction: At the Gates of History', Tangent special issue, The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. 6(2): 6-11 (Mandarin), 12-17 (English).
'Presently Seeking the Bukit Ho Swee Fire'. Tangent special issue, The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History. 6(2): 143-54 (Mandarin), 155-66 (English).

Sam Makinda

Business Daily, Nairobi, weekly column 'On Kenya', the Australian, 8 January
'On Zimbabwe', the Australian, 24 June

Garry Rodan

'Singapore Maneuvers In Response to Chee,' Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2008, pp.

Ian Wilson

'The rise and fall of a Jakarta gangster', Inside Indonesia, 92.

Conference Papers

Rajat Ganguly

‘Border Management Post-9/11: A Comparative Assessment of the United States’ and Australia’s Asylum Policy’, Border Management in an Uncertain World, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (NZIIA), Wellington, New Zealand, 12 March.
‘Pakistan as a Rogue State’, 49th Annual International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, USA, 26-29 March.

Shahar Hameiri

‘The Fallacy of Capacity: is it State Building or State Transformation’, 49th Annual International Studies Association conference, San Francisco, 25-29 March 2008.

Caroline Hughes

‘From Nation of Heroes to Ethnic Conflict: The 2006 Crisis in Timor-Leste’, Post-Conflict Development or Development for Conflict workshop, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford.
‘The Political Economy of State Reform in Cambodia’, AAS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, US. (with Kheang Un)

Jane Hutchison

‘Private Governance and Urban Land Reform in Manila’, 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Philippine Social Science Centre, Manila, 23-26 July.

Terence Lee

‘Rethinking Creative Culture: Globalization and the Singapore-Perth Network’, SPICES 2008: The 3rd International Conference on Inter-Asian Culture, Communication, Conflict and Peace, Penang, Malaysia, 7-9 August.
‘Internet Development in Singapore: A Regulatory Approach Towards Online Discourses’, Internet Histories II: Australia and the Asia-Pacific Workshop, State Library of Western Australia, Perth, 14 June.

Sam Makinda

‘Understanding Terrorism in Africa: An Overview’, Assessing Effective Counter-Terrorism Strategies and Measures in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 20-22 October.

Garry Rodan

‘The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia’, Still the Asian Century?, University of Birmingham, UK, 10-12 September.
‘Capitalist Development and the Social Foundations of Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia’, Liu Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 29 July.
‘New Modes of Political Participation and Singapore’s Nominated Members of Parliament’, Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions and Agency, Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong, 9-10 May.
‘Capitalist Development, Regime Transitions and New Forms of Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia’, 20 Years of The Pacific Review: Major Developments in the Study of the Asia-Pacific, joint conference of Warwick University and Waseda University, Tokyo, 11-12 April.
‘New Modes of Governance and Japan’s Role in Asia’, Where Is Japan Headed? Views and Expectations from Overseas, Organization for Asian Studies Symposium, Waseda University, Tokyo, 12 April.

Ian Scott

'The Changing Face of Ethical Regulation in the Public Sectors of Britain and Hong Kong,' University of Macau, 16 October.

Tan Teng Phee

‘Towards a History from below: Some reflections on Emergency, Resettlement and New Villages’, IKMAS: UKM (National University of Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, 24 April.
‘Seeing the “State”: the Methods and Controlled techniques of the British Colonial Government in the New Villages in Malaya’, 60th Anniversary of the Emergency in Malaya/Malaysia Public Forum, Kuala Lumpur, 27 April.

James Warren

‘Father Jose Algue, Jesuit Meteorology and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924’, 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Philippine Social Science Centre, Manila, 23-26 July.

Sandra Wilson

‘War, Soldier and Nation in 1950s Japan’, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, University of Melbourne, 7-10 July and Asian Studies Association of Australia 17th Biennial Conference, Melbourne, 1-3 July.

Book Reviews

Loh Kah Seng

‘Review of National Archives of Singapore “Memories and Reflections: The Singapore Experience: Documenting a Nation’s History Through Oral History. 2nd edition”’. s/pores. 8 February 2008.
‘Review of Calvin Low. “10-Stories: Queenstown Through the Years”’, Citizen Historian. 1 January 2008.
‘Review of Nicholas Tarling. “Regionalism in Southeast Asia: To Foster the Political Will”’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 39 (1), February: 179-180.

Ian Scott

‘Review of Ma Ngok, "Political Development in Hong Kong: State, Political Society and Civil Society"’, China Journal, 59, January: 189-191.
‘Review of Steve Tsang,"Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the Handover to China 1862-1997"’, The China Quarterly, 195, September: 706-707.

Sandra Wilson

‘Review of Rotem Kowner (ed.) “The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War”’, Journal of Japanese Studies, 34(2), Summer.
‘Review of Kevin Doak, “A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People”, Japanese Studies, 28(1), May: 120-22.

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Other Publications

Caroline Hughes

Learning from Comparative Experience: Public Administration Reform in Post-Conflict States, Cambodia and Timor-Leste Case Studies, World Bank.
Accountability Provisions in the Organic Law on Subnational Government in Cambodia, DFID. (with Nick Devas)

Richard Robison and Ian Wilson

‘Governing the Ungovernable: dealing with the rise of informal security in Indonesia’, Asia Research Centre Policy Brief No.1, http://wwwarc.murdoch.edu.au/wp/pb1.pdf, (with Adrianus Meliala)

Sandra Wilson

‘Manchurian Incident’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols
‘Russo-Japanese War’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols
‘Nationalism: East Asia’, entry in Peter N. Stearns (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008, 8 vols

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