Professor Vedi Hadiz

BA (Uni. of Indonesia), PhD (Murd)

Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He received his PhD at Murdoch University in 1996 where he was Research Fellow until he went to the National University of Singapore in 2000. At NUS, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology until he returned to Murdoch in 2010. He is currently conducting research on State, Class and Islamic Populism.

Professor Hadiz's research interests revolve around issues of social, economic and political change in Indonesia and Southeast Asia as well as broader political economy and political sociology questions. His most recent book is Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective (Stanford University Press 2010). He is the author of Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia (Routledge 1997) and (with Richard Robison) Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (RoutledgeCurzon 2004,) as well as editor or co-editor of several books, including Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia (Routledge 2006). His articles have appeared in journals such as Development and Change, Journal of Development Studies, Pacific Review, Pacific Affairs, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Democratization, Critical Asian Studies, Indonesia, and Historical Materialism

Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150. Fax: (61-8) 9360 6381 Email: V.Hadiz@murdoch.edu.au