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A Workshop on Southeast Asian Futures: Cosmopolitanism, Sovereignty, Subjectivity
(20th Annual Southeast Asia Conference 2003, University of California, Berkeley)
Call for Papers
Website:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~cseas/archive/conf2003.html
Dates: February 7 - 8, 2003 at the University of California, Berkeley
Abstract Deadline: October 4, 2002
Workshop Themes:
We invite graduate students and faculty from the social sciences and humanities to submit papers that examine topics such as (but not limited to) state and non- state politics, social movements and NGOs, violence, environmental politics, and diaspora/migration either within particular, or across several, Southeast Asian societies.
More specifically, we expect to interrogate both previous formulations of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia studies by Oliver Wolters, Benedict Anderson and Anthony Reid, and contemporary theoretical engagements with cosmopolitanism beyond the margins of Southeast Asia studies. For example, what alternative or emergent forms of political association do current social movements, processes of state restructuring, and patterns of human mobility & migration in Southeast Asia suggest?
Additionally, we aim to explore how earlier explanations of state formation and reproduction in Southeast Asia, such as galactic polity, mandala, and the theater state, inform contemporary theorization of globalizing sovereignty in the region. For example, how do we rethink sovereignty in the context of the increasing interventions of multilateral institutions; the transborder flows of people, commodities, and knowledge; and the slippage between “terrorist activity” and internal and external military violence?
Finally, we seek to revisit both older conceptions of identity developed by James Furnivall and Clifford Geertz, among others, as well as more contemporary formulations developed by Southeast Asianists such as Ann Stoler and John Pemberton in order to explore how notions and images of religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and nationality (among other possible axes of difference) continue to change. For example, how do projects of state rule, media institutions, and religious organizations attempt to produce subjects such as “indigenous people,” “migrant laborers,” and the “Other,” and how do people variously consume, internalize, contest, and reproduce these envisionings?
We expect that the multiple points of convergence and overlap between these three broad areas of inquiry will yield productive discussions, with the possibility of producing an edited volume. We encourage prospective presenters to submit brief paper abstracts no later than Friday, October 4, 2002. The abstracts should describe the topic addressed and include a brief description of the evidence presented.
Workshop Goals
The goal of this workshop is to generate an in-depth discussion of current work by graduate students and faculty on culture, politics, the nation-state, and identity in Southeast Asia. In order to facilitate dynamic and productive conversation, final papers MUST be submitted one month prior to the workshop (Wednesday, January 8, 2003) so that participants have adequate time to read all papers in advance. The format of the three workshop panels will consist of the following: a five-minute review & update by each of four paper presenters, a subsequent twenty-minute framing of paper issues & provocation of associated questions by a discussion facilitator, and finally, a one and one-half hour discussion of the papers & their confluence with larger workshop themes.
To Apply
Email or paper abstracts are due Friday, October 4, 2002. Those selected will be notified by Monday, November 11, 2002. To submit an abstract by email or by post, or for more informations, please contact:
Twentieth Annual Southeast Asia Studies Conference
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
Mail Code 2318
2223 Fulton Street, Room 617
Berkeley, CA 94720-2318
Tel: (510) 642-3609
Fax: (510) 643-7062
Email: cseas@uclink.berkeley.edu
