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Session 7, Chinese Economic Activities in Colonial Indochina
The Rise of Chinese Labor Organizations in Cochinchina in the 1920’s and 1930’s, Tracy C. Barrett
Sino-Vietnamese Networks in Southern Vietnam during the First Indochina Conflict (1945-1954), Joerg Engelbert
The Impact of Chinese Economic Activities in Norodom’s Cambodia (c. 1860-1900), Nola Cooke
Session 8, The Conundrum of Identity: Marginality, Power and Agency in Southeast Asia
Imagined Colonies: Challenging Master Narratives of Power and Subjugation in Northern Mindanao, Philippines, Oona Thommes Paredes
Visions of Fear in a Small Community: Terrorism and News in a Borderland Village, Irving Chan Johnson
Rural Urban Migration in Cambodia, Courtney Work
Provincial Imagining at the Margins: Ceremonial Construction of Social Identity, Yoshinori Nishizaki
Violence, Marginality and the Border in the Social Production of Karen Identity, Heather MacLachlan
Chanting Death and Binding Life: Two Contemporary Cambodian Funerary Sub-rituals, Erik W. Davis
Phra Malai in the 21st Century, Bonnie Brereton
Paintings of Funeral Scenes and Buddhist Texts: Studies of Royal Funerals, Pattaratorn Chirapravati
The Costs of Death: Caring for Deceased Relatives in Rural Theravada Buddhist Northeast Thailand, Leedom Lefferts
Session 27, Authenticating Strategies in Taiwan’s Nation-building Process
Discovering Tradition and Authenticity: The Growth of a History and Folklore Association in a Taiwanese Township, Huwy-min Liu
Discovering Tradition and Authenticity: The Growth of a History and Folklore Association in a Taiwanese Township, Joseph Bosco
Commemorating the Past in the Present: Cultural Imagination through the Integrated Community Building Project in Taiwan, Selina Ching Chan
Searching for a "New" History: Changes and Challenges in Taiwanese Historiography since 1987, Axel Schneider
Authentication through ‘Old’ or ‘New’ Traditions? The Re-emergence of the Ancestor Gods in Contemporary Rituals of Taiwan’s Austronesians, Michael Rudolph
Session 49, Political Reform in the Philippines: Is Federalism-parliamentarism the Answer?
The View from Muslim Mindanao, Suharto Ambolodto
Beyond Federalism-Parliamentarism: A Comparative Cautionary Perspective, Belinda A. Aquino
Between Legality and Legitimacy: The Debate about Constitutional Reform in the Philippines, Mark R. Thompson
Historical and Structural Factors in Philippine Federalism, Ronald D. Holmes
Malaysian Independence: 44 Years and Still Counting!, Michael B. Leigh
Malaysia after 50 Years: More Sophisticated Voters, More Sophisticated Politicians?, Kian Ming Ong
Malaysian Development across Five Decades: The Gyroscopic Politics of Compensatory Growth, Greg B. Felker
Malaysia After 50 Years: More Sophisticated Voters, More Sophisticated Politicians?, Bridget Welsh
"Malaysia, Truly Asian"? The Inside/Outside Parameters of Malaysian Foreign Relations within the ASEAN Context, David Camroux
Appropriating a Space for Violence: Buddhist Wats in Southern Thailand, Michael Jerryson
Neighbourhood in a Time of Danger: Buddhist-Muslim, Marc Askew
The Politics of Buddhist Identity in Thailand’s Deep South, Duncan McCargo
Buddhist Perceptions of Muslims in the Thai South, Amporn Marddent
Toward a Functional Approach to Civil Society: Local NGOs, Development, and State-society Relations in Vietnam, Joe Hannah
Civil Society Action and its Effect on Governance in the Era of doi moi., Joerg Wischermann
Struggling over the Emergent Associational Sector: The Debate on the Law on Associations in Vietnam, Mark Sidel
New Space for Collective Action: Local Labor Unions and Newspapers in Response to Workers’ Strikes in Vietnam, Angie Ngoc Tran
Session 86, Islamic Separatism in Southeast Asia: Universal Faith and Unique Homelands
Excluding the Included: the Rohingya Quest for an Islamic Homeland in Myanmar, Khin Maung Yin
Violence in the Muslim South of Thailand: Insurgency or Jihad?, Saroja Dorairajoo
Aceh: Islam in Conflict and Peace, Edward Aspinall
Local Clans, Global Jihadis: The Politics of Islamic Identity in Maguindanao, Christopher James Collier
Session 90, Vietnamese Nationalism from Wartime to Present
Commemorative Public Art and Trans/National Identity in Contemporary Vietnam, Christina Schwenkel
Ethnic Nationalism in Southern Wartime Music, Tuan Hoang
Sect Warlords and South Vietnamese Nationalism in the 1950s, Jessica M. Chapman
Agent Orange: Toward an International and Interdisciplinary History, Ed Martini
Gender Insurgency: Women's Labor in the Politics of Shan National Resistance to the Burmese State, Jane M. Ferguson
Polluted Identities: Of Gender, War Captives and Border Crossings in the Constitution of Northern Thai Beliefs, Katherine A. Bowie
Transnationalism and Sexuality in Thailand: The Intersections of Buddhism, Gay and Lesbian Rights, and Feminism, Megan Sinnott
Gender Negotiation and Ritual Invention of a Burmese Migrant Woman in Tokyo, Naoko Kumada
Session 112, War, Insurgency, and Governing Landscapes in Southeast Asia
"The Forests are Surrounding the Cities!" : Emergencies, Insurgencies and Forestry in Southeast Asia, Peter Vandergeest
Flows of Enclosure: Actually Existing Governance along Burma's Riverine Systems, Ken MacLean
Citizenscapes: New Villages, Biosettlements and Enacting the Power of the Nation-State, Maureen Sioh
Insurgency and the Water Landscape in Vietnam, David A. Biggs
Session 131, The State of Democracy in Southeast Asia
Slip Slidin' Away: The Erosion of Democracy in Thailand, Erik M. Kuhonta
Have Direct Local Elections Consolidated the Oligarchy of Parties in Indonesia?, Nankyung Choi
Democratic Aspiration, Regime Resilience and Islam in Southeast Asia: Authoritarianism and State Power Reconsidered, Kikue Hamayotsu
Long-Term Imperatives, Short-Term Realities: The Dynamics of Programmatic Party Formation in the Philippines, Gwendolyn Bevis
Session 132, The Aftermath of Violence in Indonesia: Narrative and National Identity
Embodied States: Torture as Viewed by Three Generations of Darul Islam Militants, John MacDougall
The Female Dancing Body and State Terror: Post-1965 Cultural Reconstruction in Indonesia, Rachmi Diyah Larasati
The Truths of Torture: Victims’ Memories and State Histories in Indonesia, John Roosa
Building a Monument: The Intimate Politics of Reconciliation in Post-1965 Bali, Leslie K. Dwyer
Session 133, Individual Papers: Parties, Protest and the State in South and Southeast Asia
The Institutionalization of Political Party Systems in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines), Andreas Ufen
A Theory of Civilian Control of the Military in India: 1947-2006, Ayesha Ray
Why Don’t They Just Use Words? Accounting for Indian Political Protest on the Streets and in Parliament, Dean E. McHenry, Jr.
The Secret Life of the One-party State: Understanding Singaporean Political Culture in the Lee Hsien Loong Era, David Yang
Engendering Indian "Secularism": The Legal and Political Revival of the Uniform Civil Code and Prospects for Future Debate, Jennifer R. Coleman
Session 151, Rule of Law and Decentralization in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
Captured Competencies, Captured Resources Regional Autonomy and Spatial Planning in Post-New Order Bandung, Gustaaf Reerink
Decentralization and Public-Private Partnerships in Urban Development in Indonesia, Tristam Moeliono
Picking Law and Articulating Ethnic Identity: Changing Land and Resource Claims in a Pluralistic Community, Lampung, Indonesia, Myrna Safitri
Politics-As-Usual on Trial: Regional Anti-Corruption Campaigns in Indonesia, Jamie Seth Davidson
The Stateless Encounter the State: Power, Interaction, and Narrative Identity on the Thai-Lao Border, Peter T. Vail
Political Sublimations of the Clinch: The Variation of Bodily Contacts in Muay Thai, Stephane Rennesson
Political Crisis and Resistance in Southern Thailand, Muhammad Arafat Bin Mohamad
Saksi Luk Phuchai:Honor and Shame in Muai Thai, Pattana Kitiarsa
Session 172, Agent Orange in Vietnam: Social Science Approaches to the Environmental and Health
Consequences of War - Sponsored by the Vietnam Studies Group
"The Agent Orange family": Social Consequences and Reproductive Rights related to the Wartime Use of Agent Orange in Vietnam- Annika Johansson
Agent Orange and the Environment: From Research to Remediation, Boi T. Phung
Agent Orange and Global Environmental Justice: Secondary Effects of Wartime Damage, Pam McElwee
Agent Orange and "Population Quality": Political and Visceral Responses in Vietnam to the Spectre of "Defective" Newborns, Tine Mette Gammeltoft
Session 192, Health Care, Marginality, and Social Change in Vietnam
Battered Women, Marginalization, and Health Care in Vietnam, Lynn M. Kwiatkowski
The Implications of Gia Truyen: Social Class within the Healing Community in Vietnam, C. Michele Thompson
Unsafe Sex as a Public Health Issue in Vietnam in a Time of AIDS and Doi Moi Policy, Marie-Eve Blanc
Changing Modes of Inequality Under Doi Moi: The Pursuit of Fertility Treatments in Vietnam since 1986, Melissa J. Pashigian
Session 193, The State of Culture Theory in Southeast Asian Corporations
Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Economy in Contemporary Indonesia, Daromir Rudnyckyj
Culture as a Managerial Concept in Lao Hydropower Development, Jerome Whitington
Mining Culture Theory in Sumbawa, Marina Welker
Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh City: Christmas and the Spectacle of Middle Class Consumption in Urban Southern Vietnam, Ann Marie Leshkowich
Session 213, Mining the Past: Working with Memory in Southeast Asian Contexts
Co-opting Nostalgia: Historical Tensions in Singapore, Nicole T. Tarulevicz
Return to Vietnam: The Journeys of Vietnamese Women of the Diaspora, Nathalie H.C. Nguyen
Remembering 1965: Prison Memoirs as Counter Narratives in Indonesia, Katharine McGregor
Many Voices, One Life: Dealing with Memory and ‘Telling’ in the Biography of Herb Feith, Jemma Purdey
Session 214, 20th-Century Vietnamese Anthropology Contextualized: Debates and Contestations
The Margin Contextualized: Nguyen Tu Chi (1925-1995) and an Alternative Ethnography in Socialist Vietnam, Chi Huyen Truong
Adopting Western Methods, Understanding One’s Own Culture: The Study of Society and Culture by Vietnamese Scholars under French Colonial Administration, Ngoc Phuong Nguyen
In Search of Change: A View from Inside on the Recent Trends of Vietnamese Anthropology, Chinh Van Nguyen
Museum as a Site of Novelty: Constructing by Practicing Anthropology in Contemporary Vietnam, Huy Van Nguyen
Session 217, Individual Papers: Shifting Representations of Gender in South and Southeast Asia
Closing the Gender Gap with Progressive Social and Educational Policies in India, Kin Bing Wu
Marital Discord and Private Testimonies in Public Forums: An Ethnography of a Women's Arbitration Court in New Delhi , Shalini Grover
Closing the Gender Gap with Progressive Social and Educational Policies in India, Pete Goldschmidt
Mae Nak as Comedy: Excavating the Plebeian Thai Cinema Public, May Adadol Ingawanij
I've Done Nothing Wrong: Feminine Ideals and Betrayal among Baul Women, Lisa I. Knight
Fashion as Politics in Late Colonial Burma, Chie Ikeya
Closing the Gender Gap with Progressive Social and Educational Policies in India, Christy Boscardin