- The Australian National University, Crawford School of Public Policy, Faculty Memberadd
Research Interests: Political Sociology, Geography, Peace and Conflict Studies, Inner Asian Studies, Conflict, and 15 morePolitical Science, Central Asian Studies, Ethnic Conflict, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, China studies, Central Asia, Contemporary China, Multidisciplinary, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Islam and Muslim Societies in China, Ethnic Conflicts, Ethnic Group, religion in China, China Ethnic Minorities Development, and Ethnicity In China
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... This has been largely the result of the local government's aggressive marketing of the region for nature tourism and ethnic tourism purposes. In 1999 the number of tourists visiting Yunnan's northwestern Diqing Prefecture... more
... This has been largely the result of the local government's aggressive marketing of the region for nature tourism and ethnic tourism purposes. In 1999 the number of tourists visiting Yunnan's northwestern Diqing Prefecture reached ...
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Since Xi Jinping became China’s paramount leader in 2012, his top domestic priority has been the strengthening of the Chinese Communist Party’s power over government, economy, and society. This extends to village life, where a... more
Since Xi Jinping became China’s paramount leader in 2012, his top domestic priority has been the strengthening of the Chinese Communist Party’s power over government, economy, and society. This extends to village life, where a decades-long experiment with direct elections is being unwound by new efforts to establish Party control at the rural grassroots level. This essay draws on first-hand observation and Chinese sources to examine the ongoing CCP strategy for reestablishing party dominance over village affairs.
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Since Xi Jinping became China’s paramount leader in 2012, his top domestic priority has been the strengthening of the Chinese Communist Party’s power over government, economy, and society. This extends to village life, where a... more
Since Xi Jinping became China’s paramount leader in 2012, his top domestic priority has been the strengthening of the Chinese Communist Party’s power over government, economy, and society. This extends to village life, where a decades-long experiment with direct elections is being unwound by new efforts to establish Party control at the rural grassroots level. This essay draws on first-hand observation and Chinese sources to examine the ongoing CCP strategy for reestablishing party dominance over village affairs.
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In his first term (2012–2017), Xi Jinping’s signature domestic policy was an anti-corruption campaign that targeted political enemies and venality in public office. The anti-corruption work has continued in his second term while being... more
In his first term (2012–2017), Xi Jinping’s signature domestic policy was an anti-corruption campaign that targeted political enemies and venality in public office. The anti-corruption work has continued in his second term while being superseded in domestic political importance by a campaign to “Sweep Away Black and Eliminate Evil (2018–2020).” On the surface, the campaign to Sweep Away Black and Eliminate Evil is an anti-crime campaign that focuses on the “black and evil forces” of organized crime and their official protectors, but its scope extends well beyond the ganglands to target a wide range of social and political threats to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Drawing on interviews with government officials, police and citizens as well as analysis of policy documents, this paper argues that the campaign is a populist initiative designed to bolster CCP legitimacy and serve as a mechanism of social control. Like the Chongqing prototype that inspired it, however, the campaign ha...
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This essay examines the role of language and concepts in peace-building processes. It shows how different understandings of a particular term - "all-inclusiveness" have undermined Myanmar's peace... more
This essay examines the role of language and concepts in peace-building processes. It shows how different understandings of a particular term - "all-inclusiveness" have undermined Myanmar's peace process. Initially the principle of "all-inclusiveness" represented a commitment to the inclusion of all ethnic armed organizations in a nation-wide ceasefire agreement that would serve as a basis for reconciliation, political dialogue and negotiation over constitutional reform. This article documents how different interpretations of the term became a stumbling block for peace. The case study highlights the importance of language and shared understanding as a base for cross-ethnic political dialogue.
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Article preprint. Accepted for publication in Territory, Politics, Governance, 12 October 2020. ABSTRACT: This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the... more
Article preprint. Accepted for publication in Territory, Politics, Governance, 12 October 2020. ABSTRACT: This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le Espiritu calls 'differential inclusion': a form of forcible incorporation resulting in particular spaces and populations being "deemed integral to the nation… only or precisely because of their designated subordinate standing." We explore how urbanization achieves the differential inclusion of Tibet and Tibetans through three distinct processes: <em>segregation</em> (the separation of Tibetan and Han Chinese spaces), <em>congregation</em> (the creation of Tibetan-dominated towns), and <em>negation</em> (urbanization as an administrative process that undermines Tibetan political autonomy). We argue t...
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This essay examines the role of language and concepts in peace-building processes. It shows how different understandings of a particular term - "all-inclusiveness" have undermined Myanmar's peace process. Initially the principle of... more
This essay examines the role of language and concepts in peace-building processes. It shows how different understandings of a particular term - "all-inclusiveness" have undermined Myanmar's peace process. Initially the principle of "all-inclusiveness" represented a commitment to the inclusion of all ethnic armed organizations in a nation-wide ceasefire agreement that would serve as a basis for reconciliation, political dialogue and negotiation over constitutional reform. This article documents how different interpretations of the term became a stumbling block for peace. The case study highlights the importance of language and shared understanding as a base for cross-ethnic political dialogue.
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Since returning to democracy in 1999, Indonesia has introduced direct elections for president, national and sub-national parliaments, and local government executives. While all of these elections have been successful from a number of... more
Since returning to democracy in 1999, Indonesia has introduced direct elections for president, national and sub-national parliaments, and local government executives. While all of these elections have been successful from a number of perspectives—e.g. high voter turnouts, low levels of violence and the peaceful transfer of power, they have also been marred by serious shortcomings in electoral governance. During parliamentary and presidential elections in 2009 and local exe cutive elections in 2010 problems appeared at every stage of the election process from voter registration through to vote counting. Millions of eligible voters were found to be omitted from electoral rolls while thousands of ineligible voters were included in the lists. Forty two of Indonesia’s 44 competing political parties filed complaints over vote counting, prompting Kompas—Indonesia’s leading newspaper— to declare the April 2009 parliamentary elections to be the worst since 1999 (Kompas 2009).1 The presidenti...
Research Interests: Southeast Asian Studies, Political Science, Indonesian Studies, Democratization, Southeast Asia, and 11 moreIndonesia, Electoral Systems, Democracy, Elections, Democratisation, Southeast Asian Politics, Electoral Studies, Indonesian Politics, Electoral Reform, Democratic consolidation, and Southeast Asia Comparative Politics
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Research Interests: Gender Studies, Comparative Politics, Southeast Asian Studies, Political Participation, Political Parties, and 12 morePolitical Science, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Women, Women and Politics, Gender and Politics, Elections, Affirmative Action, Gender Quotas, Quotas, General Elections and Women, and Representation and Quotas
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Research Interests: Engineering, Comparative Politics, Publishing, Local Government, China, and 15 morePolitical Corruption, Chinese Politics, Factionalism, China studies, Contemporary China, Multidisciplinary, Factions, Corruption, Academic research, Commissioning, Chinese Communist Party, Political patronage, Chinese Communist Factionalism, China Political Reform, and Australian University
Research Interests: Religion, Buddhism, Tibetan Studies, Religion and Politics, Race and Ethnicity, and 14 moreTibet, China, Politics and Religion, Chinese Politics, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, Tibetan Buddhism, China studies, Monasticism, Contemporary China, Multidisciplinary, Religious Nationalism, The Rise of China, Ethnicity and National Identity, and Religious and Political Violence
... For Guangdong, see Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter, China's Peasants: the Anthropology of a Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ... This isolation continued up to the late 1990s, as roads were few and poor... more
... For Guangdong, see Sulamith Heins Potter and Jack M. Potter, China's Peasants: the Anthropology of a Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ... This isolation continued up to the late 1990s, as roads were few and poor and became impassable every rainy season. ...
Research Interests: Religion, Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Politics, Identity (Culture), and 15 moreIdentity politics, Islam in China, China, Ethnic minorities, China studies, Chinese ethnic politics, Multidisciplinary, Rural China, sociology of China, The Rise of China, religion in China, Ethnic Minorities, Chinese Ethnic Minorities, Minorities In China, and China Ethnic Minorities Development
Research Interests: Political Science, Indonesian Studies, Regional and Local Governance, Governance, Local Government and Local Development, and 15 moreIndonesia, Ethnic Conflict, Institutions (Political Science), Applied Economics, Public Sector Reform, Democracy and Good Governance, Business and Management, Acehnese history, Public Policy and Administration, Bureaucratic Reform, Post Conflict Development, Post conflict reconstruction and development, Post Conflict Issues, Acehnese Studies, and Governance and Democracy
This article explores the role of masculinity in articulating ethnic Tibetan identity in China. Based on interviews with Tibetans and Han Chinese in a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in China's southwest and on an examination of recent... more
This article explores the role of masculinity in articulating ethnic Tibetan identity in China. Based on interviews with Tibetans and Han Chinese in a Tibetan autonomous prefecture in China's southwest and on an examination of recent Chinese publications, the study explores the dialogue between Tibetans’ own perceptions of their ethnic identity and public representations of that identity. While previous scholarship has highlighted the role that ethnic minorities play in constructing a Chinese national identity, the authors demonstrate that minorities, too, construct their ethnic identities in contradistinction to a majority Other. This process is integral to the production of a local knowledge and history that runs parallel to state-sponsored discourses of the nation and its composite nationalities.
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Research Interests: Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Parties, Conflict, and 10 moreIndonesian Studies, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Conflict Resolution, Democracy, Post-Conflict State Building, Public Policy and Administration, Tf, Post conflict reconstruction and development, and Post Conflict Issues
Research Interests: Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Tourism Studies, Tibetan Studies, Identity (Culture), and 14 moreRace and Ethnicity, Cultural Tourism, Tibet, Cultural Identity, Ethnic Identity, China, Ethnic minorities, China studies, Contemporary China, Ethnicity, Chinese minorities, Ethnic Tourism, Ethnic Minorities, and China Ethnic Minorities Development
Research Interests: Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Political Parties, Political Science, Indonesian Studies, and 14 moreDemocratization, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Ethnic Conflict, Southeast Asian Politics, Regional Autonomy, Ethnic political parties, Papua, Conflict in Aceh, Democracy and Electoral Engineering, Ethnic politics, Aceh Studies, Political Engineering Electoral Systems, and Political Parties and Party Politics
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Research Interests: Political Sociology, Geography, Peace and Conflict Studies, Tibetan Studies, Inner Asian Studies, and 15 moreConflict, Political Science, Central Asian Studies, Tibet, Ethnic Conflict, Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas, China studies, Central Asia, Contemporary China, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Islam and Muslim Societies in China, Ethnic Conflicts, religion in China, China Ethnic Minorities Development, and Ethnicity In China
Review(s) of: Doing Business in Rural China: Liangshan's New Ethnic Entrepreneurs, by Thomas Heberer. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xii + 268 pp. US$50.00/ 29.00 (hardcover).
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Review(s) of: Lhasa: Streets with Memories, by Robert Barnett. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, xiii + 219 pp. US$24.50/ 16.00 (Hardcover).
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This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le... more
This article examines the urbanization of Tibet. We argue that urbanization is a new technique of colonial governance for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and is characterized by what Yen Le Espiritu calls ‘differential inclusion’: a form of forcible incorporation resulting in particular spaces and populations being ‘deemed integral to the nation … only or precisely because of their designated subordinate standing’. We explore how urbanization achieves the differential inclusion of Tibet and Tibetans through three distinct processes: segregation (the separation of Tibetan and Han Chinese spaces), congregation (the creation of Tibetan-dominated towns) and negation (urbanization as an administrative process that undermines Tibetan political autonomy). We argue that these three processes form an integrated strategy of colonial governance aimed at achieving differential inclusion. We conclude by arguing that our case study of the urbanization of Tibet offers a model for thinking about the role urbanization plays in enforcing differential inclusion as a means of colonial governance elsewhere in the PRC, and beyond.