ASIA_NEWS: Southeast Asian History Reading Group

[Greg Young]

From: "Mark Emmanuel" <Mark.Emmanuel at anu.edu.au>
About: Southeast Asian History Reading Group

Time: 3.30-4.30pm

Date: Friday, 28 Feb 2003

Venue: Faculty of Asian Studies Staff Common Room, Level 4, Baldessin
Precinct Building

Reading: Anthony Reid, 'Understanding Melayu (Malay) as a Source of
Diverse Modern Identities' in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies,
vol.32, no.3, Oct 2001

Synopsis: This article attempts to bring together recent literature
about the typology of nationalism, with the ways in which 'Malay’
or 'Melayu’ have been used as the core of an ethnie or a
nationalist project. Different meanings of 'Melayu’ were salient at
different times in Sumatra, in the Peninsula and in the eastern
Archipelago, and the Dutch and British used their respective
translations of it very differently. Modern ethno-nationalist projects
in Malaysia and Brunei made 'Melayu’ a contested and often divisive
concept, whereas its translation into the hitherto empty term
'Indonesia' might have provided an easier basis for territorial, or
even ultimately civic, nationalism in that country.

***Please note that the papers will be available outside of Mrs Jude
Quinn’s office on the fourth level of the Asian Studies Building
from Monday afternoon. Papers will ONLY be provided for people
attending the reading session.

Do not hit 'reply' to respond to this message. If you wish to attend
the reading group and would like a copy of the article, please RSVP
Mark Emmanuel or McComas Taylor. Thank you.


Conveners:
McComas Taylor <McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au>
Mark Emmanuel (<Mark.Emmanuel at anu.edu.au>


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