[Asia_news] PSC Seminar at 3:00 pm 30 October

[Lyn Ning]

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE

 

SEMINAR (pre-field work seminar) 

 

Topic 

The Impacts of the Acehnese Diaspora on War and Peace in Aceh

 

Speaker 

Ms. Antje Missbach 

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political and Social Change, ANU 

 

Date & Venue 

3:00 - 4:30 pm,   Monday 30 October 2006

Seminar Room D, Coombs Building, ANU 

 

 

 

Abstract 

While there are a number of publications dealing with the social, political,
historical and cultural  backgrounds of the war in Aceh and other internal
factors leading to violence, researchers have only touched marginally upon
external aspects related to the Acehnese diaspora and their impact on
homeland politics. Although studying the Acehnese abroad, including their
aspirations, socio-political activities as well as cultural and economic
performances has been neglected so far, I argue that the Acehnese diaspora
is of fundamental importance to the politics of Aceh. By focussing on the
triangular relationship between homeland, host countries and diaspora, the
project aims to draw attention to the exchange of people, material resources
and ideas between the Acehnese diaspora in Malaysia and Scandinavia and the
homeland. It will describe and analyse various competing relations between
Acehnese 'abroad' and Acehnese 'at home'.

 

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Lyn Ning 

Department of Political and Social Change 

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies 

Coombs Building, Building 9 

Australian National University 

Tel:  6125 4790 

Fax: 6125 5523 

Email:  <mailto:lyn.ning at anu.edu.au> lyn.ning at anu.edu.au