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3:00 PM

15th Zomia Seminar

Date: 27 September (Tue) 3:00-5:30PM Venue: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building Small meeting room II Dr. Nasir Uddin(Professor of Anthropology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh), "Understanding state from the margins: A Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts" Abstract: The paper focuses on the dialectical relations between the "state" and the "margins," where the former itself (re)produces the latter. While dominant historical works tend to depict the state as a bureaucratically centralized political institution, this paper attempts to grasp the state in its local societal dynamics beneath the institutional framework as anthropology has recently been critically engaged with the study of the state from the margins. This [ Read More ]

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4:00 PM

Special Seminar by Dr. Shanon Shah on September 27th

Date and Time: 16:00-, September 27th, 2016 Place: Tonan-tei (Room No. 201),CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker: Dr. Shanon Shah, Researcher at William Temple Foundation, London Title: Authoritarianism, nationalism and lived Islam in Malaysia Summary: Recent international headlines about Malaysia have highlighted an escalating, gigantic corruption scandal involving high level government leaders while discussions about this within Malaysia are severely suppressed by draconian legislation. Amid this backdrop, there are efforts to strengthen the position of Islam by the state Islamic bureaucracy, political parties such as the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), the government-controlled media and various Muslim non-state actors. These efforts [ Read More ]

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