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HADIZ, Vedi Renandi
Visiting Research Fellow
(Term: May 1, 2009 - July 31, 2009)
Division of Economic and Political Dynamics
political sociology, political economy, Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics and societies.

Research Interests

My current main research topic is the 'political economy of Islamic populism in Indonesia'. The study combines political economy and historical sociology and attempts to understand the forging and moulding of Islamic politics over time in Indonesia in relation to several factors. These include the formation of the post-colonial state, the outcomes of cold war-era social conflicts, the development of capitalism and associated class transformations, as well as ideological responses to the contradictions emerging from integration with the world economy. The study understands current manifestations of 'radical Islam' as a kind of populism whereby the social bases of political Islam more generally are extended from traditional urban and rural petty-bourgeois constitutencies to those that more fully embrace newly marginalised or alienated sections of the middle class, and Indonesia's large disorganised urban proletariat and lumpen-proletariat. In the process, comparisons are made as well with similar processes that have affected the development of political Islam in North Africa and the Middle East. The study diverges from most studies of political Islam that have taken cultural politics, socio-psychological or security-oriented approaches.

Academic Career

Currently Associate Professor, Department of Sociology National University of Singapore; visiting senior research fellow, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Past appointments include research fellow, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Australia, visiting scholar at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands, and visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Indonesia.

Publications

　　　　 *Books - Authored*

1. Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia, London, Routledge, 1997.

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1. Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (with Richard Robison), London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

1. Localising Power in Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective, forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2009.

*Books - Edited*

1. The Politics of Economic Development in Indonesia: Contending Perspectives (with Ian Chalmers), London, Routledge, 1997.

1. Indonesian Politics and Society: A Reader (with David Bourchier), London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

1. Social Science and Power in Indonesia (with Daniel Dhakidae), Singapore and Jakarta: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Equinox Publishing, 2005.

1. Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia, London, Routledge, 2006.

*Recent International Journal Articles:*

1. 'Reorganising Political Power in Indonesia: A Reconsideration of so-called 'Democratic Transitions', Pacific Review, 16, 4, 2003, pp.591-611. Also published in Maribeth Erb, Priyambudi Sulistiyanto, and Carole Faucher, Regionalism in Post-Suharto Indonesia, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005, pp.36-53

1. 'The Rise of Neo-Third Worldism? The Indonesian Trajectory and the Consolidation of Illiberal Democracy', Third World Quarterly, Special 25th Anniversary Issue, 25, 1, 2004, pp. 55-71.

1. 'Decentralisation and Democracy in Indonesia: A Critique of Neo-Institutionalist Perpectives', Development and Change, 35, 4, September 2004, pp.697-718.

1. 'Indonesian Local Party Politics: A Site of Resistance to Neo-Liberal Reform', Critical Asian Studies, 36, 4, December 2004, pp.615-636.

1. 'Neo-Liberal Reforms and Illiberal Consolidations: the Indonesian Paradox' (with Richard Robison), Journal of Development Studies, 41, 2, February 2005, pp. 220-241.

1. 'Post-Authoritarian Indonesia in Comparative Southeast Asian Perspective' (with Ariel Heryanto), Critical Asian Studies, 37, 2, June 2005, pp.251-276.

1. 'The Left and Indonesia's 1960s: The Politics of Remembering and Forgetting', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 7, 4, 2006, pp. 554-569.

1. 'The Localization of Power in Southeast Asia', Democratization, 14, 4, 2007, pp. 873-892.

1. 'Toward A Sociological Understanding of Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia', Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38, 4, 2008, pp.638-647.

1. 'Understanding Social Trajectories: Structure and Actor in the Democratization Debate', Pacific Affairs, 81, 4, 2008, pp.527-536.

*Recent Book Chapters:*

1. 'Introduction' (2003) (with David Bourchier), in David Bourchier and Vedi R. Hadiz, Indonesian Politics and Society: A Reader, London, RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 1-24.

1. 'Reformasi and Changing State and Labour Relations in Indonesia and Malaysia', in Ariel Heryanto and Sumit Mandal (eds), Challenging Authoritarianism in Indonesia and Malaysia, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp.90-116.

1. 'Power and Politics in North Sumatra: the Uncompleted Reformasi', in Ed Aspinall and Greg Fealy (eds) Local Power and Politics in Indonesia: Democratisation and Decentralisation, Australian National University and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003, pp. 119-131.

1. 'Considering the Idea of Democratic Transition in Indonesia', in Stanley Adi Prasteyo et al (eds), Indonesia's Democracy Movement, Jakarta, Demos, 2003, pp. 109-116.

1. 'The State of Corruption: Indonesia', in Vinay Bhargava and Emil Bolongaita (eds) Challenging Corruption in Asia: Case Studies and a Framework for Action, Washington D.C., World Bank, 2004, pp.209-235.

1. 'The Failure of State Ideology in Indonesia: The Rise and Demise of Pancasila', in Chua Beng Huat (ed) Communitarian Politics in Asia, London, Routledge, 2004, pp.148-161.

1. 'The Politics of Labour Movements in Southeast Asia', in Mark Beeson (ed) Contemporary Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics, National Differences, London, Palgrave, 2004, pp.118-35.

1. 'Introduction' (with Daniel Dhakidae), in Social Science and Power in Indonesia (co-editor with Daniel Dhakidae), Singapore and Jakarta: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Equinox Publishing, 2005, pp. 1-29.

1. 'Understanding 'Democratic Transitions': Some Insights From Gus Dur's Brief Presidency In Indonesia', in Shiraishi Takashi and Patricio Abinales (eds), After the Crisis: Hegemony, Technocracy and Governance in Southeast Asia, Kyoto, Kyoto University Press, 2005, pp. 119-133.

1. 'Empire, Neoliberalism, Asia: An Introduction', in Vedi R. Hadiz (ed) Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2006, pp.1-20.

1. 'Order and Terror in a Time of Empire', in Vedi R. Hadiz (ed) Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia, London, Routledge, 2006, pp. 123-138.

1. 'Corruption and Neoliberal Reform: Markets and Predatory Power in Indonesia and Southeast Asia', in Richard Robison (ed) 'The Neoliberal Revolution: Forging the Market State', London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.79-97.

1. 'Indonesia: Crisis, Oligarchy and Reform' (with Richard Robison), in Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison and Richard Robison (eds) The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Markets, Power, and Contestation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp.109-136.

1. 'International Development Organisations and Local Power', in Eva Streifendeder and Antje Missbach (eds), Indonesia - The Presence of the Past, Berlin, regioSpectra Verlag, 2007, pp. 103-119.

1. 'Neoliberalism and Predatory Capitalism: A Perspective from Indonesia', in Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer (eds), National Perspectives on Globalization, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp.78-92.

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