APG 4382 / 5382

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ASIA

1ST

SEMESTER 2011

MASTER OF ASIAN STUDIES WEEKLY SEMINAR PROGRAM

All inquiries about this seminar series to 2010 Unit Coordinator:

Dr Angelo Andrea Di Castro andrea.dicastro@arts.monash.edu.au Room H5.92, 5th floor, Building H - Caulfield Campus

and to Dr Sevn Schottman Sven.Schottmann@monash.edu

Room H5.91, 5th floor, Building H - Caulfield Campus

Classes will be held on Thursdays afternoon from 5 to 8 pm Room H2.37 (5-6 pm – Lecture) and H2.38 (6-8pm – Seminar),

Building H Caulfield Campus

Program outline

Aline Scott-Maxwell Introduction to Library research resources

Bea Trefalt Investigating memory and history in modern Japan

David Chandler Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Cambodia

Paul Mc Shane Sustainability and water management

James Gomez New Media and Human Rights

Tikky Wattanapenpaiboon The burden of disease

Bruce Jacobs China as seen from Taiwan

Andrea Di Castro Heritage and urban development

Sven Schottman Malaysian democratic process

Irfan Ahmad Indian secularism

David Templeman The Tibetan Question in the 20th

century and now

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Lectures and Seminars Schedule

Week

Dates

Lecturers

Seminars

1

Thur 3

March

Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell Research methods and library resources

Introduction

2

Thur 10

March

Dr Beatrice Trefalt Investigating memory and history in

modern Japan

Orientalism and Asian Values

3

Thur 17

March

Prof. David Chandler Terror and History in Pol Pot’s

Cambodia

In the Shadow of Genocide

4

Thur 24

March

Dr Paul McShane Sustainability and water

management

The Ganges and water wars

Short essay

due

5

Thur 31

March

Dr James Gomez New Media and Human Rights

New Media and

Democracy

6 Thur 7

April

Dr Tikky Wattanapenpaiboon The burden of disease

The origin of germ diseases

7

Thur 14

April

Prof. Bruce Jacobs China as seen from Taiwan

Soft Authoritarianism and

Human Rights

8

Thur 21

April

Dr Andrea Di Castro Asian cities: heritage and

sustainability

Cultural heritage and postmodernism

Friday 22 April – Friday 29 April EASTER BREAK

9

Thur 5

May

NON TEACHING

Essay writing

week

10

Thur 12

May

Dr Sven Schottmann Democracy and Islam in South-East

Asia

Mahathir and Islam Hadhari

Long essay

due

11

Thur 19

May

Dr Irfan Ahmad Indian Secularism

Ashis Nandi and Indian

Secularism

12

Thur 26

May

Dr David Templeman The Tibetan Question in current times

Interpreting Tibet’s History

Thur 2

June

SWOT VAC

Revision

Thur 9

June

venue TBA

Exam

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Reading list

Week 1.1 March 3 Introduction to the course, expectations and allocation of topics Dr Angelo Andrea Di Castro & Dr Sven Schottman Week 1.2 March 3 Dr Aline Scott-Maxwell Research methods and library resources Caulfield Library

Week 1 No Prescribed Readings

Week 2.1 March 10 Dr Beatrice Trefalt Investigating memory and history in modern Japan

Prescribed Readings: Treafalt, Beatrice „War, commemoration and national identity in modern Japan, 1868-1975‟, in Nation and nationalism in Japan, edited by Sandra Wilson, London, New York, Routledge Curzon, 2002: 115-126 Gibney, Frank Senso - The Japanese remember the Pacific War: letters to the editor of Asahi Shinbun, Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 1995: 290-313 Week 2 Lecture Additional readings: Li, Fei Fei - Sabella, Robert - Liu, David Nanking 1937: memory and healing, Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, 2002 Madoka Futamura 2008 War crimes tribunals and transitional justice: The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremberg Legacy, Routledge, New York Maria Rosa Henson1999 Comfort Woman: a Filipina’s story of prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, MD Anton, Lucas ed 1986 Local opposition and underground resistance to the Japanese in Java 1942-1945, Monash university: Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Clayton Cheah Boon Kheng, 2007 The „Black-Out‟ Syndrome and the Ghosts of World War II: the War as a „Divisive Issue‟ in Malaysia, in Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia, edited by David Koh Wee Hock, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: 47-59

Week 2.2 March 10 SEMINAR Orientalism and Asian Values

Prescribed Reading: Teitelbaum, J. and Litvak, M. 2006 Students, Teachers, and Edward Said: Taking Stock of Orientalism, Middle East Review of International Affairs 10 (1) (March) http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2006/issue1/jv10no1a2.html Mahbubani, Kishore 2004 Can Asians Think?, in Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West, Penguin Books (Rev. ed.), New Delhi: 19-43

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Sen, Amartya 2005 Indian traditions and the Western imagination, in Argumentative Indian: writings on Indian culture, history, and Identity, Penguin, New Delhi: 139-160 Said, Edward 1995 Afterword to the 1995 printing of Orientalism, Penguin, London: 329-354 Week 2 Seminar Additional readings: Zakaria, Fareed 1994 Culture is Destiny: a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew, Foreign Affairs, 73 (2), March-April: 109-125 Lee, Kuan Yew 1998 From Third World to First: The Singapore story: 1965-2000: memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Harper & Collins, New York Mahbubani, Kishore 2004 Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide between East and West, Penguin Books (Rev. ed.), New Delhi Buruma, Ian and Avishai, Margalit 2004 Occidentalism: the West in the eyes of its enemies, Penguin, New York Baruma, Ian, & Margalit, Avishai 2002, Occidentalism, New York Review of Books, 49 (1) January 17 2002: 4-7 Said, Edward 1995, Orientalism, Penguin, London Said, Edward W. 1994 The Pen and the Sword: conversations with David Barsamian, Common Courage Press, Monroe, Me Edward Said and Diacritics 2001 [1976] Interview with Edward Said, Edward Said edited by Patrick Williams, vol. 1, Sage, London: 3-30 Williams, Patrick (ed) 2001 Edward Said, 4 vols., Sage, London Bryan S. Turner 1994 Orientalism, Postmodernism, and Globalism, Routledge, London, New York Sheridan, Greg 1999 Asian Values Western Dreams: Understanding the New Asia, Allen and Unwin, St. Leonards, NSW: 1-16 and 293-317 Foong, Wai Fong 1999 The New Asian Way: Rebuilding Asia Through Self-reliance, Pelandukk Publications, Selangor Darul Ehsan: 271-296 Shin, Doh C. 1999 Mass Politics and Culture in Democratizing Korea, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 195-243 Mouer, Ross and Sugimoto, Yoshio 1986 Images of Japan: a Study in the Social Construction of Reality, Kegan Paul International, London: 1-10, 84-95, 156-188, 377-404

Ching, Leo T.S. 2001Becoming Japanese : Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity formation, University of California Press, Berkeley

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Week 3.1 March 17 Prof David Chandler Terror and History in Pol Pot’s Cambodia

Prescribed Reading: Chandler, David 2000 Explaining S-21, in Voices from S-21: terror and history in Pol Pot’s secret prison, University of California Press, Berkeley, London: 143-155 Chandler, David 2000 Revolution in Cambodia, in A History of Cambodia, Westview Press, Boulder: 209-225

Week 3.2 March 17 SEMINAR Alexander L. Hinton’s ‘In the Shadow of Genocide’

Prescribed Reading: Hinton, Alexander L. 2005 Why did they kill? Cambodia in the shadow of genocide, University of California Press, Berkeley: 1-35 Ponchaud, Francois 1989 „Social Change in the Vortex of Revolution‟, Cambodia, 1975-1978: rendezvous with death, edited by Karl D. Jackson, Princeton University Press, Princeton: 151-177 Week 3 Additional readings: Becker Elizabeth 1998 When the War Was Over, Public Affairs, New York. Chandler David 1999 Brother Number One: a political biography of Pol Pot, Westview Press, Boulder Chandler, David P., Kiernan, Ben (eds) 1988 Pol Pot Plans the Future: Confidential Leadership Documents from Democratic Kampuchea, 1976-1977, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven Chandler, David P., Kiernan, Ben (eds) 1983 Revolution and Its Aftermath in Kampuchea, Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven Picq, Laurence 1989 Beyond the Horizon: five years with the Khmer Rouge, St. Martin‟s Press, New York Pin Yathay (with John Man) 1987 Stay Alive, My Son, Free Press, New York Ponchaud, Francois 1978 Cambodia Year Zero, Allen Lane, London

Week 4.1 March 24 Dr Paul McShane Sustainability and water management

Prescribed Readings: Haya, B. 2007 Failed Mechanism. How CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol, International Rivers, http://www.internationalrivers.org/files/Failed_Mechanism_3.pdf

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http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/climate-change/carbon-trading-cdm/failed-mechanism-how-cdm-subsidizing-hydro-developers-and-harming-0. Chambers, P. 2009 Edgy Amity along the Mekong: Thai-Lao Relations in a Transforming Regional Equilibrium, Asian Journal of Political Science 17 (1): 89-118 Swain, R.B., Nguyen, V.S., Vo, V.T. 2008 Microfinance and Poverty Reduction in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, African and Asian Studies 7: 191-215

Week 4.2 March 24 SEMINAR Different perceptions: Alexander Stille’s Ganges, Vandana Shiva water wars

Prescribed Readings: Shiva, Vandana 2002 Water Wars, Pluto Press, London: 107-117 Stille, Alexander 2002 Gange‟s Next Life, in The Future of the Past, Picador, London: 96-122 Week 4 Additional readings: Wong, S. 2008 Indians Protest to Stop Dams on Mother Ganga, International Rivers, http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/2617 Vidal, John 2009 Himalayas hydroelectric dam project stopped after scientist on hunger strike against the project almost dies, International Rivers, http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/node/4266 Bakker Karen 1999 The politics of hydropower: developing the Mekong, Political Geography 18: 209–232 Bush, S.R. 2008 Contextualising Fisheries Policy in the Lower Mekong Basin, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39 (3): 392-353 Lebel, Louis et al. (eds) 2007 Democratizing water governance in the Mekong, Mekong Press, Chiang Mai (Chapters 1 and 2: 1-35) Allen, A. 2003 Environmental planning and management of the peri-urban interface: perspectives on an emerging field, Environment and Urbanization. 15: 135-148. Braadbaart, O. and Braadbaart, F. 1997 Policing the Urban Pumping Race: Industrial groundwater overexploitation in Indonesia, World Development 25 (2): 199-210 Wong, K.K. and S.X.B. Zhao 2000 Shrinking Farmland in the Pearl River Delta Region, in China’s Regions, Polity, & Economy: A study of spatial transformation in the Post-Reform Era, edited by Si-Ming Li and Wing-shing Tang, The Chinese University Press, Hong Kong: 351-368 Rangan , Haripriya Kull, Christian A. and Alexander, Lisa 2009 Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palnis Hills, southern India, Regional Environmental Change

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009, © Springer-Verlag 2009, 10.1007/s10113-009-0098-4, http://www.springerlink.com/content/p534k62xl4v72473/ Revi, A. 2008 Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities, Environment and Urbanization 20: 207-229

Week 5.1 March 31 Dr James Gomez New Media and Human Rights

Prescribed Reading:

Gomez, James Dumbing down democracy trends in internet regulation surveillance and control in Asia http://monash.academia.edu/JamesGomez/Papers/116683/Dumbing_down_democracy_trends_in_internet_regulation_surveillance_and_control_in_Asia Gomez, James New Media and Electoral Democracy Online Opposition in Malaysia and Singapore http://monash.academia.edu/JamesGomez/Papers/350751/New_Media_and_Electoral_Democracy_Online_Opposition_in_Malaysia_and_Singapore Gomez, James Social Media and Opposition Parties Networking for Singapore‟s General Elections http://monash.academia.edu/JamesGomez/Papers/382122/Social_Media_and_Opposition_Parties_Networking_for_Singapores_General_Elections

Week 5.2 March 31 SEMINAR New Media and Democracy

Prescribed Reading: Seo, H, Kim, J.Y., Yang, S., 2009 Global Activism and New Media: A study of Transnational NGOs‟ Online Public Relations, Public Relations Review, 35 (2), June, pp123-126.

Week 5 Additional readings: Reder, B.H. & Kim, K.J., 2006 How Activist Groups Use Websites in Media Relations: Evaluating Online Press Rooms, Journal of Public Relations, 18 (4), Oct., pp313-333. Waters, R.D., Burnett, E., Lamm, A., Lucas, J., 2009 Engaging stakeholders through social networking: How nonprofit organizations are using Facebook, Public Relations Review, 35 (2), June, pp102-106. Gomez, James 2008 Online Opposition in Singapore: Communications Outreach Without Electoral Gain, Journal of Contemporary Asia,38 (4):59-612

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Week 6.1 May 19 Dr Tikky Wattanapenpaiboon The burden of disease

Prescribed Reading: Lopez, A.D., Mathers, C.D., Ezzati, M., Jamison, D. T., Murray, C. J. L. 2006 Measuring the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors,1990–2001, in Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, edited by Lopez, Alan D., Jamison, Dean T., Ezzati, Majid, Murray, Christopher J. L., Mathers, Colin D., Oxford University Press, Washington, DC, World Bank Publications, Washington DC: 1-13 Wahlqvist ML. 2011. Public health nutrition: Population and food policy, in Food and Nutrition. Food and Health Systems in Australia and New Zealand, edited by Mark L Wahlqvist, 3rd ed. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW: 92-105.

Week 6.2 May 19 SEMINAR Ecological Imperialism and the origin of germ diseases

Prescribed Reading: Crosby, Alfred 1993 (1986) Ecological Imperialism. The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 8-40. Diamond, J. 1998 Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies, Vintage, Random House, London: 195-214. Week 6 Additional readings: Harris, S. 2006 Bug Bloggers, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan/Feb: 38-43. WHO on Avian Flu: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/en/ www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/avianinfluenza_factsheetJan2006/en Wahlqvist ML. ed. 2011. Food and Nutrition. Food and Health Systems in Australia and New Zealand, 3rd ed. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW: 92-105. Gibney, Michael J., Macdonald, Ian A. and Roche, Helen M. (eds) 2003 Nutrition and Metabolism, Blackwell Science, Oxford Gillespie, Stuart and Haddad, Lawrence 2001 Attacking the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington Gillespie, Stuart and Haddad, Lawrence 2001 Attacking the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Asia and the Pacific, Asian Development Bank, Manila and International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington

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Week 7.1 April 14 Prof. Bruce Jacobs China as seen from Taiwan

Prescribed Reading: Jacobs, Bruce Forthcoming Whither Taiwanization? The Colonization, Democratization and Taiwanization of Taiwan (Manuscript) Jacobs, Bruce 2009 A Longitudinal Examination toward understanding What Constitutes a Healthy Approach to balance in the Taiwan Strait, Asia Policy - Roundtable, 8, July: 16-

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Week 7.2 April 14 SEMINAR Soft Authoritarianism and Human Rights

Prescribed Reading: Roy, Denny 1994 China and the „Soft Authoritarian Challenge‟, Asian Survey 34 (3): 231-242 Dallmayr, Fred 2002 „Asian Values‟ and Global Human Rights, Philosophy East and West 52 (2): 173-189 Tu Weming 2001 The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism: Implications for China and the World, Daedalus 130 (4): 243-264 Week 7 Additional readings: Jacobs, Bruce 2008 Local Politics in Rural Taiwan under Dictatorship and Democracy, EastBridge, Norwalk, CT Jacobs, Bruce 1998 Democratisation in Taiwan, Occasional Paper 1, Centre of East Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Clayton Jacobs, Bruce 2008 Taiwan: Changes and Challenges, Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 62, No. 4 (December): 460-477

Week 8.1 April 21 Dr A. Andrea Di Castro Asian cities: heritage and sustainability

Prescribed Reading: Rademacher, A. 2009 When Is Housing an Environmental problem? Reforming Informality in Kathmandu, Current Anthropology 50: 513-533 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MoEST) & United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 2007 The Kathmandu Valley Environment Outlook http://www.unep.org/documents.multilingual/default.asp?documentid=498&articleid=5500&l=en# - The full document can be downloaded at : http://www.unep.org/pdf/KVEO/KVEO_Front_matters_final_printed.pdf

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http://www.unep.org/pdf/KVEO/KVEO_final_pg_1_to_50.pdf http://www.unep.org/pdf/KVEO/KVEO_final_pg_51_to_134.pdf

Week 8.2 April 21 SEMINAR Cultural heritage and postmodernism

Prescribed Reading: Holtorf, Cornelius 2005 Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Loss of Heritage Reconsidered, Art in the Age of Terrorism, edited by G. Coulter-Smith and M. Owen, Paul Olberton Publishing, London: 229-239 Wines, M. 2009 To Protect an Ancient City, China Moves to Raze It, The New York Times, May 27, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28kashgar.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4&th&emc=th Week 8 Additional readings: Loulanski, T. 2006 Revising the Concept for Cultural Heritage: The Argument for a Functional Approach, International Journal of Cultural Property13: 207-233 Turner, P. 2006 What is Heritage Good For?, International Journal of Cultural Property 13: 351-360 World Heritage Centre 2004 Partnerships for World Heritage Cities: Culture as a Vector for Sustainable Urban Development, World Heritage Series n°9 - http://whc.unesco.org/en/series/9/ http://whc.unesco.org/documents/publi_wh_papers_09_en.pdf Spodeck, J 2002 Newari Water-Supply Systems in Nepal‟s Kathmandu Valley, APT Bulletin 33 (2/3): 65-69 Shaw, J. 2000 Ayodhya‟s sacred landscape: ritual memory, politics and archaeology, Antiquity 74: 693-700 Rao, Nandini 1999 Ayodhya and the Ethics of Archaeology, in Case Studies in Archaeology and World Religion, edited by Timothy Insoll, BAR International Series 755, Oxford: 44-47 Kohl, Philip L. and Fawcett, Clare (eds) 1995 Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Smith, Laurajane 2004 Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage, Routledge, London, New York. Gathercole, Peter and Lowenthal, David (eds). 1990 The Politics of the Past, Unwin Hyman, London, Boston. Stille, Alexander 2002 The Future of the Past, Picador, London.

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Layton, Robert (ed.) 1994 Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology, Routledge, London, New York

Terrorists storm Ayodhya complex – The Hindu, Online edition of India's National Newspaper, Wednesday, Jul 06, 2005 http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/06/stories/2005070612430100.htm

Week 9 May 5 LONG ESSAY WRITING – NON TEACHING WEEK

Week 10.1 May 12 Dr Sven Schottmann Democracy and Islam in South-East Asia

Prescribed Reading: Barton, Gregory J. 2002 Islam and politics in the New Indonesia, in Islam in Asia, edited by J. Isaacson & C. Rubinstein, Transaction Publishers New Brunswick:1-94 Martinez, Patricia 2001 The Islamic State or the State of Islam in Malaysia, Contemporary Southeast Asia 23 (3): 474-504

Week 10.2 May 12 SEMINAR Mahathir and Islam Hadhari

Prescribed Reading: Chong, Terrence 2006 The emerging politics of Islam Hadhari,‟ in Malaysia: Recent trends and challenges, edited by S.H. Saw and K. Kesavapany, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: 26-45 Mahathir bin Mohamad 2005 Islam’s Forsaken Renaissance, http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/islams_forsaken_renaissance/0015426 Week 10.Additional readings: Faruqi, Shad Saleem 2005 The Malaysian Constitution, the Islamic State and Hudud Laws, in Islam in Southeast Asia, edited by K.S. Nathan and Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: 256-277 Malhi, Amrita 2003 The PAS-BN Conflict in the 1990s: Islamism and modernity, in Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, edited by V. Hooker and O. Norani, Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore: 236-267 Syed Ahmad H. 2002 Muslim politics and the discourse on democracy, in Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and practices, edited by Francis Loh K.W. and Khoo B. T., Curzon Richmond, Surrey

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Weiss, Meredith L. The changing shape of Islamic politics in Malaysia, Journal of East Asian Studies 4 (1): 139-173 Kurzman, Charles 2003 Liberal Islam: prospects and challenges, in Revolutionaries and reformers: Contemporary Islamist movements in the Middle East, edited by B. Rubin, State University of New York Press Albany: 191-206 K.S. Nathan and M.H. Kamali (eds), Islam in Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Bayat, Asef 2005 What is post-Islamism?‟ http://www.isim.nl/files/Review_16/Review_16-5.pdf, accessed April 18th 2007

Week 11.1 April 7 Dr Irfan Ahmad Indian Secularism

Prescribed Reading: Ahmad, Irfan 2009 Introduction in. Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami.Princeton, Princeton University Press Ahmad, Irfan Secularizing Secularism- (http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000021320)

Week 11.2 April 15 SEMINAR Ashis Nandi and Indian Secularism

Prescribed Reading: Nandy, Ashis 1985 An Anti-Secularist Manifesto , Seminar, 314 (Oct.): 14-24

Nandy, Ashis 2002 The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Tolerance, in Time Warps, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 61-88

Week 11 Additional readings:

Nandy, Ashis 1999 The Twilight of Certitudes: Secularism, Hindu Nationalism and Other masks of Deculturation, in Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Essays in Honour of T.N. Madan, edited by Veena Das et al, New Delhi: 401-420 Ganguly, Sumit 2003 The Crisis of Indian Secularism, Journal of Democracy, 14 (4), Oct.: 11-25 Brass, Paul R 1999 Secularism Out of Its Place, in Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: Essays in Honour of T.N. Madan, edited by Veena Das et al, New Delhi: 359-380 Jacobsohn, Gary G. 2003 The Wheel of Law: Indian Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context, Priinceton, N.J.: chap. 1 Sen, Amartya 1997 Secularism and its Discontents, in Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity, edited by Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Delhi: 11-43 Smith, Donald E. 1963 India as a Secular State, Princeton, NJ: chapters 1-2

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Week 12.1 May 27 Dr David Templeman The Tibetan Question in current times

Prescribed Reading: Huber, Toni 2001 Shangri-la in Exile: Representations of Tibetan Identity and Transnational Culture, in Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections and Fantasies, edited by T. Dodin and H. Räther, Boston Wisdom Publications: 357-371 Powers, John 2004 History as Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People’s Republic of China, Oxford University Press, New York: 3-27 (plus notes: 163-168)

Week 12.2 May 27 SEMINAR Interpreting Tibet’s History

Prescribed Reading: Lopez, Donald 2008 Foreword, in Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions, edited by Blondeau, A.-M. and Buffetrille, K., University of California Press, Berkeley: xvi – xxi Barnett, Robert 2008 What were the conditions regarding human rights in Tibet before democratic reform, in Blondeau, A.-M. and Buffetrille, K. (eds) Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions, University of California Press, Berkeley: 81-84 Amy Heller and Anne-Marie Blondeau 2008 What is the policy adopted by China regarding traditional Tibetan culture?, in Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions, edited by Blondeau, A.-M. and Buffetrille, K., University of California Press, Berkeley: 209-211

Sautman, B. and Teufel Dreyer, J. 2006 Introduction, in. Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region, edited by Sautman, B. and Teufel Dreyer, J., M.E. Sharpe, Armonk: 3-22

Week 12 Additional readings: Powers, John 2004 History as Propaganda; Tibetan Exiles versus the People’s Republic of China (Histories and Strategies: 154-157; Packaging Historical „Truths: 157 – 162), Oxford University Press, New York Barnett, Robert 2009 Introduction, in Lixiong, W. and Shakya, T. The Struggle for Tibet, Verso, London: 1-33 Smith, W. 1996 Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations, Westview Press Dodin, Thierry and Räther, Heinz 2001 Imagining Tibet: Between Shangri-la and Feudal Oppression, in Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections and Fantasies, edited by T. Dodin and H. Räther, Boston Wisdom Publications: 391-416

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Shakya, T. 1999 The Dragon in the Land of Snows, Pimlico, London

REMINDER OF DUE DATES FOR ASSESSED WORK AND EXAM

24 March 2010: SHORT ESSAY DUE OF 1500 words Write a short essay explaining why Mahbubani, Kishore disagrees with Samuel Huntington about the latter‟s argument on „The Clash of Civilizations‟? At least 1/3 of your essay should explain which author you agree with and why. Samuel Huntington 1993, „The Clash of Civilizations‟, Foreign Affairs, Summer. Kishore Mahbubani 1993 “The dangers of decadence: what the rest can teach the West” (Responses to S.P. Huntington's “The Clash of Civilizations?”), Foreign Affairs, Sept-Oct.

12 May 2010: long essay due of about 4000 words Students will devise their own topics upon consultation with staff involved in the unit

9 June 2010 5pm to 7pm: exam