Past Events at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies
August 2015
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Thursday, August 20th Higher Learning: The Missing Picture introduced by Rithy Panh
Date Time Location Thursday, August 20, 2015 8:30PM - 10:30PM External Event, TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinemas
350 King Street West
(corner of King and John Streets)
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Description
As part of Visible Evidence, an international conference on documentary film and media, director Rithy Panh joins us for a screening of his Cannes-winning film The Missing Picture, which provocatively employs clay figurines and dioramas to chronicle the suffering of the director’s hometown under the Khmer Rouge. Hosted by Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies, The New School for Public Engagement.
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October 2015
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Friday, October 23rd Is the Middle Class a Harbinger of Democracy? Evidence from Southeast Asia
This event has been relocated
Date Time Location Friday, October 23, 2015 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Description
A vast body of literature claims that the middle class is a critical force for democratic transitions, democratic consolidation, and political stability. Yet, recent events in Thailand and in other Southeast Asian newly-industrializing countries (NICs), indicate that the middle class often challenges democratic regimes or supports authoritarian juntas. How should we reconcile these divergent views of the middle class? This presentation argues that an explanation for the behavior of the middle class in relation to regime-type must begin by looking at the state’s role in addressing the interests of the middle class. Where a state addresses the key concerns of the middle class – rule of law, economic development, and political stability – this class is unlikely to rebel against the state. Institutionalized states are most likely to satisfy middle-class interests, while patrimonial or clientelistic states are particularly vulnerable to middle-class rebellion precisely because they are unable to satisfy middle-class interests and values. A comparison of three Southeast Asian newly-industrializing economies will thus show that middle-class support for democracy is highly contingent on the structural conditions in which they find themselves embedded.
Erik Martinez Kuhonta is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Member of the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University. He is author of The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia (Stanford University Press, 2011), which was short-listed for the Canadian Political Science Association Prize in Comparative Politics. He is co-editor of Party System Institutionalization in Asia: Democracies, Autocracies, and the Shadow of the Past (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis (Stanford University Press, 2008). Kuhonta has published articles in Pacific Affairs, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Comparative Political Studies, Asian Survey, and Pacific Review. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
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Friday, October 30th Social Differentiation and Access to Clean Water: A Case Study from Bac Ninh
Date Time Location Friday, October 30, 2015 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
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Bac Ninh, a province adjacent to the Hanoi Capital Region, has long been renowned for its craft villages whose feudal-era products were sold in the eponymously-named streets of what is now Hanoi’s Old Quarter. Today, Bac Ninh is becoming, like other provinces of the Red River Delta, renowned for the toxic environments produced by its contemporary craft industries, such as the recycling of electronic waste. Based on household survey data from Van Mon commune in Bac Ninh province, the paper will analyze household strategies for accessing clean water for household use and consider the ways in which such strategies are outcomes and markers of social differentiation as well as examining their gendered use and implications.
Le Thi Van Hue is project coordinator and researcher at the Center for the Environment and Community Asset Development (CECAD), the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA). Her specialization and research focus is natural resource use and management, community asset building, climate vulnerability and adaptation in the North, Central and Central Highlands of Vietnam. Hue received her MA in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University, USA, her PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies at The Hague, the Netherlands, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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