Lecture | Leiden University Nationalism Network
POSTPONED - Civic and ethnic nations in Southeast Asia
- Date
- Tuesday 7 June 2022
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.47 (meeting will be streamed as well via Kaltura: https://smart.newrow.com/#/room/nse-470)
***This event on June 7th is postponed.***
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A number of influential publications have recently warned that 'civic nationalism' - the kind based on shared respect for citizens' rights and freedoms - is illusory or impracticable unless infused with a strong dose of 'ethnic nationalism' - the kind based on shared ethnicity or culture. Yael Tamir goes so far as to ask, rhetorically: 'Is there a tradition of multiethnic democracy?' My talk examines this question in the context of modern Southeast Asia, where Indonesia arguably provides an example of a successful multiethnic or 'civic' nation, and where nations with a more explicitly 'ethnic' character, notably Malaysia and Myanmar/Burma, have had difficulty promoting national unity and civic sentiment.
David Henley is a geographer and a Professor of Contemporary Indonesia Studies at Leiden University. He is an expert on nationalism, regionalism and ethnicity, but has also published extensively on a broad range of topics, such as agricultural history, state formation, economic development and the politics of religious sound, mostly studying Indonesian developments within a broad comparative perspective.
For more information: h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl