Call for papers for a panel "Colonial and National Racializations in Southeast Asia," EUROEAS, Lisbon, 2-5 July 2013



Call for papers for a panel "Colonial and National Racializations in Southeast Asia," EUROEAS, Lisbon, 2-5 July 2013

7th EuroSEAS Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 July 2013 PANEL 11 - COLONIAL AND NATIONAL RACIALIZATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 30 November 2012

During the past three decades there has been increasing interest in the production and circulation of racial science for the construction of colonial and national regimes. Race concepts, taxonomies, and varied forms of racism have been constitutive of nineteenth and twentieth-century Western colonial regimes in Southeast Asia; but they may also appear as an enduring phenomenon that can pervade post-colonial nationalisms in the region. We envisage this panel as exploring how one racializes oneself or is racialized by others in a variety of settings, including the production of pure or originary identities and mixed or hybrid identities. The panel seeks papers that will focus on one or more of the following topics in Southeast Asia:

(i) emergence and uses of racial sciences in late-colonial contexts;
(ii) legacies and significance of racial science in processes of nation-building, (iii) indigenous and anti- colonial interactions with racial conceptions and formations.

Panel organizers:

Ricardo Roque (ICS, Univ. Lisbon and Univ. of Sydney,
ricardo.roque@ics.ul.pt) and Warwick Anderson Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney, wanderson@usyd.edu.au)

Guidelines for Abstracts 1. Abstracts should be send by the author(s) to the convenor (s) of the panel;

The deadline for sending abstracts to the convenor(s) is the 30th November 2012;

English is the official language of the Conference;

The text should not exceed 1.500 characters (including spaces). Title of the paper, name of the author(s) and affiliation must be included.

Ricardo Roque
Research Fellow
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Av. Professor Anibal de Bettencourt, 9
1600-189 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Tel.: + 351 217804700 / Fax: + 351 217940274

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