Indonesian Studies Colloquium with John T. Sidel, Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Monday, May 16, 2016
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
4357 Bunche Hall
UCLA Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The Indonesian "Revolusi" has long been treated as the culmination of a process of national awakening and nationalist mobilization, leading up to the achievement of an independent new nation-state. Viewed from this perspective, the Revolusi and Independence represented the triumph of Indonesian nationalism and nationalists, with Communism and Islam serving only as distractions, deviations, and departures from this struggle, as seen in the so-called Madiun Revolt and the Dar ul Islam rebellion. This lecture by contrast, shows how Communism and Islam played a crucial, constitutive role in the making of the Revolusi, suggesting the essentially cosmopolitan nature of its origins and its emancipatory energies.

John T. Sidel is the Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is the author of Capital, Coercion, and Crime: Bossism in the Philippines (Stanford University Press, 1999), (with Eva-Lotta Hedman) Philippine Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Trajectories (Routledge, 2001), Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia (Cornell University Press, 2006), and The Islamist Threat in Southeast Asia: A Reassessment (East-West Center, 2007). This talk covers a set of chapters in a book he is completing, titled Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia, which he hopes to complete this year.

Cost : Free and open to the public.

BarbaraGaerlan
310-206-9163
cseas@international.ucla.edu

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas

Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Department of History, Political Science