State Violence in East Asia

Contributors

contributors Vince Boudreau is a professor of political science at the City College and at the City University (CCNY) Graduate Center. He is also the director of CCNY’s Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies and was until recently chair of the CCNY Political Science Department. He is a specialist in comparative politics, with a regional emphasis on Southeast Asia. He writes about protest movements, state repression, and democratization, both with specific reference to Southeast Asia and more generally. His latest book is Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia (2004). His most recent research seeks to explain divergent patterns of post-transition politics in Indonesia and the Philippines and patterns of collective violence across Southeast Asia. He also serves on the editorial boards of Comparative Politics and Kasarinlan. Rommel A. Curaming is a lecturer in history and Southeast Asian Studies at University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Before joining UBD, he was with the National University of Singapore as a postdoctoral fellow and La Trobe University as Research Fellow under Endeavour Award Australia (2008). He completed his PhD at Australian National University with a thesis that compares the dynamics of state-scholar relations in Indonesia and the Philippines. His research interests include the politics of memory, comparative historiography, state-scholar relations, the politics of scholarship, and state violence in the islands of Southeast Asia. His most recent publications have appeared in Critical Asian Studies and Time Society. N. Ganesan is a professor specializing in Southeast Asian politics at the Hiroshima Peace Institute, where he has been since 2004. Concurrently he serves as a visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo. His teaching and research interests are in Southeast Asian politics and foreign policy, especially sources of tension and conflict within and between states. His most recent major publications are Realism and Interdependence in Singapore’s Foreign Policy 282 Contributors (2005); Myanmar: State, Society, Ethnicity, coedited with Kyaw Yin Hlaing (2007); East Asia Facing a Rising China, coedited with Lam Peng Er (2010); Southeast Asia in International Relations, coedited with Ramses Amer (2010); and the edited collection Conjunctures and Continuities in Southeast Asian Politics (2012). Tyrell Haberkorn is a research fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies, Australian National University. Her work is located at the intersection of critical archival and ethnographic practice and activism around state and parastate violence in Southeast Asia. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (2011). Her work has also appeared in Critical Asian Studies, Stance, and Article 2, and on openDemocracy. Hayashi Hirofumi is a professor of history at Kanto Gakuin University in Japan. He is an expert on modern history and has published a number of books on war crimes and war histories. Representative writings include Sabakareta Senso Hanzai (Tried war crimes: British war crimes trials of Japanese) (1998), Okinawasen to Minshu (The Battle of Okinawa and the people) (2001), Okinawasen: Kyosei sareta “Shudan Jiketsu” (The Battle of Okinawa: Forced “mass suicide”) (2009), Okinawasen ga Toumono (Questions from the Battle of Okinawa) (2010), and “Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War in the Battle of Okinawa,” in Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming and Memory in World War II, edited by Bob Moore and Barbara Hately-Broad (2005). Douglas Kammen earned his PhD in the Department of Government at Cornell University and taught at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch ), Universitas Hasanuddin (Makassar), and Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae (Dili) before joining the Southeast Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include social movements, the military and politics, and human rights in Indonesia and Timor-Leste. He is coauthor (with Katharine McGregor) of The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965–1968 (2012). Sung Chull Kim is Humanities Korea Professor of Peace Studies in the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University. Contributors 283 Before holding this position, he served as a senior fellow at Korea Institute for National Unification and a professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute. Kim has written widely on transitions in Asian socialist systems, domestic-regional linkages, and democratic transition. He is the author of North Korea under Kim Jong Il: From Consolidation to Systemic Dissonance (2006), the editor (with Edward Friedman) of Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces (2006...