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2002 AR Paste up Part A THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES 2002 ANNUAL REPORT Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Telephone 02 6125 2183 (or 61 2 6125 2183) Fax 02 6125 1893 (or 61 2 6125 1893) http://rspas.anu.edu.au/ Production: Pandanus Books Publishing, Imaging and Cartographic Services Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Front cover: Shrine Lanterns, Kasuga Taisha Shrine, Nara, Japan. Photography Darren Boyd Back cover: Isuien Garden, Nara, Japan. Photography Darren Boyd Printer: CanPrint Printers, Canberra ACT ISSN 1442-1852 CONTENTS Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Director’s Report page 1 Executive staff lists page 7 Grants and consultancies page 8 Administrative staff lists page 11 RSPAS General Staff Development Awards page 12 Division of Economics page 13 The Australia South Asia Research Centre The Indonesia Project The Poverty Research Centre Division of Pacific and Asian History page 41 Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora Centre for the Contemporary Pacific Division of Politics and International Relations page 65 Department of International Relations Department of Political and Social Change Graduate Studies in International Affairs Program Division of Society and Environment page 93 Department of Anthropology Department of Archaeology and Natural History Department of Human Geography Department of Linguistics Centre for Archaeological Research Centre for Research on Language Change Contemporary China Centre Gender Relations Centre Transformation of Communist Systems Project United Nations University Project on People, Land and Environmental Change Non-Divisional Groups page 143 Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project Director’s Section page 161 Internet Publications Bureau Pacific Manuscripts Bureau Publishing, Imaging and Cartographic Services Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Acronyms page 181 Web sites page 185 Index (research staff and their School affiliations) page 187 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002 Annual Report iii RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies DIRECTOR’S REPORT Professor James J Fox The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies is one of the founding Schools of the Institute of Advanced Studies at The Australian National University. It was created with a vision that recognized the importance of the Asia–Pacific region to the future of Australia. For the past fifty years, the School has endeavoured to fulfil that vision as Australia’s pre-eminent centre for research and advanced academic training on the region. The School maintains a research focus on three priority areas of the Asia–Pacific region: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Important research is also conducted on South Asia and on northern Australia. Through its continuing research and training, the School has created and fostered an unparalleled network of academic and research relationships throughout the Asia Pacific region. The School supports research in nine major disciplines: Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, History, Human Geography, International Relations, Linguistics, Political Science and Strategic and Defence Studies. Each of these disciplines carries out its own focused research, has its own academic training program and hosts both national and international visitors. The School is administratively organized into four Divisions: 1) Economics, 2) Pacific and Asian History, 3) Politics and International Relations and 4) Society and Environment plus a Director’s Section. In addition to its academic disciplines, the School has a variety of centres and projects, which for administrative purposes are also attached to particular Divisions. This configuration of academic disciplines, centres and projects is intended to promote a range of research that is both disciplinary and interdisciplinary. As a whole, it represents one of the largest concentrations of expertise on the Asia–Pacific region in the world. The School’s academic areas, and most of its centres and projects, hold weekly research seminars. These seminars provide the venue for the presentation and discussion of on-going scholarly research across the University. In addition, the School hosts a variety of conferences during the year and supports several distinguished public lecture series as well as ‘Updates’ on countries in the region. Publications and Special Lectures The research achievements of the School are reflected in the number and diversity of the publications of its staff. In 2002, members of the School produced 62 books and monographs and 185 book chapters, 253 journal articles, 43 working papers, 15 conference proceedings articles, 16 reports, 62 book reviews, 3 forewords, 3 obituaries, 51 microfilms/audio CD titles and 74 newspaper and magazine articles. It is worth citing a few of the important books published during the year to give some idea of the diversity of research within the School. This year the Linguistics Department saw the publication of a major contribution to Austronesian linguistics in a volume entitled The Oceanic Languages. This important reference volume of over 900 pages analyses 40 Oceanic languages. It was produced by Dr Malcolm Ross in cooperation with a number of his close collaborators and confirms the Department’s position as a world centre on Austronesian linguistics. For international relations, the publication of Heather Rae’s State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples in Cambridge University Press’ prestigious series on international relations gives excellent evidence of the Department’s noted status for new and innovative research in the field. In Economics, the publication of Professor Warwick McKibbin’s Climate Change Policy after Kyoto, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002 Annual Report 1 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies written with long-standing collaborator, Professor Peter Wilcoxen, represents a formidable contribution to the current debate over Kyoto. For Pacific and Asian History, the publication of Professor Hank Nelson’s Chased by the Sun, which deals with Australian fighter pilots in the Second World War and Professor Geremie Barmé’s An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975) on a notable figure in Chinese cultural life, exemplify the remarkable range of interests within the Division. Included in the School’s publications program are a range of publications by Pandanus Books, Pacific Linguistics and the local production of five international journals of long standing: 1) Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 2) The Journal of Pacific History, 3) The China Journal, 4) East Asian History and 5) The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. Journal Citation Report, which ranks journals by country of origin, has ranked The China Journal No. 1, and The Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies No. 2 among all social science and professional journals produced in Australia in 2002. Among area studies journals, The China Journal is ranked No. 1 in the world. Increasingly, however, publications must be seen in a wider electronic context. The Internet Publications Bureau within the Director’s Section maintains the Coombsweb, which includes the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library, Coombspapers – ANU Social Sciences Anon, FTP Archives and the RSPAS electronic mailing lists. The Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, which has been in operation since 1968 to preserve archives and manuscripts on the Pacific Islands, distributed 109 reels of microfilm and 35 audio CDs to its international consortium members. Pacific and Asian History began ‘Papuaweb’ in cooperation with The State University of Papua in Manokwari and Cenderawasih University in Jayapura as a site for both contemporary as well as archive information on Papua. In both Jakarta and Canberra, the Indonesia Project launched a searchable CD Rom edition of past issues of the Bulletin of Indonesian Studies. All of these efforts are part of the global communications in which the School is heavily involved. Each year the School hosts a number of public lectures. This year was notable for its array of distinguished speakers. The Narayanan Lecture was given by Professor Lord Meghnad Desai of the London School of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance; the Morrison Lecture by Dr Anita Chan; and the Jack Golson Lecture by Professor Richard Bradley of Reading University. Under the sponsorship of the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, two members of the School, Professor Paul Dibb and Professor Atholl Anderson gave special public lectures on behalf of the University. Staff, Students and Visitors In any one year, there is continual coming and going of academic staff within the School. In 2002, 10 academics, who were offered appointments in 2001, took up those positions. In addition, the School made 21 appointments in 2002, two of which extended existing contracts. Nine of the remaining 19 appointments were offered to women. Several of these positions were funded from external sources, particularly the Australian Research Council. Of the new offers, 14 were taken up in 2002. Thus by the end of the year, the School had 88 full-time academic staff. This increase from 70 academic staff in 1998 has been part of a process of planned renewal within the School. For the next two years during
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