THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES 2001 ANNUAL REPORT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 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: Aubergines, Suva Municipal Markets, Fiji PhotographyBob Cooper Back cover: Market Seller, Suva Municipal Markets, Fiji PhotographyBob Cooper Printer: Pirie Printers, Canberra ACT ISSN 1442-1852 ii CONTENTS Director’s Report 1 Research of the School 15 Research highlights 38 Teaching innovations 43 Grants and consultancies 45 Prizes, honours and awards 50 Postgraduate Education and Research 53 Degrees awarded or conferred and thesis titles 53 Doctoral students and research topics 58 National visiting scholars 68 Summer research scholars 69 Collaborations and Outreach 71 Interactions with The Faculties and the Institute of Advanced Studies 71 Research collaborations with other universities or bodies 78 Involvement with professional bodies 92 Involvement with publishers 97 Involvement with government, industry and commerce 103 Conferences organised by members of the School 110 Invitations to speak at national and international conferences 115 Participation in national and international conferences 126 Social, cultural and community activities 136 Alumni and student recruitment activities 139 News and magazine contributions 140 Invited media commentaries 143 Publications 149 Staff List 199 Web sites 215 Acronyms 219 Index of Authors, Research Staff and their School Affiliations 227 iii RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC AND ASIAN STUDIES Director Professor James J Fox, AB(Harv), BLitt, DPhil(Oxf), KNAW (Kon Ned Akademie van Wetenschappen), FASSA Deputy Director Dr Darrell Tryon, MA(Cant), PhD(ANU) Business and Resources Manager Dr Katy Gillette School Secretary Mr Alick Dodd, BEc(Syd) Division of Economics Professor Warwick McKibbin, Convenor Division of Pacific and Asian History Professor Hank N Nelson, Convenor Division of Politics and International Relations Dr Ron J May, Convenor Division of Society and Environment Dr Darrell Tryon, Convenor 2001 Annual Report v DIRECTOR’S REPORT The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies is Australia’s pre-eminent national centre for research and advanced training on the Asia–Pacific region. It has a strong disciplinary base and broad regional coverage. Each of the School’s nine major academic disciplines — Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, History, Human Geography, International Relations, Linguistics, Political Science, and Strategic and Defence Studies — carries out its own research and has its own graduate training program linked to the University’s Graduate School. In addition, the research program of the School includes the work of three interdisciplinary projects — State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM); Resource Management in the Asia–Pacific (RMAP); and Gender Relations. As a result of over 50 years of continuing research and training, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies has an unparalleled network of academic and research relationships throughout the Asia–Pacific region. Disciplines, centres, projects and graduate programs are administratively organised into four Divisions: 1) Economics, 2) Pacific and Asian History, 3) Politics and International Relations, and 4) Society and Environment. Each Division has considerable autonomy and collegial responsibility for the direction of its research and training programs. The Director’s Section has a coordinating function and includes the Centre for Strategic and Defence Studies and the North Australia Research Unit (NARU). This year a consortium consisting of this Research School, the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies and the Australian Institute for Marine Science was awarded a grant of $3.25 million to establish a Major National Research Facility to be called the Arafura–Timor Research Facility. This facility will be located on the site of the School’s North Australia Research Unit in Darwin and will extend the capacity of the School to conduct research in coastal and maritime environments of the region. As Director, my task is to report on the work of the School as a whole and in particular on the directions that the School is pursuing. As appropriate, I begin by noting the School’s academic productivity. In 2001, members of the School produced 57 books and 140 book chapters. 2001 Annual Report 1 Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies Among books published this year, three are notable for their focus on major issues of global development and its relation to the region. Alan Dupont’s East Asia Imperilled: Transnational Challenges to Security presents a sweeping examination of the problems that now confront the region — ranging from deforestation, pollution and conflicts over water to transnational crime, people smuggling, drug trafficking and the AIDS pandemic — and the implications for the future of dealing with these problems. In another book that looks to the future of the region, Social Democracy in Australia’s Asian Future, Ross Garnaut has collected some of his most important papers and lectures to make a strong case for the policies needed to enhance Australia’s position in the region. When his book was reviewed in The Australian Financial Review, Ross Garnaut was referred to, rather appropriately, as ‘Australia’s Ambassador to the Neighbourhood’. Harold Brookfield’s Exploring Agrodiversity is another tour de force. It examines in detail the remarkable variety of innovations achieved by local farmers in small-scale agriculture in the region and around the world. It is the culmination of nearly a decade’s research carried out through the ‘People, Land and Environmental Change’ project (PLEC) supported by the United Nations University and the Global Environmental Facility. The British International Studies Association has awarded the BISA Prize for the best article published in 2001 in the Review of International Studies to Chris Reus-Smit for his article, ‘Human Rights and the Social Construction of Sovereignty’. Ben Kerkvliet was awarded the 2001 Philippine National Book Award for Biography for his chapter, ‘Manuela Santa Ana vda. de Maclang and Philippine politics’, in Lives at the Margin, edited by A W McCoy. Mardi Dungey was awarded the Australian Economics Society Prize for best paper in 2000 in the Economic Record for a paper she wrote jointly with Professor Adrian Pagan, ‘A Structural VAR of the Australian Economy’. The School produces an impressive number of international journals of long standing. This year the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies published its 37th volume; The Journal of Pacific History its 36th volume; The China Journal its 46th issue; and East Asian History its 22nd issue. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology published the second volume of its new series, after 22 volumes as Canberra Anthropology. The School’s newest publication, Conversations, produced a second volume of ‘occasional writing’ while the Quarterly Bulletin, now in its second year, has been particularly successful in reporting on the work of members of the School. 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 2 2001 Annual Report Director’s Report H E Dr C Rangarajan, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh and the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India; the Morrison Lecture by Professor Ezra Vogel, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard; and the Distinguished Pacific Lecture by the Hon. Fiame Mata’afa, Minister of Education in Samoa. This year the School hosted a succession of distinguished speakers from Indonesia. In September, the Indonesian political leader Professor Amien Rais, who headed an Indonesian parliamentary delegation to Australia, gave a special lecture. In November, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Hassan Wirajuda, also delivered a public address in the Coombs Theatre during his official visit to Australia. Both speakers were impressive in their impromptu responses to questions from the floor and it was their answers to these questions that were featured on national television. Khofifah Indar Parawansa, the Head of the Coordinating Board of Family Planning and the former Minister of Women’s Empowerment in the Abdurrahman Wahid government, gave the keynote address at the Indonesia Update and was equally spirited in her answers to questions. The theme of the Update was ‘Gender, Equity and Development in Indonesia’s Reform Period’. In addition to the Indonesia Update, which this year, as in the past, was attended by several hundred participants, the School hosted a wide array of conferences and workshops. The Australia South Asia Research Centre held an international conference on ‘Ten Years of Economic Reforms in India’; the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora sponsored a major conference on ‘Migrating Identities: Ethnic Minorities in the Chinese Diaspora’ while the Contemporary China Centre hosted the ‘Biennial Conference of the Association of China Studies of Australia’. The Resource Management in Asia–Pacific Program held a conference on ‘Resource Tenure, Forest Management and Conflict Resolution: Perspectives from Borneo and New Guinea’. One feature of this