Asian Studies Partnership:
Business and Economic Relationships with Asia
Since the Asian Economic Crisis

Institution:  Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University
Bibliographers: Hao Phan, Chalermsee Olson
Collection Focus:  
Peace, Politics, and Religious and Cultural Studies in Southeast Asia

Northern Illinois University will collect resources that will support instruction and research in the fields of politics and government, religions, and religious and peace movements in Southeast Asian countries.  For politics and government, the resources will cover more recent period which is the past ten years up to present time. The contents of the materials will also include the foreign relations between these Southeast Asian countries and the United States and other countries especially in the Pacific-rim areas.  The contents in the religious studies will focus on Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity, which are the main religions in the area.  The sources cover the relationship of those religions and how religions are used in politics, political conflicts, and peace movements as well. These materials will enhance Southeast Asian and Pacific-rim programs and comparative studies across social sciences and part of humanities disciplines.

Rationale:

The Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Collection was established in 1964 to primarily support teaching and research for Southeast Asia programs in various disciplines, such as political science, history, anthropology, languages and literature, and arts.  The Collection is also very essential to the two globally well known research centers: the Center for Southeast Asia Studies and the Center for Burma Studies.  Included in this major library collection are books, documents, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other materials published in, or concerning, the countries of Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the social sciences, the humanities, and arts. Nearly all countries and ethnic groups of Southeast Asia are represented in library holdings as well.

In the past five years, courses have been created or modified in History, Anthropology, and Political Science departments to focus more on religions, politics, and peace movements in the region, such as Islam in Southeast Asia and Contemporary Topics in Political Science: Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia.  One research project conducted has been related to political conflicts and peace in Mindanao, Philippines. Acquiring related resources to these new trends will be essential not just to the programs at Northern Illinois University but to other institutions in Illinois as well. 


Titles ordered:

Askew, Marc. Performing Political Identity: the Democrat Party in Southern Thailand. Chiang Mai, Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2008.

Buijs, Kees. Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven: Structure and Transformations in the Religion of the Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi. Leiden : KITLV Press, 2006.

Burma in Turmoil. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2008.

Callahan, Mary P. Political Authority in Burma's Ethnic Minority States: Devolution, Occupation and Coexistence. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington, 2007.

Chain of Kings: the Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Talloq. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007.

Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region.Chiang Mai, Thailand: Mekong Press, 2008.

Clothey, Fred W. Ritualizing on the Boundaries: Continuity and Innovation in the Tamil Diaspora. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. 

Conceicao, J. F. Singapore and the Many-headed Monster: a Look at Racial Riots Against a Socio-historical Ground. Singapore: Horizon Books, 2007.

Democracy in Indonesia: the Challenge of Consolidation. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2007.

Derks, Annuska. Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008.

Drexler, Elizabeth F. Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Dynamics of Regional Development: the Philippines in East Asia. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Economics and Geopolitics of Indonesia. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007.

Falk, Monica Lindberg. Making Fields of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics and Gendered Orders in Thailand. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007

Geopolitics of East and Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Hasan, Noorhaidi. Laskar Jihad: Islam, Militancy, and the Quest for Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2006.

Handbook of Terrorism and Insurgency in Southeast Asia. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007.

Hazra, Kanai Lal. Indonesia: Political History and Hindu, and Buddhist Cultural Influences. New Delhi: Decent Books, 2007.

Howell, Brian M. Christianity in Local Context Southern Baptists in the Philippines. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Indonesian Islam in a New Era: How Women Negotiate Their Muslim Identities. Clayton: Monash University Press, 2008.

Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Asia. New York: Kegan Paul, 2007.

Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008.

Jacq-Hergoualc'h, Michel. Armies of Angkor: Military Structure and Weaponry of the Khmers.Bangkok. Thailand: Orchid Press, 2007.

Kramer, Tom. United Wa State Party: Narco-army or Ethnic Nationalist Party? Washington, DC: East-West Center Washington, 2007.

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007.

Lewis, Glen. Virtual Thailand: the Media and Cultural Politics in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Liow, Joseph Chin Yong. Muslim Resistance in Southern Thailand and Southern Philippines: Religion, Ideology, and Politics. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center, 2006.

Oo, Zaw and Win Min. Assessing Burma's Ceasefire Accords. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington, 2007.

Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies. Boston: Brill, 2008.

Politics of Death: Political Violence in Southeast Asia. Munster: Li, 2006.

Rehbein, Boike. Globalization, Culture and Society in Laos. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia: Essays on State, Society, and Public Creeds. Washington, D.C.: Southeast Asia Studies Program, 2006.

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: a History of AWARE and the Women's Movement in Singapore. Singapore: Association of Women for Action and Research, 2007.

Smith, Martin. State of Strife: the Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict in Burma. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington, 2007.

Soonthornpoct, Punnee. From Freedom to Hell: a History of Foreign Intervention in Cambodian Politics and Wars. New York: Vantage Press, 2005.

Spirited Politics: Religion and Public Life in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005.

Thanet Aphonsuwan. Rebellion in Southern Thailand: Contending Histories. Washington, D.C.: East-West Center Washington, 2007.

Tong, Chee Kiong. Rationalizing Religion: Religious Conversion, Revivalism and Competition in Singapore Society. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Veen, Rianne ten. Myanmar's Muslims: the Oppressed of the Oppressed. Wembley: Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2005.

Widyono, Benny. Dancing in Shadows: Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. 

Wiegele, Katharine L. Investing in Miracles: El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Wilson, Chris. Ethno-religious Violence in Indonesia: from Soil to God. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Yoder, Lawrence M. Muria Story: a History of the Chinese Mennonite Churches of Indonesia. Kitchener, Ont.: Pandora Press, 2006.