Vale Emeritus Professor Harold Crouch

Emeritus Professor Harold Crouch, who died on 27 August 2023, was an eminent scholar of Indonesian and Malaysian politics, and of Southeast Asia generally.

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Emeritus Professor Harold Crouch

Value Resistance in Times of Autocratisation in Southeast Asia

Department of Political and Social Change Seminar Series

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The ANU Department of Political and Social Change is a leading centre for the study of Asian politics and society. We have considerable depth of expertise on the political and social dynamics of the countries of Asia, in particular Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Korea and China, including the highest concentration of academic staff and PhD students specialising in Indonesian politics outside of Indonesia itself. Academic specialisations include democratisation, national and local politics, gender, conflict and conflict resolution, religious politics and political theory.

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Anita Chan

Anita Chan

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Anita Chan was born and educated in Hong Kong. She received her first degree at the University of Hong Kong and Masters degrees at York University (Toronto) and the School of Oriental and...

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Thearith Leng

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Dr. Thearith Leng is currently a visiting fellow at the Department of Political and Social Changes of the Australian National University (ANU). He has concurrently served as the director of the Mekong...

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Marcus Mietzner

I have been interested in the politics of Indonesia since my first visit to Jakarta as a teenager in 1986. While pursuing an MA degree at Goethe University in Frankfurt in the mid-1990s, I spent one year in Ambon to...

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Paul Hutchcroft

Paul Hutchcroft is a scholar of comparative and Southeast Asian politics who has written extensively on Philippine politics and political economy. He is Professor of Political and Social Change at the ANU Coral Bell...

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Eve Warburton

Eve Warburton’s research is concerned broadly with problems of representation and governance in young and developing democracies, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular. A fundamental...

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The ANU Department of Political and Social Change is a leading centre for the study of Asian politics and society. We have considerable depth of expertise on the political and social dynamics of Indonesia and China, including the highest concentration of academic staff and PhD students specialising in Indonesian politics outside of Indonesia itself.

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