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Optional reading
Graezer Bideau, F. and Kilani M. (2012). “Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and making heritage in
Malaysia. A view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca”, International Journal of Heritage
Studies, Vol. 18, n° 6, pp. 605-623.
Ku, A. (2012). “Remaking places and fashioning an opposition discourse: struggle over the Star Ferry
pier and the Queen’s pier in Hong Kong,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 30, no.1,
pp. 5-22.
Thursday 18 July
Multiculturalism
09:00 >12:30 Multiculturalism in Southeast Asia
Chua Beng Huat
As postcolonial countries, all Southeast Asian countries are multi-ethnic or multiracial
at the point of independence from colonial regimes. Furthermore, race is
often closely linked to religion, for example, Indians and Hinduism. Such post
colonial countries are thus states which contain many ethno-nations and in constant
threat of fragmentation along racial or ethnic lines. This contrasts with the
European conception of the nation-state which presumes an ethnically and linguistically
homogeneous population. The new nations have been compelled to develop
different strategies in the management of race and religion, developed under different
models of “multiculturalism”. This lecture will discuss the different strategies
adopted in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
12:30 >13:30 Lunch break
13:30 >15:00 Student presentations (first round)
15:00 >17:00 12 Storeys
(movie by Eric Khoo, Singapore, 1997, 105 min.)
Viewing and discussing
18:00 >19:30 Optional movie: Paan Singh Tomar
(movie by Tigmanshu Dhukia, India, 2010, 75 min.)
Compulsory reading
Kymlicka, W. and He B. (2005). “Liberal Multiculturalism: Western Models, Global Trends, and Asian
Debates”. In Multiculturalism in Asia, Chapter 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 22-55.
Optional reading
Chua, Beng Huat. (2007). “Political Culturalism, Representation and the People’s Action Party of
Singapore”, Democratization, vol. 14, n° 5, pp. 911-927.
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