Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia - Jurusan Antropologi ...

James Ockey is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Canterbury University in
Christchurch, New Zealand. He is currently doing research on ‘Hyde Park
Democracy’ in 1950s Thailand.
Michael Pinches is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of
Western Australia, Perth, and President of the Philippine Studies Association of
Australia. He has carried out extensive research on the Philippines, mainly
among workers in Manila and the Visayas. He is co-editor of Wage Labour and
Social Change: The proletariat in Asia and the Pacific (1987, 1992) and is
author of a number of articles on urbanisation, class, culture and politics in the
Philippines.
A.B.Shamsul is Professor of Social Anthropology and, currently, Dean,
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, at The National University of
Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia. He researches, teaches and writes extensively on
‘politics, culture and development’ in Southeast Asia, with an empirical focus on
Malaysia. His most well-known book is From British to Bumiputera Rule
(1986). He is currently completing a volume on ‘Identity Formation in Malaysia’.
Wendy Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Japanese Studies,
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her doctorate in anthropology
focused on Japanese management and industrial relations in a Malaysian-
Japanese joint venture. She has lived and researched in Japan for five years and
Malaysia for nine years. Her current research projects include Japanese
masculinity, the globalisation of Japanese new religions and the working lives
and temple management strategies of Japanese Buddhist priests.
Tan Joo Ean is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National
University of Singapore. Her current research focus is on the family in
Southeast Asia.
Ken Young is Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Asia Australia
Research Centre at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His
research has involved numerous periods in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore
and Malaysia. He is the author of Islamic Peasants and the State (1994), coeditor
of The Politics of Middle-Class Indonesia (1990), and is currently
preparing an edited volume on citizenship in Indonesia.
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