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Notes on contributors
Hans Antlöv is a programme officer at the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and
former director of the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Göteborg
University, Sweden. He has written on cultural constructions of leadership,
nationalism, revolution and democracy in Indonesia and other parts of
Southeast Asia. His main works include Exemplary Centre, Administrative
Periphery: Leadership and the New Order in Rural Java (1995) and Mosaic of
Nations: Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaya, 1945—1950 (forthcoming, co-author).
Christopher Buckley is a Ph.D. student at the Contemporary China Centre,
RSPAS, Australian National University, and is presently teaching at Peking
University, Beijing, China.
Chua Beng Huat is currently Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology, National University of Singapore. His recent publications include
Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (1995) and Political
Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore (1997). His current
research interest is in comparative cultural studies in Asia. He is also a frequent
commentator on social and political developments in Singapore in public media.
Ariel Heryanto lectures at the Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National
University of Singapore. Previously he was a lecturer in the Postgraduate
Program, Development Studies at Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana,
Indonesia. He is the author of Language of Development and Development of
Language (1995), edited Perdebatan Sastra Kontekstual (1985), and has
contributed chapters for several volumes, articles for journals, and columns for
newspapers and magazines.
Salim Lakha is an honorary research fellow with the National Centre for
South Asian Studies in Melbourne and he teaches in Economic History at
Monash University. Prior to that he was a senior lecturer in Politics at
Swinburne University of Technology. His research and teaching interests
include globalisation, diasporic studies, political economy of development, and
urbanisation. His regional areas of expertise are India and Pakistan. He is the
author of Capitalism and Class in Colonial India: The Case of
Ahmedabad (1988) and co-editor of Wage Labour and Social Change: The
proletariat in Asia and the Pacific (1987, 1992).