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"Creative State-Making" & Some (Un)intended Consequences of Islamization
« Creative State-Making » et quelques conséquences (im)prévues de l’islamisation
Surprising Trajectories in Islam, Gender & Politics in Southeast Asia
Trajectoires surprenantes de l’islam, genre et politique en Asie du Sud-Est
Published on Friday, October 04, 2019
Abstract
Islam in Southeast Asia has enjoyed a thriving trajectory in recent years. This is in large part attributable to various state-led Islamization movements that have succeeded in weaving the values and tenets of Islam into the very fabric of Muslims’ everyday life, thereby fortifying the power of the state that claims to embody the divine authority and immutability of Islam. But while the state imagines itself to be the legitimate (and only) “guardian” of Islam, its attempts to monopolize Islamic interpretations and institutions also – perhaps unintentionally – open up a more complex, discursive space that allows non-state actors to submit to, challenge, or appropriate and refashion various forms of symbolic state power, often in unpredictable ways.
Announcement
Presentation
Islam in Southeast Asia has enjoyed a thriving trajectory in recent years. This is in large part attributable to various state-led Islamization movements that have succeeded in weaving the values and tenets of Islam into the very fabric of Muslims’ everyday life, thereby fortifying the power of the state that claims to embody the divine authority and immutability of Islam. But while the state imagines itself to be the legitimate (and only) “guardian” of Islam, its attempts to monopolize Islamic interpretations and institutions also – perhaps unintentionally – open up a more complex, discursive space that allows non-state actors to submit to, challenge, or appropriate and refashion various forms of symbolic state power, often in unpredictable ways.
Inspired by an emerging anthropological focus on the bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia, this workshop aims to explore how states adopt policies that engender surprising consequences on the ground, and the dynamic ways in which non-state actors too engage in processes of “creative state-making” (Müller 2018). The contributors to this workshop will offer theoretical and ethnographic insights from Southeast Asia to illuminate the unpredictability – and limits – of state-making, how these are tied to an intensified state investment on the bureaucratization of Islam, and the ways in which this directly impacts the intimacies of everyday life for Muslims in Southeast Asia.
Workshop organised by Nurul Mohd Razif, International Institute for Asian studies Postdoctoral fellow.
Programme
Chair: Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux (Université de Rennes & CASE-EHESS)
10:00 - 10:15 Introduction
Panel I : “CreativeState-Making” in Southeast Asia
10:15 - 10:45| Dominik Müller (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)The Enabling Powers of Authoritarian Coercion: Transformative Appropriations of State-Islam in Brunei Darussalam
10:45 - 11:15| Nurul Huda Mohd Razif (Harvard Law School & Cambridge University)Intimate Escapes from the Law: State Abetments in Malay Cross-Border Marriages at the Malaysian-Thai Border
Break
11:30 - 12:00| David Kloos (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies) Women, Professional Expertise, and the Islamic State in Malaysia
12:00 - 13:00 Q & A
Break
Panel II : Southeast Asian Geopolitics in Uncertain Times
2:00 - 2:30| Tomáš Petrů (Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences)“Can We Afford This?” China as a Factor in Malaysia Baharu’s Politics
2:30 - 3:00| David Delfolie (IRASEC & InstitutPondok Perancis KL)
3:00 - 3:30 Q & A, comments, closing remarks
Subjects
- Ethnology, anthropology (Main category)
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Social anthropology
- Zones and regions > Asia > Southeast Asia
Places
- Salle BS1-28 - FMSH | 54, bd Raspail, Paris 6
Paris, France (75)
Date(s)
- Friday, October 18, 2019
Keywords
- Asie, genre, Islam, politique, Asie du Sud-Est
Contact(s)
- Gilles Desfeux
courriel : communication [at] msh-paris [dot] fr
Information source
- Gilles Desfeux
courriel : communication [at] msh-paris [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« "Creative State-Making" & Some (Un)intended Consequences of Islamization », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Friday, October 04, 2019, https://doi.org/10.58079/13jz
