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SUMMARY:State of Anxiety: Ongoing research on security and sovereign pract
 ices in Indonesia - Dr Laurens Bakker\, Faculty of Law\, University of Lei
 den
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CONTACT:Hubertus Juergenliemk
DESCRIPTION:Throughout Southeast Asia the burgeoning growth of sites of no
 n-state authority has been well documented.  Guerrilla movements\, civil m
 ilitias\, community organisations\, security groups and NGOs are just some
  of the many kinds of non state agents whose authority (locally) surpasses
  that of the state.  These groups have far-reaching control over their dom
 ains. They maintain significant political influence and are often entwined
  with local networks of criminality as well as with elements of the police
  and military. Common to these sites of informal or localised authority ar
 e familiar discourses of exclusion\, denial and territorial control. Ethni
 c and religious identities often define the contours of communal relations
  maintained by these groups. Custom and tradition\, frequently linked to t
 he issue of control of land and natural resources\, are offered as princip
 les of local governance and a countervailing force to the authority of sta
 te agents. A significant matter is that the authority of these groups rest
 s on their potential for violence\, not just its enactment. Are these alte
 rnate sites of authority echoes of the formal authoritative state structur
 es in which they are embedded? \nThe (im)balance between state and non-sta
 te authority in today’s Indonesia is the subject of a collaborative rese
 arch project carried out by Laurens Bakker (Radboud University Nijmegen) a
 nd Lee Wilson (Cambridge University).  The project\, a comparative ethnogr
 aphy of civil militia groups in four different locations with different et
 hnic and religious profiles in Kalimantan\, Sulawesi\, Bali and Java\, loo
 ks to examine the securitization of local governance in these field sites.
   In this presentation results will be presented from fieldwork carried ou
 t from June to August in two locations (East Kalimantan and North Sulawesi
 ) during the first phase of the project. Departing from theoretical concep
 ts of state control and sovereignty\, the paper focuses on the manifestati
 on of power in public and economic practice\, the place of human relations
 \, and on non-state authority as a modern form of (un)civil society. \n\nO
 liver Lewis\, POLIS\, will act as discussant.
LOCATION:Senior Common Room\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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