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Dr Vivienne Wee Tel :(852) 3442-6306 Room No. (Academic Building) : Y7523 Email : v.wee@cityu.edu.hk

Qualifications BA, BFA summa cum laude (University of Minnesota) MSocSc (University of Singapore) PhD (Australian National University) Teaching Introduction to East and Southeast Asia Islam, Gender and Nation-making in Asia Development Planning and Analysis Supervision of Final-year Directed Research Projects Research Interests Southeast Asia Anthropology Development Gender Religion The Politics of continuity and change Globalisation and resource competition Current Research Projects Political fault-lines in Southeast Asia: pre-modernist atavisms in post-colonial nation-states Identity, ethnohistory and resource competition in Indonesia Women's economic empowerment: local capacities in a global context Globalisation and women's health: challenges in a changing Asia Chinese religion in Singapore and Malaysia Publications (Selected List) Wee, V. and Lang, G. 2005. ‘Ethnic violence and the loss of state legitimacy: Burma and Indonesia in a context of post-colonial developmentalism’, in Saha, S. (ed), Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. Wee, V (ed). 2005. Political fragmentation in Southeast Asia: alternative nations in the making. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Wee, V. 2005. ‘Making alternative nations in existing nation-states: Southeast Asia in process’, in Wee, V (ed), Political fragmentation in Southeast Asia: alternative nations in the making. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Wee, V and Jacobsen, M. 2005. ‘Reassessing Project Indonesia: between endogenous aspirations and exogenous accommodations’, in Wee, V (ed), Political fragmentation in Southeast Asia: alternative nations in the making. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Wee, V and Sim, A. 2005. ‘Hong Kong as a destination for migrant domestic workers’. In Yeoh, B S A, Huang, S, Abdul Rahman N (eds), Asian women as transnational domestic workers. London and Singapore: Marshall Cavendish. Pages 155-189. Wee, V and Beatrix, Asma. 2005. ‘Citizenship: Southeast Asia’, in Joseph, Suad and Siapno, Jacqueline (eds), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden: Brill. Pages 5-9. Lang, G and Wee, V. 2004. ‘Fundamentalist ideology, institutions, and the state: a formal analysis’, in Santosh Saha (ed.), Religious fundamentalism in the contemporary world: critical social and political issues. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. Pages 47-70. WeeWee, V. 2003. ‘Islam, “Islamism” and the secular state in Asia’, Ex/Change 7, pages 10-16. WeeWee, V. 2002. ‘Ethno-nationalism in process: ethnicity, atavism and indigenism in Riau’, The Pacific Review 15(4), pages 497-516. Wee, Vivienne (ed.) (1999) Trade liberalisation: challenges and opportunities for women in Southeast Asia and beyond. Singapore: ENGENDER and New York: UNIFEM. Wee, Vivienne, & Davis, Gloria (1998) 'Religion', in Lynn Pan (ed), The Encyclopaedia of the Chinese Overseas. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre, Nanyang Technological University, pp. 80-83. Wee, Vivienne, & Chou, Cynthia (1997) 'Continuity and discontinuity in the multiple realities of Riau', Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde 153: 527-541. Wee, Vivienne, & Heyzer, Noeleen (1995) Gender, poverty and sustainable development: toward a holistic framework for understanding and action. Singapore: ENGENDER and New York: UNDP. (This book received a Commendation from the Singapore National Book Development Council in 1996.) Raja Hamzah Yunos, Vivienne Wee, Cynthia Chou Indigenous knowledge and the commodification of livelihood resources in the Growth Triangle.(in press) In Geoffrey Benjamin and Cynthia Chou (eds), Tribal communities in the Malay World: historical, social and cultural perspectives. Leiden: IIAS and Singapore: ISEAS

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