Graham Brown

Dr. Graham Brown

Senior Lecturer, Economics and International Development

Department of Economics and International Development
University of Bath

Email: g.k.brown@bath.ac.uk

Telephone: +1225 384992

Research areas

Ethnic conflict, Indonesia, identity, Malaysia, social movements.

Current research

Separatist conflict in Southeast Asia;

Local elections and ethnic conflict in Indonesia;

A historical analysis of the emergence and development of ethnic identities in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia and Malaysia;

Islamic politics in Southeast Asia;

A study of the electoral process in Malaysia.

Recent publications

Articles

'Making ethnic citizens: The politics and practice of education in Malaysia', International Journal of Educational Development 27:3 (2007)

'The perils of terrorism: Chinese whispers, Kevin Bacon, and Al Qaeda in Southeast Asia - A review essay', Intelligence and National Security 21:1 (2006)

'The rough and rosy road: sites of contestation in Malaysia's shackled media industry', Pacific Affairs 78:1 (2005)

'Playing the (non)ethnic card: the electoral system and ethnic voting patterns in Malaysia', Ethnopolitics 4:4 (2005)

Book Chapters

"Cultural Status Inequalities: An Important Dimension of Group Mobilization" (with Arnim Langer), in Frances Stewart (ed.) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

"Approaches to the Measurement of Horizontal Inequalities" (with Luca Mancini and Frances Stewart), in Frances Stewart (ed.) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

"Horizontal Inequalities and Separatism in Southeast Asia: A Comparative Perspective", in Frances Stewart (ed.) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

"Major Findings and Conclusions on the Relationship Between Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict" (with Arnim Langer and Frances Stewart), in Frances Stewart (ed.) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

"Policies Towards Horizontal Inequalities" (with Arnim Langer and Frances Stewart), in Frances Stewart (ed.) Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict: Understanding Group Violence in Multiethnic Societies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

'Between Gramsci and graffiti: opposition politics and the impact of the internet in Malaysia', in Jason Abbott (ed.) The Political Economy of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific. London: Praeger (2004)

'Relative autonomy: politics in Sabah under Mahathir', in B. Welsh (ed.) Reflections: the Mahathir Years. Washington, DC: Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (2003)

'Opposition politics under Mahathir', in B. Welsh (ed.) Reflections: the Mahathir Years. Washington, DC: Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (2003)

'Stemming the tide: third world network and global governance', in O. S. Stokke and O. B. Thommessen (eds) Yearbook of International Co-operation on Environment and Development. London: Earthscan (2003)

Working and Policy Papers

CRISE Working Paper No. 42: Policies Towards Horizontal Inequalities (with Frances Stewart and Arnim Langer) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 41: Cultural status inequalities: An important dimension of group mobilization (with Arnim Langer) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 37: Bare-Chested Politics in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: The Dynamics of Local Elections in a 'Post'-Conflict Region (with Rachael Diprose) (2007)

CRISE Working Paper No. 36: The Implications of Horizontal Inequality for Aid (with Frances Stewart) (2006)

CRISE Working Paper No. 23: Making Ethic Citizens: The Politics and Practice of Education in Malaysia (2005)

CRISE Working Paper No. 21: Playing the (Non)Ethnic Card: The Electoral System and Ethnic Voting Patterns in Malaysia (2005)

CRISE Working Paper No. 20: Balancing the Risks of Corrective Surgery: the political economy of horizontal inequalities and the end of the New Economic Policy in Malaysia (2005)

CRISE Working Paper No. 19: Why Horizontal Inequalities Matter: Some Implications for Measurement (with Frances Stewart and Luca Mancini) (2005)

CRISE Working Paper No. 10: The Formation and Management of Political Identities: Indonesia and Malaysia Compared (2005)

Social Exclusion and Conflict: Analysis and policy implications (with Frances Stewart, Manuel Barrón and Marcia Hartwell) (2005)

Overcoming Violent Conflict, vol. 4: Peace and Development Analysis in Maluku and North Maluku, Jakarta: United Nations Development Programme Indonesia (2005)