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SUMMARY:Sub-National Conflict, Clientelism and State Formation
LOCATION:Room 1.201
DESCRIPTION:Sub-national conflict and clientelist politics are widely ackno
 wledged as significant obstacles to development and stability across South 
 East Asia. Apart from separatist movements in southern Thailand and Myanmar
 , a number of sporadic, highly localised but endemic conflicts smoulder acr
 oss the region, ranging from clan feuds in the Philippines, inter-village c
 onflict in East Timor and the localised feuds in Indonesia sometimes referr
 ed to as tawuran. These low-level conflicts are often driven by local issue
 s such as land or water disputes or inter-family tensions, yet may assume t
 he appearance of broader narratives such as religion, ethnicity and politic
 al party rivalry. Dominant state centric portrayals of this conflict across
  the region commonly draw on reductive local/national or state presence/sta
 te absence dichotomies. Such scholarship rarely directly engages with the s
 tructure of political orders, the multiplicity of agents involved in violen
 ce and the presence of dynamic, subnational political relationships that gi
 ve rise to distinct and recurring conflicts. At the same time, while it is 
 often acknowledged that clientelist politics can lead to conflict, such as 
 electoral violence, clientelist literature rarely directly engages with con
 flict. An emerging sub-national politics perspective, however, sees both co
 nflict and clientelism as closely connected. This perspective, informed by 
 political geography, explicitly interprets statehood and governance as a fu
 nction of social relationships. Variations in informal governance and confl
 ict intersect through competition over local power, state consolidation and
  political order. While a state might have low capacity or be ineffectual i
 n terms of monopolising violence, they may nonetheless draw on a variety of
  sub-national alliances with non-state actors to organise communities polit
 ically or mobilise for violence. These non-state actors may in turn leverag
 e these alliances for jobs, public goods or development assistance. Through
  this framework, conflict can be viewed as an integral process in state for
 mation.\n\nThis panel convenes scholars working across the different scales
  and types of conflict, clientelist practices and governance in South East 
 Asia. The aim is to compare and contrast the different ways in which sub-na
 tional conflict and actors articulate with national level formal and inform
 al politics and actors. It seeks to answer the key questions of:\n\n- What 
 are the links between clientelist politics and conflict?\n- How are local-l
 evel conflicts linked to broader national narratives?\n- What is the role o
 f sub-national actors in these conflicts?\n
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/sub-national-conflict-clientelism-and-state-formation
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