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SUMMARY:(Un)making Southeast Asia’s Illiberal Order: Anti-Geopolitics and the Authoritarian Turn
LOCATION:Room 1.102
DESCRIPTION:The ‘disturbing phenomenon’ of ‘illiberal democracy’ (Zakaria 1
 997:42) – where nominal elections are held but the rule of law is to a grea
 ter or lesser extent suspended – is on the rise, not just in Southeast Asia
  but across the globe. From Poland to the Philippines, Brazil to Burma, the
  broad international sweep of these trends (e.g. Hangmann and Reyntjens 201
 6; Gonzales 2016; Chang, Zhu and Pak 2007) has provoked suggestions both wi
 thin the academic literature and popular discourse that we are now witnessi
 ng a ‘global authoritarian turn’ (Handel and Dayan 2017).\n\nThe scale of t
 his shift is certainly troublesome and warrants careful scrutiny of more ge
 neral antecedents. Nevertheless, the globalist language that has come to pe
 rvade the debate is unhelpful, presenting a totalising reading of authorita
 rian expansion as a process of top-down and often North- South diffusion. I
 n this reading, the influence of local geographies, histories and people fo
 r ushering, provoking, and refusing the trajectory of authoritarian change 
 is erased.\n\nIn defiance of this eviscerating imaginary, this panel welcom
 es contributions that tell alternative stories of the authoritarian turn, s
 ituated in the struggles of the subaltern and their resistance to practices
  of illiberal statecraft. We invite critical reflections on the ‘anti-geopo
 litics’ of the authoritarian turn, drawing on Routledge’s conceptualisation
  of counter-hegemonic skirmishes waged from outside the traditional positio
 ns and locations associated with geopolitics: that is, beyond sites of poli
 tical, economic, and cultural power and prestige.\n\nIndeed, beneath repres
 entations of Southeast as a subcontinent of smiles, yielding to the strictu
 res of authoritarian control, is an inured history of rebellion from below.
  This history resonates today in the struggles of Cambodia’s garment worker
 s, Thai land rights activism, and Malaysian women’s campaigns for political
  representation, among countless others; all waged in the face of state hos
 tility or outright repression. This panel will examine these grassroots cha
 llenges, elaborating a ‘geopolitics from below’ that presents contemporary 
 political change in Southeast Asia from the perspective of those engaged in
  resistance to the authoritarian state.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/un-making-southeast-asias-illiberal-order-anti-geopolitics-and-the-authoritarian-turn
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