BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2019//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2019 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260422T132500 UID:women-and-politics-in-southeast-asia-navigating-a-mans-world SUMMARY:Women and Politics in Southeast Asia: Navigating a Man’s World LOCATION:Room 1.102 DESCRIPTION:This panel intends to combine the book launch of the edited vol ume “Women and politics in Southeast Asia: navigating a man’s world” (by Th eresa W. Devasahayam, Portland, Oregon: Sussex Academic Press, Series: The Sussex Library of Asian and Asian American Studies, 2019) with a discussion on three distinct Southeast Asian case studies of androcentric politics, n amely Burma/Myanmar, Singapore and Indonesia. It is well known that politic s is a male- dominated realm constructed as a male preserve and that women are never “admitted as full and equal members of most polities”, particular ly in the case of formal party politics (Fagan and Munck 1997, 103). The co mplex terrain of formal party politics and women’s experiences in this aren a has led to a wave of studies offering a glimpse into the different facets of women’s engagement or, for that matter, disengagement in the political domain. The book to be launched as well as the conference panel presentatio ns contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia by e xploring how women navigate the power structures embedded in a male-dominat ed realm. As in much of the literature on the subject, politics encompasses processes, events, and activities pertaining to the governance of a countr y or area related to government, parliament, parties and generally the stat e that regulate public life. While the book acknowledges that there has bee n a growing literature on the role of women in politics in Southeast Asia, there is far less research which analyses in detail the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes. This is a gap that deserves to be addresse d. In keeping with this aim, we attempt to highlight the “contextually spec ific ways in which politics constructs gender and gender constructs politic s” (Waylen 1998, 1). In regards to gender relations, it must be recognized that Southeast Asia is unique in one respect – women in this region, relati ve to their sisters in other parts of Asia, enjoy considerable power and au tonomy (Dube 1997; Raybeck 1980/1981, 1992; Stivens 1996; Stoler 1977; Stra nge 1981; Sullivan 1994; Wolf 1990, 1992; Wazir Jahan Karim1992). But does this power and autonomy Southeast Asian women hold translate into greater e ngagement in politics for them? For this purpose, we present the three case studies, investigating the:\n\n- opposition politician-turned-de facto hea d of government Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma/Myanmar in a context of androcent ric transition politics at the backdrop of a long-ruling military regime;\n - competing realities and gender roles negotiations of female candidates in Singapore, having to negotiate a “triple burden” when entering politics at the backdrop of a socio-political patriarchal reality, with blurred lines between public and private patriarchy and the challenges it generates;\n- t he gender-specific barriers that female members of a matriarchal community face in Indonesia when negotiating regional- and national-level androcentri c politics and gender roles prescriptions; thus in an arena which exacerbat es or inhibits by its setup and dynamics the transfer and employment of oth erwise accumulated power and capital. URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/women-and-politics-in-southeast-asia-navigating-a-mans-world DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190911T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190911T150000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR