[Publication] Péninsule - Religions du Vietnam (XVIIIe-XXIe s.).

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RELIGIONS DU VIETNAM (XVIIIe-XXIe SIÈCLES)
Ésotérisme traditionnel et nouvel occultisme
Numéro coordonné par  Pascal Bourdeaux et Jérémy Jammes
Péninsule, 60, décembre 2010, 305 p.

1- Traces et rémanences des anciens réseaux ésotériques

• François THIERRY, "Les amulettes ésotériques du Vietnam, écritures et protection".
• Georges BOUDAREL (1926-2003), "Sociétés secrètes et/ou sociétés à secret, dynamiques de la dissidence et du conformisme dans le Vietnam traditionnel".
• Paul SORRENTINO, "Maîtres et disciples dans le delta du fleuve Rouge, note de terrain sur les thầy cúng".

2- Les nouveaux réseaux occultistes

• Jean Pierre LAURANT, Pascal BOURDEAUX et Jérémy JAMMES (entretien), Autour de « Mat Gioi » le passeur et l’empreinte des écrits occultistes du comte de Pouvourville en France et au Vietnam.
• Jérémy JAMMES, "Thông thiên học ou la Société Théosophique au Sud du Vietnam, rôle et impact d’une association occultiste internationale dans l’univers du croire vietnamien".
• Pascal BOURDEAUX, "La revue France-Asie (1946-1974), un regard post-colonial sur la « synthèse culturelle »".
• Janet HOSKINS, "Derrière le voile de l’Oeil céleste : le rôle des apparitions dans l’expansion du caodaïsme".
• Markus SCHLECKER et Kirsten ENDRES, "« Psychic », Science et Vérité dans le Vietnam d’après-guerre".

Compte rendus

• "Guerre, fantômes et possession dans le Vietnam contemporain." Par Paul Sorrentino, Heonik Kwon, Ghosts of War in Vietnam, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 222 p.; Mai Lan Gustafsson, War and Shadows, Ithaca et Londres, Cornell University Press, 2009, 206 p.

• "Ethnographies religieuses du Vietnam contemporain." Par Nicolas Lainez et Jérémy Jammes, Philip TAYLOR (ed.), Modernity and Re-enchantment. Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam, Singapore , Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Vietnam Update Series, 2007, 491p.

Les deux comptes rendus du numéro peuvent être téléchargés directement sur le site de la revue Péninsule, ainsi qu'un certain nombre d'articles publiés précédemment.

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[Emploi] Postdoc level scientist (India) | NIAS

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The National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) is a multidisciplinary research institute located in Bangalore, India. We are searching for a postdoctoral level social scientist to work in our research programme entitled :

Provincial Globalisation : The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India Regional Towns

This is an international collaborative programme of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam (UvA), and NIAS. The five-year research programme explores processes of globalisation at the regional level by mapping transnational networks and flows of resources connecting migrants with their home regions, and the influence of these transfers on local political, economic, and social-cultural structures and processes.

Eligibility
The selected researcher will design and carry out an independent project on transnational migration and resource flows from migrants. Candidates should have finished the PhD degree in any social science (except economics), preferably with specialisation in migration, transnational, and/or development studies. The successful candidate will have strong analytical skills, a sound conceptual/ theoretical grounding in his/ her discipline, the ability to utilise and combine diverse data sources at different scales, and excellent writing and organisational skills. The postdoctoral researcher will work in an international multidisciplinary team that includes specialisations in anthropology, sociology and economics. This is a full-time two-year position based at NIAS. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Application
Applicants should submit their curriculum vitae including the names and addresses of three referees, a sample of published work, and a brief research proposal (3-5 pages) based on the detailed outline of the research programme, which will be sent to applicants upon enquiry.

Deadline for applications is January 31, 2011.

Contact
Interested candidates may write to :
Prof. Carol Upadhya
School of Social Sciences
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus
Bangalore 560012 India 

www.aissr.uva.nl/aissr_about/...

[Publication] Irasec-Observatory / Occasional Paper n°03.

Informal and illegal movement in the upper greater mekong subregion
Costs and benefits of informal networks for goods and people
by Lynn Thiesmeyer

Irasec-Observatory, Occasional Paper 03, November 2010, 144 pages.
ISBN: 978-616-90282-8-4
Downloadable for Free.

Cross-border migration and trafficking are, once again, the focus of intense scrutiny in Southeast Asia. There is a very rapidly increasing number and frequency of informally and illegally migrating persons and the goods they transport and consume. The area of the present research, undertaken during 2009, is currently known as the Quadrangle (Quadripartite) Economic Cooperation Zone, or the Golden Quadrangle. It has been targeted as a special economic cooperation zone, comprising Yunnan Province of China, Luang Nam Tha Province of Northern Laos, Shan State of Northern Myanmar, and Chiang Rai Province of Northern Thailand. The scope of this localisation of small-scale manufacturing and production, and of its logistics—cross-border informal and illegal transport—is vast. The goods surveyed in this research were agriculture products, including herbicides, fertilisers, and pesticides whose contents were unknown or clearly toxic beyond the regionally-agreed standard; there is special reference to illegal logging and timber trafficking from the same regions.  The research team consisted of five individuals: the present author, an environmental chemist from Japan, one environmental chemist from Taiwan, a social scientist from Taiwan, and an economist from Myanmar.

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[Publication] The trade human beings for sex in Southeast Asia.

A General Statement of Prostitution and Trafficked Women and Children
(Le commerce des êtres humains pour exploitation sexuelle en Asie du Sud-Est
Un état des lieux général sur la prostitution et le trafic des femmes et des enfants)

Pierre LE ROUX, Jean BAFFIE and Gilles BEULLIER - Editors

(sous la direction de) Foreword by Prof. Marco Scarpati - Barrister at the Supreme Court, Italy
(sous la direction de) Foreword by Professor of International Child Protection Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca
(sous la direction de) Foreword by President of ECPAT Italy (“End Child Prostitution, Abuse and Trafficking”)

Introduction by Dr. Pierre Le Roux - Social Anthropologist, Specialist in Southeast Asian issues, France
Postface by Dr. Thomas Steinfatt - Professor at the University of Miami’s School of Communication (Florida, USA) 

Postface by Specialist in International and Intercultural Health Communication - Expert on trafficking in persons

Abstract
The Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia brings together 28 senior scholars and experts hailing from all over the world in various disciplines: Ethnology and Social Anthropology, Sociology, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Psycho-Criminology, Medicine, Law, Economics, History, as well as Humanitarian assistance to give a general statement on slavery, prostitution and trafficking in persons in this region. In recent years, prostitution and trafficking in women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation have been steadily increasing at an alarmig rate. Underlying reasons are not only the ongoing process of globalization and the lagging behind of the concerned emerging economies, but also a number of cultural factors specific to this region. The problem’s background in given in Part 1: A look at the past; Part 2 provides the data from field studies in human trafficking and prostitution; Part 3 deals with additional related problems and suggests possible responses. An indispensable work covering all aspects of this complex problem and proffering suggestions to deal with it.(Résumé : The Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia réunit vingt-huit chercheurs et experts chevronnés du monde entier dans différentes disciplines : ethnologie et anthropologie sociale, sociologie, géographie, sciences politiques, psychologie, psycho-criminologie, médecine, droit, économie, histoire, et aide humanitaire, pour proposer un état des lieux général sur l'esclavage, la prostitution et le trafic des personnes dans cette région. Depuis quelques années, la prostitution et le trafic des femmes et des enfants à fins d'exploitation sexuelle y ont augmenté de façon constante à un rythme alarmant. Les raisons profondes n'en sont pas seulement le processus de mondialisation en cours ni le retard économique des nations émergentes concernées, mais aussi un certain nombre de facteurs culturels caractéristiques de cette région. La première partie décrit la toile de fond du problème : "Regard sur le passé" ; la deuxième expose les données issues d'études de terrain sur le trafic de personnes et la prostitution ; et la troisième s'intéresse à d'autres questions connexes et propose des réponses possibles. Cet ouvrage indispensable couvre tous les aspects de ce problème complexe et suggère des solutions pour l'affronter.)

a joint publication of : White Lotus Press (Thailand),

the French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia-IRASEC (Bangkok, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs-MAEE and French National Centre for Scientific Research-CNRS),
and the Spanish Philanthropic and Humanitarian Foundation ANESVAD

This book is published with a financial support of : the ANESVAD Foundation,
and the French Observatory on Illicit Trafficking based within the French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC).

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Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP - NEW BRIEFING
Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT)

Brussels/Jakarta, 6 July 2010 : Divisions and ideological debates generated by Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT), an organisation founded by Indonesia’s best-known radical cleric, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, show the weakness of Indonesia’s jihadi movement.
Indonesia: The Dark Side of Jama’ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT),* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the many facets of JAT, an ostensibly above-ground organisation whose inner circle has had and continues to have ties to fugitive extremists. It has been in the spotlight since May when three of its officials were accused of helping finance a terrorist training camp in Aceh.
“JAT has a public face, advocating full implementation of Islamic law, condemning democracy as illegitimate and preaching jihad”, says Sidney Jones, Crisis Group’s Senior Adviser. “That face gives ‘plausible deniability’ to the involvement of senior JAT officials in more covert activities”. She notes that Lutfi Haedaroh alias Ubeid, arrested while fleeing the Aceh camp, was on JAT’s executive council.
JAT was founded in 2008 as a vehicle for Abu Bakar Ba’asyir’s absolute leadership. In fact Ba’asyir’s insistence on full decision-making authority within JAT makes it unlikely that involvement of senior officials in clandestine activities could have taken place without his approval. The briefing examines JAT’s structure and ideology and analyses the disputes that have erupted between JAT and other radical organisations, including Jema’ah Islamiyah (JI), exemplifying not only the fractures in the jihadi movement but also Ba’asyir’s own declining influence.
There is no indication that violent extremism is gaining ground in Indonesia, even though the constant shifting and realignment of groups will undoubtedly produce more terrorist plots in the future. “We are seeing the same old faces finding new packages for old goods”, says Jim Della-Giacoma, South East Asia Project Director. “Recruitment continues, but there’s more community pushback”. Ba’asyir was refused permission by the local Islamic council to speak in Banten province last month.
The truth is that the jihadi project in Indonesia has failed. The far bigger challenge for the country is to manage the aspirations of those who joined JAT for its public, non-violent message: that democracy is antithetical to Islam; that only an Islamic state can uphold the faith; and that Islamic law must be the source of all justice.

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Publication : Le Tourisme sexuel en Asie du Sud-est

Les marchés du désir
Maja Nazaruk

L'Harmattan. Points sur l'Asie

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Près de trois millions d'enfants sont victimes chaque année d'exploitation sexuelle dans le monde. Cet ouvrage étudie les coutumes sexuelles en Asie par le biais de l'anthropologie culturelle pour comprendre la psychologie sociale du corps et les constructions des identités sociales indigènes. A travers une cinquantaine d'interviews réalisées auprès de victimes, ONG et chercheurs, l'auteur nous livre une édifiante enquête menée au cœur du réseau de prostitution au Cambodge.

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ISBN : 978-2-296-11058-8 • mai 2010 • 212 pages
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Prix éditeur : 20 € / 131 FF

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