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David Brown
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 Senior
Lecturer
Murdoch University School of Politics and International
Studies
National Identity Strategies: An Analysis of the Impact
of Governments' National Identity Strategies on Ethnic Conflict
Australia
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Associate Professor David Brown is a member of the School
of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University,
Western Australia, and has been Head of School for the last
two years. He previously has taught at the National University
of Singapore, Birmingham University UK, and Ahmadu Bello
University in Nigeria.
His research has focused on the politics of ethnicity and
nationalism, first with reference to West Africa, then on
Southeast Asia, and more recently on comparative and conceptual
issues.
Selected Publications:
"Democracy and Nationalism: Civic, Ethnocultural and
Multicultural Politics under Patrimonial Rule." In
Susan Henders, ed. Democratization and Identity Conflicts:
Political Transitions and Cultural Difference in East and
Southeast Asia. (Accepted for publication by Rowman
and Littlefield/ Lexington Books)
"Why Might Constructed Nationalist and Ethnic Ideologies
Come into Confrontation with Each Other?" Pacific
Review 15, 4, 2002.
The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia.
London/New York, Routledge, 1994 and 1996.
Contemporary Nationalism: Civic, Ethnocultural and Multicultural
Politics, London/New York, Routledge, 2000.
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National Identity Strategies: An Analysis of the Impact
of Governments' National
Identity Strategies on Ethnic Conflict, with an Initial
Case Study
(i) Significance: The research addresses the core
goal of the NCS theme, to isolate factors that influence
ethnic conflict. It combines innovative theoretical and
conceptual work with an empirical study that provides the
basis for comparative analysis.
(ii) The research question examines the impact of
government's national identity strategies upon ethnic conflict.
(iii) The research proposition is that ethnic conflict
arises when ethnocultural visions of the nation come into
confrontation with multicultural visions, without any substantive
civic buffer. Ethnic conflict is thus promoted, both across
and within nation-state boundaries, when the national identity
strategies of governments serve to weaken, rather than to
strengthen, the political salience of the civic idea of
national community.
(iv) The research approach is to develop a theoretical
understanding of relationships between ethnocultural, multicultural
and civic ideas of national identity. The purpose is to
examine the ways in which their relative political salience
can be influenced by governments' national identity strategies
in the context of the processes of globalisation and democratisation.
The conceptual analysis will be specified and contextualised
by applying it to a case study of contemporary Indonesia.
The NCS research forms part of a larger elaboration of the
conceptual model employing comparative case studies of Malaysia
and Singapore, as well as Indonesia.
(v) Practical implications: In that the project focuses
on the impact of government policies on ethnic conflict,
it has the potential to imply strategies for ameliorating
such conflict through policies aimed at the strengthening
of civic nationalism.
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NCS Scholars Lori Leonard and Seggane Musisi during first Global Health Summer Course Meeting.
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