Associate Professor Susan Blackburn
- Tel: +61 3 990 52384
- Fax: +61 3 990 52410
- Email: Susan.Blackburn@arts.monash.edu.au
- Room W10.16 10th Floor
- Building 11 (Menzies) Clayton campus
Biography
Susan Blackburn has a BA (Honours) from Adelaide University, and a PhD and Diploma of Education from Monash University. Her thesis concerned Indonesian nationalism.
Since graduating Dr Blackburn has taught at Victoria University of Technology (Melbourne), Griffith University (Brisbane) and, since 1991, at Monash University. Her research has been in the areas of Indonesian history and politics, the Indonesian women's movement, and foreign aid. She has just completed a research project with Oxfam Australia on their assistance to women in postconflict situations.
Her current teaching is in the areas of the Politics of Development, Gender in Asian Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, and Foreign Aid and Non-Government Organisations, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Dr Blackburn has been supervising post-graduate theses since 1988. Her students have successfully completed MA and PhD theses in topics related to Asian politics, women in development, Australian foreign aid and the politics of development. She is interested in supervising further students in these and related areas.
Recent Publications
Commercial Books
- Women and the State in Modern Indonesia Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Practical Visionaries: A Study of Community Aid Abroad Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1993
Edited Books
- Indonesian Islam in a New Era: How Women Negotiate their Muslim Identities Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2007, edited and with an introduction jointly with Bianca Smith and Siti Syamsiyatun.
- The First Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928 Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2007, edited and with an Introduction by me.
- Love, Sex and Power, Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 2001, edited and with an Introduction by me.
Book Chapters
- ‘Has gender analysis been mainstreamed in the study of Southeast Asian politics?’ in Theresa W. Devasahayam (ed) Gender Trends in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.
- 'Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia' in Louise Edwards and Mina Roces (eds) Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, nationalism and democracy, London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, pp. 79-105.
- 'Gender Relations in Indonesia: What Women Want', in Grayson J. Lloyd and Shannon L. Smith (eds), Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001, pp.270-282.
- 'Political relations among women in a multi-racial city: Colonial Batavia in the twentieth century', in Kees Grijns and Peter J.M. Nas (eds), Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-cultural Essays, Leiden, KITLV Press, 2000
- Barbara Hatley and Susan Blackburn, 'Representations of women's roles in household and society in Indonesian women's writing of the 1930s' in Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg and Ratna Saptari (eds), Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000
- 'The Indonesian Elections of 1999: Where were the women?' (pp. 87-98) in Susan Blackburn (ed) Pemilu: the 1999 Indonesian Election Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1999
- 'Introduction' in Susan Blackburn and Bob Stensholt (eds), The Simons Report: Where to now with overseas aid? Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1999
- "Western Feminists Observe Asian Women: An Example from the Dutch East Indies", in Jean Gelman Taylor (ed) Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years, Clayton, Monash Asia Institute, 1997
Journal Articles
- ‘Has gender analysis been mainstreamed in the study of Indonesian politics?’ Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol.43 no.1 (2009) pp. 129-146
- ‘Indonesian women and political Islam’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 39(1): 83-105 (February 2008)
- "Women and the nation", Inside Indonesia No.66 (2001) pp.6-8.
- "Gender Violence and the Indonesian Political Transition", Asian Studies Review Vol.23 no.4 (December 1999) pp.431-446.
- "Women and Citizenship in Indonesia", Australian Journal of Political Science Vol.34 no.2 (July 1999) pp.189-204.
- "Winning the Vote for Women in Indonesia", Australian Feminist Studies Vol.14 no.29 (April 1999) pp.207-218.
- (with Sharon Bessell) "Marriageable Age: Political Debates on Early Marriage in Twentieth Century Indonesia" Indonesia no.63 (April 1997) pp. 107-141.
- "Introduction" pp. 1-5 and edited "Women and the State in Asia" section in Asian Studies Review vol.17 no.3 (April 1994) pp. 1-117
- "Gender Interests and Indonesian Democracy", Australian Journal of Political Science vol.29 no.3 (November 1994) pp.556-574.
Postgraduate Supervision
PhD and MA students currently being supervised:
- Charlotte Chompff, (MA) 'Human rights organisations in Thailand'
- Anna Margret Lumban Gaol, 'Nationalist sentiments in Papua, Indonesia'
- Rasita Purba, 'Decentralised policy-making processes and welfare in Indonesia'
- Sylvia Yazid, 'Non-government organisations and policy on women migrant workers in Indonesia'
- Mary O'Kane, 'Political activism of Burmese refugees on the Thai border'
- Sheila Murugasu, 'Tranversal political activism by refugee groups in Malaysia'
- Nicole Lamb, 'Remembering the past in Kayu Aro'
Successful PhD students previously supervised:
- Lugina Setyawati, 'Malay resurgence and its implications for Indonesian unity and democracy: a case study of decentralization in Riau (2000-2004)'
- Siti Syamsiyatun, 'Feminism and a Muslim women’s organization in Indonesia'
- Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, political, polemical: contemporary feminisms and the problem of prostitution'
- Soe Tjen Marching, 'Negotiating identity: Indonesian women’s published autobiographies and unpublished diaries in the New Order'
- Henry Scheyvens, 'Evaluating aid: the developmental impact of Japan’s official development assistance'
- Rebecca Foley, 'Islamic feminists in Malaysia: Equity versus equality'
- David Glanz, 'Confusion Grows from the Barrel of a Gun: The Communist Party of the Philippines'
- Elizabeth Martyn, 'Gender and nation in a new democracy: Indonesian women's organisations in the 1950s'
- Sharon Bessell, 'The politics of child labour in Indonesia'
- Yasuo Hanazaki, 'The Indonesian press in an era of openness'