Lee Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1785-2723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Eurocentrism as disease
Reviving Confucianism with evolutionary and medical conceptual tools in the British Straits Settlements before the Pacific War, the Straits Chinese philosopher, physician, reformer, and revolutionary Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957) pathologized Eurocentrism as a disease under his innovative but also troubling system of medical Confucianism. According to Lim, Eurocentrism was caused by certain (Christian) metaphysical pathogens – speciesism and dualism …
Anthropology as Vocation
Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness
Social philosophers often invoke the concept of false consciousness in their analyses, referring to a set of evidence-resistant, ignorant attitudes held by otherwise sound epistemic agents, systematically occurring in virtue of, and motivating them to perpetuate, structural oppression. But there is a worry that appealing to the notion in questions of responsibility for the harm suffered by members of oppressed groups is victim-blaming. Individual…
Why They Know Not What They Do
False consciousness requires a general explanation for why, and how, oppressed individuals believe propositions against, as opposed to aligned with, their own well-being in virtue of their oppressed status. This involves four explanatory desiderata: belief acquisition, content prevalence, limitation, and systematicity. A social constructionist approach satisfies these by understanding the concept of false consciousness as regulating social resear…
I Was Attracted to Him Because of His Money
Substantial economic transition in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is giving rise to increased wealth, rapid social change and changing cultural practices. Polygyny practices in PNG have come under increasing domestic attention in recent years, especially as pertains to reinforcing patriarchy and exacerbating gender inequality. Based on qualitative research with women, we identify a new ‘emerging polygyny’ that is located in women’s and girls’ choices, de…
Trouble in paradise
The last decade in Indonesia has seen the emergence of localized militia groups. In Bali, these groups are now particularly prolific. Conventional wisdom in international relations thought is that these organizations constitute a threat to the authority of the state (its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) and may require national security measures to deal with them. Yet these organizations ultimately define their own role in terms of the pr…
How critical can critical be? Contesting security in Indonesia
This paper examines discourses and practices of security in Indonesia. It does so in order to explore tensions between ethnographically generated accounts of security spaces and the broader security focus of international relations scholars. Looking at securitisation theory in relation to Indonesian security dynamics, it suggests that a model of security contestation better explains the ways in which political communities are constituted through …
Diversity, democratisation and Indonesian leadership
Indonesia's normative leadership at the 1955 Asian-African Conference was grounded in anti-colonialism that became part of the ‘Bandung spirit’. However, the shape of Indonesia's recent leadership, following its remarkable democratisation, is harder to fathom. In response, this article suggests that Indonesia's regional and international engagements can be usefully understood through the lens of shifting domestic efforts to navigate unity with di…
Cutting off the King's head
Central to the ‘liberal political tradition’ is the legitimacy of violence enacted by the state. While, since the Cold War, the horizons of security have broadened beyond the national boundaries of states, the sovereign state acting as the principal security agent remains the central tenet of the modern world order. Yet in much of the contemporary world, if the provision of security were ever the sole preserve of states this is no longer the case…
Aceh, Indonesia
Beyond the exemplary centre
The article explores the formative effects of forms of esoteric knowledge associated with Sundanese and Javanese martial arts in Indonesia. Those in possession of such knowledge are held to be efficacious and able to act in an intercessory capacity, mediating relations with the denizens of the unseen world, the alam ghaib , to afford protection to themselves and others. It is knowledge that implies a link to and ability to mediate relations with …
Kinship and food in South East Asia – Edited by Monica Janowski & Fiona Kerlogue
Jurus, Jazz Riffs and the Constitution of a National Martial Art in Indonesia
Pencak Silat is a martial art, performance practice and system of body cultivation prevalent throughout much of Indonesia and the Malay-speaking world. This article compares different modalities of the practice and pedagogy of Sundanese Pencak Silat in West Java with more recent attempts to standardize practice at a national level under the auspices of the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association ( Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia). Drawing on David Sudn…
Ethics at Home - A Non-Conference Report
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 17–21 November 2004
A practical method for environmental impact assessment audits
Circa 1492
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Edited by Jay A. Levenson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, for the National Gallery of Art, 1991. 671 pp., 621 color and 78 b/w illustrations, 4 line drawings, 14 maps, 4 line drawings, notes, references. $59.95 (cloth
Animal, Bird and Myth in African Art
Piggybacking
Circa 1492
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Edited by Jay A. Levenson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, for the National Gallery of Art, 1991. 671 pp., 621 color and 78 b/w illustrations, 4 line drawings, 14 maps, 4 line drawings, notes, references. $59.95 (cloth
I Was Attracted to Him Because of His Money
Substantial economic transition in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is giving rise to increased wealth, rapid social change and changing cultural practices. Polygyny practices in PNG have come under increasing domestic attention in recent years, especially as pertains to reinforcing patriarchy and exacerbating gender inequality. Based on qualitative research with women, we identify a new ‘emerging polygyny’ that is located in women’s and girls’ choices, de…
Cutting off the King's head
Central to the ‘liberal political tradition’ is the legitimacy of violence enacted by the state. While, since the Cold War, the horizons of security have broadened beyond the national boundaries of states, the sovereign state acting as the principal security agent remains the central tenet of the modern world order. Yet in much of the contemporary world, if the provision of security were ever the sole preserve of states this is no longer the case…
Beyond the exemplary centre
The article explores the formative effects of forms of esoteric knowledge associated with Sundanese and Javanese martial arts in Indonesia. Those in possession of such knowledge are held to be efficacious and able to act in an intercessory capacity, mediating relations with the denizens of the unseen world, the alam ghaib , to afford protection to themselves and others. It is knowledge that implies a link to and ability to mediate relations with …
Jurus, Jazz Riffs and the Constitution of a National Martial Art in Indonesia
Pencak Silat is a martial art, performance practice and system of body cultivation prevalent throughout much of Indonesia and the Malay-speaking world. This article compares different modalities of the practice and pedagogy of Sundanese Pencak Silat in West Java with more recent attempts to standardize practice at a national level under the auspices of the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association ( Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia). Drawing on David Sudn…
A practical method for environmental impact assessment audits
Trouble in paradise
The last decade in Indonesia has seen the emergence of localized militia groups. In Bali, these groups are now particularly prolific. Conventional wisdom in international relations thought is that these organizations constitute a threat to the authority of the state (its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) and may require national security measures to deal with them. Yet these organizations ultimately define their own role in terms of the pr…
Why They Know Not What They Do
False consciousness requires a general explanation for why, and how, oppressed individuals believe propositions against, as opposed to aligned with, their own well-being in virtue of their oppressed status. This involves four explanatory desiderata: belief acquisition, content prevalence, limitation, and systematicity. A social constructionist approach satisfies these by understanding the concept of false consciousness as regulating social resear…
How critical can critical be? Contesting security in Indonesia
This paper examines discourses and practices of security in Indonesia. It does so in order to explore tensions between ethnographically generated accounts of security spaces and the broader security focus of international relations scholars. Looking at securitisation theory in relation to Indonesian security dynamics, it suggests that a model of security contestation better explains the ways in which political communities are constituted through …
Diversity, democratisation and Indonesian leadership
Indonesia's normative leadership at the 1955 Asian-African Conference was grounded in anti-colonialism that became part of the ‘Bandung spirit’. However, the shape of Indonesia's recent leadership, following its remarkable democratisation, is harder to fathom. In response, this article suggests that Indonesia's regional and international engagements can be usefully understood through the lens of shifting domestic efforts to navigate unity with di…
Piggybacking
Animal, Bird and Myth in African Art
Circa 1492
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Edited by Jay A. Levenson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, for the National Gallery of Art, 1991. 671 pp., 621 color and 78 b/w illustrations, 4 line drawings, 14 maps, 4 line drawings, notes, references. $59.95 (cloth
A practical method for environmental impact assessment audits
Ethics at Home - A Non-Conference Report
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 17–21 November 2004
Jurus, Jazz Riffs and the Constitution of a National Martial Art in Indonesia
Pencak Silat is a martial art, performance practice and system of body cultivation prevalent throughout much of Indonesia and the Malay-speaking world. This article compares different modalities of the practice and pedagogy of Sundanese Pencak Silat in West Java with more recent attempts to standardize practice at a national level under the auspices of the Indonesian Pencak Silat Association ( Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia). Drawing on David Sudn…
Kinship and food in South East Asia – Edited by Monica Janowski & Fiona Kerlogue
Aceh, Indonesia
Beyond the exemplary centre
The article explores the formative effects of forms of esoteric knowledge associated with Sundanese and Javanese martial arts in Indonesia. Those in possession of such knowledge are held to be efficacious and able to act in an intercessory capacity, mediating relations with the denizens of the unseen world, the alam ghaib , to afford protection to themselves and others. It is knowledge that implies a link to and ability to mediate relations with …
Diversity, democratisation and Indonesian leadership
Indonesia's normative leadership at the 1955 Asian-African Conference was grounded in anti-colonialism that became part of the ‘Bandung spirit’. However, the shape of Indonesia's recent leadership, following its remarkable democratisation, is harder to fathom. In response, this article suggests that Indonesia's regional and international engagements can be usefully understood through the lens of shifting domestic efforts to navigate unity with di…
Cutting off the King's head
Central to the ‘liberal political tradition’ is the legitimacy of violence enacted by the state. While, since the Cold War, the horizons of security have broadened beyond the national boundaries of states, the sovereign state acting as the principal security agent remains the central tenet of the modern world order. Yet in much of the contemporary world, if the provision of security were ever the sole preserve of states this is no longer the case…
Trouble in paradise
The last decade in Indonesia has seen the emergence of localized militia groups. In Bali, these groups are now particularly prolific. Conventional wisdom in international relations thought is that these organizations constitute a threat to the authority of the state (its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) and may require national security measures to deal with them. Yet these organizations ultimately define their own role in terms of the pr…
How critical can critical be? Contesting security in Indonesia
This paper examines discourses and practices of security in Indonesia. It does so in order to explore tensions between ethnographically generated accounts of security spaces and the broader security focus of international relations scholars. Looking at securitisation theory in relation to Indonesian security dynamics, it suggests that a model of security contestation better explains the ways in which political communities are constituted through …
I Was Attracted to Him Because of His Money
Substantial economic transition in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is giving rise to increased wealth, rapid social change and changing cultural practices. Polygyny practices in PNG have come under increasing domestic attention in recent years, especially as pertains to reinforcing patriarchy and exacerbating gender inequality. Based on qualitative research with women, we identify a new ‘emerging polygyny’ that is located in women’s and girls’ choices, de…
Does False Consciousness Necessarily Preclude Moral Blameworthiness
Social philosophers often invoke the concept of false consciousness in their analyses, referring to a set of evidence-resistant, ignorant attitudes held by otherwise sound epistemic agents, systematically occurring in virtue of, and motivating them to perpetuate, structural oppression. But there is a worry that appealing to the notion in questions of responsibility for the harm suffered by members of oppressed groups is victim-blaming. Individual…
Why They Know Not What They Do
False consciousness requires a general explanation for why, and how, oppressed individuals believe propositions against, as opposed to aligned with, their own well-being in virtue of their oppressed status. This involves four explanatory desiderata: belief acquisition, content prevalence, limitation, and systematicity. A social constructionist approach satisfies these by understanding the concept of false consciousness as regulating social resear…
Eurocentrism as disease
Reviving Confucianism with evolutionary and medical conceptual tools in the British Straits Settlements before the Pacific War, the Straits Chinese philosopher, physician, reformer, and revolutionary Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957) pathologized Eurocentrism as a disease under his innovative but also troubling system of medical Confucianism. According to Lim, Eurocentrism was caused by certain (Christian) metaphysical pathogens – speciesism and dualism …
Anthropology as Vocation
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