Clemens Six
Biographic Data
| ID | 384093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clemens Six |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clemens |
| FAMILY NAME | Six |
| SIGNATURE | SIX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1708-5616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonising Rural Spaces: FAO in India and British-Malaya, c. 1947-1965
This article discusses how the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shaped notions of rural life, rural community, and social reform in the context of South and Southeast Asian decolonisation. Building on scholarship analysing rural development either in term of continuities from the colonial era or as the result of specific circumstances after the Second World War, the argument here is that we can understand approaches to rural…
Rural social engineering: Reordering the countryside in decolonising India and Malaysia (1947–60)
In an interview in the early 1980s, Michel Foucault predicated that, from the eighteenth century on, modern government rationality has essentially been a form of urban planning. This article challenges this argument. It discusses the formation of rural social engineering, that is, the state-led efforts to design new men and new social orders outside the cities through plans, during decolonisation in Asia. Based on the comparative study of India a…
Unesco's Tensions Project (1947–1957) on India and Israel: Peace research in an era of decolonization
In the light of the Second World War, the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and decolonization in Asia, the newly established UN organization for education, science and culture (UNESCO) initiated a global research project in 1947. Its main task was to find out how tensions within and between societies can be explained and tackled to secure peace and social justice. Combining peace history with the global history of social sciences and global…
Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918-1960
This article argues for a transregional historical approach to explain the career of political secularism, i.e. the ideas and practices that inform the modern state's relationship to and administration of religion, in the 20th century. More specifically, it asks in how far we can understand secularism in South and Southeast Asia between the end of the First World War and decolonisation after 1945 as a result of transregional patterns that evolved…
T hongchai W inichakul . Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok
In the history of anticommunist persecutions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the career of the Communist Party of Thailand and the anticommunist measures of the Thai authorities and other groups in Thai society are among the many underexplored phenomena. More research on anticommunism serves at least two equally important purposes: to understand better the course and impact of these persecutions within their local and national contex…
The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions
Challenging the grammar of difference: Benoy Kumar Sarkar, global mobility and anti-imperialism around the First World War
The new imperial history has advanced our understanding of empires in many ways: it enhanced a networked interpretation of empires, brought space back into the discussion, and suggested a fresh reading of imperial careers to comprehend early forms of global inter-dependencies. This article discusses selected aspects of the life and work of Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949), a Bengali social scientist and political activist, to illustrate that anti-i…
Secularism, Decolonisation, and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia
The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity. Based on extensive archival research in Asia, Europe, and the United States, this book suggests a new approach to interpreting and explaining secularism not as a Western concept but as a distinct form of pract…
Muslim Democracy: Politics, Religion and Society in Indonesia, Turkey and the Islamic World By Edward Schneier
In the best tradition of Max Weber’s theses on the Protestant ethic and its role in the evolution of modern capitalism Edward Schneier’s book is a daring and inspiring attempt to assess another form of religion’s impact on society. The focus here is on Islam, or, more precisely on the broad range of Islamic political thought and ideals and their impact on democracy in not less than the Islamic world as a whole. Concerned by the heated debates on …
The Rise of Postcolonial States as Donors: A challenge to the development paradigm
The idea of development co-operation—the ‘development paradigm’—took shape during the decades of global decolonisation and growing political autonomy of the former colonies. It can be understood as a historic reconfiguration of the centre–periphery relationship originally established through colonisation. The rise of new state donors such as China or India questions not only the established modes of development co-operation but also the developme…
The Rise of Postcolonial States as Donors: A challenge to the development paradigm
The idea of development co-operation—the ‘development paradigm’—took shape during the decades of global decolonisation and growing political autonomy of the former colonies. It can be understood as a historic reconfiguration of the centre–periphery relationship originally established through colonisation. The rise of new state donors such as China or India questions not only the established modes of development co-operation but also the developme…
Challenging the grammar of difference: Benoy Kumar Sarkar, global mobility and anti-imperialism around the First World War
The new imperial history has advanced our understanding of empires in many ways: it enhanced a networked interpretation of empires, brought space back into the discussion, and suggested a fresh reading of imperial careers to comprehend early forms of global inter-dependencies. This article discusses selected aspects of the life and work of Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949), a Bengali social scientist and political activist, to illustrate that anti-i…
Rural social engineering: Reordering the countryside in decolonising India and Malaysia (1947–60)
In an interview in the early 1980s, Michel Foucault predicated that, from the eighteenth century on, modern government rationality has essentially been a form of urban planning. This article challenges this argument. It discusses the formation of rural social engineering, that is, the state-led efforts to design new men and new social orders outside the cities through plans, during decolonisation in Asia. Based on the comparative study of India a…
The Rise of Postcolonial States as Donors: A challenge to the development paradigm
The idea of development co-operation—the ‘development paradigm’—took shape during the decades of global decolonisation and growing political autonomy of the former colonies. It can be understood as a historic reconfiguration of the centre–periphery relationship originally established through colonisation. The rise of new state donors such as China or India questions not only the established modes of development co-operation but also the developme…
Muslim Democracy: Politics, Religion and Society in Indonesia, Turkey and the Islamic World By Edward Schneier
In the best tradition of Max Weber’s theses on the Protestant ethic and its role in the evolution of modern capitalism Edward Schneier’s book is a daring and inspiring attempt to assess another form of religion’s impact on society. The focus here is on Islam, or, more precisely on the broad range of Islamic political thought and ideals and their impact on democracy in not less than the Islamic world as a whole. Concerned by the heated debates on …
Secularism, Decolonisation, and the Cold War in South and Southeast Asia
The intensifying conflicts between religious communities in contemporary South and Southeast Asia signify the importance of gaining a clearer understanding of how societies have historically organised and mastered their religious diversity. Based on extensive archival research in Asia, Europe, and the United States, this book suggests a new approach to interpreting and explaining secularism not as a Western concept but as a distinct form of pract…
Challenging the grammar of difference: Benoy Kumar Sarkar, global mobility and anti-imperialism around the First World War
The new imperial history has advanced our understanding of empires in many ways: it enhanced a networked interpretation of empires, brought space back into the discussion, and suggested a fresh reading of imperial careers to comprehend early forms of global inter-dependencies. This article discusses selected aspects of the life and work of Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949), a Bengali social scientist and political activist, to illustrate that anti-i…
The Palgrave Handbook of Anti-Communist Persecutions
T hongchai W inichakul . Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok
In the history of anticommunist persecutions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the career of the Communist Party of Thailand and the anticommunist measures of the Thai authorities and other groups in Thai society are among the many underexplored phenomena. More research on anticommunism serves at least two equally important purposes: to understand better the course and impact of these persecutions within their local and national contex…
Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918-1960
This article argues for a transregional historical approach to explain the career of political secularism, i.e. the ideas and practices that inform the modern state's relationship to and administration of religion, in the 20th century. More specifically, it asks in how far we can understand secularism in South and Southeast Asia between the end of the First World War and decolonisation after 1945 as a result of transregional patterns that evolved…
Rural social engineering: Reordering the countryside in decolonising India and Malaysia (1947–60)
In an interview in the early 1980s, Michel Foucault predicated that, from the eighteenth century on, modern government rationality has essentially been a form of urban planning. This article challenges this argument. It discusses the formation of rural social engineering, that is, the state-led efforts to design new men and new social orders outside the cities through plans, during decolonisation in Asia. Based on the comparative study of India a…
Unesco's Tensions Project (1947–1957) on India and Israel: Peace research in an era of decolonization
In the light of the Second World War, the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and decolonization in Asia, the newly established UN organization for education, science and culture (UNESCO) initiated a global research project in 1947. Its main task was to find out how tensions within and between societies can be explained and tackled to secure peace and social justice. Combining peace history with the global history of social sciences and global…
Decolonising Rural Spaces: FAO in India and British-Malaya, c. 1947-1965
This article discusses how the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) shaped notions of rural life, rural community, and social reform in the context of South and Southeast Asian decolonisation. Building on scholarship analysing rural development either in term of continuities from the colonial era or as the result of specific circumstances after the Second World War, the argument here is that we can understand approaches to rural…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Decolonization (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies (3 works)