Julian Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0730-0669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Planetary Pedagogies in a Pluriverse of Relations
This article brings together a transdisciplinary collective of academics to critically explore the impacts of planetary thinking across the higher education sector in settler colonial Australia. Growing out of weekly critical practice dialogues between scholars in the fields of Indigenous studies, education, design, philosophy, geography, art, literary studies, communication, urban research and political science, the authors undertake a plurivers…
Australia Turning Inwards? Insights from Humanitarian Australians
This article responds to suggestions that Australia is becoming increasingly insular and that Australians should direct their compassionate and humanitarian efforts wholly towards other Australians. This paper briefly reviews arguments for this inward turn, as well as the extant polling evidence about the prevalence of such attitudes, which appear to be reflected in the recent cutting of overseas aid budgets by the Australian government. However,…
Outrage in Malaysia
Collective Civic Action in Multicultural Neighbourhoods
The paper provides tentative empirical evidence against Robert D. Putnam's claim that ethnic diversity is a threat to collective civic action, and finds support for Robert J. Sampson's proposition that established organisations foster collective civic action. The aim of this paper is twofold: to describe: (i) the ways in which volunteers and professionals make sense of and understand the multicultural neighbourhood; and (ii) how that impacts on c…
MDB, Civil Society, and the Dawn of Malaysia’s New Era
Until May 2018, Malaysia was home to the longest-serving elected government in the world, run by the Barisan Nasional (BN, National Front). The BN had been in continuous power since Malaysia’s inde
The Global Turn
In my first year introductory class on globalisation, one assessment is a ‘Local Gone Global’ presentation. In this presentation, students take an object or a development that is local to them (in
Mind Change
The title of Susan Greenfield's new book, Mind Change, intends to suggest that the presence of digital technologies is having social and psychological impacts that are similar in scale to climate c
Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne
This article engages with Engin Isin's theoretical contributions on citizenship by applying his concepts of 'acts of citizenship' and 'activist citizenship' to Global Bersih, a movement for electoral reform in Malaysia that has crossed national boundaries. Global Bersih, and a further case study of the Melbourne-based Malaysian community magazine Jom, demonstrate some of ways through which Malaysians have sought to exercise influence on Malaysia …
Mak Bedah Goes Shopping for a Real Candidate in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
On the eve of the campaign period of Malaysia's general elections in 2008, the plans of the Women's Candidacy Initiative (WCI) to increase the number of independent women in Parliament were thrown into disarray when their candidate was forced to withdraw at short notice. Rather than abandon their participation in those elections, WCI went through a creative moment during which they developed an innovative voter-education campaign revolving around…
Using buzzwords of belonging
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Asia-Pacific
This article examines trends in Malaysia's civil courts which have, in cases of perceived conflict of jurisdiction with the Syariah courts, conferred jurisdiction on the latter, especially in cases involving would-be apostates from Islam. This trend is examined against the backdrop of the sodomy trial against opposition party leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who has had rejected his appeals to have the accusations made in 2008 heard in the Syariah court, w…
Policing Sexuality
About the authors Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in international politics and sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexity theory, food consumption and production, human relations with non-human animals and educational inclusions/exclusions. She is author of Environment and Society (Routledge, 2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theor…
Submitting to God
Islamization and Activism in Malaysia
Islamization and Activism in Malaysia examines aspects of the increasing political and social profile of Islam in Malaysia and describes how different kinds of activists in Malaysia have sought to protect fundamental liberties and to improve the state of democracy in Malaysia. In particular, focus is paid to activists who engage with electoral process, the law and the public sphere, and in particular, to movements that cut across or combine these…
Oversanctification, Autonomy and Islam in Malaysia
This article demonstrates that, contrary to the common image of Islam in Malaysia as being predominantly liberal, a conservative and authoritarian Islam frequently prevails. State-sanctioned interventions into the minutiae of people's daily and moral lives often take place. Drawing particularly on Cornelius Castoriadis's idea of autonomy and Roy Rappaport's notion of oversanctification, the author argues that such interventions may have a number …
Elections, Repertoires of Contention and Habitus in Four Civil Society Engagements in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
The general elections in Malaysia in 2008 saw the ruling coalition, which has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted since independence in 1957, lose control of a number of states and become significantly weakened at the federal level. Amongst the reasons often cited for this was significant and diverse civil society participation in these elections which was often critical of the incumbent government. This article examines four different engagements in th…
The Fruits of Weeds
On 27 October 2007, five Malaysian civil society organizations collaborated to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Operasi Lalang. This police operation was sanctioned by the government in 1987 and saw 107 Malaysians, mainly opposition party members and activists, detained without trial for as long as two years. Operasi Lalang is regarded by many critics of the Malaysian government as the most egregious deployment of the repressive Internal Secur…
Why isn't Panesar a Pommie bastard
Prior to the start of The Ashes in 2006 in which England and Australia played five five-day long games of cricket, Cricket Australia, the country's governing body for the sport, announced that it would be cracking down on racism. The words 'Pom' and 'Pommie', however, were deemed by Cricket Australia to be inoffensive. Unacceptable, nevertheless, was racial abuse directed at Monty Panesar, a Sikh member of the English cricket team. The author ana…
The Narrative Imperative
Policing Sexuality
About the authors Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in international politics and sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexity theory, food consumption and production, human relations with non-human animals and educational inclusions/exclusions. She is author of Environment and Society (Routledge, 2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theor…
Using buzzwords of belonging
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Elections, Repertoires of Contention and Habitus in Four Civil Society Engagements in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
The general elections in Malaysia in 2008 saw the ruling coalition, which has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted since independence in 1957, lose control of a number of states and become significantly weakened at the federal level. Amongst the reasons often cited for this was significant and diverse civil society participation in these elections which was often critical of the incumbent government. This article examines four different engagements in th…
Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne
This article engages with Engin Isin's theoretical contributions on citizenship by applying his concepts of 'acts of citizenship' and 'activist citizenship' to Global Bersih, a movement for electoral reform in Malaysia that has crossed national boundaries. Global Bersih, and a further case study of the Melbourne-based Malaysian community magazine Jom, demonstrate some of ways through which Malaysians have sought to exercise influence on Malaysia …
Asia-Pacific
This article examines trends in Malaysia's civil courts which have, in cases of perceived conflict of jurisdiction with the Syariah courts, conferred jurisdiction on the latter, especially in cases involving would-be apostates from Islam. This trend is examined against the backdrop of the sodomy trial against opposition party leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who has had rejected his appeals to have the accusations made in 2008 heard in the Syariah court, w…
The Narrative Imperative
Collective Civic Action in Multicultural Neighbourhoods
The paper provides tentative empirical evidence against Robert D. Putnam's claim that ethnic diversity is a threat to collective civic action, and finds support for Robert J. Sampson's proposition that established organisations foster collective civic action. The aim of this paper is twofold: to describe: (i) the ways in which volunteers and professionals make sense of and understand the multicultural neighbourhood; and (ii) how that impacts on c…
The Fruits of Weeds
On 27 October 2007, five Malaysian civil society organizations collaborated to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Operasi Lalang. This police operation was sanctioned by the government in 1987 and saw 107 Malaysians, mainly opposition party members and activists, detained without trial for as long as two years. Operasi Lalang is regarded by many critics of the Malaysian government as the most egregious deployment of the repressive Internal Secur…
The Narrative Imperative
The Fruits of Weeds
On 27 October 2007, five Malaysian civil society organizations collaborated to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Operasi Lalang. This police operation was sanctioned by the government in 1987 and saw 107 Malaysians, mainly opposition party members and activists, detained without trial for as long as two years. Operasi Lalang is regarded by many critics of the Malaysian government as the most egregious deployment of the repressive Internal Secur…
Why isn't Panesar a Pommie bastard
Prior to the start of The Ashes in 2006 in which England and Australia played five five-day long games of cricket, Cricket Australia, the country's governing body for the sport, announced that it would be cracking down on racism. The words 'Pom' and 'Pommie', however, were deemed by Cricket Australia to be inoffensive. Unacceptable, nevertheless, was racial abuse directed at Monty Panesar, a Sikh member of the English cricket team. The author ana…
Islamization and Activism in Malaysia
Islamization and Activism in Malaysia examines aspects of the increasing political and social profile of Islam in Malaysia and describes how different kinds of activists in Malaysia have sought to protect fundamental liberties and to improve the state of democracy in Malaysia. In particular, focus is paid to activists who engage with electoral process, the law and the public sphere, and in particular, to movements that cut across or combine these…
Oversanctification, Autonomy and Islam in Malaysia
This article demonstrates that, contrary to the common image of Islam in Malaysia as being predominantly liberal, a conservative and authoritarian Islam frequently prevails. State-sanctioned interventions into the minutiae of people's daily and moral lives often take place. Drawing particularly on Cornelius Castoriadis's idea of autonomy and Roy Rappaport's notion of oversanctification, the author argues that such interventions may have a number …
Elections, Repertoires of Contention and Habitus in Four Civil Society Engagements in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
The general elections in Malaysia in 2008 saw the ruling coalition, which has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted since independence in 1957, lose control of a number of states and become significantly weakened at the federal level. Amongst the reasons often cited for this was significant and diverse civil society participation in these elections which was often critical of the incumbent government. This article examines four different engagements in th…
Mak Bedah Goes Shopping for a Real Candidate in Malaysia's 2008 General Elections
On the eve of the campaign period of Malaysia's general elections in 2008, the plans of the Women's Candidacy Initiative (WCI) to increase the number of independent women in Parliament were thrown into disarray when their candidate was forced to withdraw at short notice. Rather than abandon their participation in those elections, WCI went through a creative moment during which they developed an innovative voter-education campaign revolving around…
Using buzzwords of belonging
This paper examines the concepts of multiculturalism and social capital, their\nrelationship with each other and how these concepts are utilised by different\ninterested parties in Australia. In the context of the United States of America and\nthe United Kingdom, some commentators and scholars have argued that\nmulticulturalism can have a negative impact on the fostering of social capital.\nThese arguments are described before examining the same …
Asia-Pacific
This article examines trends in Malaysia's civil courts which have, in cases of perceived conflict of jurisdiction with the Syariah courts, conferred jurisdiction on the latter, especially in cases involving would-be apostates from Islam. This trend is examined against the backdrop of the sodomy trial against opposition party leader, Anwar Ibrahim, who has had rejected his appeals to have the accusations made in 2008 heard in the Syariah court, w…
Policing Sexuality
About the authors Erika Cudworth is senior lecturer in international politics and sociology at the University of East London. Her research interests are in political theory, broadly conceived, particularly feminisms, ecologisms and complexity theory, food consumption and production, human relations with non-human animals and educational inclusions/exclusions. She is author of Environment and Society (Routledge, 2003), Developing Ecofeminist Theor…
Submitting to God
Jom Bersih! Global Bersih and the enactment of Malaysian citizenship in Melbourne
This article engages with Engin Isin's theoretical contributions on citizenship by applying his concepts of 'acts of citizenship' and 'activist citizenship' to Global Bersih, a movement for electoral reform in Malaysia that has crossed national boundaries. Global Bersih, and a further case study of the Melbourne-based Malaysian community magazine Jom, demonstrate some of ways through which Malaysians have sought to exercise influence on Malaysia …
Mind Change
The title of Susan Greenfield's new book, Mind Change, intends to suggest that the presence of digital technologies is having social and psychological impacts that are similar in scale to climate c
Outrage in Malaysia
Collective Civic Action in Multicultural Neighbourhoods
The paper provides tentative empirical evidence against Robert D. Putnam's claim that ethnic diversity is a threat to collective civic action, and finds support for Robert J. Sampson's proposition that established organisations foster collective civic action. The aim of this paper is twofold: to describe: (i) the ways in which volunteers and professionals make sense of and understand the multicultural neighbourhood; and (ii) how that impacts on c…
MDB, Civil Society, and the Dawn of Malaysia’s New Era
Until May 2018, Malaysia was home to the longest-serving elected government in the world, run by the Barisan Nasional (BN, National Front). The BN had been in continuous power since Malaysia’s inde
The Global Turn
In my first year introductory class on globalisation, one assessment is a ‘Local Gone Global’ presentation. In this presentation, students take an object or a development that is local to them (in
Australia Turning Inwards? Insights from Humanitarian Australians
This article responds to suggestions that Australia is becoming increasingly insular and that Australians should direct their compassionate and humanitarian efforts wholly towards other Australians. This paper briefly reviews arguments for this inward turn, as well as the extant polling evidence about the prevalence of such attitudes, which appear to be reflected in the recent cutting of overseas aid budgets by the Australian government. However,…
Planetary Pedagogies in a Pluriverse of Relations
This article brings together a transdisciplinary collective of academics to critically explore the impacts of planetary thinking across the higher education sector in settler colonial Australia. Growing out of weekly critical practice dialogues between scholars in the fields of Indigenous studies, education, design, philosophy, geography, art, literary studies, communication, urban research and political science, the authors undertake a plurivers…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)