Roger Kershaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 641929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Kershaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Kershaw |
| SIGNATURE | KERSHAW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Royal Writ and British Residency in the Sultanate of Brunei: A Fluid Partnership
The aim of the article is to explore and illustrate some “dynamics of transition” across some six decades of British protection of the Brunei Sultanate, 1906-1967, with particular reference to the interaction of traditional administration and the new system of governance of a Residency, especially in the part of Tutong district that was home to the Dusun/Bisaya ethnic minority
Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore
A conventional work comparing the politics of Malaysia and Singapore (if ever both states are addressed in a single book after 48 years of separation) might well supply a background from their Inde
The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair
Lankester, Tim. The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2013. pp xii + 194. Map. Illust. Appendices. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. H
Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship
Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian. Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship . NUS Press, Singapore, 2011. pp. xxiv + 447. Genealogical Tables. Illust. N
Against Odds: A Thirty-Year Struggle to Save the Forests of Sarawak
When Malaysia came to independence, considerable powers, particularly in the natural resources sector, were devolved on the rulers of the states of East Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. The subsequent deforestation, which benefitted the logging companies (and the politicians) was hard to reconcile with the interests of the indigenous peoples. Their plight was projected internationally by a Swiss activist, Bruno Manser, who lived with the Penan people…
South East Asia
Illusions of Relevance? An Australian Encounter with Malay History and Southeast Asian Security
The Mundane and the mystic: Constructions of human relations with the animal world in Brunei-Dusun and other Bornean folktales
The paper offers a broad six-part classification not only for the animal tales of the Brunei-Dusun (see E.M. Kershaw's 1994 collection) but also for a considerable amount of cognate material collected by British and Dutch scholars in Sarawak, Sabah and Kalimantan. The main categories proposed are: I. Anthropomorphic interaction among animals, and between animals and humans; II. Birds and animals as messengers and helpers; III. Mockery of animals …
The inconvenient rationality of Islamism: Harakah during the Pergau dam episode
Partners in Realism: Britain and Brunei Amid Recent Turbulence
Roger Kershaw is a former lecturer, now freelance writer, on South East Asia. He worked in Brunei between 1984 and 1994. His interest in monarchy is reflected in Monarchy in South-East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition (London, Routledge, 2001). He has contributed a number of articles to Asian Affairs on Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand, and many reviews across the years
Monarchy in South East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition
This title is the first study to relate the history and contemporary role of the South East Asian monarchy to the politics of the region today. Comprehensive & up-to-date, Monarchy in South East Asia features an historical and political overview of *Cambodia *Thailand *Malaysia *Brunei *Indonesia *Laos *as well as the region in general. The excellent coverage of this fascinating subject should be of interest to general reader as well as to specia…
Monarchy in South-East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition
Elusive truths: British media and the Thai monarchy
Challenges of historiography: Interpreting the decolonisation of Brunei
L'A. propose quelques commentaires a propos de Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III and Britain: The making of Brunei Darussalam, par B.A. Hussainmiya (Oxford Univerity Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1995), biographie royale du Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin III et de son role dans le processus de decolonisation. Mettant notamment en lumiere la position historiographique particuliere de l'auteur de l'ouvrage, l'A. propose d'abord une interpretation personnelle du proc…
In search of a bornean 'Eulenspiegel: Cross-cultural reflections on some simpleton tales of the Brunei Dusuns
1999). In search of a bornean ‘Eulenspiegel’: Cross‐cultural reflections on some simpleton tales of the Brunei Dusuns. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 27, No. 78, pp. 122-145
As Night Falls: A Dusun Harvest Ritual in Brunei1
Constraints of history: The eliciting of modern Brunei
1998). Constraints of history: the eliciting of modern Brunei. Asian Affairs: Vol. 29, Review article, pp. 312-317
Difficult Synthesis: Recent Trends in Malay Political Sociology and History
Short Notices
Illuminating The Path to Independence: Political Themes in Pelita Brunei in 1983
The return of the ancient Sultanate of Brunei to the international stage in a condition of full independence and sovereignty on 1 January 1984 received litde fanfare in the world's press, either then or in the preceding twelve months. But the modesty of international attendon has complemented the micro-state dimensions of modern Brunei itself, and it must be added that the Government of Brunei has done litde on its part to fill the media gap. Und…
Anglo-Malaysian relations: Old Roles Versus New Rules
Journal Article Anglo-Malaysian relations: old roles versus new rules Get access Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983, Pages 629–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619474 Published: 01 October 1983
A Little Drama of Ethnicity: Some Sociological Aspects of the Kelantan Manora
Lesser Current: The Election Ritual and Party Consolidation in the People ́s Republic of Kampuchea
The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea: A Personal View
This discussion paper does not attempt to describe and analyse the events leading up to the formation of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea.1 Instead, it offers a summary of the ideas in an earlier study on the Cambodian non-communist opposition,2 followed by some tentative, initial observations on their relevance nine months later, in the light of the emergence of a coalition of the Khmer Rouge, the Khmer People's National Liberati…
Thailand Between Democracy and Revolution
Journal Article Thailand Between Democracy and Revolution Get access Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 2, Spring 1982, Pages 307–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617984 Published: 01 April 1982
Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship
Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian. Palace, Political Party and Power: A Story of the Socio-Political Development of Malay Kingship . NUS Press, Singapore, 2011. pp. xxiv + 447. Genealogical Tables. Illust. N
The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair
Lankester, Tim. The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, 2013. pp xii + 194. Map. Illust. Appendices. Tables. Notes. Bibliog. Index. H
Partners in Realism: Britain and Brunei Amid Recent Turbulence
Roger Kershaw is a former lecturer, now freelance writer, on South East Asia. He worked in Brunei between 1984 and 1994. His interest in monarchy is reflected in Monarchy in South-East Asia: The Faces of Tradition in Transition (London, Routledge, 2001). He has contributed a number of articles to Asian Affairs on Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand, and many reviews across the years
In search of a bornean 'Eulenspiegel: Cross-cultural reflections on some simpleton tales of the Brunei Dusuns
1999). In search of a bornean ‘Eulenspiegel’: Cross‐cultural reflections on some simpleton tales of the Brunei Dusuns. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 27, No. 78, pp. 122-145
As Night Falls: A Dusun Harvest Ritual in Brunei1
Anglo-Malaysian relations: Old Roles Versus New Rules
Journal Article Anglo-Malaysian relations: old roles versus new rules Get access Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983, Pages 629–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619474 Published: 01 October 1983
Thailand after Vietnam: After Vietnam Thailand
1976). Thailand after Vietnam: After Vietnam Thailand? Asian Affairs: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 19-32
Against Odds: A Thirty-Year Struggle to Save the Forests of Sarawak
When Malaysia came to independence, considerable powers, particularly in the natural resources sector, were devolved on the rulers of the states of East Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. The subsequent deforestation, which benefitted the logging companies (and the politicians) was hard to reconcile with the interests of the indigenous peoples. Their plight was projected internationally by a Swiss activist, Bruno Manser, who lived with the Penan people…
Difficult Synthesis: Recent Trends in Malay Political Sociology and History
A Little Drama of Ethnicity: Some Sociological Aspects of the Kelantan Manora
Southeast Asian Affairs 1978
Journal Article Southeast Asian Affairs 1978 Get access Southeast Asian Affairs 1978. Singapore: Heinemann Educational (Asia) for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 1978. 324 pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617114 Published: 01 October 1979
Cross-currents on the Malayan east coast
Kelantan. Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State. Edited by William R. Roff. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 371. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £11.85
Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Get access Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. By T. J. S. George. London: André Deutsch. 1973. 222 pp. Bibliog. Index. £2.95. Paperback £1.75. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617282 Published: 01 April 1975
In the Spirit of the Red Banteng: Indonesian Communists between Moscow and Peking, 1959–1965 and Communists in Indonesia
In the Spirit of the Red Banteng: Indonesian Communists between Moscow and Peking, 1959–1965 and Communists in Indonesia Get access In the Spirit of the Red Banteng: Indonesian Communists between Moscow and Peking, 1959–1965. By Antonie C. A. Dake. Preface by Richard Lowenthal. The Hague, Paris: Mouton. 1973. 479 pp. Illus. Bibliog. Index.Communists in Indonesia. By Leslie Palmier. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. 302 pp. Index. (The Histor…
The Future Role of Singapore
Journal Article The Future Role of Singapore Get access The Future Role of Singapore. By Dick Wilson. London, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1972. 120 pp. Bibliog. Index. Paperback: £1.30. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 3, July 1974, Pages 496–497, https://doi.org/10.2307/261645…
Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore
Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Get access Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore. By T. J. S. George. London: André Deutsch. 1973. 222 pp. Bibliog. Index. £2.95. Paperback £1.75. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 291–292, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617282 Published: 01 April 1975
Of race, class, and clientship in Malaysia
Democracy without Concensus: Communalism and Political Stability in Malaysia by Karl von Vorys (Princeton, Princeton UP, 1975, np) The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak by Margaret Clark Roff (Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1975, £7.85) Kelantan: Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State, edited by William R. Roff (Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1975, £11.85) Malay Peasant Society and Leadership by S. Husin Ali (Kuala Lumpur, OUP, 1975, …
Democracy without Consensus: Communalism and Political Stability in Malaysia and The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak
Democracy without Consensus: Communalism and Political Stability in Malaysia and The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak Get access Democracy without Consensus: Communalism and Political Stability in Malaysia. By Karl von Vorys. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1975. 443 pp. $20.00.The Politics of Belonging: Political Change in Sabah and Sarawak. By Margaret Clark Roff. Kuala Lumpur, London: Oxford University …
The Strategic Land Ridge: Peking's Relations with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and Asian Neutralism and U.S. Policy
Journal Article The Strategic Land Ridge: Peking's Relations with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia and Asian Neutralism and U.S. Policy Get access The Strategic Land Ridge: Peking's Relations with Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. By Yuan-Li Wu. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. 1975. 97 pp. (Hoover Institution Publications 147.) $5.95.Asian Neutralism and U.S. Policy. By Sheldon W. Simon. Washington: American Ente…
The Communist Insurrection in Malaya 1948–1960 and Trial in Thailand
Thailand after Vietnam: After Vietnam Thailand
1976). Thailand after Vietnam: After Vietnam Thailand? Asian Affairs: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 19-32
Cross-currents on the Malayan east coast
Kelantan. Religion, Society and Politics in a Malay State. Edited by William R. Roff. Kuala Lumpur, Oxford University Press, 1974. Pp. 371. Maps. Glossary. Bibliog. Index. £11.85
The 'East Coast' in Malayan Politics: Episodes of Resistance and Integration in Kelantan and Trengganu
Territorial integration and resistance to it by the Malay States of Kelantan and Trengganu are not mutually exclusive categories of response to political modernization. Unlike the peoples of East Malaysia ('Malaysian Borneo') the population of eastern Malaya is overwhelmingly Malay in language and culture. Thus resistance to centralizing pressures has rarely had separatist overtones but has tended to express rejection of particular developments i…
Southeast Asian Affairs 1978
Journal Article Southeast Asian Affairs 1978 Get access Southeast Asian Affairs 1978. Singapore: Heinemann Educational (Asia) for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 1978. 324 pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 641–642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617114 Published: 01 October 1979
Thailand's return to limited democracy
Chroniques de Guerre ... et d'Espoir and Hanoi: Combats pour un Empire
Journal Article Chroniques de Guerre ... et d'Espoir and Hanoi: Combats pour un Empire Get access Chroniques de Guerre ... et d’Espoir. By Norodom Sihanouk. Paris: Hachette/Stock. 1979. 303pp. Pb.Hanoi: Combats pour un Empire. By Roger Holeindre and Marcel Marsal. Paris: Jacques Grancher. 1979. 211pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Vol…
Multipolarity and Cambodia ́s Crisis of Survival: A Preliminary Perspective on 1979$^{1}$
The remarkable premiership of M. R. Kukrit Pramoj
Politics and Government in Malaysia and Malaysia and Singapore: The Building of New States
Journal Article Politics and Government in Malaysia and Malaysia and Singapore: the Building of New States Get access Politics and Government in Malaysia. By R. S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy. Singapore: Federal Publications for the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. 1978. 406 pp.Malaysia and Singapore: the Building of New States. By Stanley S. Bedlington. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1979. 285 pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of …
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia and Cambodge: La Massue de l'Angkar
Journal Article Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia and Cambodge: La Massue de l'Angkar Get access Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia. By William Shawcross. London: Deutsch. 1979. 467 pp. £6.95.Cambodge: La Massue de l’Angkar. By Boun Sokha. Paris: Atelier Marcel Julian. 1979. 256 pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy and Souvenirs Doux et Amers
Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy and Souvenirs Doux et Amers Before Kampuchea: Preludes to Tragedy. By Milton Osborne. London: Allen and Unwin. 1979. 197 pp.£5.95.Souvenirs Doux et Amers. By Nordom Sihanouk. Paris: Hachette/Stock. 1981. 413 pp. Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 1, Winter 1981, Pages 176–178, https://…
A Little Drama of Ethnicity: Some Sociological Aspects of the Kelantan Manora
Lesser Current: The Election Ritual and Party Consolidation in the People ́s Republic of Kampuchea
The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea: A Personal View
This discussion paper does not attempt to describe and analyse the events leading up to the formation of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea.1 Instead, it offers a summary of the ideas in an earlier study on the Cambodian non-communist opposition,2 followed by some tentative, initial observations on their relevance nine months later, in the light of the emergence of a coalition of the Khmer Rouge, the Khmer People's National Liberati…
Thailand Between Democracy and Revolution
Journal Article Thailand Between Democracy and Revolution Get access Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 58, Issue 2, Spring 1982, Pages 307–314, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617984 Published: 01 April 1982
Students and the revolution: Thoughts on the return of a Thai Son
Anglo-Malaysian relations: Old Roles Versus New Rules
Journal Article Anglo-Malaysian relations: old roles versus new rules Get access Roger Kershaw Roger Kershaw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 59, Issue 4, September 1983, Pages 629–648, https://doi.org/10.2307/2619474 Published: 01 October 1983
Illuminating The Path to Independence: Political Themes in Pelita Brunei in 1983
The return of the ancient Sultanate of Brunei to the international stage in a condition of full independence and sovereignty on 1 January 1984 received litde fanfare in the world's press, either then or in the preceding twelve months. But the modesty of international attendon has complemented the micro-state dimensions of modern Brunei itself, and it must be added that the Government of Brunei has done litde on its part to fill the media gap. Und…
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