Catherine Scheer
Biographic Data
| ID | 938481 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Scheer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | École Française d'Extrême-Orient |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5929-9401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Review
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity
Universals are abstract aspirations that claim to transform the status quo to a better future. They are particulars born in specific cultural, socio-political, and economic settings that aim to generalise across difference as they travel globally. While the contemporary grand schemes under scrutiny in this special issue circulate in Cambodia and Indonesia as part of economic neo-liberalism, rights-based liberalism, or environmental crisis managem…
Cambodia, a Model of Multilingual Education? Past and Present Perspectives on Teaching Indigenous Minority Languages in a Khmer Nation
In international forums on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE), Cambodia has, over the past decade, come to be considered as a role model in Southeast Asia. The Cambodian Ministry of Education and Youth’s 2015 National Action Plan, which aims to increase the number and quality of classes for “indigenous ethnic minorities” in their mother tongue, has often been cited in reports and meetings about the region. However, Cambodia’s ex…
Special Section Introduction
Christian NGOs
While Christianity remains marginal in Southeast Asia, recent social science scholarship has drawn attention to the nonetheless substantial influence of Christian Non-Governmental Organisations in the region. Though not a homogeneous group of actors, these organisations share in common that they ground their work in Christian values and convey these values through their activities. Their margin of manoeuvre is constrained by the specific national…
Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia
The examination of social movements in Southeast Asia involves tackling the question of the co-existence and interaction of different forms of research on and with social movements. Activists, artists, academic researchers, social advocates and practitioners might consider what it means for them to connect to each other, as well as to engage in intercultural and ideo-praxical translations. By discussing particular case studies in the region, we w…
Minority Converts in a Majority Church
Conversion to Christianity among Southeast Asian highland minorities has been recurrently interpreted as a way of joining a valorised religion that distinguishes converts from often-Buddhist ruling majorities and sometimes as a means of adopting a ‘modern’ way of life. Neither of these explanations, however, seems to appropriately describe the situation of Bunong highlanders who turned to Christianity in Cambodia’s capital in the early 1970s. Und…
Subaltern soldiers
Little is known about Cambodia's highland minorities during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese communists were infiltrating their homelands on the ground and American bombers attacking them from the sky. When inhabitants of the northeastern regions are mentioned in histories about the Khmer Rouge's coming to power, it is mainly as bodyguards of Pol Pot, who represented them as remnants of an uncorrupted ‘primitive…
Ian G. Baird, Rise of the Brao
Comment se fait-il qu’autant de personnes de la minorité montagnarde brao se sont vu confier des postes importants dans le gouvernement cambodgien des années 1980, alors qu’elles ne parlaient pas couramment la langue nationale khmère et n’avaient pas, pour la plupart, fait d’études avancées ? C’est la question qui s’est imposée à Ian Baird, aujourd’hui professeur de géographie à l’université de Wisconsin-Madison, lorsqu’ il a entrepris ses recher…
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits
Since the emergence of a new land law in Cambodia, "indigenous minorities" have recurrently substantiated their rights claims by referring to the powerful spirit-gods that live in their territories. This appearance of spirits on the official stage can be read as "provincializing" a Euro-modern ontology that does not take nonhumans seriously as political actors. But when spirits come to be integrated into a politics of recognition, questions arise…
Translating religion and development
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable surge of interest among both policy makers and academics on religion and its engagements with development. Within this context, ‘religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs)’ or ‘faith-based organizations’ (FBOs) have garnered considerable attention. Early attempts to understand FBOs often took the form of typological mapping exercises, the cumulative effect of which has …
The Mission of Development
The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition.…
When the Spirits are Angry, God Gains in Popularity
The two-fold aim of this paper is to outline a hitherto largely unknown history of evangelical Christianity among the Cambodian Bunong and to reflect upon aspects that may have been relevant in the encounters between Protestant missionaries and this minority population living in the highlands bordering with Vietnam. Relying on historical missionary accounts and on Bunong narratives gathered during fieldwork in Mondulkiri province, I will explore …
Translating religion and development
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable surge of interest among both policy makers and academics on religion and its engagements with development. Within this context, ‘religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs)’ or ‘faith-based organizations’ (FBOs) have garnered considerable attention. Early attempts to understand FBOs often took the form of typological mapping exercises, the cumulative effect of which has …
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits
Since the emergence of a new land law in Cambodia, "indigenous minorities" have recurrently substantiated their rights claims by referring to the powerful spirit-gods that live in their territories. This appearance of spirits on the official stage can be read as "provincializing" a Euro-modern ontology that does not take nonhumans seriously as political actors. But when spirits come to be integrated into a politics of recognition, questions arise…
When the Spirits are Angry, God Gains in Popularity
The two-fold aim of this paper is to outline a hitherto largely unknown history of evangelical Christianity among the Cambodian Bunong and to reflect upon aspects that may have been relevant in the encounters between Protestant missionaries and this minority population living in the highlands bordering with Vietnam. Relying on historical missionary accounts and on Bunong narratives gathered during fieldwork in Mondulkiri province, I will explore …
The Mission of Development
The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have sometimes come to be cast in opposition.…
Translating religion and development
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a remarkable surge of interest among both policy makers and academics on religion and its engagements with development. Within this context, ‘religious non-governmental organizations (RNGOs)’ or ‘faith-based organizations’ (FBOs) have garnered considerable attention. Early attempts to understand FBOs often took the form of typological mapping exercises, the cumulative effect of which has …
Ian G. Baird, Rise of the Brao
Comment se fait-il qu’autant de personnes de la minorité montagnarde brao se sont vu confier des postes importants dans le gouvernement cambodgien des années 1980, alors qu’elles ne parlaient pas couramment la langue nationale khmère et n’avaient pas, pour la plupart, fait d’études avancées ? C’est la question qui s’est imposée à Ian Baird, aujourd’hui professeur de géographie à l’université de Wisconsin-Madison, lorsqu’ il a entrepris ses recher…
Guardians of the forest or evil spirits
Since the emergence of a new land law in Cambodia, "indigenous minorities" have recurrently substantiated their rights claims by referring to the powerful spirit-gods that live in their territories. This appearance of spirits on the official stage can be read as "provincializing" a Euro-modern ontology that does not take nonhumans seriously as political actors. But when spirits come to be integrated into a politics of recognition, questions arise…
Subaltern soldiers
Little is known about Cambodia's highland minorities during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese communists were infiltrating their homelands on the ground and American bombers attacking them from the sky. When inhabitants of the northeastern regions are mentioned in histories about the Khmer Rouge's coming to power, it is mainly as bodyguards of Pol Pot, who represented them as remnants of an uncorrupted ‘primitive…
Minority Converts in a Majority Church
Conversion to Christianity among Southeast Asian highland minorities has been recurrently interpreted as a way of joining a valorised religion that distinguishes converts from often-Buddhist ruling majorities and sometimes as a means of adopting a ‘modern’ way of life. Neither of these explanations, however, seems to appropriately describe the situation of Bunong highlanders who turned to Christianity in Cambodia’s capital in the early 1970s. Und…
Christian NGOs
While Christianity remains marginal in Southeast Asia, recent social science scholarship has drawn attention to the nonetheless substantial influence of Christian Non-Governmental Organisations in the region. Though not a homogeneous group of actors, these organisations share in common that they ground their work in Christian values and convey these values through their activities. Their margin of manoeuvre is constrained by the specific national…
Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia
The examination of social movements in Southeast Asia involves tackling the question of the co-existence and interaction of different forms of research on and with social movements. Activists, artists, academic researchers, social advocates and practitioners might consider what it means for them to connect to each other, as well as to engage in intercultural and ideo-praxical translations. By discussing particular case studies in the region, we w…
Encountering Universals in Cambodia and Indonesia—Translations Across Historical Multiplicity
Universals are abstract aspirations that claim to transform the status quo to a better future. They are particulars born in specific cultural, socio-political, and economic settings that aim to generalise across difference as they travel globally. While the contemporary grand schemes under scrutiny in this special issue circulate in Cambodia and Indonesia as part of economic neo-liberalism, rights-based liberalism, or environmental crisis managem…
Cambodia, a Model of Multilingual Education? Past and Present Perspectives on Teaching Indigenous Minority Languages in a Khmer Nation
In international forums on Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE), Cambodia has, over the past decade, come to be considered as a role model in Southeast Asia. The Cambodian Ministry of Education and Youth’s 2015 National Action Plan, which aims to increase the number and quality of classes for “indigenous ethnic minorities” in their mother tongue, has often been cited in reports and meetings about the region. However, Cambodia’s ex…
Special Section Introduction
Review
Political science (9 works) · Cambodian History and Society (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (6 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Politics (5 works)