Shane Joshua Barter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 373671 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shane Joshua Barter |
| PRENOMES | Shane Joshua |
| SOBRENOME | Barter |
| ASSINATURA | BARTER S J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Soka University of America |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8139-2998 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Towards Indigenous Territorial Autonomy in Asia
A global shift towards decentralisation includes the spread of territorial autonomy for separatist minorities and Indigenous sovereignty movements. These trends and accompanying scholarship have evolved in isolation, to their mutual detriment. This paper has two goals. First, it identifies Indigenous autonomy as one form of territorial autonomy and one manifestation of Indigenous sovereignty. Indigenous autonomy resembles mainstream autonomy, but…
Autonomy and Party Dominance
In 1922, the Labour Party emerged as the principal party in Wales. Over a century later, Welsh Labour remains dominant, winning all general and devolved elections. Remarkable for a democratic nation, Welsh Labour’s 100+ year winning streak stands as the most sustained dominance of any party in the world. What explains this sustained power, even despite changing political contexts and institutions? We suggest that a principal, underappreciated fac…
Odd Couple, Strange Marriage
In 2017, Tokyo held landmark prefectural elections featuring a new regional party, Tokyoites First. Fueled by the popularity of Governor Yuriko Koike, Tokyoites First gained legislative control through an alliance with Komeito, relegating the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to opposition status. The alliance was surprising, especially since Komeito remained a national coalition partner with the LDP. Why would Komeito, a junior partner in a long-st…
Indonesian Autonomies
A form of power-sharing, territorial autonomy is essential for managing separatism. Indonesia provides two non-Western cases to illuminate what makes autonomy work. In Aceh, autonomy helped to overcome conflict and can be regarded as successful, while in Papua, autonomy has failed, evident in continued unrest. Within the same country, the same institutional response to violent separatism has generated divergent self-government outcomes. Why has a…
Elusive belonging
Islam, State and Society in Indonesia
Internal Migration
Rethinking territorial autonomy
Rethinking territorial autonomy. Regional Studies. Territorial autonomy represents an important tool to manage tensions involving territorially concentrated ethnic minorities. However, we tend to overlook dynamics within autonomous areas, which tend to centralize power with the local ethnic majority and enable localized nation-building. All autonomous regions feature their own minorities, groups that tend to resist autonomous governments. These p…
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Civilian Strategy across Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is known for diverse, hospitable, and sometimes unruly inhabitants. Studies of Southeast Asia have documented forms of everyday peasant resistance (Scott & Kerkvliet 1986). In the So
Exploring the Religious Divide
This chapter seeks to demonstrate an enduring, global pattern of Catholic colonizers mixing with local communities compared to Protestant colonizers. After all, before a pattern can be explained, it must first be affirmed. To do so, I move across world regions, starting with Southeast Asia and moving on to East Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. While noting some exceptions, this chapter shows that Portuguese, Spanish, French, I…
Religious Diversity in Muslim-Majority States in Southeast Asia
Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers
This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy -that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. This book then seeks to explain this pattern, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race
Measuring Religion in War
We respond to Isak Svensson's reaction to our article titled “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia,” which was published in Volume 53 of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Zones of Control & Civilian Strategy in the Aceh Conflict
How do civilians respond to and shape civil war? Dominant approaches emphasise territorial control, while rival sociological explanations understand civilian behaviour as rooted in justice, pleasure, and social norms. This paper assesses these divergent sensibilities by examining rebel-controlled areas from Aceh, Indonesia. Many civilians provided the rebels with symbolic support, information and provisions, support that deepened over time as the…
Strife of the soil? Unsettling transmigrant conflicts in Indonesia
Challenging conventional wisdom, this article argues that Indonesia — long home to both large-scale transmigration programmes and a range of conflicts — has not witnessed transmigrant conflicts. The vast majority of Indonesian transmigrants were resettled in parts of Sumatra which have remained peaceful. In some conflicts, the role of transmigration has been exaggerated. In others, interethnic violence has involved spontaneous migrants rather tha…
Second-order’ ethnic minorities in Asian secessionist conflicts
This article provides some conceptual foundations for a special issue of Asian Ethnicity concerned with what we call ‘second-order minorities’. If secessionist conflicts involve minorities resisting abusive, assimilationist states, leading rebel groups to embark on their own nation-building efforts, how does this affect the minorities of aspiring secessionist nations? How do the minorities of secessionist groups respond to secessionism? Despite m…
Between a rock and a hard place
Secessionist movements are often motivated by a sense of exclusion, abuse, and assimilation at the hands of host states. But in waging armed struggles and constructing ethnic nationalisms, they may replicate such grievances against their own minorities. This paper seeks to provide a deeper understanding of how ‘second-order minorities’ respond to secessionist ethno-nationalism. Based on ethnographic research in Aceh, Indonesia, this paper looks t…
Area studies, asian studies, and the pacific basin
Much has been said of the shortcomings, and even demise, of area studies in the face of globalization, university budget cuts, and criticisms from a range of commentators. But the multidisciplinary study of specific countries and regions remains alive and well. Area-studies scholars approach the world in terms of peoples, places, and things--prioritizing proper nouns--as opposed to discipline-driven studies that may treat proper nouns as variable…
Comparisons, Mindanao
T he southern Philippines represent an especially complex region and conflict. Whereas in Aceh and Patani combatants drawn from single ethnic groups have fought to reinstate the borders of historical kingdoms, the conflict in Mindanao is waged by a handful of Muslim communities with distinct grievances and armed groups. During the conflict, civilians have utilized unique forms of flight, support, and voice. Especially notable are the open, widesp…
Civilian Strategy in Civil War
1. Introduction: Civilian Strategy in Civil War 2. Towards a Theory of Civilian Strategy 3. Empirical Foundations, Aceh 4. Aceh's Civilians in War 5. Explaining Civilian Decisions in Aceh 6. Comparisons, Patani 7. Comparisons, Mindanao 8. Civilian Strategy: Theory and Practice
Shrouded
The relationship between Islam and war has been the focus of lively debates. While terrorism experts might find a holy war wherever they look, others deny the role of faith in motivating violence. While no conflict is entirely inspired by faith, nor is any conflict entirely without it, the degree of religious motivation matters a great deal. How does one gauge the religiosity of a given conflict? We identify three dominant approaches: citing scri…
State Proxy or Security Dilemma? Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War
Militias are responsible for some of the most egregious human rights abuses in civil wars. This said, they vary tremendously, and some may serve as a source of security against abusive rebel groups. What distinguishes predatory anti-rebel militias from those which are more or less popular? While previous studies focus on the relationship between militias and states, this study demands equal attention to the militia/rebel relationship. While milit…
Unarmed Forces
What options are available to civilians faced with war? While civilians tend to be portrayed as helpless victims—and sometimes are—we know that they are not inert. Borrowing from Albert Hirschman, I propose that civilians’ strategies can be understood in terms of flight to safer areas, speaking out to or against armed groups, as support for armed groups, and combinations of these three strategies. This study introduces a simple, intuitive schema …
The Free Aceh Elections? The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh
Unarmed Forces
What options are available to civilians faced with war? While civilians tend to be portrayed as helpless victims—and sometimes are—we know that they are not inert. Borrowing from Albert Hirschman, I propose that civilians’ strategies can be understood in terms of flight to safer areas, speaking out to or against armed groups, as support for armed groups, and combinations of these three strategies. This study introduces a simple, intuitive schema …
State Proxy or Security Dilemma? Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War
Militias are responsible for some of the most egregious human rights abuses in civil wars. This said, they vary tremendously, and some may serve as a source of security against abusive rebel groups. What distinguishes predatory anti-rebel militias from those which are more or less popular? While previous studies focus on the relationship between militias and states, this study demands equal attention to the militia/rebel relationship. While milit…
Rethinking territorial autonomy
Rethinking territorial autonomy. Regional Studies. Territorial autonomy represents an important tool to manage tensions involving territorially concentrated ethnic minorities. However, we tend to overlook dynamics within autonomous areas, which tend to centralize power with the local ethnic majority and enable localized nation-building. All autonomous regions feature their own minorities, groups that tend to resist autonomous governments. These p…
Second-order’ ethnic minorities in Asian secessionist conflicts
This article provides some conceptual foundations for a special issue of Asian Ethnicity concerned with what we call ‘second-order minorities’. If secessionist conflicts involve minorities resisting abusive, assimilationist states, leading rebel groups to embark on their own nation-building efforts, how does this affect the minorities of aspiring secessionist nations? How do the minorities of secessionist groups respond to secessionism? Despite m…
Resources, religion, rebellion
A clear understanding of what creates a conflict is central to building a lasting peace. This paper targets two common misconceptions which cloud analyses of the recent separatist conflict in Aceh. First, the conflict was not about oil. Resource curse theories help explain the creation of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), but cannot explain why the conflict remained limited for several years. The lessons here are that what motivates a conflict varies…
The Free Aceh Elections? The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh
Zones of Control & Civilian Strategy in the Aceh Conflict
How do civilians respond to and shape civil war? Dominant approaches emphasise territorial control, while rival sociological explanations understand civilian behaviour as rooted in justice, pleasure, and social norms. This paper assesses these divergent sensibilities by examining rebel-controlled areas from Aceh, Indonesia. Many civilians provided the rebels with symbolic support, information and provisions, support that deepened over time as the…
Area studies, asian studies, and the pacific basin
Much has been said of the shortcomings, and even demise, of area studies in the face of globalization, university budget cuts, and criticisms from a range of commentators. But the multidisciplinary study of specific countries and regions remains alive and well. Area-studies scholars approach the world in terms of peoples, places, and things--prioritizing proper nouns--as opposed to discipline-driven studies that may treat proper nouns as variable…
Shrouded
The relationship between Islam and war has been the focus of lively debates. While terrorism experts might find a holy war wherever they look, others deny the role of faith in motivating violence. While no conflict is entirely inspired by faith, nor is any conflict entirely without it, the degree of religious motivation matters a great deal. How does one gauge the religiosity of a given conflict? We identify three dominant approaches: citing scri…
Ulama, the state, & war
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Civilian Strategy across Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is known for diverse, hospitable, and sometimes unruly inhabitants. Studies of Southeast Asia have documented forms of everyday peasant resistance (Scott & Kerkvliet 1986). In the So
Strong State, Smothered Society
Why have militants in southern Thailand utilized anonymous and at times indiscriminate terrorist violence against civilians? This article gauges three explanations: resource wealth, weak states, and strong states. I argue that terrorist violence against civilians in southern Thailand is partially sustained and largely structured by the considerable institutional strength of the Thai state. This helps sustain the conflict by providing an additiona…
Indonesian Autonomies
A form of power-sharing, territorial autonomy is essential for managing separatism. Indonesia provides two non-Western cases to illuminate what makes autonomy work. In Aceh, autonomy helped to overcome conflict and can be regarded as successful, while in Papua, autonomy has failed, evident in continued unrest. Within the same country, the same institutional response to violent separatism has generated divergent self-government outcomes. Why has a…
Measuring Religion in War
We respond to Isak Svensson's reaction to our article titled “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia,” which was published in Volume 53 of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Strife of the soil? Unsettling transmigrant conflicts in Indonesia
Challenging conventional wisdom, this article argues that Indonesia — long home to both large-scale transmigration programmes and a range of conflicts — has not witnessed transmigrant conflicts. The vast majority of Indonesian transmigrants were resettled in parts of Sumatra which have remained peaceful. In some conflicts, the role of transmigration has been exaggerated. In others, interethnic violence has involved spontaneous migrants rather tha…
Critical Commentaries
Critical Commentaries: CRIMINAL JUSTICE Get access SUSAN J. BARTER SUSAN J. BARTER School of Social Sciences University of Bath Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 27, Issue 1, February 1997, Pages 145–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a011184 Published: 01 February 1997
Resources, religion, rebellion
A clear understanding of what creates a conflict is central to building a lasting peace. This paper targets two common misconceptions which cloud analyses of the recent separatist conflict in Aceh. First, the conflict was not about oil. Resource curse theories help explain the creation of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), but cannot explain why the conflict remained limited for several years. The lessons here are that what motivates a conflict varies…
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Ulama, the state, & war
The Free Aceh Elections? The 2009 Legislative Contests in Aceh
Strong State, Smothered Society
Why have militants in southern Thailand utilized anonymous and at times indiscriminate terrorist violence against civilians? This article gauges three explanations: resource wealth, weak states, and strong states. I argue that terrorist violence against civilians in southern Thailand is partially sustained and largely structured by the considerable institutional strength of the Thai state. This helps sustain the conflict by providing an additiona…
Unarmed Forces
What options are available to civilians faced with war? While civilians tend to be portrayed as helpless victims—and sometimes are—we know that they are not inert. Borrowing from Albert Hirschman, I propose that civilians’ strategies can be understood in terms of flight to safer areas, speaking out to or against armed groups, as support for armed groups, and combinations of these three strategies. This study introduces a simple, intuitive schema …
State Proxy or Security Dilemma? Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War
Militias are responsible for some of the most egregious human rights abuses in civil wars. This said, they vary tremendously, and some may serve as a source of security against abusive rebel groups. What distinguishes predatory anti-rebel militias from those which are more or less popular? While previous studies focus on the relationship between militias and states, this study demands equal attention to the militia/rebel relationship. While milit…
Comparisons, Mindanao
T he southern Philippines represent an especially complex region and conflict. Whereas in Aceh and Patani combatants drawn from single ethnic groups have fought to reinstate the borders of historical kingdoms, the conflict in Mindanao is waged by a handful of Muslim communities with distinct grievances and armed groups. During the conflict, civilians have utilized unique forms of flight, support, and voice. Especially notable are the open, widesp…
Civilian Strategy in Civil War
1. Introduction: Civilian Strategy in Civil War 2. Towards a Theory of Civilian Strategy 3. Empirical Foundations, Aceh 4. Aceh's Civilians in War 5. Explaining Civilian Decisions in Aceh 6. Comparisons, Patani 7. Comparisons, Mindanao 8. Civilian Strategy: Theory and Practice
Shrouded
The relationship between Islam and war has been the focus of lively debates. While terrorism experts might find a holy war wherever they look, others deny the role of faith in motivating violence. While no conflict is entirely inspired by faith, nor is any conflict entirely without it, the degree of religious motivation matters a great deal. How does one gauge the religiosity of a given conflict? We identify three dominant approaches: citing scri…
Zones of Control & Civilian Strategy in the Aceh Conflict
How do civilians respond to and shape civil war? Dominant approaches emphasise territorial control, while rival sociological explanations understand civilian behaviour as rooted in justice, pleasure, and social norms. This paper assesses these divergent sensibilities by examining rebel-controlled areas from Aceh, Indonesia. Many civilians provided the rebels with symbolic support, information and provisions, support that deepened over time as the…
Strife of the soil? Unsettling transmigrant conflicts in Indonesia
Challenging conventional wisdom, this article argues that Indonesia — long home to both large-scale transmigration programmes and a range of conflicts — has not witnessed transmigrant conflicts. The vast majority of Indonesian transmigrants were resettled in parts of Sumatra which have remained peaceful. In some conflicts, the role of transmigration has been exaggerated. In others, interethnic violence has involved spontaneous migrants rather tha…
Second-order’ ethnic minorities in Asian secessionist conflicts
This article provides some conceptual foundations for a special issue of Asian Ethnicity concerned with what we call ‘second-order minorities’. If secessionist conflicts involve minorities resisting abusive, assimilationist states, leading rebel groups to embark on their own nation-building efforts, how does this affect the minorities of aspiring secessionist nations? How do the minorities of secessionist groups respond to secessionism? Despite m…
Between a rock and a hard place
Secessionist movements are often motivated by a sense of exclusion, abuse, and assimilation at the hands of host states. But in waging armed struggles and constructing ethnic nationalisms, they may replicate such grievances against their own minorities. This paper seeks to provide a deeper understanding of how ‘second-order minorities’ respond to secessionist ethno-nationalism. Based on ethnographic research in Aceh, Indonesia, this paper looks t…
Area studies, asian studies, and the pacific basin
Much has been said of the shortcomings, and even demise, of area studies in the face of globalization, university budget cuts, and criticisms from a range of commentators. But the multidisciplinary study of specific countries and regions remains alive and well. Area-studies scholars approach the world in terms of peoples, places, and things--prioritizing proper nouns--as opposed to discipline-driven studies that may treat proper nouns as variable…
Exploring the Religious Divide
This chapter seeks to demonstrate an enduring, global pattern of Catholic colonizers mixing with local communities compared to Protestant colonizers. After all, before a pattern can be explained, it must first be affirmed. To do so, I move across world regions, starting with Southeast Asia and moving on to East Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. While noting some exceptions, this chapter shows that Portuguese, Spanish, French, I…
Religious Diversity in Muslim-Majority States in Southeast Asia
Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers
This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy -that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. This book then seeks to explain this pattern, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race
Measuring Religion in War
We respond to Isak Svensson's reaction to our article titled “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia,” which was published in Volume 53 of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Rethinking territorial autonomy
Rethinking territorial autonomy. Regional Studies. Territorial autonomy represents an important tool to manage tensions involving territorially concentrated ethnic minorities. However, we tend to overlook dynamics within autonomous areas, which tend to centralize power with the local ethnic majority and enable localized nation-building. All autonomous regions feature their own minorities, groups that tend to resist autonomous governments. These p…
Ummah or tribe? Islamic practice, political ethnocentrism, and political attitudes in Indonesia
Existing research has uncovered a link between religious practice and political ethnocentrism. Religious individuals are relatively inclined to both support policies that benefit their own ethnic group and support political competitors seeking to represent them. These findings are broadly consistent with a large body of literature that examines the relationship between religion and ethnic prejudice. To date, empirical research has concentrated ov…
Civilian Strategy across Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is known for diverse, hospitable, and sometimes unruly inhabitants. Studies of Southeast Asia have documented forms of everyday peasant resistance (Scott & Kerkvliet 1986). In the So
Internal Migration
Elusive belonging
Political science (24 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Law (20 obras) · Asian Studies and History (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Political economy (12 obras) · Politics (9 obras) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (9 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (7 obras)