Assoc Prof Susan Blackburn - Researcher Profile

Biography

Susan Blackburn has a BA (Honours) from Adelaide University, and a PhD and Diploma of Education from Monash University. Her thesis concerned Indonesian nationalism.

Since graduating Dr Blackburn has taught at Victoria University of Technology (Melbourne), Griffith University (Brisbane) and, since 1991, at Monash University. Her research has been in the areas of Indonesian history and politics, the Indonesian women's movement, and foreign aid. She has just completed a research project with Oxfam Australia on their assistance to women in postconflict situations.

Her current teaching is in the areas of the Politics of Development, Gender in Asian Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, and Foreign Aid and Non-Government Organisations, at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr Blackburn has been supervising post-graduate theses since 1988. Her students have successfully completed MA and PhD theses in topics related to Asian politics, women in development, Australian foreign aid and the politics of development. She is interested in supervising further students in these and related areas.

Qualifications

ARTS

Institution: University of Adelaide

Year awarded: 2005

DIPLOMA OF EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1974

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Books

Blackburn, S. (ed), 2012, Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950s, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, Australia.

Blackburn, S. (ed), 2008, Indonesian Islam in a New Era, Monash University Press, Australia.

Blackburn, S., 2004, Women and the State in Modern Indonesia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Blackburn, S. (ed), 1999, Pemilu: The 1999 Indonesian Election, Monash Asia Institute, Clayton Vic Australia.

Blackburn, S., Stensholt, B. (eds), 1999, The Simons Report: Where to Now with Overseas Aid?, Monash Asia Institute, Clayton Vic Australia.

Falkus, M., Blackburn, S., Brasted, H., Kaur, A., Wright, D., 1997, Child Labour in Asia: Some Perspectives on Selected Countries, AusAID, Canberra ACT Australia.

Book Chapters

Blackburn, S., 2013, Food, in Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950s, eds Susan Blackburn, Hale and Iremonger, Brookvale, NSW, Australia, pp. 199-219.

Blackburn, S., 2012, Introduction, in Growing up in Adelaide in the 1950s, eds Susan Blackburn, Hale & Iremonger, Brookvale, NSW, Australia, pp. 5-28.

Blackburn, S., 2010, Feminism and the women's movement in the world's largest Islamic nation, in Women's Movement in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism, eds Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 21-33.

Blackburn, S., 2009, Has Gender Analysis been Mainstreamed in the Study of Southeast Asian Politics?, in Gender Trends in Southeast Asia, eds Theresa W. Devasahayam, ISEAS, Singapore, pp. 53-72.

Blackburn, S., 2008, Indonesian Islam in a new era: Introduction, in Indonesian Islam in a New Era, eds Susan Blackburn, Bianca j Smith and Siti Syamsyatun, MAI Press, Australia, pp. 1-21.

Blackburn, S., 2008, The 1928 Women's Congress Revisited, in The First Indonesian Women's Congress of 1928, eds Susan Blackburn, MAI Press, Australia, pp. 1-24.

Blackburn, S., 2005, Gradualism versus democratic leaps: political representation of women in Australia and Indonesia, in Indonesia-Australia: Challenges and Opportunities in Bilateral Political Relations (Translation), eds Chusnul Mar'iyah, Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, Jl Plaju Jakata, pp. 133-163.

Blackburn, S., 2004, Women's suffrage and democracy in Indonesia, in Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy, eds Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, RoutledgeCurzon, London UK, pp. 79-105.

Blackburn, S., 2001, Gender relations in Indonesia: what women want, in Indonesia Today: Challenges of History, eds Grayson Lloyd and Shannon Smith, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Pasir Panjang Singapore, pp. 270-282.

Blackburn, S., 2000, Political Relations Among Women in a Multi-Racial City: Colonial Batavia in the Twentieth Century, in Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-cultural Essays, KITLV Press, Leiden Netherland, pp. 175-198.

Hatley, B., Blackburn, S., 2000, Representations of Women's Roles in Household and Society in Indonesian Women's Writing of the 1930s, in Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices, Curzon Press, Richmond UK, pp. 45-67.

Blackburn, S., 1999, Riau, in Perspectives from the Periphery: ACFOA Election Monitors' Report, ACFOA, Deakin ACT, pp. 23-28.

Blackburn, S., 1997, Western Feminists Observe Asian Women: An Example from the Dutch East Idies, in Women Creating Indonesia: The First Fifty Years, Monash Asia Institute, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-21.

Journal Articles

Blackburn, S., 2010, A golden age of children's reading in Adelaide: a memoir, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia [P], vol 38, The Historical Society of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 108-117.

Blackburn, S., 2010, The impact of armed conflict on widowhood: case studies from Sri Lanka, Cambodia and East Timor, Asian Journal of Women's Studies [P], vol 16, issue 4, Ewha Womans University Press, Seoul, Korea, pp. 60-90.

Blackburn, S., 2009, Has gender analysis been mainstreamed in the study of Indonesian politics?, R I M A: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs [P], vol 43, issue 1, Association for the Publication of Indonesian and Malaysian Studies, Inc., Australia, pp. 129-146.

Blackburn, S., 2008, Indonesian women and political Islam, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, vol 39, issue 1, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 83-105.

Blackburn, S., 2008, Women of Southeast Asia: Recent Anthoropology (Review Essay), Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania (Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde), vol 164, issue 4, K I T L V Press, Netherlands, pp. 590-593.

Blackburn, S., 2002, Indonesian Islamic Women Enter the Political Arena, Kultur, vol 2, issue 2, Center for Languages and Cultures, Universitas Islam Negeri, Jakarta, Indonesia, pp. 21-45.

Blackburn, S., 2001, Women and the nation, Inside Indonesia, vol 66, Indonesia Resources & Information Programme, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-4.

Blackburn, S., 1999, Gender Violence and the Indonesian Political Transition, Asian Studies Review, vol 23 issue 4, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 433-448.

Blackburn, S., 1999, M J C Schouten, Leadership and Social Mobility in a Southeast Asian Society: Minahassa, 1677-1983, Asian Studies Review, vol 23 issue 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK, pp. 284-286.

Blackburn, S., 1999, Winning the Vote for Women in Indonesia, Australian Feminist Studies, vol 14 issue 29, Carfax Publishing, Basingstoke UK, pp. 207-218.

Blackburn, S., 1999, Women and Citizenship in Indonesia, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol 34 issue 2, Carfax Publishing, Basingstoke UK, pp. 189-204.

Blackburn, S., 1997, Gender in Third World Politics, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol 51, Carfax Publishing Company, Oxfordshire, pp. 126-127.

Blackburn, S., Bessell, S., 1997, Marriageable Age: Political Debates on Early Marriage in Twentieth-Century Indonesia, Indonesia, vol 0, S/E Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, Ithaca USA, pp. 107-141.

Other

Blackburn, S., 2008, The aftermath for women warriors: Cambodia and East Timor, On former combatants through the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) processes, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS Newsletter), The Netherlands.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Coolie" Voices: Oral history on a Sumatran tea estate.

Supervisors:

Drakard, J (Main), Blackburn, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Accountability and Decentralisation: A Study of District Councils in Cambodia..

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), Chandler, D (Associate), Cock, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Aid as "power to the people": designing participatory governance in local service delivery - the case of citizen voice and action.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Women and the Public Sphere: A study of Islam, women's citizenship and the effects of the Arab Sprin.

Supervisors:

True, J (Main), Blackburn, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Women?s empowerment in urban poor communities in Indonesia since the new order.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), Graham, P (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Chakraborty, E.

Program of Study:

Reinterpreting resistance: women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts struggle, Bangladesh. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), Reed, E (Associate).

Student:

Foley, R.

Program of Study:

THE CHALLENGE OF CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN MALAYSIA. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main).

Student:

Ganemy Kunoo, A.

Program of Study:

THE KAREN'S STRUGGLES IN BURMA: A KAREN PERSPECTIVE. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Woodward, D (Main), Blackburn, S (Joint).

Student:

Glanz, D.

Program of Study:

CONFUSION GROWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN: THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILLIPINES. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), James, P (Main).

Student:

Lee-Ack, J.

Program of Study:

Personal, political, polemical: contemporary feminisms and the problem of prostitution. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Joint), Caine, B (Joint-Co).

Student:

Marching, S.

Program of Study:

NEGOTIATING IDENTITY: INDONESIAN WOMEN'S PUBLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND UNPUBLISHED DIARIES INTHE NEW ORDER.. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main).

Student:

Martyn, E.

Program of Study:

GENDER AND NATION IN A NEW DEMOCRACY: INDONESIAN WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS IN THE 1950'S. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main).

Student:

Murugasu, S.

Program of Study:

The Malaysian state and the transnational politics of the Chins and the Acehnese. (PHD) 2011.

Supervisors:

Graham, P (Joint-Co), Blackburn, S (Joint).

Student:

Pranawati, R.

Program of Study:

Mediation in Muslim Divorce: A Case Study in the Religious Court of Yogyakarta Indonesia. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Joint-Co), Lindsay, J (Joint).

Student:

Scheyvens, H.

Program of Study:

EVALUATING AID: THE DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT OF JAPAN'S OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. (PHD) 2001.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main).

Student:

Setyawati, L.

Program of Study:

Malay resurgence and its implications for Indonesian unity and democracy: a case study of decentralisation in Riau 2000-2004. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Joint), Graham, P (Joint-Co).

Student:

Syamsiyatun, S.

Program of Study:

Serving young Islamic Indonesian women: the development of gender discourse in Nasyiatul Aisyiyah 1965-2005. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), Harris, A (Associate).

Student:

Yazid, S.

Program of Study:

Responding to democratisation and globalisation: NGOs influence on Indonesia's policies on labour migration. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Blackburn, S (Main), Graham, P (Associate).