Flinders University
Dr Michael Barr
Dr
Michael
Barr
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/michael.barr
| Position/s: | Senior Lecturer International Relations |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012388 |
| Email: | michael.barr@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Social Sciences South (310) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Michael Barr is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International Relations and a member of the Flinders Asia Centre Management Committee. An historian by training, he came to Flinders University from The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology where he held postdoctoral research fellowships.
Honours, awards and grants
Recipient of the 1999 Asian Studies Association of Australia's President's Prize for the best Australian PhD in Asian Studies in 1998.
Key responsibilities
Chair of the Bachelor of International Studies Course Management Committee.
Director of Studies for the Bachelor of International Studies and the International Relations major.
Teaching
Teaching interests
Asian history and society; Asian political economy; the cultural politics of religion and ethnicity, especially in Asia; religious and ethnic nationalism; genocide.
Topic Coordinator:
- ASST3017 Asia Rising: The Politics of Development in the Asia-Pacific Region
- ASST7010 Cultural Politics in Modern Asia: Religion and Ethnicity in Nation-Building and Politics
- ASST9021 Religious and Ethnic Nationalism in Asia
- INST3002 Perspectives in International Studies
- INTR2003 Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region
- INTR7009 The Cultural Politics of Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism
- INTR9060 The Cultural Politics of Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism
Research and consultancy
Research interests
Singapore history and politics; Malaysian history and politics; religion and ethnicity in politics and nationalism.
Postgraduate research supervision
Current PhD supervision
Muhamad Nadzri Mohamad Noor, Ethnicity and Nation-Building: Malaysia and Singapore in Comparative Perspective.Natasha Bissett, Political Change in Singapore: The Place of the Internet.
Dahlia Martin, 'Family' and the Melayu Baru: Constructions of motherhood in Malay nationalism.
PhD students under examination
Rizwana Begum Abdul Azeez, Malayness, Language and Power in SingaporeCompleted PhD supervision
Anantha Raman Govindasamy, From Subservience to Assertion: A Study of Peninsula Malaysian Indians' Responses to Marginalisation. PhD awarded 2010.Publications
Volumes edited
Barr, M.D. and C.A. Trocki (eds), 2008. Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press.Barr, M.D. (ed.), 2010. Religious Nationalism and Nation Building in Asia, Special Issue of Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Forthcoming books
Barr, M.D., Singapore: A Modern History, London: I.B. Tauris, commissioned for 2015.Barr, M.D., The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence, London: I.B. Tauris, IN Press, forthcoming in 2012.
Barr, M.D. and Z. Skrbis, Arabic edition of Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation-Building Project, Kalima Project for Translation, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage, forthcoming in 2012.
First book
Barr, M.D., Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon; and Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000. New edition with Postscript published in Kuala Lumpur by New Asian Library, 2009.
Publications
Books
Barr, M.D. & Skrbis, Z., 2008. Constructing Singapore: elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project, Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press.
Barr, M.D., 2002. Cultural politics and Asian values: the tepid war, New York, USA: Routledge.
Book chapters
Barr, M.D., 2010. Harmony, conformity or timidity?: Singapore's overachievement in the quest for harmony. In Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 73-102.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Confucianism, from above and below. In Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 64-78.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Singapore's Catholic social activitsts: alleged Marxist conspirators. In Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 228-247.
Refereed journal articles
Barr, M.D., 2010. Marxists in Singapore? Lee Kuan Yew's Campaign against Catholic Social Justice Activists in the 1980s. CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 43(3), 335-362.
Barr, M.D., 2010. Religious nationalism and nation-building in Asia: an introduction. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(3), 255-261.
Barr, M.D. & Govindasamy, A., 2010. The Islamisation of Malaysia: religious nationalism in the service of ethnonationalism. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(3), 293-311.
Barr, M.D., 2008. No island is a man: the enigma of Lee Kuan Yew 's legacy. Harvard Asia Quarterly, 11(2/3), 45-56.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Singapore: the limits of a technocratic approach to health care. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38(3), 395-416.
Books
Barr, M.D., 2009. Lee Kuan Yew : the beliefs behind the man, Kuala Lumpur: New Asian Library.
Barr, M.D., 2009. Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs behind the Man, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: New Asian Library.
Barr, M.D. & Skrbis, Z., 2008. Constructing Singapore: elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project, Copenhagen, Denmark: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press.
Barr, M.D., 2004. Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The tepid war, London and New York: Routledge.
Barr, M.D., 2002. Cultural politics and Asian values: the tepid war, New York, USA: Routledge.
Book chapters
Barr, M.D., 2010. Harmony, conformity or timidity?: Singapore's overachievement in the quest for harmony. In Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 73-102.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Singapore's Catholic social activitsts: alleged Marxist conspirators. In Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore. Singapore: NUS Press, pp. 228-247.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Confucianism, from above and below. In Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, pp. 64-78.
Refereed journal articles
Barr, M.D., 2010. Religious nationalism and nation-building in Asia: an introduction. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(3), 255-261.
Barr, M.D. & Govindasamy, A., 2010. The Islamisation of Malaysia: religious nationalism in the service of ethnonationalism. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64(3), 293-311.
Barr, M.D., 2010. Marxists in Singapore? Lee Kuan Yew's Campaign against Catholic Social Justice Activists in the 1980s. CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 43(3), 335-362.
Barr, M.D., 2008. Singapore: the limits of a technocratic approach to health care. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 38(3), 395-416.
Barr, M.D., 2008. No island is a man: the enigma of Lee Kuan Yew 's legacy. Harvard Asia Quarterly, 11(2/3), 45-56.
Barr, M.D., 2006. Beyond technocracy: the culture of elite governance in Lee Hsien Loong's Singapore. Asian Studies Review, 30(1), 1-17.
Barr, M.D. & Low, J., 2005. Assimilation as multiracialism: the case of Singapore's Malays. Asian Ethnicity, 6(3), 161-182.
Barr, M.D., 2001. Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore: A Critical Inquiry. Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law, 26(4), 709-726.
Other public research outputs
Barr, M.D. & Trocki, C.A., 2008. Paths not taken: political pluralism in post-war Singapore (Co-editor), Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
Barr, M.D. & Trocki, C.A., 2002. Index of Political Headlines of Singapore's and Malaya's Vernacular Press: December 1953 to September 1961. Paths Not Taken Project: Political Pluralism in Postwar Singapore.
Professional and community engagement
2012-14: Editor-in-Chief, Asian Studies Review, journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)
2011-12: General Councillor, ASAA
2010: Co-editor (with Dr Liz Morrell) of the Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the ASAA and member, Organising Committee, 18th Biennial Conference of the ASAA
Ongoing: Member, Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA)
Expertise for media contact
- Singapore and Malaysia Politics and history
Subject/s
- Asia
- International Relations
- Muslims
- Politics
- Religion
