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SUMMARY:Changing forms of leadership and political identity in Southeast Asia
LOCATION:Salón de Grados
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable discussion focuses on changes in political iden
 tity in Southeast Asia, as it interacts with new forms of leadership. Recen
 t years have seen significant shifts in modes of political identity, with t
 he apparent erosion of democratic values in countries such as Indonesia and
  the Philippines, shifting character and significance of class-based identi
 ties, intensification of ethnoreligious and gender identity-based mobilizat
 ion, and changing international discourse. We discuss how these processes, 
 often filtered through new types of leaders, reshape how and when people mo
 bilize. Our aim is breadth, to spark debate and distil common threads. Look
 ing to individual leaders, the roundtable will address how a new type of fe
 male politician, such as the Philippines’ Sara Duterte or Malaysia’s Azalin
 a Othman Said, projects a “butch” persona to carve out political space, def
 ying heteronormative expectations. Scaling up to movements, it will also di
 scuss internal dynamics within democratic struggles in Vietnam, Thailand, a
 nd other Southeast Asian states, and how pro-democracy movements become exc
 lusionary, increasingly segmented along class, religious, and other identit
 y lines. It will relate this theme to new types of youth leadership enablin
 g rhizomatic-type movements, such as the recent large-scale mobilization in
  Indonesia. It will address, too, how and why ethno-nationalist groups, inc
 reasingly challenged in their political objectives, from Aceh to Mindanao a
 nd Myanmar, reinvent themselves in light of changing international discours
 es on democracy and minority rights and closing opportunities within increa
 singly authoritarian states to strike accommodative political agreements. T
 urning to state and national identity, it will assess why Vietnam’s long he
 ld anti-China political identity has recently been shifting toward more con
 ciliatory, ethno-cultural sentiments, including youth’s now seeing China as
  “cool” rather than “menacing”. Finally, looking beyond the state, it will 
 address ways that transnational activism challenges state identities, such 
 as through the lobbying efforts of Myanmar’s diaspora groups or government 
 in exile (NUG).
URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/changing-forms-of-leadership-and-political-identity-in-southeast-asia
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