BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2026//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2026 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T082600 UID:euroseas-2026-interrogating-the-masses-in-southeast-asian-political-thought-1 SUMMARY:Interrogating The “Masses” in Southeast Asian Political Thought (1) LOCATION:Sala de Comisiones DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asian politics names and frames the people in many wa ys: rakyat, sambayan, prachachon, ummah, and massa, among others. These ter ms do not simply describe a modern phenomenon known as “the crowd.” They al locate rights, duties, and force. While scholars have extensively treated p arties, movements, networks, and political/state ideologies in the literatu re, less attention has been given to how rival traditions across political camps define who “the people” are, what they may do, and how institutions c hannel or block their actions.\nAt the same time, influential discussions o f “the masses” and “the crowd” in political and social theory have been sha ped by various European and (pan)-Asian traditions such as debates from lat e nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon) , questions of Asian variants of modernization in the face of Western colon ialism, interwar anxieties about “mass man” and mass democracy (Ortega y Ga sset), and multiple strands of revolutionary, mass-mobilizing political tho ughts (from Marxism to religious populism). These works circulated in imper ial and colonial milieus and in some educated circles in the colonies, info rming how colonial administrators and segments of anti-colonial intellectua ls alike conceptualized crowds, disorder, and mass politics.\nThis panel ta kes the asymmetry as a starting point. We examine how rival traditions in S outheast Asia – from reactionary, moderate, to radical ones – imagine the p eople, respond to them, and regulate their actions – whether through mobili zation, containment, incorporation, cooptation, or even repression. Possibl e angles from which to investigate Southeast Asian conceptualization of the masses include representation, participation, policing and demobilization, containment and concessions, collective action, and rights. How is “the pe ople” made legible by states, economic entities, elites, intellectuals and counter-publics? When are “people” treated as citizens who can vote, demand, protest, produce, believe, or bear arms and become angry mobs ? How do class, property, religion, and security policy affect how populati ons are sorted into voices and silences? What follows from institutions and political strategies?\nWe invite contributions based on theorization, inte rpretive/creative (mis)readings, close textual readings, archives, or field work, whether single cases or comparisons and embrace interdisciplinary app roaches, connecting political theory with intellectual history, cultural st udies, and studies on politics and social movements, among others. We welco me proposals from all parts of Southeast Asia. The panel will include a dis cussant and will serve as a platform for a journal special issue, to which the discussant will contribute a short response essay. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/interrogating-the-masses-in-southeast-asian-political-thought DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T163000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T082600 UID:euroseas-2026-interrogating-the-masses-in-southeast-asian-political-thought-2 SUMMARY:Interrogating The “Masses” in Southeast Asian Political Thought (2) LOCATION:Sala de Comisiones DESCRIPTION:Southeast Asian politics names and frames the people in many wa ys: rakyat, sambayan, prachachon, ummah, and massa, among others. These ter ms do not simply describe a modern phenomenon known as “the crowd.” They al locate rights, duties, and force. While scholars have extensively treated p arties, movements, networks, and political/state ideologies in the literatu re, less attention has been given to how rival traditions across political camps define who “the people” are, what they may do, and how institutions c hannel or block their actions.\nAt the same time, influential discussions o f “the masses” and “the crowd” in political and social theory have been sha ped by various European and (pan)-Asian traditions such as debates from lat e nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crowd psychology (Gustave Le Bon) , questions of Asian variants of modernization in the face of Western colon ialism, interwar anxieties about “mass man” and mass democracy (Ortega y Ga sset), and multiple strands of revolutionary, mass-mobilizing political tho ughts (from Marxism to religious populism). These works circulated in imper ial and colonial milieus and in some educated circles in the colonies, info rming how colonial administrators and segments of anti-colonial intellectua ls alike conceptualized crowds, disorder, and mass politics.\nThis panel ta kes the asymmetry as a starting point. We examine how rival traditions in S outheast Asia – from reactionary, moderate, to radical ones – imagine the p eople, respond to them, and regulate their actions – whether through mobili zation, containment, incorporation, cooptation, or even repression. Possibl e angles from which to investigate Southeast Asian conceptualization of the masses include representation, participation, policing and demobilization, containment and concessions, collective action, and rights. How is “the pe ople” made legible by states, economic entities, elites, intellectuals and counter-publics? When are “people” treated as citizens who can vote, demand, protest, produce, believe, or bear arms and become angry mobs ? How do class, property, religion, and security policy affect how populati ons are sorted into voices and silences? What follows from institutions and political strategies?\nWe invite contributions based on theorization, inte rpretive/creative (mis)readings, close textual readings, archives, or field work, whether single cases or comparisons and embrace interdisciplinary app roaches, connecting political theory with intellectual history, cultural st udies, and studies on politics and social movements, among others. We welco me proposals from all parts of Southeast Asia. The panel will include a dis cussant and will serve as a platform for a journal special issue, to which the discussant will contribute a short response essay. URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/interrogating-the-masses-in-southeast-asian-political-thought DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T183000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR