Staff profile

Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter

Research Fellow, Institute for Human Security

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 313, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA, MA (Kent), PhD (La Trobe)

Membership of professional associations

Institute for Human Security; Life member, University of Kent Council

Area of study

Anthropology
Asian Studies
Politics

Recent publications

Books

Hoffstaedter, G. (2011) Modern Muslim identities: Negotiating religion and ethnicity in Malaysia. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. Available online: http://www.niaspress.dk/books/modern-muslim-identities

Journal Articles

Hoffstaedter, G. (2009) ‘Contesting boundaries: Globalisation, the arts and the state’, Ethnicities 9 (4): 527–545. Available online: http://etn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/4/527

Hoffstaedter, G. (2009) ‘Islam Hadhari: A Malaysian Islamic multiculturalism or another blank banner?’, Contemporary Islam 3(2): 121-141. Available online: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v46636uq3x1gq718/?p=af6b2764c937411d9670a03700aecd0e&pi=0

Hoffstaedter, G. (2008) ‘Of projects and theme parks’, Off the Edge November Issue: 26-28.

Hoffstaedter, G. (2008) ‘Representing culture in Malaysian cultural theme parks: Tensions and contradictions’, Anthropological Forum 18 (2): 139-160. Available online: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a794152558~db=all~jumptype=rss

Hoffstaedter, G. (2008) ‘Of projects and theme parks’, Off the Edge November Issue: 26-28.

Book Chapters

Hoffstaedter, G. (2010) ‘The politics of theme parks’. In J. Lee (ed.) The Malaysian Way of Life. Shah Alam: Marshall Cavendish, 132-137 [reprint of article in Off the Edge, see below]

Conferences/Workshops

(2010) 'Islamicity: Conceptualising modes of being Muslim'. Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration Workshop On Human security and religious certainty in Southeast Asia, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 15-17 January, 2010.

(2009) 'Refugees, displacement and landscapes of difference'. Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2009, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 9-11 December 2009.

(2009) 'All the world's a stage: Structure, Agency and Accountability in International Aid'. Meeting the Millennium Development Goals conference, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 29 November- 1 December 2009.

(2009) 'Rethinking Human Security'. Research Workshop Showcase, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 24 July 2009.

(2009) 'Islamicity: Islam, space and being in Malaysia'. Asia-Pacific Week 2009, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 27-30 January, 2009.

(2008) 'Malaysian Studies at La Trobe'. Focus on Asia-Pacific – building research networks, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 28 October, 2008.

(2007) 'Islam and its universal project: views from Malaysia'. A Critical, Comparative Approach to Modernity and Cultural Otherness: Reflections on the Work of Joel S. Kahn, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 July, 2007.

(2007) 'Confluence of peoples and ideas: Malayness and cosmopolitanism in the Malay world'. Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2005, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 1-3 November, 2007.

(2007) 'Muslim Malay Identity in Malaysia: Modes of Inclusion and Exclusion'. La Trobe School of Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 8 November, 2007.

(2007) 'Islam in Malaysia – Performance of and belief in Islamic identity'. Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 14-15 November, 2007.

Hosting numerous datablitz seminars as part of the Nationalism and Identity Working group at the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 2005 and 2007.

(2006) 'Malay Muslim Identity Formation and Articulation in Peninsular Malaysia: Preliminary findings'. SESI Dialogue IKMAS: A Dialogue with the Visiting Fellows at IKMAS, IKMAS, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia, 17 August, 2006.

(2006) 'Globalisation, the arts and the state in Malaysia'. Third International Globalisation Studies Network Conference, IKMAS, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia, 20 August, 2006.

(2005) 'Islam in Malaysia'. School of Social Sciences ‘Identity and Globalisation’ Postgraduate Seminar Series, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 3 June 2005.

(2005) 'Identity Formation. and Articulation in Malaysia - Muslim, Malay and Modernity'. 6th Annual Conference of the International Social Theory Consortium, National University Singapore, Singapore, 9 June 2005.

(2005) 'Representing culture in Malaysian cultural theme parks: Power over cultural space and the rooting of identity in the nation’s soil'. Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2005, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Southern Australia, 28 September 2005.

(2005) 'Imagining the nation: Cultural Representation in Malaysian cultural theme parks'. Beechworth Symposium 2005, La Trobe Beechworth Campus, Beechworth, Victoria, Australia, 22 October 2005.

(2005) 'Culture and theme parks – national imagery in hypermodernity'. La Trobe School of Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 9 November, 2005.

(2005) 'Islam in Malaysia: Islam Hadhari - traversing the conceptual plane'. Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 21-22 November, 2005.

(2005) Presentation on the 'Role of national myths and TV/Movies in Japan using the case study of Saigo Takamori and the film Last Samurai', for datablitz seminar for Nationalism and Identity Working group, on 21 September 2005.

Research projects

  • Spaces of and for Islam – Islamicity in Malaysia
  • Secularism in Malaysia
  • Religious Pluralism in Southeast Asia
  • Focus on Asia-Pacific – building research networks
  • Refugees in Southeast Asia
  • The role of religion in international development and aid