Richard Robison
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Richard Robison (born 1943) is an Australian social scientist. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University’s Asia Institute[1] and Professor Emeritus at Murdoch University in Western Australia.[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2009.[3]
Robison is best known for his research on Indonesian political economy including Indonesia: The Rise of Capital and Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (co-authored with Vedi Hadiz).
Education
While working and teaching, Robison completed a BA in politics and history from the Australian National University in 1969, an MA with First Class Honours (1972) and a PhD (1979) in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Sydney.[3]
Career
After a short stint teaching Southeast Asian Studies at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in 1976, Robison began his full-time academic career in 1977 as a Lecturer in Asian Studies at Perth's Murdoch University. Between 1976 and 1991/2001, he was promoted several times, becoming Professor of Asian and International Studies in 1991/2001.[4]
In 1991, Robison, with David Goodman, led a team of researchers that established Murdoch University's Asia Research Centre, a Special Centre funded by the Australian Research Council.[5] Over more that two decades the Asia Research Centre established itself as a leading source of innovative research, publication, and postgraduate training on Asia, establishing a "school" of political economy analysis now referred to as "The Murdoch School."[6]
During this period, Robison became an inaugural member of the Australian Government’s Foreign Affairs Advisory Council, established in 1999.[7] In 2001 he left Australia to take up academic appointments in Europe, as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Warwick University’s Centre for Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation in 2001-02 and as Professor of Political Economy at the International Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, from 2003 to 2006.[3]
Academic contributions
Professor Robison has authored and edited over 20 academic books and more than 30 articles in leading international academic journals, including World Politics, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Pacific Review, International Political Science Review and Journal of Contemporary Asia. His publications on Indonesia are best known.
In 1986, his first book, Indonesia: The Rise of Capital, was published by Allen & Unwin.[8] The book was widely debated[9] and reviewed. In his review for Asian Studies Review, Richard Tanter argued the book was "one of the most important books published on Indonesian politics in the last decade." He added that "Robison has provided a fine example of the power of a political economy approach to contemporary Indonesian society."[10] Writing in the Journal of Development Studies, Nigel Harris said: “We owe a considerable debt to Dr. Robison for his excellent account of the creation and maturation of a capitalist class.”[11]
Robison's second major book, Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets, was written with Vedi Hadiz. In Foreign Affairs, Lucian W Pye described the book as an "information-packed and theoretically sophisticated analysis," adding that "Robison and Hadiz brilliantly argue that, in spite of Indonesia's economic successes and the collapse of Suharto's regime, power arrangements in the country still operate to keep an oligarchy in command."[12]
In his collaborative work at the Asia Research Centre, Robison worked closely with Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison to produce a series of political economy collections on Southeast Asia (The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: An Introduction, The Political Economy of South-East Asia. Conflicts, Crises, and Change, and The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation) that did much to develop the "Murdoch School" of political economy. Reviewing the third of these collections, in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, William Case stated: "It is ... the best book for hose seeking a broad treatment of South-east’s Asia’s contemporary political economy."[13]
Authored and Co-authored Books
Indonesia: The Rise of Capital, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986 and reprinted several times. Translated into Japanese and published by San’ichi, in Tokyo in 1987. Republished, by Equinox in Jakarta in 2011. Translated into Indonesian by Komunitas Bambu in Jakarta, 2012. ISBN 9780049090248
Power and Economy in Suharto’s Indonesia, Manila: Journal of Contemporary Asia Press, 1990. ISBN 9789718639030
The Crisis in Southeast Asia: Origins and Outcomes, Abu Dhabi: The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 1998.
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (co-authored with Vedi Hadiz), London: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 9780415332538
Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia, (co-authored with Jane Hutchison, Wil Hout and Caroline Hughes), Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. ISBN 9781137303615
Selected Edited and Co-edited Books
Southeast Asia: The Political Economy of Structural Change (edited with Richard Higgott), London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. ISBN 9780415708906
South East Asia in the 1980s: The Politics of Economic Crisis (edited with Kevin Hewison and Richard Higgott), Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987. ISBN ISBN 9780043012895
Southeast Asia in the 1990s: Authoritarianism, Democracy and Capitalism (edited with Kevin. Hewison and Garry Rodan), Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993. ISBN 9781863732307
The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and middle-class revolution (edited with David Goodman), London: Routledge, 1995. ISBN 9780415113359
Pathways to Asia: The Politics of Engagement, Sydney: Allen & Unwin,1996. ISBN 9781864481020
The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: An Introduction (edited with Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 9780195537369
The Political Economy of South-East Asia. Conflicts, Crises, and Change (edited with Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780195513493
The Political Economy of South-East Asia: Markets, Power and Contestation (edited with Kevin Hewison and Garry Rodan), Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780195517583
East Asia and the Trials of Neo-Liberalism (edited with Kevin Hewison), London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN 9780415360135
Governance and the Depoliticisation of Development (co-edited with Wil Hout), London: Routledge, 2009. ISBN 9781138975347
Handbook of Southeast Asian Politics, London: Routledge, 2012. ISBN 9780415716512
References[edit]
- ↑ Bunyan, Marcus (September 14, 2020). "Our people". Faculty of Arts.
- ↑ "Richard Robison, Emeritus Professor". profiles.murdoch.edu.au. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Academy Fellow | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia".
- ↑ http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/richard-robison/
- ↑ "Asia Research Centre: Celebrating 20 years". Murdoch University. February 26, 2012 – via researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au.
- ↑ Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones, "Murdoch International: The ‘Murdoch School’ in International Relations," Asia Research Centre Working paper No. 178, December 2014.
- ↑ https://www.dfat.gov.au/news/media/Pages/establishment-of-an-aid-advisory-council
- ↑ https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2078774
- ↑ Jeffrey A. Winters, "Indonesia: The Rise of Capital: A Review Article," Indonesia, 45, 1988, pp. 109-128.
- ↑ Richard Tanter, "Indonesia: the rise of capital — a critique," Asian Studies Review, 12 (1), 1988, pp. 106-109.
- ↑ Nigel Harris, "New Bourgeoises," Journal of Development Studies, 24 (2) 1988, pp. 237-249.
- ↑ Lucian W. Pye, "Review of Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets," Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005.
- ↑ William Case, "Book Review: The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Markets, Power, and Contestation," Journal of Contemporary Asia, 37 (4), pp. 518-520.
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