Professor Virginia Hooker
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Professor of Indonesian and Malay, now a Visiting Fellow in RSPAS
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Qualifications
- Ph.D. Monash University
- B.A. (Hons) Oriental Studies, Australian National University
Research
- Islam in Southeast Asia
- Contemporary Indonesian political culture
- Islam and social change in Indonesia
- Islam and the process of regional autonomy in Indonesia
Present Appointments
- Professor of Indonesian and Malay, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
- Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2002-2007 Member, Board, Australia Indonesia Institute
- Interim Chair of the Board of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, The University of Melbourne
Publications
Books
- Tuhfat al-Nafis Kuala Lumpur (1982, reprinted 1998)
- The Precious Gift Tuhfat al-Nafis (with Barbara Watson Andaya), Oxford, Kuala Lumpur (1982)
- Tuhfat al-Nafis Sejarah Melayu Islam (1991, reprinted as Karya Agung in 1997), Yayasan Karyawan, Kuala Lumpur (1997)
- Culture and Society in New Order Indonesia, editor and contributor, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur (1993, reprinted in paperback 1995)
- Writing a New Society: Social Change through the Novel in Malay, Allen and Unwin/University of Hawaii Press (2000) ['Outstanding Academic Title' award from Choice, American Library Association]
- A Short History of Malaysia: Linking East and West, Allen & Unwin (2003)
- Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, editor (with Norani Othman) and contributor, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2003)
- Islamic Perceptions on the New Millennium, editor (with Amin Saikal) and contributor, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2004)
- Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (2006)
Book Chapters
- These include:
- Islamic thought and Malay Tradition: the Writings of Raja Ali Haji of Riau with Dr B.W. Andaya, in Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia, ed. by Anthony Reid and David Marr, Heinemann Educational Books in Asia in association with ASAA, pp.108-129 (1979)
- Mediating Time and Space: The Malay Writing Tradition (with I. Proudfoot) in Illuminations: The Writing Traditions of Indonesia, ed. Ann Kumar and John McGlynn, The Lontar Foundation, Jakarta, Weatherhill, Inc., New York and Tokyo, pp.49-78 (1996)
- Bahasa dan Pergeseran Kekuasaan di Indonesia: Sorotan terhadap Pembakuan Bahasa Orde Baru, in Bahasa dan Kekuasaan: Politik Wacana di Panggung Orde Baru, ed. Yudi Latif and Idi Subandy Ibrahim, Mizan: Bandung pp.56-76 (1996)
- Complementarities and Cultural Dissonance: Political Culture and Public Discourse in Indonesia Dealing with a Neighbour C. Brown (ed), Sydney: Allen and Unwin and ASAA, pp.127-135 (1996)
- Expression: Creativity despite Constraint in Indonesia, beyond Suharto: Polity, Economy, Society Donald K. Emmerson, (a chapter on contemporary Indonesian culture commissioned by the Asia Society, New York), Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, pp.262-91 (1999)
- Malaysia: Still “Islam and Politics” but also Enmeshed in the Global Web in Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, Virginia Hooker and Norani Othman (eds), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.16-36 (2003)
- The Way Forward: Social Science and Malaysia in the 21st Century in Malaysia: Islam, Society and Politics, Virginia Hooker and Norani Othman (eds), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.269-276 (2003)
- Reconfiguring Malay and Islam in Contemporary Malaysia, in Contesting Malayness: Malay Identity Across Boundaries, ed. Timothy P. Barnard, Singapore University Press, Singapore, pp. 149-167 [ISBN 9971-69-279-1] (2004)
- Developing Islamic arguments for change through 'Liberal Islam' in Islamic Perspectives on the New Millennium (edited with Amin Saikal) (ISEAS, Singapore), pp.231-252 [ISBN 981 230 241 7] (2004)
- Indonesia with Greg Fealy and Sally White, in Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.39-50 (2006)
- Personal Expressions of Faith in Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.91-136 (2006)
- Sharia with M.B. Hooker in Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.137-206 (2006)
- Interactions: Global and Local Islam; Muslims and Non-Muslims in Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook, edited and compiled with Greg Fealy, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, pp.411-474 (2006)
Articles
- These include:
- Tuhfat al-Nafis: Structure and Sources in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, pp.375-92 (1971)
- Strategies of Survival: The Malay Royal Line of Lingga-Riau in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, pp.5-38 (March 1986)
- Jawi Literature in Patani: The Maintenance of an Islamic Tradition, with M.B. Hooker, JMBRAS, 61(1), pp.1-90 (1988)
- Penyengat: 19th Century Malay-Islamic Centre, in Archipel 37, pp.153-172, Paris (1989)
- Transmission through Practical Example: Women and Islam in 1920s Malay Fiction, in Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. LXVII(2), pp. 93-118 (Dec. 1994)
- Women with Will? Writing Female Initiative in the Malay Novel for Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (July 1997)
- Reconfiguring Malay and Islam in Contemporary Malaysia, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 34(2) pp.1-28 [ISSN 0034-6594] (Summer 2000)
Encyclopedia Articles
- These include:
- Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (E.J. Brill, The Netherlands) 'History East, South and SE Asia', pp 350-357 (2003)
- Encyclopedia Islam, 3rd edition, E.J. Brill, Ali Haji, Raja