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IOWC Associate

James Francis Warren

Professor in Southeast Asian Modern History at Murdoch University, Australia, James Warren, who gained his PhD in Southeast Asian History from Australian National University, is an internationally renowned scholar of Southeast Asian studies. Professor Warren, who speaks or reads, Dutch, Spanish, Malay-Indonesian, Samal Bajau Laut and Japanese, has been awarded a number of prestigious awards including being appointed Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and receiving the Centenary Medal of Australia (2003) for ‘Service to Australian Society and the Humanities in the Study of Ethnohistory.’

Publications

Forthcoming

• Typhoon: Climate, History and Society in the Philippines, 1565 -2005.
• Who were the Balangingi Samal? Slave Raiding and Ethnogenesis in Nineteenth Century Century Sulu in Charles Keyes (ed.) On the Margins of Asia (Ann Arbor: Asian Studies Association of America, 2007).

2007:

• Pirates,Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethnohistory and Social History of Southeast Asia ( Crawley: University of Western Australia Press).
• “The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage – Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone" in Cassadra Pybus and Marcus Reddiker (eds.), Many Middle Passages (Berkeley: University of California Press).
• “The Port of Jolo and the Sulu Zone Slave Trade: An 1845 Report" in John Kleinen and Mannon Ossenweijer (eds.), Ports, Pirates, and Hinterlands in East and Southeast Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Singapore: IIAS/ISEAS).
• “A Tale of Two Centuries:the Globalization of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the eighteenth and twentieth Centuries", in Peter Boomgaard (ed.) Water : Cultural -Ecological Perspectives in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean (Leiden: KITLV).

Books

• 2007. Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore. (1870-1940) (Tokyo: Hosei Daigaku, Japanese Translation).
• 2007. The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State (Singapore: Singapore University Press). - new paperback edition with new introduction.
• 2003. Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore 1880-1940 (Singapore: Singapore University Press) - new paperback edition with new introduction (“My Grandfather in the Cellar” by Kuo Pao Kun - adaptation in Chinese of Rickshaw Coolie for the theatre, 1989).
• 2003. Ah Ku and K.arayuki-San: Prostitution and Singapore Society, 1870-1940 (Singapore: Singapore University Press).
• 2002. Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity (Singapore: Singapore University Press).
• 2002. Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity (Quezon City: New Day Publishers) - nominated as a finalist, National Book Awards ,the Philippines: category Social Science.
• 2000. The Global Economy and the The Sulu Zone Connections, commodities and Culture ( Quezon City : New Day Publishers).
• 1998. The Sulu Zone, The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination (Amsterdam: Free University Press).
• 1993. Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore (1870-1940) (Singapore: Oxford University Press).
• 1987. At the Edge of Southeast Asian History: Essays by James Francis Warren (Quezon City: New Day Press).
• 1986. The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State - reprinted, (Quezon City: New Day Press).
• 1986. Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore, 1880-1940 (Singapore: Oxford University Press).
• 1986. A Guide to the George L. Peet Collection on Malaysia and Singapore (Murdoch, W.A.: Murdoch University Library).
• 1981. The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State (Singapore: Singapore University Press).
• 1971. The North Borneo Chartered Company’s Administration of the Bajau, 1878-1909 - Southeast Asia Series Monograph No. 22 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University).

Articles

• 2006. 'Who were the Balangingi Samal? Slave Raiding and Ethnogenesis in Nineteenth Century Sulu' in Charles Keyes (.ed) On the Margins of Asia Diversity in Asian States (Ann Arbor, Asian Studies Association of America) pp. 53-68.
• 2006. 'A Tale of Two Centuries: The Globalization of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries' in Peter Boomgaard (.ed) A World of Water Rain ,Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories( Leiden: KITLV Press) pp. 125-152.
• 2004. ‘Rickshaw Pullers, Prostitutes and “Pirates”: Researching and Writing about Southeast Asia and the People without History’, Taiwan Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 1.1: 1-17.
• 2004. ‘The Karayuki San of Singapore, 1877-1941’ translated into Spanish in Jose Antonio Nieto (ed.) Sexualidades del Pacifico Diferentes Culturas Sexuales in Asia y Oceania, Revista Espanola del Pacifico, 16. 14: 115-56.
• 2003. ‘The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Slavery and Abolition, 24. 2: 111-128.
• 2003. ‘A Tale of Two Centuries: The Globalization of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries,’ Asia Research Institute working papers, No.2, electronic website.
• 2003. ‘The Global Economy and the Sulu Zone: Connections, Commodities, and Culture’ in Bernard Klein and Gesa MacKenthun (eds.) Sea Change Historicizing The Oceans (London: Routledge): 55-74.
• 2003. ‘The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’ in Gwyn Campbell (ed.) Slave Systems in Asia and The Indian Ocean: Origins and Structures (London: Cass): 111-128.
• 2003. ‘The Balangingi Samal: The Global Economy, Maritime Raiding and Diasporic Identities in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ Asian Ethnicities, 4. l: 7-29.
• 2001. ‘Savagism and Civilization: The Iranun, Globalization and the Literature of Joseph Conrad,’ Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 74. 1: 43-69.
• 2001. ‘Iranun and Balangingi :Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity’, Borneo Research Bulletin, 32: 126-145.
• 1997. ‘The Sulu Zone in the Nineteenth Century’ in The World of 1896 (Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press): 202-205.
• 1997. ‘The Bird’s Nests of Borneo’ in The Encyclopedia of Malaysia Vol. VII Political and Economic Transformation (Kuala Lumpur: Editions Didier Millet): 28-29.
• 1997. ‘Slave Trading and Markets of Borneo’ in The Encyclopedia of Malaysia Vol. VII Political and Economic Transformation (Kuala Lumpur: Editions Didier Millet): 32-33.
• 1997. ‘The Sulu Zone, The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination: Problematizing Global Cultural Interconnections and Interdependencies’ in Southeast Asian Studies, 35. 2: 177-222.
• 2000. ‘Lives of the Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore: Sources and Methods’, in Brewer, C. and Medcalf, A. (eds.) Researching the Fragments: Towards a History of Women in the Asian Context, (Manila: New Day Publishers): 87-102.
• 1998. ‘Slavery in Southeast Asia’, in Drescher, S. and Engermann, S. (eds.) A Historical Guide to World Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press): 80-87.
• 1997. ‘The Sulu Zone, The World Capitalist Economy and the Historical Imagination: Problematizing Global Cultural Interconnections and Interdependencies’ in Proceedings of The International Symposium Southeast Asia: Global Area Studies for the 21st Century (Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University): 23-82.
• 1996. ‘Opening up Asian Studies: An External Review’ in Toward an Integrated Approach to Global Area Studies: an External Review: International (Kyoto: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University): 28-35.
• 1996. ‘Looking Back on “The Sulu Zone”: State Formation, Slave Raiding and Ethnic Diversity in Southeast Asia’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Societ, 69. 1: 21-33.
• 1996. ‘Bajau-Meniti Zaman’: A Report. Sama Bajau Studies Newsletter, 1. 2: 12-17.
• 1995. ‘A Strong Stomach and Flawed Material: Towards the Making of a Trilogy, Singapore, 1870-1940’, Southeast Asian Studies, 33. 2: 245-264.
• 1995. ‘Who were the Balangingi Samal: Slave Raiding and Ethnogenesis in 19th Century Sulu’ in Horton, AVM and King, V (eds.) Buckfast to Borneo: Essays Presented to Father Robert Nicholl on the 85th Anniversary of His Birth 27 March 1995, (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies: University of Hull Press): 521-535.
• 1995. ‘Capitalism and Addiction: The Chinese, Revenue Farming and Opium in Colonial Singapore and Java, 1800-1910’, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 27. 1: 59-72.
• 1994. ‘Chinese Prostitution in Singapore: Recruitment and Brothel Organisation’ in Maria Jaschok and Suzanne Miers (eds.), Chinese Patriarchy: Women’s Submission, Servitude and Escape (London: ZED Press): 77-107.
• 1993. ‘The Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore - Their Lives: Sources, Method and a Historian’s Representation’, translated into Japanese in Modern Japan and its Colonies, Vol.5., in Soji Takasaki (ed.), Expansion of People of the Empire (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten): 251-272.
• 1992. ‘The Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore - Their Lives: Sources, Method and a Historian’s Representation’ in Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 26.2: 1-16.
• 1992. ‘The Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore - Their Lives: Sources, Method and a Historian’s Representation’ in Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 20.1: 80-92.
• 1990. ‘Prostitution and the Politics of Venereal Disease: Singapore, 1870-1898’. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 21.2: 360-383.
• 1990. ‘Reply to Alfred W. McCoy’, Journal of Asian Studies, 49.2: 347.
• 1990. ‘Retrieving Prostitutes Lives: Source Materials and an Approach for Writing the History of the Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore’, Itinerario European Journal of Overseas History, 14.1: 96-122.
• 1990. ‘Cross-Cultural Trade, Slave Raiding and State Formation in the Sulu Sultanate in the Nineteenth Century’ in Kathirithamby-Wells and Villiers (eds.), The Southeast Asian Port and Polity: Rise and Demise (Singapore: Singapore University Press): 187-212.
• 1990. ‘Prostitution in Singapore Society and the Karayuki-san’ in Peter Rimmer and Lisa Allen (eds.) The Underside of Malaysian History. (Singapore: Singapore University Press): 160-175.
• 1989. ‘The Karayuki-san in Singapore, 1877-1941’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 62. 2: 45-80. Translated into Japanese, Singapore Japanese Association, 1992).
• 1988. ‘Sulu’ in Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed.) Anslie T. Embree (N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons) IV : 25-26.
• 1988. ‘Moro Wars’ in Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed.) Anslie T. Embree (N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons) III: 40-41.
• 1988. ‘Moro’ in Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed.) Anslie T. Embree (N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons) III: 39.
• 1988. ‘Jolo’ in Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed.) Anslie T. Embree (N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons) II: 230.
• 1988. ‘Balambangan’ in Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed.) Anslie T. Embree (N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons) I: 126-127.
• 1987. ‘At the Edge of Southeast Asian History’ in James Warren, At the Edge of Southeast Asian History. (Ouezon City: New Day Press): ix-xviii.
• 1987. ‘Placing Women in Southeast Asian History: The Case of Oichi and the Study of Prostitution in Singapore Society’ in James Warren, At the Edge of Southeast Asian History. (Quezon City: New Day Press): 148-164.
• 1986. ‘Contributor of Visual Documentation’ in Ong Choo Suat, Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage: Images of Traditional Communities, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies): 115.
• 1986. ‘The George L. Peet Collection on Singapore and Malaysia: An Important bequest for Murdoch University’ Asian Studies Association of Australia Review, 10.1: 62-66.
• 1985. ‘The Prahus of the Sulu Zone’, Brunei Museum Journal, 6.1: 42-53.
• 1985. ‘The Spiral of Failure: Suicide among the Singapore Rickshaw Coolies’. Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 13.2: 47-66.
• 1985. ‘Social History and the Photograph: Glimpses of the Singapore Rickshaw Coolie in the early 20th Century’. Journal of the Malaysian Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 58.1: 29-43.
• 1985. ‘The Singapore Rickshaw Pullers: The Social Organization of a Coolie Occupation’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 15.1: 1-15.
• 1984. ‘Living on The Razor’s Edge: The Rickshawmen of Singapore between two wars, 1919 1939’. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 16.4: 38-51.
• 1984. ‘Rickshaw Coolie: An Exploration of the Underside of a Chinese City Outside China, Singapore, 1880-1940’ Itinerario European Journal of Overseas History 8.2: 80-91.
• 1982. ‘Slavery and the Impact of External Trade: Evidence from the Sulu Sultanate in the Nineteenth Century’ in De Jesus and McCoy (eds.), Philippine Social History Global Trade and Local Transformations (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press): 415-444.
• 1979. ‘The Sulu Zone, Commerce and the Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic Polity (1768-1898)’ Archipel (Numero Special: Commerces Et Navires Dans Les Mers Du Sud), 18: 223-230.
• 1978. ‘Who were the Balangingi Samal? Slave Raiding and Ethnogenesis in Nineteenth Century Sulu’, Journal of Asian Studies, 37.3: 477-490.
• 1977. ‘Joseph Conrad’s Fiction as Southeast Asian History: Trade and Politics in East Borneo in the Late l9th Century’, Brunei Museum Journal: 21-34.
• 1977. ‘Mongkut and Menelik, the Response of Traditional Kings to the West: A Comparative Study’, Historicus, 11.2: 23-35.
• 1977. ‘Slave Markets and Exchange in the Malay World: The Sulu Sultanate, 1770-1878’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 8.2: 162-175.
• 1977. ‘Balambangan and the Rise of the Sulu Sultanate, 1772-1775’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 50.1: 73-93.
• 1977. ‘Sino-Sulu Trade in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Philippine Studies, 25: 50-79.
•  ‘The North Borneo Chartered Company’s Administration of the Bajau, 1878-1909’, Sabah Society Journal, 5:4 (1972), 288-351.

Radio Broadcasts

• 26/6/2003. ‘Prostitution in Singapore,’ News Radio 93.8, Singapore.
• 5/5/2003. ‘Rickshaw Pullers and the History of Singapore,’ News Radio 93.8, Singapore.
• 8/7/1994. ‘Environment, State and Society in Asia: The Legacy of the Twentieth Century,’ 6PR (ABC).
• 30/9/1991. ‘Telling the Story of Those who Lived on the Margins of Society - The Poor and Dispossessed of Asia,’ 6PR (ABC).
• 4/10/1990. ‘Indonesian mariners in Australian waters an historical overview,’ 6UVS-6NR (public broadcasting).
• 25/9/1990. ‘The Bases of Insecurity: The Aquino Government and the future of the US Military Bases in the Philippines,’ 6UVS-6NR (public broadcasting).
• 7/8/1990. ‘The Ah Ku and Karayuki-san of Singapore - their lives: Sources, methods and a historian’s representation,’ 6UVS - 6NR (public broadcasting).
• 3/7/1990. ‘Prostitution, Singapore Society and Venereal Disease: A Historical Overview’, ABC Radio Australia.
• 14/10/1987. ‘Perceptions of Asia: A Historian’s Approach to the Asian Past,’ 6UVS-6NR (public broadcasting).
• 14/9/1987. ‘The Philippines at the Brink: Cory Aquino and the Army,’ 6UVS-6NR (public broadcasting).
• 31/10/1986. ‘The Culture of Silence: The Rickshaw Pullers of Singapore, Past and Future’, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
• 29/10/1986. ‘The Making of Rickshaw Coolie’, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
• 24/9/1986. ‘Source Method and Approach: Rickshaw Coolie,’ 6WN (ABC).
• 1/9/1985. ‘No More Tears: Observations on the Crisis in Philippine Society and Politics’ 6WN (ABC).
• 23/3/1984. ‘Geoffrey Blainey and Asian Immigration: A Historian’s Response,’ 6NR.
• 13/7/1984. ‘Father Brian Gore, Liberation theology, and Australia,’ 6NR.
• 18/6/1984. ‘Singapore: Past and Future,’ 6NR.

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