PROFILE

A/P Anne Raffin is a French national, received her PhD in 2000 in Sociology and Historical Studies under the supervision of Charles Tilly at the New School for Social Research, USA. A/P Raffin’s research centers on a range of topics. Her research interests are in modern colonialism and its colonial legacies in Asia, state society relations and colonial heritage conservation in relation to urban development and touristic policies. She is currently starting a project on heritage conservation in the city of Pondicherry, India.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Modern Colonialism and its Legacies; State Society Relations; Globalization

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• “Brokering Teacher Training in Vietnam’s Early Childhood and Vocational Education Sectors: A Story of Educational Expansion and Para-State Entrepreneurship in the Doi Moi Economy,” Les Notes De l’Irasec, n. 16, December 2014, 18 pages, Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC).
• “Civility and Humiliation under the French Flag: The Tensions of Colonial Liberalism in Pondicherry, 1871-86,” Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 27, n. 4, December 2014, pp. 523-540.
• “Native Policy in Colonial State Formation in Pondicherry (India) and Vietnam: Recasting Ethnic Relations – 1870-1920s,” in George Steinmetz, ed., Sociology & Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline, Duke University Press, April 2013, pp. 415-435.
• “Youth Mobilization and Ideology: Cambodia from the Late Colonial Era to the Pol Pot Regime,” Critical Asian Studies, vol. 44, issue 3, 2012, pp. 391-418.