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Professor Michael Pinches

Chair
Anthropology and Sociology

Research Interests

• Cities, space and social difference
• Class and culture
• Ethnicity, nationalism and migration
• Globalisation and development
• Political anthropology
• Social theory
• Southeast Asia (especially the Philippines)

Qualifications:

BArch <em>Melb</em>., PhD <em>Monash</em>

Key Research and Expertise:

Teaching of Social Inequality, Cities, Culture and Globalisation, Religion Politics and Society in Asia, Popular Culture in Asia, Migration Culture and Identity, and Contemporary Social Thought.

Future Research:

My major current research is concerned with the development of urban middle class housing estates - in particular, gated communities - in the Philippines (Manila and Cebu City) and the ways in which they embody changes in urban space, class distinction, consumer status, and governance. This work builds on my earlier research on squatter settlements in the Philippines. My secondary area of research deals with international Filipino migration and Filipinos in Australia.

Publications:

Pinches, M.D., Brown, I. 2005, 'The Philippines: History', The Far East and Australasia, 37, pp. 1040-1059
Pinches, M.D., 2004 'Bamboo Dancers Down Under: the Filipino-Australian Intercultural Community in Western Australia' in Wilding R. and Tilbury, F. (eds.) A Changing People: Diverse Contributions to the State of Western Australia, Perth, Department of the Premier and Cabinet pp 284-302.

Pinches, M.D., 2003, 'Restructuring Capitalist Power in the Philippines: elite consolidation and upward mobility in producer services' in Dahles, H. and van den Muijzenberg, O. (eds) Capital and Knowledge in Asia: Changing Power Relations, London, Routledge Curzon pp64-89.

Pinches, M.D, 2002 Migrant Workers and the Reconstitution of Class and International Relations in East Asia in L. Tomba (ed.) East Asian Capitalism: Conflicts, Growth and Crisis Milano, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, pp 479-508

Pinches, M.D., 2001 Class and National Identity: the Case of Filipino Contract Workers in Hutchison, J. and Brown, A. (eds.) Organising Labour in Globalising Asia, London, Routledge pp 187-213

Pinches, M.D., 1999 (ed.) Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia, London, Routledge

Pinches, M.D.,1997 Elite Democracy, Development and People Power: Contending Ideologies and Changing Practices in Philippine Politics Asian Studies Review 21(2): 102-120.

Pinches, M.D., 1996 The Philippines’ New Rich: Capitalist Transformation Amidst Economic Gloom in R.Robison and D.Goodman (eds) The New Rich in Asia London, Routledge pp 103-133

Pinches, M.D., 1994 Modernisation and the quest for Modernity: Architectural Form, Squatter Settlements and the New Society in Manila in M.Askew and W. Logan (eds) Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia: Interpretative Essays, Geelong, Deakin University Press pp 13-42

Pinches, M.D.,1992 Proletarian Ritual: Class Degradation and the Dialectics of Resistance in Manila Philipinas 19, Fall:67-92

Pinches, M.D., 1991 The Working Class Experience of Shame, Inequality and People Power in Tatalon, Manila in B. Kerkvliet and R. Mojares (eds). From Marcos to Aquino: Local Perspectives on Political Transition in the Philippines Quezon City, Ateneo de Manila University Press [1992 Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press] pp 166-186

Pinches, M.D., 1989 Sending People Up: Industrial Structure and Primordial Sentiments in the making of Philippine elevator workers, Anthropological Forum, 6,1:7-26

Pinches, M.D., 1987 (editor with Salim Lakha) Wage Labour and Social Change: The Proletariat in Asia and the Pacific Clayton, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University [1992 Quezon City, New Day]