10-12 November 2005
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS)
Shanghai, China

Convenors:
Prof. LI Yihai (SASS)
Dr John Kleinen (MARE)

Maritime piracy encompasses a variety of activities from raiding, destroying and pillaging coastal villages and capturing inhabitants to attacking and taking over vessels, robbing and trading the cargo. Other activities like smuggle of goods and people have also been part of this range of piracy acts. Generally speaking, what connects these activities is the fact that they are carried out at sea, often the coastal inshore waters (within the 12 mile zone), by vessels towards other vessels or towards coastal settlements. These acts of maritime piracy cannot be regarded outside the relevant framework of the coastal zone. Coastal zones have become highly desirable places and thus places subject to great social and ecological pressures. Piracy being the most dramatic of marginal(ised) maritime livelihood, it is our intent to bring into focus the relationship between pirates, ports and coastal hinterlands. These might be uses of the sea that are like piracy illegal, such as drug smuggling and trafficking in human beings.

Ports, where the loading and unloading of shipments of cargo, business transactions and trading as well as provisioning are taking place, are located in these coastal zones. An important focus of this workshop will be put on how port authorities have been operating, combatting, condoning or even encouraging different forms of piracy and smuggling. Presentations by scholars and practitioners on ports in East and Southeast Asia, both in the past and in the present, will shed light on the social, political and economic context in which piracy has been taking place and how the stakes of the different players (port authorities, governments, trading companies, sailors, pirates, etc.) have been divided.

 
Speakers:

Dr Robert Antony (Western Kentucky University, USA)

Mr Cees de Bruyne (Dutch National Police, Port Authority Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Prof. CAI Penghong (SASS, China)

Dr Paola Calanca (EFEO, China)

Dr Stefan Eklöf (Göteborg University, Sweden)

Eric Frecon MA (CERI, France)

Hoang Anh Tuan (TANAP,Vietnam)

Dr John Kleinen (MARE, the Netherlands)

Dr Gerrit Knaap (KITLV, the Netherlands)

Prof. Adrian Lapian (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Carolin Liss MA (Murdoch University, Australia/Asia Research Institute, Singapore)

Ota Atsushi MA (TANAP, Japan)

Mr Pasorohan Herman Harianja MSc (Port Authority Tanjung Pinang, Indonesia)

Prof. Michael Pearson (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Dr Catherine Zara Raymond (IDSS, Singapore)

Dr Iskandar Sazlan (MIMA, Malaysia)

Prof. Tokoro Ikuya (Tokyo University for Foreign Studies, Japan)

Dr Esther Velthoen (Auckland, New Zealand)

Prof. James Warren (Murdoch University, Australia)

Prof. XIAO Zhonghua (Institute of Law, SASS, China)