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SUMMARY:The Social Economy and Alternative Development Models in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEuiyoung Kim\nProfessor and Director\, Political Science and International Relations\, Institute for Korean Politics\, Seoul National University\neuiyoungkim@snu.ac.kr \nHiroki Miura\nResearcher\, Institute of Korean Political Studies\, Seoul National University\nsugeun@msn.com \nWorkshop Participants\nBipasha Baruah\, Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues\, Women’s Studies and Feminist Research\, Western University\n“Social Innovation and Gender Equality in India: Moving Beyond the Numbers Game” \n(Mohammad) Anwar Hossen\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, University of Dhaka\n“Village as the Model Organization for Sustainable Development in Bangladesh” \nYu Huang\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“‘Get Organized!:’ Contradictions between Capital and Labor in a Nascent Shrimp Farmers’ Cooperative in South China” \nMarguerite Mendell\, Professor\, School of Community and Public Affairs\, Concordia University and Gi Bin Hong\, Karl Polanyi Institute\n“Is the Social Economy the Seed of a New Economic Paradigm? Some Reflections” \nAkihiro Ogawa\, Professor of Japanese Studies\, Asia Institute\, University of Melbourne\n“Lessons from Fukushima: A green economy built by social enterprises focused on renewable\, sustainable energy” \nMasanari Sakurai\, Professer\, College of Policy Science\, Ritsumeikan University\n“Did Japanese social welfare NPOs fail? Some evaluation about emerging social enterprises and major transformation” \nIlcheong Yi\, Research Coordinator\, Social Policy and Inclusive Development\, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development\n“Transformative interactions between social policy and SSEs in Developing Countries” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe social economy refers to an economic activity of enterprises and organizations whose primary objectives are the creation of social values and the facilitation of solidarity rather than profit seeking and capital accumulation. In general\, social economy organizations include cooperatives\, mutual benefit societies\, civic associations\, foundations\, social enterprises\, community enterprises and so on. Recently\, we have been witnessing a worldwide boom of this old but renewed concept. Various policies and institutions as well as creative and innovative business practices have been introduced. The UN designated the year 2012 as “The International Year of the Cooperatives” and encouraged every member state to facilitate effective institutionalization of the cooperatives. In 2013\, UN agencies and other intergovernmental organizations\, including UNRISD\, ILO\, UNDP\, UNEP\, UNESCO\, OECD\, established the “UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy\,” aiming to raise awareness and support the policy environment of social economy. At the same time\, research on the social economy is also in rapid progress\, introducing or renewing such interesting concepts and theories as social innovation\, civic entrepreneurship\, shared values\, corporate citizenship\, co-production\, and social eco-system. \nAsia is no exception to this global rise of the social economy. The concept has been widely received and diverse policy fields throughout the region are undergoing institutional reforms. In China\, the basic model of the provision of social welfare has shifted in the 2000s from the large-scale and unit-centered Danwei system to the community-centered Shequ system\, resulting in a rapid increase of grass-root nonprofit organizations and residential groups. The government has also supported such national level events as the China Social Innovation Award and the China Poverty Eradication Award\, through which creative and innovative ideas and business methods are learned and spread. The Japanese government consecutively presented new policy visions: “The New Public” in 2009\, “The Mutual-help Society” in 2013\, both of which emphasize the collaboration among non-profit\, for-profit\, and governmental organizations for realizing a more effective and sustainable welfare system. In South Korea\, several laws have been established to qualitatively improve the social service system by reducing government expenditure and facilitating public-private collaboration. The Social Enterprise Promotion Act and the Framework Act on Cooperatives were enacted in 2006 and 2013 respectively\, and a new comprehensive law for promoting the social economy was recently introduced and is being deliberated on in the National Assembly. In Thailand\, the government set up the Thai Social Enterprise Office (TSEO) in 2010 to implement the Social Enterprises Master Plan (2010–14)\, which called for strengthening cooperation among social enterprises in Thailand and developing various support tools such as incubation system and social finance and investment. While the President’s Office of Singapore launched the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award in 2012 to honor outstanding social enterprises for their contributions to the local community. Recently\, the government set up the Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise (raiSE) in 2015 to bring together multiple stakeholders of the social enterprise sector. \nThis workshop aims to analyze the current status of social economy in Asia\, where the traditional ‘Asian Capitalism’ and the state-led development model are in transition on the one hand and non-Western style models and practices of social economy are emerging on the other hand. The basic assumption is that social economy\, with its virtues of creativity and hybridity\, empathy and community\, participation and solidarity\, and new collaborative modes of governance\, can help address various social problems and may provide a viable\, alternative model of development in the region. This workshop calls for papers from various academic disciplines to understand the diverse and hybrid nature of the social economy. It also encourages the participation of practitioners with working knowledge and hands-on experience on the subject. It will also invite established scholars and experts on the Western models and practices of social economy\, who can provide valuable comparative perspectives. \nMore specifically\, this workshop anticipates paper presentations in following themes: \n\nresearch on the conceptual or institutional development of the social economy in East Asia and Asia more broadly\nin-depth case study of policies or practices of the social economy in various policy fields including social welfare\, education\, environment\, energy\, culture\, and local community\nexploration of new models or modes of Asian capitalism\, governance\, and/or civic participation in relation to the development of social economy
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-social-economy-and-alternative-development-models-in-asia/
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SUMMARY:Mediatized Populism across InterAsia
DESCRIPTION:Organized by InterAsia Transregional Virtual Research Institute\, “Media\, Activism and the New Political” \n\nWorkshop Directors\nPaula Chakravartty\nAssociate Professor\, Gallatin School\, Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, New York University\npuc1@nyu.edu \nZeynep Gambetti\nAssociate Professor\, Political Science and International Relations\, Bogaziçi University\ngambetti@boun.edu.tr \nSrirupa Roy\nDirector and Professor\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies and Political Science\, University of Göttingen\nsroy@uni-goettingen.de \nWorkshop Participants\nMiriyam Aouragh\, Leverhulme Fellow\, Communication And Media Research Institute\, University of Westminster\n“Mediating the Makhzan: Counter-revolution & populism in the digital age” \nErgin Bulut\, Assistant Professor\, Media and Visual Arts\, Koç University and Erdem Yörük\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology\, Koç University\n“Contentious Politics and Trolling in Turkey’s Social Media” \nMurat Es\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography and Resource Management\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Rolien Hoyng\, Visiting Assistant Professor\, Department of Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University\n“Conspiratorial Webs: Media Ecologies and Parallel Realities in Turkey” \nJiyeon Kang\, Assistant Professor\, Communication Studies\, University of Iowa\n“Internet Activism Transforming Street Politics: The 2008 ‘Mad Cow’ Candlelight Festivals and New Democratic Sensibilities” \nAlison Lamont\, PhD Fellow\, Sociology\, University of Duisburg-Essen\n“The Utopian Politics of Disaster in the People’s Republic of China” \nJinee Lokaneeta\, Associate Professor\, Political Science and International Relations\, Drew University\n“Policing\, Law and the Public: Truth and Justice in a Media Trial” \nDuncan McCargo\, Professor of Political Science\, School of Politics and International Studies\, University of Leeds\n“New Media\, New Partisanship: Divided Virtual Politics Beyond Thailand” \nAyesha Mulla\, PhD candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Chicago\n“Broadcasting the Dharna: Mediating ‘Contained’ Populism in Contemporary Pakistan” \nBabak Rahimi\, Associate Professor\, Literature and Cultural Studies\, University of California\, San Diego\n“History\, Context Collapse\, and Transnational Internet Activism in Iran” \nCatherine Sameh\, Assistant Professor\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, University of California\, Irvine\n“Mediating Gender Equality in Iran” \nValerie Soe\, Associate Professor\, Asian American Studies\, San Francisco State University\n“Migrating Revolution Across Platforms: Social Media and the Sunflower and Umbrella Movements” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAcross the globe today\, from Thailand to Egypt\, India to Spain\, we are witnessing the emergence of new political movements passionately advancing the claims of “the people” against the ruling “political classes”. Such populist vocabularies are not just confined to the domain of street or protest politics\, but are also harnessed by governing incumbents and aspirants to political office\, whose bid to join the political establishment is paradoxically furthered through anti-establishment claims and stances. Media of various kinds\, from television and social media to camera-enabled mobile phones and text messages\, play a key role—whether as tool\, site\, or agent—in enabling and extending such a politics. This particular formation of “mediated populism” is the focus of our workshop\, which seeks to understand the political historical dynamics and implications of mediated projects of “people-making” that have gained prominence in regions across Asia (from MENA to East Asia) in recent years. \nOur workshop has five interrelated objectives. First\, we seek papers that consider the distinctive institutional contexts of mediated populism across InterAsian space. In contrast to both the European and Latin American contexts\, the mass-mediated spectacle of popular politics is a relatively new phenomenon across much of Asia\, the Middle East and Africa\, where it was only since the last decade of the 20th century that the government-monopolized propagandist architectures of television were replaced by commercial television news. In the intervening years\, media—both old and new—have become privileged domains of politics for the first time. What\, if any\, difference does this relatively late arrival of mediated politics in these regions make to the logic of mediated populism in particular: to what extent do the institutional dynamics of media commercialization and economic liberalization shape the terrain of populist politics across Asia? How do state-institutional contexts shape the media field\, and hence the politics of mediated populism: do media-enabled projects of “people-making” unfold differently in countries where states have more direct control over the media\, whether in Egypt\, China or Iran\, versus those of the seemingly democratic polities of Turkey\, Israel and India? By addressing such questions\, we hope to unpack and disaggregate the idea of a singular “media logic” of populist politics and examine instead the institutional and political-economic dynamics of mediation\, and the variegated structures of media fields\, in which contemporary forms of populist politics are embedded. \nSecond\, we seek papers that engage analytically with the very idea of a politics in the name of “the people”. Twenty-first century mediated populism does not emerge out of an historical or political vacuum; there are multiple and contending constructions of “the people” sedimented and circulating within political arenas at any given point in time. As Ernesto Laclau argues\, populist reason brings together disparate popular demands in critical historical conjunctures not as an aberration or deviation of democracy but instead as the very stuff of democratic politics: populism is the “royal road to the political” in Laclau’s words. We are interested in the intersections\, collusions\, and collisions of these different “road-building” projects. And so\, to what extent do mediated populisms make and remake “the people” differently from other cognate ideas\, whether of the demos\, the nation\, the masses\, the multitude? What are the new lines of agonism and antagonism opened up and elided by the insistence on the division between “the people” and “those in power” that lies at the heart of contemporary political assertions? \nThird\, we welcome contributions that consider the historical distinctiveness of a mediated production of the people/the popular that twenty-first century technologies and processes of mediation might be seen to enable. For Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt or Manuel Castells\, contemporary media and information technologies enable novel\, horizontally connected networks to produce new social relations and political subjectivites. For Judith Butler\, mediated connectivity between “bodies in action” produces a new sense and visibility of “the people” embodied in public protests and popular demands. These are among the theoretical perspectives that have recently been used to conceptualize populist politics in the twenty-first century\, and we are interested in building and innovating upon these approaches. \nFourth\, we are interested in the question of how ideologies fare in the contemporary era of mediated populism. A commonly heard refrain of many populist movements today is that of being “beyond ideology” or “post-ideological”. How might we assess this claim\, on empirical as well as theoretical grounds? What new visions of politics and society emerge from contemporary popular demands? Can they be classified as New Social Movements (Alain Touraine and Claus Offe); social “non-movements” (Asef Bayat) or “political society” (Partha Chatterjee); or should we develop new frames of analysis to grasp their form and content? In addressing these questions about the nature of the “new” political\, we are equally interested in the question of how movements organized around “old”\, “left” and “right” ideological affiliations engage the terrain of mediated politics. For instance\, how have nationalist and religious extremist parties and movements reformulated their politics in the age of both growing inequality and media spectacle? Similarly\, how has the Left reinvented itself in the age of mediated populism? \nFinally\, and this is where the InterAsia dimension of our project is particularly salient\, and useful\, we seek papers that explore the supra-national spatial dynamics that shape the politics of mediated populism. The modularity\, diffusion and “inter-referencing” of ideas\, techniques\, and technologies of populist politics across national territorial spaces; the ways in which cross-border media flows and geopolitical dynamics shape and enable the politics of populism in national contexts\, are among the issues that interest us here. \nPossible Themes: \n\nMedia and the rise of “new populisms” in InterAsian contexts\nInstitutional dynamics of media liberalization and the reshaping of state-society relations\nHistorical perspectives on mediated politics and “people-making” projects in and across Asian regions; comparisons of “old” and “new” mediated populisms\nThe normative politics of transparency and visibility in InterAsian contexts\nRemaking “left” and “right” in the era of twenty-first century mediated populism\n“Inter-referencing” and diffusion of populist ideas\, practices\, and technologies across InterAsian spaces\nGeopolitical dynamics (e.g. wars in Iraq\, Syria\, Afghanistan and Pakistan; “refugee crises” in Asia) and the shaping of national populist politics
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/mediatized-populism-across-interasia/
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SUMMARY:Mecca InterAsia
DESCRIPTION:Organized in association with the Muhammad Alagil Chair in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore \n\nWorkshop Directors\nCemil Aydin\nAssociate Professor\, Department of History\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\ncaydin@email.unc.edu \nEngseng Ho\nProfessor of History and Anthropology\, Duke University; Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\nengseng.ho@duke.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nJawaher Al Sudairy\, Research Fellow\, Evidence for Policy Design\, Harvard University\n“The State Within: The Burmese Community in Makkah” \nGuy Burak\, The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian\, Division of Libraries\, New York University\n“Mecca\, Its Descriptions and Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean: Jar Allah Ibn Fahd and His The Best of Joy of the Time for the Construction of Mecca by the Kings of the Ottoman Dynasty” \nLale Can\, Assistant Professor\, History\, City College of New York\n“Central Asians in an “Exceptional” City?: The Politics of Imperial Citizenship in Ottoman Mecca” \nTeresita Cruz-del Rosario\, Senior Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Return to Mecca: Balik-Islam among Filipino Migrants in Southeast Asia” \nDadi Darmadi\, Center for the Study of Islam and Society\, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta\n“State versus Private: Pilgrimage to Mecca as a Contested Space” \nHyeju (Janice) Jeong\, Graduate Student\, History\, Duke University\n“Home Away from Home: Community and Networks of Chinese-Muslim Political Exiles at Mecca (Hejaz) during the Cold War” \nMahmood Kooria\, PhD Candidate\, Institute for History\, Leiden University\n“Introducing a Meccan Version of Law: Networks of Shāfiʿī fuqahā in the Sixteenth Century” \nMichael Christopher Low\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Iowa State University\n“Unfurling the Flag of Extraterritoriality: Foreign Muslims\, Muslim Consular Agents\, and the Evolution of the Capitulations in the Indian Ocean Hijaz” \nSebastian Maisel\, Associate Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies\, Modern Languages\, Area Studies\, Grand Valley State University\n“Private versus public service-provision and revenue-sharing for Hajj and Umrah” \nMuhammad Arafat Mohamad\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Southeast Asian Studies\, National University of Singapore\n“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Saudization\, Belonging\, and the Migration Dilemma of Mecca’s Diasporic Residents” \nMohamed Sbitli\, Senior Fellow\, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies\n“The Society of the Ulama of Macca “Ilm\, Trade\, and Tawafa” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nMecca has long been revered\, studied and celebrated as a unique place\, a destination without equal that bestows its name onto other destinations\, other meccas. While scholarly attention lavished on Mecca has been largely ideographic in persuasion\, this workshop invites historical and contemporary studies on Mecca that speak to themes which have been central to the InterAsia conferences\, such as mobility; transregional connections across Asia; transcultural relations; religious\, intellectual\, literary\, political and diasporic networks; varieties of international society. Such themes engage data with historical depth and geographical reach that go far beyond the breathless abstractions of globalization-speak and the false culturalism of anti-terrorism security analysis. \nBy employing Mecca as a dynamic and live focal point\, this workshop seeks to bring these themes together over two days of discussion. Mecca provides a challenge and an opportunity to interweave these themes so as to construct notions of transregional society that are not narrowly local yet are ethnographically rich\, that are local yet cosmopolitan\, and that constantly navigate states that are not set up to recognize or administer such transregional societies. \nWe invite proposals for papers that would contribute to such discussion\, especially those drawing on non-European sources\, historical and contemporary. We are open to a wide range of topics\, which may include: \n\nMecca as refuge in exile;\nendowments by distant persons;\npilgrim organizers/brokers (mutawwif) who chaperone pilgrims from given regions;\nscholarly\, sufi or diasporic networks past or present;\nregional pilgrimages to mini Meccas elsewhere;\nlogistics;\ngenerations of Meccans without citizenship papers or rights;\nMeccan communities and neighbourhoods;\ntrade and pilgrimage;\nredevelopment of Mecca\, Meccan urban developments as stable\, longterm investments;\nbureaucratization and marketization of organized pilgrimage;\nMeccan legal framework for an international city;\nSignificance of Mecca in transregional circuits of ideas and mobility of people across centuries;\nWhat different modes of transport entail for the pilgrimage\, and their consequences: walking\, sailboats\, buses\, steamships\, trains\, aircraft; from the Indian Ocean zone\, Central Asia and China\, as well as nearer by;\nMecca as a symbolic and actual center of Muslim internationalism\, as well as colonial fears of Pan-Islam;\nMecca as a hub of political networking during the era of imperial rivalries\, decolonization\, and the Cold War;\nChallenges of administering pilgrimage and Mecca as a global Muslim city during the 20th century;\nImpact of travel writings to Mecca on the intellectual\, religious and cultural history of diverse Muslim societies;\nUrban Architecture\, neighborhoods\, hospitality industry and ethnic diversity of Mecca in the past and present.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/mecca-interasia/
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SUMMARY:Logistics of Asia-Led Globalization: Infrastructure\, Software\, Labor
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nBrett Neilson\nResearch Director\, Institute for Culture and Society\, University of Western Sydney\nb.neilson@uws.edu.au \nRanabir Samaddar\nDirector\, Calcutta Research Group\nranabir@mcrg.ac.in \nWorkshop Participants\nMajed Akhter\, Assistant Professor\, Geography\, Indiana University Bloomington\n“An infrastructural approach to region: Corridor controversies\, emergent Asias\, and the afterlives of the developmental state” \nPaula Banerjee\, Professor\, South and Southeast Asian Studies\, Calcutta University\n“Multiplying Insecurity” \nGiorgio Grappi\, Research fellow\, Political and Social Sciences\, University of Bologna\n“Corridors as political discourse? Decoding the language of logistical governance” \nRolien Hoyng\, Visiting Assistant Professor\, Cultural Studies\, Lingnan University\n“Multiplying logistics: undoing and redoing categorization in e-waste recycling in Hong Kong” \nThilini Kahandawaarachchi\, Attorney-at-Law\n“Politics of ports – China’s investments in Pakistan\, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh” \nNelli Kambouri\, Researcher\, Centre for Gender Studies\, Panteion University and Pavlos Hatzopoulos\, Centre for Gender Studies\, Panteion University\n“Piraeus Port as a Machinic Assemblage: Labour\, Precarity and Struggles” \nIman Kumar Mitra\, Research Associate\, Economics\, Calcutta Research Group\n“Spatialization of Calculability\, Financialization of Space: A Study of the Kolkata Port” \nNed Rossiter\, Professor of Communication\, Institute for Culture and Society\, Western Sydney University\n“Imperial Infrastructures: Data Centers\, State Formation and the Territory of Logistical Media” \nKaustubh Mani Sengupta\, Assistant Professor\, History\, Bankura University\nThe Port of Calcutta in the Imperial Network of South and South-East Asia\, 1870s-1950s” \nPing (Sophie) Sun\, PhD Student\, School of Journalism and Communication\, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Michelangelo Magasic\, Curtin University\n“Knowledge Workers\, Identities\, and Communication Practices: Understanding Code Farmers in China” \nJohn Walsh\, Director\, SIU Research Centre\, School of Management\, Shinawatra University\n“Thailand’s Border Special Economic Zones and the Reconfiguration of Cross-Border Social\, Labour and Commercial Relations” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia’s emergence as one of the world’s most important trading regions is giving rise to new global connections and spatial economic networks. Recent attention has focused on China’s “One Belt\, One Road” policy\, which seeks to revive historical Silk Road transport routes\, but infrastructural and informational installations across the region are fast changing geopolitical visions\, renderings of urban space\, and understandings of historical transition. From the Asian Highway Network to the Yuxinou freight railway connecting Chongqing to Duisburg in Germany\, from the proliferation of discount airline hubs to the tangle of fiber optic cables surrounding data centers in Hong Kong’s New Territories or the Jurong district of Singapore\, logistical developments are reconfiguring both Asia’s relation to the world and its internal logics of transport and communication. Building on critical perspectives that understand logistics as a political technology for producing and organizing space and power\, this workshop will enlist a diversity of scholars to discuss how digital technologies and material infrastructure combine to remake urban and regional territories and produce new forms of governance and subjectivity. \nLogistics mobilizes infrastructure\, labor\, data\, and software to create a smooth world for the circulation of commodities and capital but\, at every juncture\, must negotiate social and cultural frictions. This tension lends itself at once to innovation in governmental technologies and to the organization of dissent\, resistance\, and violence. In urban settings\, logistics presents a model of space\, time\, and economy distinct from the global city of finance capital or the industrial city of factories. The logistical city tends to locate itself on the urban periphery\, taking advantage of cheap land\, lower labor costs and\, ideally\, a clean slate for the installation of infrastructure. This clean slate\, however\, is a planner’s unfulfilled dream. Logistical spaces are commonly occupied by workers\, peasants\, migrants\, and other marginal subjects who have their own vision and version of these spaces. There is a tussle between competing visions\, which produces a narrative of urban transformation that is uneven\, contentious\, and overtly political. Understanding the stakes and consequences of this politics means not only examining conflicts on the ground but also studying how logistical technologies marshal populations in ways that parallel\, rival\, and influence the statecraft of traditional political bodies. \nThis workshop welcomes papers that explore global extensions of Asian economic power by examining the conflicts and complexities generated when logistical operations hit the ground. We invite interventions that critically investigate resonances and divergences in the making of logistical connections between different sites\, sectors\, and practices of mobility. Contributions may focus on developments in Asia or examine how infrastructural and informational strategies extend from Asia to other continents in ways that reorganize both Asia’s internal regions and the wider spatial patterning of the world. We are particularly interested in papers that utilize data analytics or other digital methods to offer insights into how logistical practices guide current global mobilities. More widely\, we seek presentations from a range of disciplinary and conceptual orientations – including feminism\, political economy\, postcolonial theory\, critical geography\, and communication/media studies – to explore the power-laden operations of logistics in and beyond Asian urbanities\, socialities\, and regionalisms.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/logistics-of-asia-led-globalization-infrastructure-software-labor/
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SUMMARY:Knowledge Mobilities and the Prospects for InterAsian Urbanisation
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nFrancis Collins\nSenior Lecturer\, Geography\, School of Environment\, University of Auckland\nf.collins@auckland.ac.nz \nKong Chong Ho\nAssociate Professor\, Sociology\, National University of Singapore\nsochokc@nus.edu.sg \nWorkshop Participants\nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Islamic Knowledge Mobilities\, DragonMart\, and the Growing Chinese Muslim Community in Dubai” \nSujin Eom\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Architecture\, UC Berkeley\n“The Idea of Chinatown: Policy Mobilities and the Making of New Economic Imaginations in South Korea” \nMaureen Hickey\, Instructor\, International and Global Studies Program\, Portland State University\n“‘English Fever\,’ Migrant Teachers\, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations in an Interconnected Asia” \nNithila Kanagasabai\, Junior Research Fellow\, Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies\, Tata Institute of Social Sciences\n“Possibilities of Transformation: Women’s Studies in Tier II Cities in India” \nYoonhee Kang\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Seoul National University\n“A Pathway to ‘Constant Becoming’: Time\, Temporalities and the Construction of Self among South Korean Educational Migrants in Singapore” \nStephanie Kim\, Program Director\, Center for Korean Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Flexible Citizenship or Pejorative Privilege? Student Dynamics in an International Higher Education Space in South Korea” \nSuray Agung Nugroho\, PhD Student\, Korean Studies\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Younghan Cho\, Associate Professor/Associate Dean\, Korean Studies\, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\n“Unwarranted Students: Changing Subjectivities of Indonesian Workers Studying at Indonesian Open University in South Korea” \nHyun Joo Sandy Oh\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n“Escaping obsolescence: The shift from subject to skill based education in a South Korean International School” \nYasmin Patrice Ortiga\, Research Fellow\, Public Policy and Global Affairs\, Nanyang Technological University\n“Constructing a Global Education Hub: The Unlikely Case of Manila” \nLe-Ha Phan\, Professor\, College of Education\, University of Hawaii at Manoa\n“Transnational Education\, English\, the Idea of ‘the West’\, Reaching to ASEAN\, and Dream Realization: A Case Study of a Regional University in Vietnam” \nLiliia Zemnukhova\, Research Fellow\, Center for Science and Technology Studies\, European University at St. Petersburg and Melanie Feakins\, Research Associate\, Institute of Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“’I’m not a gastarbeiter anymore”: Liminal Mobility of Young Kazakh IT Professionals in Russia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nOver the last two decades\, Asian nations have embarked on ambitious political projects that seek to reconfigure education\, research\, and knowledge as critical drivers of competitiveness\, productivity\, and economic growth. Heralded as the pathway to global emergence\, these knowledge projects hinge on the cultivation and circulation of people\, the transfer of skills and knowledge\, and the generation of new InterAsian connections that cut across traditional hierarchies of nations\, cities\, and institutions. These aspirations speak to the multiplex challenges of interconnected Asian modernities: demographic growth in some places and a desire for renewal in others; the human capital demands of service and technology-centered economies in an era of growing trade; the impact of regional mobility and ethnic diversity on national identities; the place of meritocracy\, privilege and inequality in the making of knowledge economies; and the social and ecological consequences of economic growth. \nIn the Asian region\, a select group of regionally and globally connected cities are key sites for the generation and articulation of knowledge-based political projects and migration trajectories. Stretching from Dubai and Riyadh in West Asia\, Delhi and Mumbai in South Asia\, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in Southeast Asia\, to Hong Kong\, Seoul\, Shanghai and Tokyo in East Asia. Long seen as critical spaces for nation-building projects\, these cities are being re-crafted as post-industrial zones\, desirable destinations for knowledge migrants\, and regional hubs for education\, research and technology. These cities are being re-assembled through transnational flows of popular culture\, symbolic and aesthetic expressions\, governmentalities of migration regimes\, and materialities of new built forms. Concomitantly\, this reworking of the Asian urban also articulates through a range of deterritorialising and reterritorialising effects as universities seek out global status and regional networks beyond the nation\, workplaces become more diversified\, urban spaces are reshaped to attract foreign students and workers\, and principles of citizenship and political participation are re-examined. \nThis workshop will explore the emerging role of knowledge migration and the InterAsian connections that are being reconfigured in and through major urban centres in the region. Participants are asked to address specific forms of knowledge migration – student\, scholar\, scientist\, professional – and examine the ways in which these mobilities are generated in and generative of new InterAsian connections; involve the de/reterritorialisation of urban\, national and regional spaces; and articulate through new political anxieties and subjectivities. We seek papers from scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are working empirically in Asia on the role of education and knowledge in migration. Contributions are encouraged from scholars advancing new conceptualisations of the interconnections between mobility\, cities\, and knowledge flows. Potential themes include: \n\nThe desires/aspirations of people on the move and the role of knowledge as driver and enabler of migration.\nCities as desirable destinations for students\, scholars\, and professionals\, and the ways in which such desirability is generated in transnational flows of popular culture\, governmental discourses\, institutional narratives and other symbolic endeavours.\nThe role of population mobilities in reconfiguring the role of cities within national\, regional\, and global spaces.\nEmergence of various intra-regional Asian connections: Islamic\, Southeast Asian\, diasporic\, mobility in the wider spheres of China and India\, cross-regional movement.\nInterAsian knowledge flows and the challenge of Anglophone hegemony in research\, teaching and practice; alternative centres of knowledge production and circulation.\nNormative and alternative globalization and regionalization of urban knowledge endeavours – policy mobility and learning in government\, institutions\, civil society.\nPolitical anxieties and subjectivities in knowledge migration: demographic renewal\, diversity and national identity; challenges to authoritarian rule; regional identities.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/knowledge-mobilities-and-the-prospects-for-interasian-urbanisation/
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SUMMARY:Geo-political Economies of (Post) Developmental Urbanization in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJamie Doucette\nLecturer\, School of Environment and Development\, University of Manchester\njamie.doucette@manchester.ac.uk \nBae-Gyoon Park\nProfessor\, Geography Education\, Seoul National University\ngeopbg@snu.ac.kr \nWorkshop Participants\nCarolyn Cartier\, Professor of Geography and China Studies\, School of International Studies\, University of Technology Sydney\n“‘Cut from the County’: Mao-era Cities and their Territorial Legacies in Contemporary China” \nEli Friedman\, Assistant Professor\, International and Comparative Labor\, Cornell University\n“Just-in-Time Urbanization? Managing migration\, citizenship\, and schooling in the Chinese city” \nJim Glassman\, Professor\, Geography\, University of British Columbia\n“Developmental Bureaucratic States\, Developmental Network States and the Geopolitical Economy of Cold War Industrialization in Ulsan and Kaohsiung” \nHeidi Gottfried\, Associate Professor\, Sociology\, Wayne State University\n“The Phoenix Rises: Tokyo’s Origin as a Global city” \nLaam Hae\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, York University\n“Traveling Policy: City Marketing and the Neoliberal Turn of Urban Studies in South Korea” \nJinn-yuh Hsu\, Professor\, Department of Geography\, National Taiwan University\n“Hsinchu Technopolis: A Socio-technical Imaginary of Modernity in Taiwan?” \nJoo-Hyoung Ji\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology Department\, Kyungnam University\n“The Making of the (Real) Gangnam Style: A Cultural Political Economy of Compressed Urbanization in South Korea” \nChristina Kim\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, The New School for Social Research\n“Bridges of Ambition to North Korea: Economy of Anticipation and Materiality of Aspiration in Dandong\, China” \nJana Kleibert\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Dynamics of Economic Spaces\, Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning\n“Enclave urbanism in Metro Manila” \nKah-Wee Lee\, Assistant Professor\, Architecture\, National University of Singapore\n“Normalizing Exception/Beyond consumerism: Casino Urbanisms in Singapore and Macau ” \nChristina Moon\, Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies\, School of Art and Design History and Theory\, The New School\, Parsons School of Design\n“Fashion City: zones\, markets\, and diaspora across the US and Asia” \nJoanna Phua\, Doctoral Candidate\, Political Science\, The Graduate Center\, City University of New York\n“Circuits and Transfers of the Cold War: From Prescriptive to Neo-Developmental Urbanism in Asia” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nProcesses of East Asian urbanization are unique because they have been deeply influenced by state-led strategies of national development that were deeply interwoven with Cold War geo-political economies of capitalist development. Existing studies on East Asian cities\, however\, have not been able to properly address this unique feature of urbanization because they have not made sufficient efforts to understand cities in relation to broader politico-economic processes of East Asian capitalist development. These studies tend to take a localist approach that regards the city as a social object that is territorially contained and institutionally coherent. As such\, previous works on East Asian cities have privileged the urban scale as their primary unit of analysis\, to the neglect of wider socio-spatial processes that condition urban development. For instance\, the roles played by transnational networks of capital\, migrants\, and various forms of expertise in creating spaces of ‘national’ urban development during the Cold War have often been neglected. Likewise\, the multi-scalar interactions between urban development and wider configurations of power\, regulation\, and ideology have remained understudied. \nWith this problem orientation\, this workshop aims to collect papers that address the multi-scalar dynamics and geo-political economic contexts of East Asian capitalist development. We seek work that characterizes the processes of East Asian urbanization as a form of “developmental urbanization” by paying special attention to how East Asian urban development during the period from the 1950s to the 1980s was heavily influenced by socio-spatial processes of national development that included 1) state-led developmentalist industrialization and 2) post-colonial nation-building activities. East Asian states actively promoted the development of national urban networks to enhance the territorial integrity of the nation\, and prioritized urban infrastructure to support mass production and economic growth. Under the state’s big push\, urban processes took place very rapidly in strategically selected areas of political and economic importance. The outcome was 1) spatio-temporal compression of urban development (thereby resulting in ‘compressed urbanization’)\, 2) spatial selectivity in urban development (thereby producing ‘spaces of exception’)\, and 3) uneven geographies of power (thereby shaping uneven geographies of urban contestation). \nWhile neoliberal and market-friendly processes of urban development have gradually become more influential than national developmentalist efforts since the end of the Cold War\, the institutional and material legacies of developmental urbanism are still influential in East Asian urban development. The legacies of developmental urbanism\, combined with the influences of post-Cold War geo-political economies and neo-liberal globalization\, have resulted in the rise of ‘neo-developmental urbanization.’ This process has thus contributed to existing urban problems in East Asia such as urban displacement\, divided cities\, and struggles over public space and the right to the city. Therefore\, this workshop equally solicits papers that address how processes of developmental urbanization have been transformed since the 1990s in relation to neoliberal globalization and post-cold war geo-political economies. \nSome topics might include but are not limited to: compressed urbanization\, trans-local connections\, postcolonial urbanism\, urban mega projects\, speculative urbanization\, the construction state\, spaces of exceptions\, zoning technologies\, urban-industrial experiments\, circuits of developmentalist expertise\, infrastructural spaces\, contentious politics and urban development\, and urban social movements.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/geo-political-economies-of-post-developmental-urbanization-in-east-asia/
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SUMMARY:Genealogies of Financialization: Reframing Sovereignty in Asia (1600–present)
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nSankaran Krishna\nProfessor of Political Science\, University of Hawaii at Manoa\nkrishna@hawaii.edu \nSaeyoung Park\nAssistant Professor\, Modern Korean Studies\, Leiden University\nspark34@jhu.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nColin Agur\, Postdoctoral Associate\, Yale Law School\, Yale University\n“Communication Technology\, Illicit Flows of Capital\, and State-Society Tensions” \nGiulia Dal Maso\, PhD Candidate\, Cultural Studies\, Institute for Culture and Society “Past and present mass financialization: continuity in state legitimation” \nLaura Elder\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\, Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame\n“Banking Like a State: An alternative genealogy of Islamic finance” \nHarald Fuess\, Professor\, Cultural Economic History\, Heidelberg University\n“Undermining the Sovereignty of Korea? Capital Flows\, Investments\, and Trade\, 1876-1910” \nHoward Kahm\, Assistant Professor\, Underwood International College\, Yonsei University\n“Currency Smuggling: Monetary Sovereignty\, Decolonization\, and Undercover Financial Networks during the American Occupation of Korea\, 1945-1948” \nGeeta Patel\, Associate Professor\, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of Virginia\n“Liquid Capital\, Illiquid Entities: The East India Company and the Madras Civil Fund” \nAditi Saraf\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Johns Hopkins University\n“Frontier’s Signature: Trade and Territory at the Edges of Empire” \nKellee Tsai\, Head and Chair Professor\, Division of Social Science\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\n“Moving Merchants and Money: Zhejiang and Gujarat’s Transnational Traders” \nLeilah Vevaina\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Religious Diversity\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“To Hong Kong and Back Again: Building Bombay and Redeveloping Mumbai” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe Great Recession of 2007 and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 have ignited interest in how state power and peoples’ will are transmuted\, amplified\, and undermined by global financial regimes. Few may know of earlier financial crises\, such as those in late Ming China (1368–1644) that led to the Single-Whip silver tax reform that sparked the first global integration of currency markets. Financial crises and state responses have shifted state-society boundaries for centuries\, giving rise to novel transnational financial orders that discipline and engender new ideas of personhood and political subjectivities. Situated at the nexus of state power and finance from 1600 to the present\, our objective is to explore non-Eurocentric genealogies of financialization across Asia. \nWe conceive of financialization broadly as an apparatus or a set of practices\, discourses\, and epistemologies that mediate the contested reordering of the world along lines of credit\, assets\, capital mobility and extraction. Whether it’s pilgrimage financing through informal credit associations in the eighteenth century\, nineteenth century indentured service practices\, or a twentieth century M&A deal\, our daily transactions and their attendant logics of financialization are deeply imbricated in systems of value\, security\, and regulation that give rise to the ubiquitous yet unseen architecture of transborder finance. \nExploring new ways to periodize and historicize financialization\, this workshop focuses on three inter-related themes: \n\nFinancialization and Nation/Empire making: First\, we will interrogate the ways in which financialization and its accompanying socio-legal technologies are deployed in state and empire building from 1600–present. Triumphalist western narratives often fall short in explaining global finance’s failures to displace local\, often older\, parallel systems of credit\, or assume institutionalization occurs only by alien imposition and with little local mediation. Hence\, a study of financialization over the longue durée reinscribes Asian experiences into teleologies of finance\, e.g. highlighting how the house of Jagat Seth\, a giant Jain indigenous banking firm brokered the rise of Company Raj\, hastening the eighteenth century decline of the Mughal Empire. How do such analyses trouble a convergent understanding of the state as postcolonial restorer of sovereignty and as a neoliberal shepherd of economic development?\nForgotten intermediaries of finance: Our vantage renders visible mobile middle men and women whose political alliances do not neatly align with geopolitical boundaries. State-centered scholarship awkwardly accommodates the individuals\, private banks\, and black market financiers that have historically facilitated credit flows through the “plumbing” of regional and global finance that existed prior to the modern institutionalization of international finance. The slippery spaces between money and morality can foster unlikely alliances that cross racial\, gender\, and political lines. Hence\, this workshop seeks new studies that explore how people and institutions have navigated scales of financialization (simultaneously global/local; Islamic/Western; colonial/postcolonial) that disrupt traditional territorial orders that undergird sovereignty by producing new geographies that bring Shanghai and faraway Mumbai closer together than Shanghai and Shenyang.\nProblematizing the state-market binary: International financial institutions (IFIs such as the World Bank and the IMF) have broken out of their “straitjackets of transactional legal work\,” to invest in the construction of economic foundations—work formerly within the domain of states. The recursive dynamics through which IFIs and their partners acquire state functions\, sometimes against sovereign resistance\, but at times in collusion with states (often against other states) complicates straightforward analyses. Further\, is what we think of as the “work of a state” stable when states themselves have been reconfigured by waves of financialization? How has financialization shaped continuities in state practice over the five-century decline and re-emergence of Asian economic hegemonies?\n\nParticipants are not required to engage the entire longue durée of Asian financialization (1600–present)\, but we seek papers on the theme of finance and sovereignty that use multidisciplinary methods\, trace historical lineages\, and preferably range across more than one (nation-)state.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/genealogies-of-financialization-reframing-sovereignty-in-asia-1600-present/
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SUMMARY:Frontier Assemblages: Political Economies of Margins and Resource Frontiers in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMichael Eilenberg\nAssociate Professor\, Culture and Society\, Aarhus University\netnome@cas.au.dk \nJason Cons\nResearch Assistant Professor\, LBJ School of Public Affairs\, University of Texas at Austin\njasoncons@utexas.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nZachary Anderson\, PhD Candidate\, Geography and Planning\, University of Toronto\n“Pragmatism and politics: Translating the green economy in an Indonesian frontier” \nYoung Rae Choi\, Graduate Student (Post-Defense)\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Spaces of sustainability? China’s coastal reclamation boom and the sustainability controversy” \nMichael Dwyer\, Associate Researcher\, Centre for Development and Environment\, University of Bern\n“Concession development: Timber financing and risk modulation at Southeast Asia’s upland frontier” \nGökçe Günel\, Lecturer in Discipline\, Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Subsurface Workings: the Production of Carbon Capture and Storage Policy in the United Arab Emirates” \nDolly Kikon\, Lecturer\, Department of Anthropology and Development Studies\, University of Melbourne\n“Carbon Connections” \nDuncan McDuie-Ra\, Associate Dean Research\, Arts and Social Sciences\, UNSW\n“Frontier Land Dynamics and the Private Health Boom in Imphal\, Manipur” \nKasia Paprocki\, PhD Candidate\, Development Sociology\, Cornell University\n“The Climate Frontier: Political Economies of Shrimp Aquaculture and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Bangladesh” \nIgor Rubinov\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Princeton University\n“Growing at the margins: Grafting families and trees on a former Soviet frontier” \nJasnea Sarma\, PhD Student\, Comparative Asian Studies\, National University Of Singapore\n“Explorations of Space\, Time and Political Subjectivities in India and China’s Resource Frontier’s In Myanmar” \nMax Woodworth\, Assistant Professor\, Geography\, Ohio State University\n“Frontier Landscapes of the Gigantic and the Ghost Town in Ordos\, Inner Mongolia” \nJerry Zee\, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow\, Science and Technology Studies\, University of California\, Davis\n“Groundwork: Experiments with Environment on a Chinese Airstream” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop interrogates the contemporary expansion of so-called resource frontiers into marginal spaces throughout Asia. The past decades have seen a radical and unprecedented transformation in margins—borders\, upland areas\, and “waste” zones—throughout Asia. Millions of acres of land have been rapidly converted to large-scale\, export-oriented monoculture production. Often\, though not exclusively\, the funding and management of these resource frontiers comes from elsewhere in Asia. We are interested in exploring the implications for the sovereignty\, security\, and political economy of the states in which these transformations are occurring; the new financial configurations that are driving it; the environmental impact of this expansion in these often ecologically vulnerable zones; and the impacts on the people who live in these rapidly transforming margins. \nWhile scholars have begun to direct attention towards these individual transformations\, very little is known about their similarities and differences across space. It is clear that the expansion of palm oil\, rubber\, aquaculture\, and other mono-culture commodities have radically altered territorial sovereignty\, ecology\, and human security throughout the region. Yet\, what similarities and differences do these transformations share? What are the broad and micro dynamics of resource frontier transformation? And what do these shifts portend for margins\, which have and continue to be sites of intense securitization\, conflict\, and expansion? Understanding these dynamics helps to clarify processes that are reshaping the geopolitics of the region and reformatting millions of people’s relationship to land. \nWe understand the linkages between foreign direct investment\, large-scale resource extraction and territorial politics in the margins of Asia as frontier assemblages to engage the multiple meanings and notions associated with regions where resource frontiers and marginal spaces interlock. We use the term “assemblage” to indicate a historically contingent convergence that facilitates expansion into frontier zones. We conceptualize frontiers as\, first\, a discourse of untouched wilderness and infinite unexploited resources and\, second\, as moving zones of state control and resource extraction. We see frontier assemblages as projects in the making\, which are unstable and in flux. We understand these frontier assemblages as broad\, yet historically and spatially specific forms of resource exploitation now unfolding in the margins of Asia. \nThis workshop interrogates this unprecedented transformation and the complex array of actors\, forces\, and ecologies that constitute it. We wish to explore four key questions: (1) What are the commonalities and differences in frontier development and resource exploitation across different national borders in Asia; (2) What kinds of framings of “space” and “territory” legitimatize and mobilize expansion into frontier zones and subsequent land enclosures; (3) what kinds of capital flows and financial configurations are mobilized to produce new resource frontiers; (4) and how do largescale development schemes in marginal areas articulate with projects of national security\, sovereignty\, and state-formation in different geopolitical contexts? \nWe invite participation from scholars working on\, but not limited to\, such topics as: \n\nThe development of new export processing zones;\nThe financialization of new extractive economies;\nThe political ecology of resource extraction;\nLand grabbing and land dynamics in frontier zones;\nThe dynamics of new plantation economies.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/frontier-assemblages-political-economies-of-margins-and-resource-frontiers-in-asia/
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SUMMARY:Forced Migration in/of Asia: Connections\, Convergences\, Comparisons
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nElaine Lynn-Ee Ho\nAssociate Professor\, Geography\, National University of Singapore\nelaine.ho@nus.edu.sg \nCabeiri Robinson\nAssociate Professor\, International Studies & Anthropology\, University of Washington\ncdr33@uw.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nJosee Huennekes\, PhD Candidate\, Swinburne Institute for Social Research\, Swinburne University of Technology\n“Remittances and Responsibilities among Rohingya Families in Kuala Lumpur’s Suburbs” \nUmut Korkut\, Reader (Associate Professor)\, Glasgow School for Business and Society\, Glasgow Caledonian University\n“The Discursive governance of forced migration management: The Turkish shift from reticence to activism in Asia” \nSang Kook Lee\, Associate Professor\, Cultural Anthropology\, Yonsei University\n“From Activists to Entrepreneurs: Burmese Refugees in South Korea” \nKirsten Mcconnachie\, Assistant Professor\, Law\, University of Warwick\n“Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram” \nAnne McNevin\, Associate Professor\, Politics\, New School for Social Research\, The New School\n“Human Displacement and the Crisis of Hospitality: Reflections on the Spirit of Refugee Law and the Example of Acehnese Fishermen” \nMallica Mishra\, Associate Faculty\, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (Development Studies)\, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India\n“Tibetan Refugees in India: Learnings in Exile” \nRebecca Nedostup\, Associate Professor\, History\, Brown University\n“Home & Land: Profiting from the Displaced during Wartime” \nGlen Peterson\, Professor\, History\, University of British Columbia\n“Refugees\, Forced Migration and China’s Entry into the “Family of Nations” \nNatasha Raheja\, PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor\, Anthropology\, New York University\n“From Minority to Majority: Pakistani Hindu Claims to Indian Citizenship” \nWen-Ching Ting\, PhD Candidate\, Migration Studies\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Actors\, Constellations of Mobility and ‘Home’ Territory: case of displaced Shanmigrants along the Thai-Burma border” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nForced migration in Asian countries and dispersing across Asia (henceforth Asian forced migration) is drawing international attention to the extent and nature of humanitarian assistance made available to displaced persons. The conduct of the International Refugee Regime (IRR)\, which evolved out of post-war European agendas\, may have limited reach over the different types of forced migration happening in Asia. Critically examining Asian forced migration reveals the sustained effects of colonial and imperial legacies and how culturally specific notions of territory\, sovereignty\, legal systems\, and kinship\, co-ethnic or other social ties influence the treatment of refugees\, internally displaced people and other types of human displacement. The challenge is to write the Asian forced migration experience into a wider global narrative without losing sight of the specificity of particular regional situations. \nOur workshop seeks to critically examine the InterAsian connections forged through forced migration experiences\, lending to revised inflections upon the way we approach studies of forced migration through hitherto accepted national or regional framings. Through our workshop\, we also examine convergences in how framings of territory\, sovereignty and legal systems in Asian societies impact the way forced migration is managed or experienced by forced migrants themselves. We further elicit comparisons of how Asian states have responded to forced migration in relation to the categorization and management norms that developed in Europe and internationally during the post-war decades. \nThe workshop aims to develop a research agenda concerning how studying Asian forced migration might contribute to wider debates in the fields of refugee\, migration and Asian studies. We encourage papers that focus on one or both of the following themes: \n\nConsider the multiplicity of Asian forced migration such as the multiple ways in which forced migration is experienced and managed and thus the possibility of multiple regimes governing forced migration in an interAsian context. Exploring the presence of multiple regimes requires investigating the history and contemporary experiences of of refugees\, displaced persons and forced migrants on their own terms\, rather than fitting them into conventional legal definitions. It also provides the opportunity to critically engage with the empirical diversity of political and social power that can generate regimes of refugee recognition and managements\, rather than assuming the singularity of primacy of the IRR).\nExamine the interface of an array of social actors implicated in Asian forced migration\, ranging from the ground level to institutionally organized interventions\, locally and transnationally. Such interfaces include\, but are not limited to\, the interactions of community-based organisations or other local networks\, national governments from source or receiving countries of forced migration\, governments-in-exile\, international organisations\, and international non-governmental organisations. Investigating the interface of such interactions open up a dialogue on how knowledge structures and practices pertaining to forced migration circulate in an InterAsian context with global influences in mind.\n\nBy curating papers that explore the multiplicity of forced migration and the interfaces of actors and institutions\, our workshop aims to reposition “Asia” as a central theoretical and empirical site for studies of forced migration. It seeks to do this by examining how local dynamics and social interactions that arise out of displacement experiences shape InterAsian and international knowledge\, and ultimately how international practices and norms are re-appropriated locally. The InterAsian analyses that we undertake through this workshop bring into view how the imagery and functioning of “Asia” has been sedimented through accrued layers and episodes of forced migration.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/forced-migration-in-of-asia-connections-convergences-comparisons/
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SUMMARY:Conviviality beyond the Urban Centre: Theorizing the “Marginal Hub”
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nMagnus Marsden\nProfessor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Sussex Asia Centre\, University of Sussex\nM.Marsden@sussex.ac.uk \nMadeleine Reeves Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology\, University of Manchester Madeleine.Reeves@manchester.ac.uk \nWorkshop Participants\nItty Abraham\, Associate Professor\, Southeast Asian Studies\, National University of Singapore\n“Poaching as Conviviality in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands” \nKalzang Dorjee Bhutia\, Lecturer\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College and Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa\, Assistant Professor\, Religious Studies\, Grinnell College\n“Alternative Geographies of Global Connection: The Making and Unmaking of Conviviality among Buddhist Hubs of the Tea Horse Road” \nThomas Chambers\, Teaching Fellow\, School of Global Studies\, University of Sussex\n“Scaling Conviviality: The Spatial Economics of a ‘Marginal Hub’” \nYasmin Cho\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Anthropology\, University of Michigan\n“Purposefully Marginal: Gender\, Wilderness\, and (Dis)connectivity in Tibetan Buddhist Revivalism in Post-Mao China” \nNellie Chu\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Center for Transregional Research Network\, University of Göttingen\n“Displacement and Maternal Longing: The Production of Jiagongchang as Marginal Hubs of Subcontracted Labor in Guangzhou\, China” \nTill Mostowlansky\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Faraway siblings\, so close: marginality\, connectivity and mediated conviviality across the Pakistan-Tajikistan frontier” \nJacob Nerenberg\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, University of Toronto\n“The Terminal Economy: Frontier Dreams and Confrontational Gathering in Highlands Papua (Indonesia)” \nAnton Nikolotov\, PhD Student\, Central Asian Studies\, Humboldt University and Frei University\n“Volatile shashlyk and shopfloor convivialities in a peripheral market in Moscow: skills\, emotionality and exchange” \nMalini Sur\, Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Garrison Conviviality: Longing at the Nation’s Margins” \nStacey Van Vleet\, Visiting Lecturer\, History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\n“Medicine\, Monasteries\, and Scholarly Networks between Qing China and the Tibetan Buddhist World” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nHow might we conceive of places of encounter with difference beyond the major centers that have dominated the study of urbanism in Asia? What forms of social interaction are to be found in such sites? And how are such hubs connected to one another and to major urban centers? This workshop seeks to answer these questions by foregrounding the empirical and conceptual exploration of what we call ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian contexts. \nBy ‘marginal hubs’ we denote sites that may be institutionally or geographically remote from historic centers of urban sociality or political power\, but which are\, or have been\, places of interaction between people\, things\, and ideas from diverse backgrounds. A non-exhaustive list of such sites might include border markets\, caravanserais\, army bases\, peri-urban container camps\, madrassas\, ports\, or the Soviet-era “village of urban type” in which workers of diverse linguistic and confessional backgrounds were posted to work in a single factory or mine. During the workshop we will explore the modes of social interaction that are to be found in such hubs\, the forms of extraction and violence by which they may be characterized in the present or past\, as well as the distinct forms of sociality or conviviality that may shape social life within and around them. We enquire what role such hubs might play in the emergence of new cultural expressions (for instance\, in music\, in manners and etiquette\, in rituals of politeness and hospitality\, in food and consumption\, in dress and clothing) and the degree to which the forms of sociability found in such hubs might be traced to settings beyond. \nThe workshop proceeds from a recognition that while there has been a flourishing of literature on urban life in Asia on the one hand\, and on borders\, frontiers and rural margins on the other\, we know comparatively little about those forms of sensibility and sociability that emerge in hubs that may be remote from\, or peripheral to\, traditional urban centers. By inviting historically and ethnographically informed papers that study ‘marginal hubs’ in diverse Asian settings\, we seek to diversify and unsettle the category of the ‘Asian urban’ and to draw attention to forms of non-elite mobility that link diverse Asian hubs\, including the movement of soldiers\, traders\, construction workers\, members of religious orders\, domestic workers\, and engineers. We invite contributions from junior and senior scholars from anthropology\, history\, geography and allied fields that draw upon a close empirical analysis of hub(s) in one or more Asian setting. We particularly welcome papers that speak to questions of connectivity\, durability or comparability by engaging one or more of the following questions: \n\nIn what ways are marginal hubs connected both to one another and to major urban centers? What forms (infrastructural\, imaginary\, familial\, personal) do such connections take? Are such marginal hubs dependent upon urban centers or do they exist in parallel to them? Are there regular forms of symbiosis and mutual dependency between them?\nIn what ways is it possible to historicize hubs in the margin? Are marginal hubs that apparently emerge almost overnight (e.g. container markets) actually informed by longer histories? How do hubs change through time\, and what temporal scales might be helpful in thinking about this: linearity\, cycles\, stop-start transformations? In what ways do marginal hubs from the past (e.g. caravanserais\, military bases\, or border markets) maintain a place in the life of local communities even after decline? Has the state found it easier to suppress such hubs or to harness them?\nDoes the particular type of flow with which a hub is connected influence the nature of its dynamics\, or is it possible to recognize similarities and parallels across apparently different kinds of marginal hub? For example\, are hubs or religious learning different from or comparable to hubs of trade and commerce?
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conviviality-beyond-the-urban-centre-theorizing-the-marginal-hub/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160419T170000
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SUMMARY:DATA2GO.NYC @ Queens Borough Cabinet
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URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/data2go-nyc-queens-borough-cabinet/
LOCATION:Queens\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160129T170000
DTSTAMP:20210910T214327Z
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SUMMARY:China – Latin America and the Caribbean Relations (New York)
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nAt the request of DPA\, CPPF organized a meeting on the changing role of China in Latin America and the Caribbean. The meeting brought together academic and policy experts and UN counterparts\, and examined the role of China as a growing economic and political presence in the region; and how this role has been affected by recent economic troubles in the Asian countries and the shifting political tendencies in key countries in Latin America. The meeting also examined how this changing relation with China has impacted intra-regional alliances\, and the standing role of the United States as the hegemonic power in the region.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/china-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-relations-new-york/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151209T143000
DTSTAMP:20200928T152529Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar by APN Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jeremiah Arowosegbe at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:African Peacebuilding Network (APN) 2015 residential postdoctoral fellow Dr. Jeremiah Arowosegbe presented a seminar at the Institute of African Studies (IAS)\, Columbia University\, New York\, December 9\, 2015. Dr. Arowosegbe’s presentation\, titled “Ethnic Minorities and Land Conflicts in Southwestern Nigeria\,” discussed the often neglected insecurities caused by land conflict in southwestern Nigeria. The seminar was moderated by Professor Mamadou Diouf\, director of IAS and SSRC board of directors chair. \nDr. Arowosegbe stressed the importance of identity formation in Nigerian statebuilding\, paying special attention to migrant and native populations. He also addressed the history of land use in southwestern Nigeria\, mentioning the impact that migrating trade\, missionary groups\, and British colonialism have all had on current land conflicts between different Nigerian ethnic and minority groups. Time was left for Q&A\, in which participants discussed other issues that could potentially lead to land conflict in South-Western Nigeria\, such as a lack of available legal instruments for displaced persons and religious conflict. \nThis seminar was part of Dr. Arowosegbe’s one-month affiliation to IAS as visiting scholar\, which took place during his three-month APN postdoctoral fellowship period. Prior to his time at Columbia University\, Dr. Arowosegbe was in residency at the West African Research Center (WARC) in Dakar\, Senegal. \nDr. Arowosegbe teaches political science at the University of Ibadan\, Ibadan\, Nigeria. He obtained a PhD in politics at the University of Ibadan in 2010. His major areas of research and teaching interest are African intellectual history\, African history\, and Indian and South-Asian histories\, as well as African politics\, African political thought\, and political theory. His other areas of interest include development studies\, postcolonial studies\, and subaltern studies. \nThe APN residential postdoctoral fellowship helps early-career African PhD holders based in African universities to complete ongoing research projects focusing on a topic related to African peacebuilding. \nThe APN wishes to express its sincere gratitude to Columbia University\, as well as WARC\, for hosting Dr. Arowosegbe.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/seminar-by-apn-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-jeremiah-arowosegbe-at-columbia-university/
LOCATION:Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151205
DTSTAMP:20200928T153428Z
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SUMMARY:APN 2015 Grantee Workshop II in Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
DESCRIPTION:The African Peacebuilding Network (APN)\, in collaboration with the Institute of Peace and Security Studies (IPSS) of Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\, held its second training workshop for the program’s 2015 cohort of individual research grantees and residential postdoctoral fellows. The event\, which took place December 2–4\, 2015\, focused on the writing and dissemination of grantees’ and fellows’ project findings. Through a series of presentations and one-on-one interactions with experts in the field of peacebuilding\, participants were given practical skills to translate their evidence-based research into high-quality\, peer-reviewed publications following their six-month fieldwork and three-month postdoctoral residences\, respectively. Emphasis was also placed on making that knowledge easily accessible to various scholarly\, policy\, and practitioner communities at the national\, regional\, and global levels. Participants were exposed to various platforms for sharing their research\, including mainstream and new and social media\, and encouraged to present their knowledge in such ways that can easily be consumed by various publics. The event was also open to several PhD students from IPSS. \nLectures were given by Professor Gilbert Khadiagala (University of the Witwatersrand)\, Professor Said Adejumobi (Economic Commission for Africa)\, Professor Kenneth Omeje (APN 2013 grantee\, University of Bradford)\, Dr. Duncan Omanga (APN 2014 grantee\, current Cambridge fellow)\, and Dr. Charles Ukeje (APN 2014-2016 collaborative working group grantee\, IPSS)\, as well as APN advisory board member Dr. Devon Curtis (University of Cambridge). \nPresentations engaged participants with a critical understanding of the context and politics of the conflict and peacebuilding nexus in Africa\, and how best to promote their findings within such an expanding network. The lectures were given by leadings scholars and experts in African peacebuilding\, many of whom serve on international and regional peer-reviewed journals and other publications (as either editors or editorial board members) and are experts in digital communications. Topics covered included the changing dynamics of conflict of Africa\, the gaps in African peace and security research\, strategies for disseminating research in peer-review publications and social and mainstream media\, and how to transform research findings into policy inputs. The presentations were followed by question-and-answer sessions and lively debates among participants. \nThe issue was raised over producing research that is “problem-solving oriented\,” versus “policy-oriented.” As Prof. Omeje remarked\, “It is important to use research to highlight policy gaps\, and know what the current policies are\, if any at all.” He also stressed the importance of publishing in Africa\, not just Western journals and book publishers. Dr. Ukeje went further to say that\, “We need to understand the nature of research\, and we need to understand the nature of policy.” Not only must researchers be “cutting edge” and aspire for brevity when writing for policymakers\, but he also encouraged others to “think critically of what our role should be as scholars in the developing world.” Meanwhile\, Dr. Omanga commented on the fact that “As academics\, we can’t underestimate the importance of social media in disseminating our work\, but also for cultivating research.” He spoke to the uses of social media\, blogging\, and op-eds\, and other ways one can make research visible to multiple constituents. \nThe cohorts—composed of junior\, midcareer\, and senior scholars and practitioners working across various institutions and universities in Africa—also had the chance to interact and further develop working relationships with one another\, while also exchanging ideas within smaller training groups facilitated by key resource persons. These smaller groups allowed participants to crystallize their ideas about publishing their research results (i.e.\, where and in what form) and get constructive feedback on their draft publications through group and one-on-one consultations with trainers. \nOverall\, participants felt the mentoring they received to be useful and informative\, and they left the event feeling excited by the prospect of their research being translated into material that could be used to influence policy. Going forward\, the APN hopes participants will use the networks they have cultivated to further collaborate on peacebuilding projects\, and possibly compete for publishing awards and other scholarly endeavors together in the future. \nA presentation was also made by IPSS director Mr. Ato Kidane Kiros\, who focused on the Institute’s main areas of expertise and work on education\, research\, and outreach. Attention was paid to the IPSS’s involvement with the Tana High Level Forum on Security in Africa\, as well as its executive Master’s in managing peace and security in Africa (MPSA) and the African-centered Solutions (AfSol) workshop series. \nAPN also worked with IPSS to coordinate a visit to the African Union\, where participants had a firsthand exposure to the inner workings of the AU’s peace and security and political affairs offices. Presentations were made by Taye Abdulkadir and Dr. Kwaku-Asante Darko. These speakers focused on the objectives of the AU\, the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and its core components—including the Peace and Security Council—and the protocols and frameworks of the Continental Early Warning System (CEWS). Participants then paid a special visit to the Situation Room\, which is a special feature of the AU and operates on a 24/7 basis\, allowing analysts to quickly monitor\, gather\, and assess information across Africa on dynamic indicators of conflict\, structural indicators\, and country profiles. A data tool that quickly visualizes country situations in real-time\, the Situation Room produces daily reports as well as weekly updates and flash reports. AU staff emphasized the role of academics in publishing books and journals to help inform the policymaking community\, stressing the need for more bridges between policy and scholarly communities. They also spoke to the gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed in order to help policymakers tackle peace and security on the continent\, such as cyber-terrorism\, climate change\, China\, and maritime security. \nThe APN wishes to thank IPSS and the African Union for ensuring a successful event.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/apn-2015-grantee-workshop-ii-in-addis-ababa-ethiopia/
LOCATION:Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151113
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SUMMARY:"Equality in a New Age of Inequalities\," a lecture by Pierre Rosanvallon
DESCRIPTION:On November 12\, 2015\, Roosevelt House welcomed the Social Science Research Council’s Anxieties of Democracy program in a continuing series during which scholars and practitioners analyze current anxieties of democracy. The evening featured Professor Pierre Rosanvallon of the Collège de France in his inaugural lecture as the Council’s first Democracy Fellow. His lecture and the ensuing dialogue with the audience sought to energize the conversation and inspire thoughtful and original solutions to the growing democratic problem of inequality. \n \nThe event was introduced and moderated by Ira Katznelson\, President of the Social Science Research Council\, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University\, and Roosevelt House Advisory Board Member. \nThe lecture is open for viewing here: http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/pierre-rosanvallon/
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/equality-in-a-new-age-of-inequalities-a-lecture-by-pierre-rosanvallon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151109T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151116T170000
DTSTAMP:20210915T162044Z
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SUMMARY:2015 Democracy Seminar with Professor Pierre Rosanvallon
DESCRIPTION:Professor Pierre Rosanvallon\, the Anxieties of Democracy program’s inaugural Democracy Fellow\, led a two-part Seminar on current ‘anxieties of democracy’ with twelve doctoral students\, representing a range of disciplines and universities\, who competed for a spot at the table. \nPierre Rosanvallon\, Professor and Chair of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics at the Collège de France\, is renowned for his original historical and theoretical approach to the study of contemporary democracy. He has just released Le bon gouvernement (Seuil\, 2015)\, the fourth volume in a series on the transformations of democracy in the twenty-first century. \nSeminar Participants\nSarah DeMott (International Education)\, New York University\nZoltan Dujisin (Sociology)\, Columbia University\nEmmanuel Guerisoli (Sociology)\, The New School\nNizar Harake (Public Policy)\, New York University\nIsaac Jabola-Carolus (Sociology)\, CUNY Graduate Center\nGustav Kalm (Anthropology)\, Columbia University\nLuise Papcke (Political Science)\, Columbia University\nLuca Provenzano (History)\, Columbia University\nHari Ramesh (Political Science)\, Yale University\nSally Sharif (Political Science)\, CUNY Graduate Center\nDaria Vaisman (Sociology/Criminal Justice)\, CUNY-John Jay College\nGreg Yudin (Politics)\, The New School \nPart I (November 9)\, Readings:\nHall\, Peter A. 2014. “Anxieties of Democracy: Why Now?” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nKatznelson\, Ira. “Opening the Debate” in Anxieties of Democracy Forum. Fortieth Anniversary Issue\, Boston Review\, September/October 2015. \nKatznelson\, Ira. “Reply” in Anxieties of Democracy Forum. Fortieth Anniversary Issue\, Boston Review\, September/October 2015. \nMansbridge\, Jane. 2014. “Negotiation in the Crisis of Democracy” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nMehta\, Uday Singh. 2014. “Democratic and Institutional Anxieties” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nMoravcsik\, Andrew. 2014. “Multilateralism and Democracy” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nRosenblum\, Nancy. 2014. “Why a Philosophy of History in which the Present Moment Is World-Altering Is Not Hubris and Is Politically Necessary” in The Democracy Papers: Anxieties of Democracy program\, Social Science Research Council. \nPart II (November 16)\, Reading:\nRosanvallon\, Pierre. 2011. Introduction to Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality\, Reflexivity\, Proximity. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/2015-democracy-seminar-with-professor-pierre-rosanvallon/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150916
DTSTAMP:20210913T144027Z
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SUMMARY:New Area Studies in an Era of Global Transformation\, SSRC Roundtable at the Inaugural Africa-Asia Conference\, Accra
DESCRIPTION:Tatiana Carayannis\, project director of the China-Africa Knowledge Project chaired a roundtable on “New Area Studies in an Era of Global Transformation\,” sponsored by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) at the inaugural Africa-Asia conference in Accra\, Ghana. Roundtable participants included Thomas Asher\, program director of the SSRC’s Next Generation Social Sciences Program\, Seteney Shami\, program director of the SSRC’s Inter-Asia Program\, and SSRC board of directors chair Mamadou Diouf. \n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/new-area-studies-in-an-era-of-global-transformation-ssrc-roundtable-at-the-inaugural-africa-asia-conference-accra/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150715
DTSTAMP:20210910T220802Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Views on Global Peace Practice: New Directions in UN Peace Operations\, UNA-China\, Beijing
DESCRIPTION:On 14 and 15 July 2015\, the SSRC’s China-Africa Knowledge Project\, in collaboration with the United Nations Association of China\, the American Friends Service Committee\, and the Quaker United Nations Office convened a workshop entitled “Emerging Views on Global Peace Practice: New Directions in UN Peace Operations” to discuss current UN peace practice. The workshop\, held around the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations\, brought together a network of Chinese\, African\, and western scholars and some expert practitioners. \nIt sought to consider\, examine China’s engagement on issues of women\, peace and security in light of the High-Level eview of Security Council Resolution 1325\, and assess key challenges in the implementation of the Reviews’ recommendations. Tatiana Carayannis\, deputy director of the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum and project director of the China-Africa Knowledge Project co-chaired the event.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/emerging-views-on-global-peace-practice-new-directions-in-un-peace-operations-una-china-beijing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150604T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150605T170000
DTSTAMP:20210913T132732Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting of the SSRC Working Group on China-Africa
DESCRIPTION:The SSRC Working Group on China-Africa and a number of colleagues convened at the SSRC in New York over two days to discuss the project’s work and future goals. The Working Group and partners provided continued advice and guidance for a planning process to help identify priorities and design a substantial intervention or series of interventions in research collaboration and capacity building. Discussions spanned the emerging areas of China-Africa research and challenges and capacity gaps in teaching the next generation of scholars\, among a number of other topics.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/meeting-of-the-ssrc-working-group-on-china-africa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150208
DTSTAMP:20201008T193723Z
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SUMMARY:Why Prayer? A Conference on New Directions in the Study of Prayer
DESCRIPTION:On February 6-7\, 2015\, the SSRC’s Religion and the Public Sphere program hosted the capstone conference for its New Directions in the Study of Prayer (NDSP) project. Over the course of two days\, more than 60 participants gathered at the Italian Academy at Columbia University for a series of panels and roundtable discussions that addressed topics ranging from religious technologies to the intersection of religion and politics to the challenges and rewards of covering prayer and religion in journalism. \nAmong the many presentations on Friday was a discussion of “Prayer Machines\,” one of several interdisciplinary collaborations that developed out of the NDSP working groups. Saturday’s talks included a set of papers on “Honing the Sensorium in Individual and Collective Prayer: Case Studies from Eastern Orthodox Christianity\,” with guests traveling from as far afield as Hungary to take part. In addition to the full schedule of discussions\, some grantees also took part in the Prayer Expo—a set of exhibits highlighting material and multimedia aspects of the study of prayer. \n \nThe NDSP project\, launched in 2011 with funding from the John Templeton Foundation\, brought together 28 scholars and journalists engaged in innovative research and reporting on the social\, cultural\, historical\, psychological\, and cognitive dimensions of the practice of prayer\, under the leadership of a multidisciplinary advisory committee. With grantees having completed their two-year research projects\, the conference offered an invaluable opportunity to look back at the wide variety of scholarship supported by the program and to look forward to further exploration and continued collaboration. \nFor a full list of panels and participants\, please download the full agenda here. For more information on the grantees and their research\, read our Why Prayer? brochure here.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/why-prayer-a-conference-on-new-directions-in-the-study-of-prayer/
LOCATION:Italian Academy\, Columbia University
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141214T150000
DTSTAMP:20200928T152823Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar in New York by APN Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Gbemisola Animasawun
DESCRIPTION:African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Residential Postdoctoral Fellow (2014) Dr. Gbemisola Animasawun presented a seminar at the Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, December 12\, 2014. His presentation\, titled “The ‘Booboisie\,’ Conflict Drivers\, and Peacebuilding in Lagos and Accra Informal Economies\,” stressed the need for more localized peace research and the setup of early warning mechanisms to deter future conflicts and called upon policymakers and practitioners to better engage with actors of these informal economies. The seminar was facilitated by professor Abosede George of Barnard College. \nDr. Animasawun visited New York at the conclusion of his three month fellowship residency period\, having spent two months at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC)\, Ghana\, and one month at the Department of African and African American Studies\, Harvard University. The title of his APN project was “Autochthony\, Horizontal Inequalities\, and Ethnic Insecurity: Implications for Peaceful Co-existence and Inter-ethnic Crisis in Select Markets in Lagos\, Nigeria.” \nThe APN postdoctoral fellowship is meant to help African PhD holders based in African universities who are in the early postdoctoral phase of their scholarly careers to complete ongoing research projects focusing on a topic related to African peacebuilding. \nClick here for more information about the APN Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship competition.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/seminar-in-new-york-by-apn-postdoctoral-fellow-dr-gbemisola-animasawun/
LOCATION:Institute of African Studies\, Columbia University\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131118T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131119T170000
DTSTAMP:20210913T144340Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Making Sense of the China-Africa Relationship: Theoretical Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge\, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:On 18-19 November 2013\, the SSRC hosted a two-day conference with Yale University at Yale’s Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center. The conference\, which helped launch the SSRC’s new China-Africa Knowledge Project\, brought together a small number of leading scholars and graduate students from China\, Africa\, North America\, and Europe to explore questions about the production of knowledge and the theoretical underpinnings of China-Africa scholarship—specifically\, how to connect the growing body of work on China’s re-engagement with Africa in the last decade to broader scholarly and policy discourses about the economic\, political and cultural dimensions of globalization. \nThe conference kicked off with a panel entitled The Politics of Knowledge\, in which researchers located in different geographical and disciplinary locations presented and debated “think pieces” about the international production of knowledge on the evolving relationship between China and Africa. It continued with panels entitled Migration and Diasporas\, International Peace and Security\, and Trade\, Aid\, and Development. Each set of panel presentations was followed by a lively discussion and exchange of ideas. A final panel on Theoretical Approaches and China-Africa Scholarshipfurther explored epistemological questions generated by emerging empirical research in this space. \nFollowing the first day of panels\, Professor Immanuel Wallerstein of Yale University gave a public lecture in the Henry Luce Hall titled “China\, Africa\, and the World-System Since 1945.” The hour-long lecture (video below) situated the China-Africa discussion within a wider and changing\, global order. \nThe conference was a fruitful and engaging gathering. The discussions that emerged brought new insights to the topic\, and even generated some interesting suggestions on research collaborations moving forward. Participants concluded that while the last decade of research on Africa’s engagement with China sought to make sense of a rapidly evolving relationship between a country and a continent\, this conference was an important next step in theory-building\, and in both deepening and broadening this analysis.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/conference-making-sense-of-the-china-africa-relationship-theoretical-approaches-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-yale-university/
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SUMMARY:Delegation from Renmin University visits CPPF
DESCRIPTION:A delegation from the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies\, Renmin University of China visited SSRC and met with CPPF Deputy Director Tatiana Carayannis and Program Associate Ciara Aucoin to discuss the history of CPPF\, areas of work (particularly those related to China-Africa)\, and possible future collaboration.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/delegation-from-renmin-university-visits-cppf/
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SUMMARY:The Sounds and Scripts of Languages in Motion
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJing Tsu\nProfessor of Modern Chinese Literature & Culture\nYale University\njing.tsu@yale.edu \nRonit Ricci\nSenior Lecturer\, School of Culture\, History and Language\, College of Asia-Pacific\nThe Australian National University\nronit.ricci@anu.edu.au \nWorkshop Participants\nRaja Adal\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Cincinnati\n“The Law of the Land: What does it Look Like? An Epigraphic Study of Laws Signed by Heads of State in Japan\, Lebanon\, and Turkey\, 1923-1928” \nAttiya Ahmad\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, The George Washington University\n“Difference and Repetition: Plural Languages\, Islamic Da’wa and Cosmpolitan Muslim Belongings in Kuwait” \nRebecca Gould (in absentia)\, Assistant Professor\, Literature Department\, Yale-NUS College\n“Cosmopolitan and Vernacular: World Literary History Before Modernity” \nPei-yin Lin\, Assistant Professor\, School of Chinese\, University of Hong Kong\n“Language\, Culture and Identity: Romanization in Taiwan and its Implications” \nTram Ly (in absentia)\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Comparative Literature\, University of Wisconsin\, Madison and Hy Do (in absentia)\, Lecturer\, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam National University\n“The Tension between Chinese Legacies and Romanized Script in Contemporary Vietnamese” \nMaya Petrovich\, PhD\, Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“Between Serbian and Chaghatay: The Janus-Faced Multilinguality of Ottoman Turks” \nIan Rapley\, DPhil in Oriental Studies\, Oriental Institute\, University of Oxford\n“A Language for Asia? Transnational Connections and the Japanese Esperanto Movement” \nFernando Rosa (in absentia)\, Senior Visiting Research Fellow\, University of Malaya\n“Revisiting Creoles and Other Languages in the Lusophone Indian Ocean” \nEric Tagliacozzo\, Professor of History\, Cornell University\n“Historiographies of Vietnam in Collision\, 960-1920 CE” \nAudrey Truschke\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Religious Studies\, Stanford University\n“Sounds of Empire: Hearing Sanskrit in Early Modern Indo-Persian Courts” \nMark Turin\, Program Director\, Yale Himalaya Initiative\, Yale University & Associate Research Scientist\, Anthropology\, Cambridge University\n“Orality\, Script and Language Hierarchies along the Trans-Himalayan Arc” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nIn recent years\, the burgeoning of interest in interconnectivity and assembled spaces across Asia has opened up new areas of inquiry. Historically fluid and contested boundaries continue to turn Asia inside out\, forcing to the surface old and new networks that are now colliding with one another in innovative ways. Amidst the different ongoing conversations\, however\, the question of language has been remarkably absent. To be sure\, the movement of ideas\, things\, and people forge important material nexes of transculturation and influence. Our emphasis on language\, however\, proposes a crucial interface that tracks connectivity through the changes in the sounds and scripts of language. These include the institutional governance as well as everyday innovations of multilingualism and multiculturalism\, such as language policies\, oral transmission\, dialects\, mother tongues\, pidgin creolization\, literature and literacy\, and national languages. \nOur proposal is prompted by the recognition that language has been\, and is\, at the heart of most inter-Asian connections. Whether one considers the 8th century translation of Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Tibetan\, the rendering of the Quran from Arabic into Javanese or Urdu in periods of religious and cultural expansion\, the lasting impact of British and Dutch colonial language policies on post-colonial India and Indonesia\, or the long-standing use of Malay as a language of trade\, travel and Islamization\, language provides a pivotal lens through which to explore the histories\, textures and meanings of inter-Asian connections. From East Asia to Southeast Asia\, Chinese\, once the common script of Vietnam\, Korea\, and Japan\, and later a minor ethnic marker in hybrid languages like Baba Malay in Indonesia\, Malaysia\, and Singapore\, compels one to rethink the standards of language. As the formal and informal rules of dialects and national languages adapt to new formations of intraregional and local-global influence\, even purported global languages—such as English—are becoming locally inflected variants. \nStraddling questions of cultural translation\, the media of written and oral cultures\, inter-area dynamics\, and identities in motion\, this workshop invites participants to join in a collective examination of how different usages of “language” exemplify interconnectivity across literature\, cultural studies\, anthropology\, linguistics\, sociology\, history\, political science\, art history\, and religious studies. \nPaper proposals should address an inter-Asian topic\, question\, process or event through the prism of language. Possible themes include\, but are not limited to: \n\nHistories of particular languages across time and/or space\nLegacies of colonial language policies in post-colonial Asia\nThe politics of national languages\nLanguage and power in Asian contexts\nScript continuity and change\nInter-Asian translation\nLanguages of contemporary popular cultures\nLanguages within and across national boundaries
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/the-sounds-and-scripts-of-languages-in-motion/
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SUMMARY:Rescuing Taste from the Nation: Oceans\, Borders and Culinary Flows
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKrishnendu Ray\nAssociate Professor and Chair\, Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies & Public Health\nNew York University\nkrishnendu.ray@nyu.edu \nCecilia Leong-Salobir\nPostdoctoral Research Fellow\nUniversity of Wollongong\ncecilias@uow.edu.au \nWorkshop Participants\nVirginia Brown Keyder\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Political Science\, State University of New York at Binghamton\n“Olive Oil\, Law and Asia” \nMelissa Caldwell\, Professor\, Anthropology Department\, University of California\, Santa Cruz\n“From Kimchi to Sushi: Training the Russian Palate as a Form of Colonial and Post-Colonial State-Making” \nMay-bo Ching\, Professor\, History\, Sun Yat-sen University\n“The Flow of Turtle Soup: From the Caribbean via Europe to Canton” \nJean Duruz\, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow\, Hawke Research Institute\, University of South Australia\n“Love in a Hot Climate: Foodscapes of Trade\, Travel\, War and Intimacy” \nMari Firkatian\, Professor of History\, Hillyer College\, University of Hartford\n“Using Survivor Recipes to Map Taste Across Spaces of Armenian Settlement in the Ottoman Empire” \nAshutosh Kumar\, Assistant Professor\, Daulat Ram College\, University of Delhi\n“Provisioning the Girmitiya: Food and Drink on Indentured Ships” \nJeffrey Pilcher\, Professor\, History Department\, University of Minnesota\n“‘Tastes Like Grain’: Asian Encounters with European Beer” \nJaclyn Rohel\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies and Public Health\, New York University\n“Imagining Asias? The Politics of Taste\, Space and Betel Quid Chewing in the British Imperial Imagination” \nKhaldoun Samman\, Associate Professor\, Sociology Department\, Macalester College\n“Nationalist Thought and the Colonial Culinary World: The Colonizer’s Gaze and the Making of the ‘New’ Jew\, Turk\, and Arab” \nZafer Yenal\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Boğaziçi University and Michael Kubiena\, Independent Researcher\n“Culinary work at the crossroads & emerging food discourses in Istanbul” \nCalls for Workshop Papers\nThe world of taste and trade in comestibles opens a window into the space between nations. National cuisines have been amply theorized. Indeed\, the basic tools of modern cultural history and demographics have become so nationalized that they have repressed the centrality of other connections and imaginings\, for instance\, between neighboring territorial regions of Asia or among port cities of the Indian Ocean (Mombasa\, Hormuz\, Mumbai\, Malacca)\, linked through flows of knowledge\, resources and material culture. When we examine the edges and intersections of continents and territories\, however\, we begin to see how narratives of cultural difference rub up against the reality of shared tastes\, culinary ingredients and technologies. \nWithin and across Asia\, a new history of oceans and renewed visibility of transnational circulation is reinvigorating discussions of cultural domains that exceed the nation-state. Instead of heartlands and national wholes we propose a productive mapping of taste and place that is encapsulated in the Hindustani saying\, Kosa kosa per pani badle\, chara kosa per vani\, every two miles the water changes – where water is a metonym for taste – and every four miles the language. This locates taste at the center of the ethnoscape that extends beyond the edges\, borders and boundaries of the four-colored maps of modernity. The workshop seeks to question the centrality of the modern nation-state as a vehicle for collective gustemic identity and to propose alternative ways of classifying and mapping taste across inter-Asian foodways. \nWhat are the conditions that produce (or preclude) the possibility of culinary flows between nations? How do territorial proximity\, agro-ecology\, history\, language\, conflict\, colonization and mobility (migration\, media\, technology) enable or constrain the imagination of trans-national configurations of culinary identity across Asia? We invite papers that interrogate the connections\, convergences and conflicts around foodways between and within nations across Asia\, from contemporary or historical perspectives. Papers should attend to culinary cultures\, products\, tools\, collective tastes\, systems of preparation or forms of knowledge (culinary texts\, oral histories) that escape or stretch beyond national circumscription. Possible themes and topics include: \n\nextra-colonial comestibles that pre-date Western imperial interventions and the transnational pathways of dispersal (e.g. historical analysis of palm toddy\, betel nut or halvah); colonial foodways (e.g. curries that have proliferated); fusions old and new\npatterns of fish migration and cookery techniques (e.g. political-ecology of fish stocks and processes of preparation at diverse coastal cities); shared and distinct uses of tamarind\, curry leaf\, coconut\, etc.\ncontemporary migrant labor practices and mobility of culinary knowledge (e.g. multi-sited ethnographies of plantation workers\, street peddlers\, cooks\, and chefs); gender and scripts of professionalization; embourgeoisment of taste and talk\ntrans-national politics of taste and Geographical Indications across borders or in disputed territories (e.g. the cultural politics of saffron in Kashmir)\nmicrocosmic sites (e.g. hawker stall\, café\, domestic kitchen\, blog) as spaces of class- and gender-based collective remembering and reworked meanings of belonging.\n\nWe encourage submissions from junior and senior scholars (in the fields of History\, Anthropology\, Sociology\, Geography\, Cultural Studies\, Communication\, Material Culture and Food Studies)\, as well as policymakers and cultural producers so as to generate a shared language for multidisciplinary research. All participants will be invited to deliver a brief commentary on two other papers during the workshop. Participants will be invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in an edited volume\, to be compiled after the workshop.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/rescuing-taste-from-the-nation-oceans-borders-and-culinary-flows/
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SUMMARY:Porous Enclaves: Inter-Asian Residential Projects and the Popular Classes from Istanbul to Seoul
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nJohn Friedmann\nHonorary Professor\, School of Community and Regional Planning\nUniversity of British Columbia\nProfessor Emeritus\, School of Public Policy and Social Research\nUniversity of California Los Angeles\njrpf@exchange.ubc.ca \nErik Harms\nAssistant Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies\nYale University\nerik.harms@yale.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nLisa Björkman\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“Watering the World Class City: ‘Islands of luxury’ and networked infrastructures in Mumbai” \nRyan Centner\, Lecturer\, Urban Geography\, London School of Economics\n“Neo-Ottomanism Out of the Ashes: Contentions of Cosmopolitan Rebuilding in Beirut & Beyond” \nGökçe Günel\, ACLS New Faculty Fellow\, Department of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Authoritarian Governance and Iconic Infrastructures in Inter-Asian Cities” \nMax Hirsh\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Architecture\, ETH Zurich\, Future Cities Laboratory\n“A Home Away From Home: Ascott and the Development of the Asian Serviced Apartment Industry” \nLaavanya Kathiravelu\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n“Looking over the walls: aspiration & sociality in enclaved communities in Singapore and Dubai” \nDanielle Labbé\, Assistant Professor\, Urban Planning\, University of Montreal and Julie-Anne Boudreau (in absentia)\, The Urbanisation\, Culture\, Société Research Centre\n“Exploring Local Integration Experiments in the New Urban Areas of Hanoi: A New Form of Asian Urbanism?” \nMichael Leaf\, Associate Professor\, School of Community and Regional Planning\, University of British Columbia\n“Exporting Indonesian Urbanism: Ciputra and the Developmental Vision of Market Modernism” \nRohit Mujumdar\, PhD Student\, School of Community and Regional Planning\, University of British Columbia\n“Made in U.S.A.: Worlding on Mumbai’s Periphery” \nChristina Schwenkel\, Associate Professor\, Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies Department\, University of California\, Riverside\n“Reclaiming Rights to the Post/Socialist City: Bureaucratic Artifacts and the Affective Appeal of Petitions” \nAbdouMaliq Simone\, Research Professor at the University of South Australia\, Bob Hawke Research Centre\n“What you see is not always what you know: struggles against re-containment and the capacities to remake urban life in Jakarta’s majority world” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nOver the past two decades\, strikingly similar master-planned\, mixed-used residential projects have emerged across Asia—from South Korea and China to the Middle East and Turkey. These projects\, built to serve a rising middle class of consumers\, are often advertised as exclusive\, self-contained bubbles. Yet their seemingly rigid boundaries are in fact porous and can be seen as key nodes of horizontal and vertical integration across Asia. Horizontally\, they are financed through familiar and well-studied circuits of global capital that criss-cross and connect Asian economies. Visually similar in conceptions of space and style\, their master plans tend to bear the familiar logos of a handful of global firms that often come from within Asia itself. These projects also facilitate horizontal Inter-Asian connections in more intimate ways: for instance\, Asian business elites or members of the new middle class increasingly establish their home away from home in these spaces\, while Southeast Asian domestic workers live in them as well (albeit with severely restricted rights). A new kind of urban landscape is thus taking shape in and among these spaces\, the habitat of an identifiable social life of Inter-Asian capital. \nThis emerging horizontal Inter-Asian fellowship of elite and middle class urban living is founded on a familiar and oft-repeated set of vertical connections and disjunctures. We seek to compare and contrast the conflicts and class tensions between residential communities that depend upon yet actively endeavor to remove from their sight the popular classes who continue to live beyond their walls and whose work is essential to support their way of life. The social life of Inter-Asian capital is not only about lifestyles that often mimic an imagined West but also about the relations of production\, new service economies\, class conflicts\, and accompanying policing and control of the city that surrounds them. Zones of “majority” urbanism typically emerge alongside and in interaction with the very processes that produce the master-planned residential projects for the new middle class and political elites. \nFor a rounded view of urban social life\, Inter-Asian connections must thus be studied along both the globalizing circuits of capital & labor\, commodities & ideas\, and their grounded intersections with specific places. We seek contributions that make both horizontal and vertical connections\, showing how different levels of capital and life intersect within and across major Asian cities\, how high-level capital connects with micro-capital\, and how back-alley production links with elite housing and global markets. \nWe seek papers from scholars in the social-sciences and humanities at different stages in their careers and with in-depth experience in at least one Asian city between Seoul and Istanbul. Contributions should take master-planned residential projects as their point of reference without being confined to them. The range of papers might include\, but should not be limited to\, the following topics: \n\nSocial life within\, among\, and around middle class and elite residential complexes in Asia\n“Global Householding” and Inter-Asian household formation\nConnections between back-alley production\, local housing enclaves\, and Inter-Asian trade\nInter-Asian circulations of capital and ideas (e.g. remittances; real estate capital\, finance\, and land speculation; expertise\, architecture\, & design)\nVertical and horizontal mobilities in and among Asian residential communities (e.g.\, movements between and among these places\, social life and livelihood of Inter-Asian migrant workers)\nVertical connections and conflicts between urban elites\, middle classes\, and popular classes
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/porous-enclaves-inter-asian-residential-projects-and-the-popular-classes-from-istanbul-to-seoul/
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SUMMARY:Inequalities in Asian Societies: Bringing Back Class Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nDeniz Yükseker\nAssociate Professor\, Sociology Department\nKoç University\nDYUKSEKER@ku.edu.tr \nChing Kwan Lee\nProfessor of Sociology\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles\ncklee@soc.ucla.edu \nCan Nacar\nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\nKoç University\nCNACAR@KU.EDU.TR \nWorkshop Participants\nDennis Arnold\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Human Geography\, Planning and International Development\, University of Amsterdam\n“Class Fragments and Emerging Forms: Political Agency and Economic Transition in Cambodia” \nAlpkan Birelma\, PhD candidate\, Ataturk Institute\, Bogazici University\n“Working-class Subjectivities: A View of Capitalism from Below” \nHae Yeon Choo\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology\, University of Toronto\, Mississauga\n“In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea” \nMichael Goldman\, Associate Professor\, Sociology and Global Studies Department\, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities\n“Liquidating — and mobilizing — labor in the making of Asia’s global cities” \nAndrew Hao\, Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wharton School of Business\, University of Pennsylvania\n“Moral Inequalities and Contemporary Chinese ‘Ethical Capitalism’: Expertise\, the Knowledge Economy\, and Emerging Forms of Moral Life” \nKevan Harris\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow\, Department of Near Eastern Studies\, Princeton University\n“The Middle and the Masses: Class Structure\, Distinction and Unrest in Post-Revolutionary Iran” \nAndrew Liu\, Doctoral Candidate\, History Department\, Columbia University\n“The coolie and the comprador: agrarian tea labor in eastern India and coastal China\, 1834-1937” \nSaori Shibata\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Political Science and International Studies\, University of Birmingham\n“From social harmony to class conflict? The rise of labour protest in response to Japanese neoliberalisation” \nAnand Vaidya\, PhD Candidate\, Anthropology\, Harvard University\n“Trajectories of Legal Knowledge: India’s Forest Rights Act and translations between caste and class” \nErdem Yörük\, Assistant Professor\, Sociology\, Koç University\n“Grassroots Politics in Turkey: 1970-2010” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nReferring to the worldwide phenomenon of decreasing gaps between richer and poorer countries\, but enduring socio-economic inequalities inside each\, Göran Therborn (Global Dialogue\, 2(1)\, 2011) has observed that “this amounts to a return of class” in the twenty-first century. At the forefront of the remarkable rates of economic growth in the Global South are Asian countries\, from Turkey to India and China\, despite the disruptions caused by recent financial crises. At the same time\, Asia remains the continent with the largest number of poor people\, signaling that the degree of within-country inequalities is nowhere close to declining. Although this no doubt points to class polarization\, the patterns of social change in Asian societies do not easily avail themselves to class analysis of the type prevalent in West Europe and North America in a previous period. \nThis workshop calls for a renewal of class analysis in Asian countries from a theoretically and conceptually grounded perspective. The workshop directors invite papers that focus on formations of classes\, the transformation of class structures and class-based collective action in ways that pay attention to national and regional particularities. \nWhat are some of the processes that might inform class analytics in Asia that papers in this workshop can focus on? (1) From the west to the east\, the continent is the stage for the ongoing process of proletarianization\, understood in the classical sense of dispossession from the means of production. What are the roles of the state\, the rural economy and migration in shaping the various paths and forms of proletarianization in Asia? (2) Asia dominates global industrial production\, thanks to China but also to South Korea\, India and Indonesia. Countries ranging from Turkey to Egypt\, Bangladesh and Malaysia also participate in the global competition for industrial exports. This has brought along a rise of the industrial labor force at intensified levels of labor control and surplus extraction. The organization and politics at the point of production may be entirely different from previous and Western modes of industrialization. How have labor conditions in the factory been transformed\, with what consequences for labor politics or cross-class mobilization in Asia? (3) A faster growing segment of laborers in Asia works in service sectors\, partly boosted by the growth in tourism and hospitality\, and partly by the growing demand for domestic labor. Intensified labor control is also a feature of the formal and informal service sectors. (4) But more palpable has been the rise in the ranks of informal workers (also called the precariat\, the subproletariat) across Asia\, who earn less\, work irregularly and have fewer or no social rights compared to formal workers. (5) On the one hand\, as a result of dispossession\, labor protests have erupted and taken on different characteristics in different countries\, but such protests have been absent in others. On the other hand\, social movements for democratization and the political rifts within them are arguably based on class alliances and class cleavages\, as witnessed during the ongoing revolution in Egypt. (6) An analytical axis that cuts across all of these processes is gender\, in terms of labor force participation\, workplace subjectivities and activism. (7) The polarization between popular classes on the one hand and the industrialists and financiers who vie for spots in the global capitalist class on the other is politically and economically mitigated by the growth of thin layers of middle classes everywhere in Asia\, who albeit are the major consumers in their respective countries. \nAlthough there are rich scholarly literatures that focus on some aspect of the above-described processes\, works that scrutinize them in terms of class analytics are only recently emerging\, and then only for single counties. The goal of this workshop is precisely to focus attention on class dynamics in Asian societies in terms of both convergences and comparisons with respect to the seven processes outlined above. Papers may\, using case studies or comparative quantitative and qualitative data\, address one or more of the following issues\, and adopt various theoretical perspectives of class drawing from Marx\, Polanyi\, Bourdieu\, feminism\, etc.: the debate on class-in-itself and class-for-itself; classed and gendered subjectivities in the labor process; the effects of semi- or full proletarianization on labor protest; resistance to dispossession; the overlaps or contradictions between ethnic\, national and class identities; waves of labor protest; the falling and rising impact of labor unionism; class bases of democratization movements; class compromises in neoliberal contexts\, and so on. \nTheoretically\, this workshop calls for a renewal of class analysis. Although there is a large body of scholarship on labor in various Asian countries\, the concept of class is often not used. The theoretical benefit of class analysis might be at least two-fold. First of all\, labor relations can be viewed relationally\, as emerging within processes of dispossession\, exploitation and production. Secondly\, the long-standing debate about the relation between the objective axes of inequality and the subjective (im)possibilities for collective class action can be revived in theoretically fruitful ways. Papers that address these issues would also provide empirical material for comparatives studies on class in Asia. \nEthnographies and qualitative case studies as well as works that use quantitative data for comparisons would be welcome. Workplace ethnographies\, ethnographic studies of labor activism\, comparative analyses of labor movements in different countries or between different periods in a single country\, archival research on labor movements in the past\, comparative historical studies of the class base of social movements are some of the possible methodologies that may be used in the papers.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/inequalities-in-asian-societies-bringing-back-class-analysis/
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nAlice Jim\nAssociate Professor of Contemporary Art\nConcordia University\nalice.jim@concordia.ca \nHenry Tsang\nAssociate Professor\, Faculty of Culture + Community\nemily carr university of art + design\nhtsang@ecuad.ca \nWorkshop Participants\nRachel Amtzis\, Research Division\, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\, National University of Singapore\n“Canvassing the City: Street Art\, Protest\, and Counter-Politics in Kathmandu” \nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Qatar\, Cai Guo-qiang and Reimagining Historical and Cultural Transmissions” \nGay Breyley\, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2013-15)\, Faculty of Arts\, Monash University\n“Uninvited Artistic Connections: From Iranian to Inter-Asian Imaginaries” \nManuela Ciotti\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\, Aarhus University and ‘Framing the Global’ Fellow (2011–14)\, Indiana University Bloomington\n“Mumbai in Shanghai and back: Biennale imaginaries\, talking cities\, and the India-China contemporary art exchange” \nViệt Lê\, Assistant Professor\, Visual Studies Program\, California College of the Arts\n“Town and Country: Sopheap Pich and Phan Quang’s Urban-Rural Developments” \nsusan pui san lok\, Reader in Fine Art in the School of Art and Design at Middlesex University\, and an Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture\n“RoCH Fans & Legends” \nIan Alden Russell\, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art\, Curation and Cultural Heritage Koç University\, Istanbul\n“The presence of the past: Art\, heritage\, and inter-Asian imaginaries” \nValerie Soe\, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University\n“Open-source Identities: Identity and Resistance in the work of four Asian American artists” \nJune Yap\, PhD candidate\, National University of Singapore\n“The ends of curation” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop examines artistic practices and presentation strategies given recent directions and complicities in Asian and inter-Asian contexts. At stake is how cultural production is influenced and informed by\, and\, in turn\, contributes to the ongoing articulation and complication of local\, regional\, national and transnational identities. We invite scholars\, curators\, artists\, activists\, policymakers\, and cultural producers from any discipline or interdisciplinary perspective to propose papers on artistic practices\, organizations\, institutions and exhibitions that explore the diverse ways the inter-Asian imaginary has manifested in contemporary art and visual culture. \nJust as there is no one Asia\, there are no overarching trends binding the diverse practices\, histories and geographies that fall under the heading of contemporary Asian art or exhibitions produced in inter-Asian contexts. Much scholarship in contemporary art in the last decade has focused on the worldwide biennale phenomenon\, i.e.\, the dramatic increase in international art exhibitions accompanied by a rapidly growing representation of Asian artists. However\, critical inquiry into inter-Asian artistic collaborations and activities has only just begun to enter into scholarly discussions in theory and in practice. As cultural critic C.J. Wan-Ling Wee noted\, in the 1980s and 1990s the idea of contemporary “New Asia” was curated into “being”’ as one that imagined “a cosmopolitan-multicultural Asia able to transcend national boundaries\, even as there was the awareness that the region’s cultural diversity and history of political fractures made this endeavor difficult.” In the new millennium\, the renewed emphasis on inter-Asian cooperation has led to the concomitant realization of the notion of a Global Asia and distinctions between the Global South and the Global North. \nWhat kinds of ideas\, ideologies and theoretical frameworks are at play and at stake in the evolving and layering of inter-Asian cultural constructions\, social relations and dimensions? How has this manifestation of an inter-Asian imaginary in the past two decades impacted research-creation (art/cultural production)\, curatorial/exhibition practices and arts criticism/writing? An example is the 2013 Istanbul Biennial which coincides with the Inter-Asia conference\, providing an ideal opportunity and platform to examine current categories\, spaces and frameworks constructing the inter-Asian imaginary in the global exhibitionary complex and implications for identity formation and the local over the last two decades. Another approach might be to consider how an exhibition of contemporary Indian art in China (i.e.\, “Indian Highway” at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in 2012) differs from an exhibition about “India in China.” Furthermore\, Asian biennales are not necessarily located in Asia proper writ large: Manchester hosts the Asian Triennial in the UK\, and the Asia Pacific Triennial is based in Brisbane\, Australia. Meanwhile Istanbul in West Asia which hosts one of the most prestigious international art biennales alongside Venice\, Sydney and Sao Paolo\, is uniquely situated between Europe and Asia. For the purposes of the workshop’s research agenda then\, Inter-Asia refers to not only regional networks but also transnational connections between residents in the Middle East through Eurasia\, East Asia\, South Asia and Southeast Asia\, and the overseas Asian diaspora as well as the Asian Pacific Rim region. \nPossible ideas or topics might include\, but are not limited to\, the following: \n\nConvergences between Inter-Asian studies and discourses of the Global Asia\, New Asia or Global South: epistemologies\, methodologies and comparative analyses.\nBiennials and the Globalization of Art: the Istanbul Biennial and the place of the local.\nSpaces of Protest: pro-democracy movements\, war\, and the Arab Spring.\nDifferential Mobilities: capitalizing Asian diasporas\, migrant communities and overseas citizenship.\nResistance and Identity Politics in Contact Zones: assimilation\, friction and hybridity.\nTranslation and Resisting Regimes of Identification: negotiating national imaginaries and other identity categories such as gender\, class and ethnicities.\nThe Political Economy of Art Production: arts policy and infrastructure\, cultural capital and institutional critique\, the impact of social and participatory media in pop culture.\nCollaboration and Collectivism: overlapping urban networks and artist-activist spaces.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/contemporary-art-and-the-inter-asian-imaginary/
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SUMMARY:Asian Early Modernities: Empires\, Bureaucrats\, Confessions\, Borders\, Merchants
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKaya Sahin\nAssistant Professor\, Department of History\nIndiana University\niksahin@indiana.edu \nHendrik Spruyt\nNorman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations; Director\, Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies\nNorthwestern University\nh-spruyt@northwestern.edu \nWorkshop Participants\nChristopher P. Atwood\, Professor of Mongolian Studies\, Central Eurasian Studies Department and adjunct professor of History at Indiana University (Bloomington)\n“Partners in Profit: Empires\, Merchants\, and Local Governments in the Mongol Empire and Qing Mongolia” \nCemil Aydin\, Associate Professor\, History Department\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\n“Transformation of Inter-Asian Regional Connections from Early Modern to Modern Period” \nHayden Bellenoit (in absentia)\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, US Naval Academy\n“Paper\, revenue administration and munshi-gari in 18th century India” \nKate Boehme\, PhD Candidate\, History Department\, University of Cambridge\n“Capitalism and Inter-Asian Linkages: The Impact of China on Developing Business Networks in Western India\, 1750-1850” \nEdward Boyle\, PhD Candidate\, Graduate School of Law and Politics\, Hokkaido University\n“Bounding States: Mapping Asian Expansion 1500-1750” \nNaindeep Chann\, PhD Candidate\, History Department\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Searching for the Sahib-Qiran: Claims\, Contestations\, and Connections in the Early Modern Islamicate Empires” \nJi-Young Lee\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Service\, American University\n“The Chinese World Order in Practice: Symbolic Domination and Hierarchy in Early Modern East Asia” \nJohn D. Wong\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, School of Modern Languages and Culture\, University of Hong Kong\n“Traversing the Laws of the Lands: The Strategic Use of Different Legal Systems by Houqua and his China Trade Partners in the Canton System” \nLan Wu\, PhD Candidate in History\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University\n“Kinship\, Religious Institution\, and Imperial Management at the Borders of Qing China” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThe Inter-Asian Connections IV conference and specifically the theme of Connected Empires is a particularly rich and fruitful avenue for inter-disciplinary exploration by historians\, political scientists\, sociologists and related fields. We particularly welcome\, therefore\, proposals that explore the multitude of ways in which early modern Asian empires have interacted at the material\, cultural and political level. Research that examines such connections in a comparative vein would be desirable. \nThis workshop proposes to discuss the dynamism of the Asian continent in the early modern period\, between roughly 1450 and 1750. The scholarship on the “European expansion” often misses the fact that this period witnessed an “Asian expansion” as well. Our objective is to investigate the contours and contents of this pan-Asian early modernity. Our aim is to use Asia as a zone that produced its own brand of early modernity. Part of this Asian early modernity was created as an answer to European incursions into Asia; most of it\, however\, came into being as a result of internal dynamics. \nTopics of particular interest might cover: \n\nMutual exchanges between empires\, such as the Ottoman\, Safavid\, Mughal\, Russian and Chinese (Ming and Qing) empires and the Tokugawa Shogunate\nThe emergence of imperial and local bureaucracies as agents of management\nThe relationship between empire and confession building\nMerchants and merchant communities as agents of interaction and exchange\nEmpire and state building\nThe regulation of international order across empires and regions
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/asian-early-modernities-empires-bureaucrats-confessions-borders-merchants/
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SUMMARY:“After Neoliberalism?” The Future of Postneoliberal State and Society in Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEmel Akçali\nAssistant Professor\, Department of International Relations and European Studies\nCentral European University\nAkcaliE@ceu.hu \nHo-Fung Hung\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Sociology\nJohns Hopkins University\nhofung@jhu.edu \nLerna K. Yanik\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Political Science and Public Administration\nKadir Has University\nlerna.yanik@khas.edu.tr \nWorkshop Participants\nBipasha Baruah\, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues\, Department of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research\, Western University\n“NGOs as Intermediaries in Pro-Poor Electrification in India: Urban Development in a Postneoliberal Era?” \nThiem Hai Bui\, PhD Candidate\, School of Political Science and International Studies\, University of Queensland\n“In Search of a Postsocialist Mode of Governmentality: The Emergence of Amorphous Postneoliberalism in Vietnam” \nRami Farouk Daher\, Associate Professor of Architecture at the German Jordanian University\, Amman\, Jordan\n“Welfare Genocide: rentierism\, neoliberalism\, and the corporatization of the public sector in Jordan” \nAzam Khatam\, PhD Candidate\, Environmental Studies\, York University\n“Domesticated Neoliberalism in Iran: Political Economy of Reconstruction” \nNatalie Koch\, Assistant Professor\, Geography Department\, The Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs\, Syracuse University\n“Technostates of the GCC and Central Asia: Postneoliberalism and ‘domesticating’ elite higher education” \nNikolay Murashkin\, Doctoral Candidate\, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Cambridge\n“Japanese financial assistance in Central Asia: its driving forces and architects of local gradualism” \nStephanie D. Santos\, PhD Candidate\, Gender Studies\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“We were not poor; we were made poor”: Development and Dispossession in Metro Manila” \nClaudio Sopranzetti\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, All Souls College\, Oxford University\n“A Return to Regulated Neoliberalism: the case of Thailand” \nTakaaki Suzuki\, Associate Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Ohio University\n“After Neoliberalism?: The Curious Non-death of Neoliberalism in Japan” \nWEN Zhuoyi\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Applied Social Studies\, City University of Hong Kong\n“Towards Solidarity and Recognition in Post Neoliberalism? Social Citizenship in China after One Decade of Social Policy Development” \nGizem Zencirci\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Political Science\, Providence College\n“A Neoliberal ‘Logic of Relief’ or a Post-neoliberal ‘Logic of Rights’? A Critical Analysis of the Welfare Regime in Turkey” \nCall for Workshop Papers\n“Postneoliberalism” or “after neoliberalism” is a term associated with forms of governance that emerged in the mid-late 1990s with the Third Way and social investment states in the UK\, Canada\, and Aotearoa/New Zealand and in some of the Latin American countries – such as Brazil under and after Lula — that started looking for alternatives beyond the neoliberal one as result of the unfulfilled promises and incompatibility of neoliberalism in non-Western settings. Neoliberalism establishes fundamental connections between economic rationality and socio-political life and despite the fact that it promotes non-intervention into market mechanisms\, it is concerned with the governance of individuals from a distance. However\, there has been no strict definition of what postneoliberalism is except that postneoliberal projects of governance seek to retain elements of the previous export-led growth model and combine it with social-democratic welfare policies and that post-neoliberalism is considered a “detachment” from the principles of neoliberalism\, leading to the emergence of “policies and ideas linked to the left rather than to the right.” We regard this conceptual haziness in the formulation of postneoliberalism as an opportunity to rethink possible alternatives to neoliberalism. \nIn this workshop\, our first goal is to seek papers that will exposit this amalgam of forms of postneoliberalism and the emergent postneoliberal state\, which have already started to develop in Latin America and elsewhere\, and to understand and to theorize what postneoliberalism entails in states and societies across Asia. \nOur second objective is to elaborate on the emerging “governmentality (ies)” as a result of this transition from neoliberalism to postneoliberalism\, or to the variants of postneoliberalism\, to be more correct. With basic tenets of neoliberalism being in question and various attempts to move beyond neoliberalism still being debated\, we are curious to find out whether these governmentalities are also being left behind\, or are they morphing into some other form? What happens to welfare politics? What happens to cities\, urban transformation\, or to gentrification in big cities? How do the developmental states or paternalistic authoritarian states in Asia transform amidst the global shift from neoliberalism to postneoliberalism? Does the shift enlarge or reduce spaces of democratic changes? Does it strengthen or weaken the region’s link to the US hegemony? Can we talk about the reversal of the neo-liberalization of education\, most specifically higher education? Or\, alternatively\, could it be that governmentality is an explanatory framework only applicable to Western liberal states and societies\, and no such Foucaldian conception of governmenality can actually be applied to post neoliberal formations in Asia? \nThird\, we are interested in exploring the link between postneoliberalism and ethnic and religious pluralism in Asian societies. How do\, for instance\, various groups respond to this transition away from neoliberalism\, especially given the fact that what is termed as postneoliberalism in Latin America has often been associated with the consequences of the push from indigenous people’s empowerment and involvement in local politics? \nWhen tracing the life of the term in Asia\, this very vague definition of postneoliberalism might be considered a challenge. But the variety of state\, regime and society types combined with different economic development models across Asia\, ranging from the developmental state to the very neoliberal state\, presents us a better chance to define\, or to redefine the term postneoliberal and the postneoliberal state\, and thus to distinguish between different variants of postneoliberalism. To give several (possible) examples: can Russia with increased social spending due to resource boom on the one hand\, and acceleration of statisim and renationalizations on the other\, be counted as an example of a postneoliberal state? Can the Chinese government’s programs to raise workers’ wages and support agrarian development after 2005 effectively ameliorate the many social crises unleashed by unfettered neoliberalism in the 1990s\, or are they no more than cosmetic improvements that will never be able to reverse the long march of neoliberalism in China? If these two countries are accepted as variants of postneoliberalism\, how then does New Zealand\, which has already received the postneoliberal title\, stand out in comparison to the two? Asia\, to sum up\, might be a more fertile ground to explore the meaning of postneoliberalism and its implications. For this workshop\, we define Asia to include the Middle East\, Eurasia\, Central Asia\, South Asia\, Southeast Asia and East Asia as well as Asia-Pacific and Asia’s connections that extend and flow well beyond Asia. We are\, in other words\, not only interested in “fixities\,” but also in “flows” (political\, economic and social) in and out of Asia that make and shape the postneoliberal state and society within and across Asia. \nPossible Themes: \n\nDemarcating the line between postneoliberalism and neoliberalism\nThe current economic crises and postneoliberalism\nPostneoliberalism and democratic politics\nPostneoliberalism and the US hegemony in Asia\nPostneoliberalism and postdevelopmental states\nPostneoliberalism and the state of various issues: poverty\, poverty reduction\, higher education\, cities\, arts\, media etc.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/after-neoliberalism-the-future-of-postneoliberal-state-and-society-in-asia/
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