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SUMMARY:Old Histories\, New Geographies: Contrapuntal Mobilities of Trade and State across Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nEngseng Ho\nDuke University\nengseng.ho@duke.edu \nLakshmi Subramanian\nJamia Millia Islamia\nnilgiri98@gmail.com \nWorkshop Participants\nJacqueline Armijo\, Associate Professor\, Department of International Affairs\, Qatar University\n“Silk Roads Redux: The Social\, Economic\, and Political Implications of the Revival of China – Gulf Trade Relations” \nSurajit Chakravarty\, Urban Planning Faculty\, Al Hosn University\n“Insurgence of another kind: Practiced Citizenship as Inverted Resistance” \nKubanychbek Chymbaev\, Senior Lecturer\, Oriental Studies and International Relations\, Bishkek Humanities University\n“Trade as a Political and Economic Resource of Kyrgyzstan” \nMax Hirsh\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Architecture and Urban Planning\, Harvard University\n“Airport Urbanism: Mapping Mobility in the Pearl River Delta” \nWilson Chacko Jacob\, Assistant Professor of History\, Concordia University\n“Of Angels and Men: Sayyid Fadl bin Alawi and the Form-of-Life” \nLamia Karim\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, University of Oregon – Eugene and Manzurul Mannan\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Liberal Arts and Social Studies\, Independent University\, Bangladesh (IUB)\n“The New Silk Road: Perspectives on the Asian Highway from Bangladesh” \nSimon Layton\, Ph.D. Candidate\, St. Catharine’s College\, Faculty of History\, University of Cambridge\n“Suppressing ‘the Gift of Krishna’: India\, Piracy\, and the Littoral Politics of Empire” \nJason Lim\, Lecturer\, School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong\n“Vicissitudes of the China Trade for the Chinese Merchants in Malaya and Singapore\, 1912-1982” \nNisha Mary Mathew\, Mellon Doctoral Fellow\, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA)\, University of Witwatersrand\n“New Geopolitical Imaginaries in South India: Contributions of the Gold Trade\, Gulf Migration and Liberalization” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nThis workshop aims to foster dialogue between past connections and contemporary ones which are changing the social shape of Asia. We seek to plumb the historical resonances that lend excitement and confidence (and at times concern) to new exchanges with old acquaintances across Asia. Such dialogue necessarily revisits the idea of the region\, one of the most vibrant areas of study to emerge in recent years. If imperialism created new geographies and indeed new histories\, recent global currents are reworking older regional connections and generating new relationships. We invite papers which study historical or contemporary inter-Asian exchanges\, or that reflect on both. \nThe different ways in which business/labour and government interact provide a rich empirical base and theoretical frame for thinking about how such new connections are reshaping Asia. While the British empire provided a common administrative and security frame for new connections across the Indian Ocean\, the connections being remade across Asia today do not share such a common frame. States often lag behind their mobile citizens: labour-exporting Philippines\, Indonesia and India are challenged to construct inter-governmental labour regulations with their counterparts in Saudi Arabia/the Persian Gulf and Malaysia/Singapore. In industry\, chip foundry makers of Taiwan have completely relocated to the PRC despite a lack of diplomatic and regulatory protections agreed between their governments. How are labour and capital able to make such leaps out of their national spaces\, where they have little recourse to national rights and legal protection? In other ways\, states are being entrepreneurial ahead of their populations. Saudi King Abdullah headed east—to China\, India\, Malaysia\, Pakistan rather than Washington—on his inaugural overseas trip\, with businessmen and women and tow; Singapore’s foreign minister in turn went west in a historic first visit to Yemen\, with businessmen and Singaporean members of the Yemeni diaspora in tow. Across Eurasia\, former Soviet bloc states delicately renegotiate their mutual relations as oil pipelines snake across new borders\, while their Central Asian subjects seek new silk routes of trade as soviet industrial jobs disappear. \nThe concrete social shapes of these new exchanges seldom correspond to globalization’s classic liberal conditions of free-flowing trade and finance\, alienable property and legal protection for foreigners. Instead\, they subsist on a broader range of social relations. We invite papers that explore what these broader relations look like. Such a paper might be one that examines old associations like Chinese lineage temples\, once stigmatized under communist rule\, but now revivified in bringing together clansmen who are national communist party officials\, local landholders\, and overseas Chinese investors\, to transform paddy fields into export zones. Others may look at ways in which older connections—of culture\, language\, education\, kinship\, religion\, trade—are being reworked to engage with more contemporary concerns of circulation in South and Southeast Asia. Yet others may attempt new theorizations of space that offer very new challenges to notions of entitlement and citizenship. Such concerns may help break the older limits of regions be it Asia or Eurasia\, and allow us to ask whether new modalities of circulation of capital and labour are being created\, that will drive the reconfiguration of the regions. \nThrough the papers and discussion\, we plan to collectively theorize how long distance connections based on reciprocal ritual and economic transactions\, and their retrospective reflections\, may be producing new\, expanded notions of space and subjectivity\, reprising older ones\, or transforming them. We hope to understand how such spaces and subjectivities interpenetrate with those of national and transnational states\, and their constituent categories of citizenship and subject-hood.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/old-histories-new-geographies-contrapuntal-mobilities-of-trade-and-state-across-asia/
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SUMMARY:Inter-Asian temple and trust networks within and out of Southeast Asia
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nKenneth Dean\nEast Asian Studies\, McGill University\nkenneth.dean@mcgill.ca \nWorkshop Participants\nChi-cheung Choi\, Professor\, History Department\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“Between Ancestor and Ghost: Grand Universal Salvation Rituals (Wan Yuan sheng Hui) in South East Asia” \nJean DeBernardi\, Professor of Anthropology\, University of Alberta\n“Spirit Mediums\, Local History\, and Daoist Networks” \nC. Julia Huang\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Anthropology\, National Tsing Hua University; Visiting Senior Research Fellow\, Asia Research Institute\, National University of Singapore\n“Buddhism and its Trust Networks between Taiwan\, Malaysia\, and the United States” \nHui Kian Kwee\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, University of Toronto\n“Sanction through Divinity: the Chinese Council (gongtang) and Guanyinting Temple in Batavia\, 1780s-1870s” \nHilary Lim\, Principal Lecturer in Law\, School of Law\, University of East London and Raj Brown\, Emeritus Professor in International Business\, Royal Holloway College\, London\n“Flying Money: Legal Pluralism\, the Cash Waqf and the Tong” \nThien-Huong Ninh\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Sociology\, University of Southern California\n“Roots\, Ruptures\, and Renovations: Transnational and Homeland Ties Between Caodai Temples in Cambodia and Vietnam” \nPrista Ratanapruck\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, University of Virginia\n“Gompa: Tibetan Buddhist Monastery and Manangi Trade Networks in South and Southeast Asia” \nJeffrey Samuels\, Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy and Religion\, and Coordinator of Asian Studies\, Western Kentucky University\n“Buddhist Temple Networks Across the Indian Ocean: Capital\, Resources\, and Minority Identity Formation” \nVineeta Sinha\, Associate Professor\, Department of Sociology\, National University of Singapore\n“Producing and Sustaining Agamic-Style Hindu Temples in Singapore” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAlthough considerable empirical research has been done on Southeast Asian trading networks\, so far less attention has focused on the role of Chinese and Indian temples and Islamic institutions in fostering\, facilitating\, and shaping the flow of people\, capital\, and cultural resources within these trust networks. With some notable exceptions\, so far there has been little examination of the historical role of these temples and community networks in the spread of the Chinese\, Indian\, and Islamic communities into Southeast Asia. Nor has their current role in reviving connections between Overseas Chinese\, Indian\, and Islamic communities\, and their ancestral temples\, communities\, and holy sites in China\, India\, and the Middle East been explored. \nThe study of these intricate\, overlapping networks is one way to prevent local history from falling into the trap of endless recuperation by national history. In that model\, local history can be nothing more than an endless series of minor variations on a theme\, with the underlying issue being the process of cultural unification of the locale with the state. A focus on trans-national\, and even global networks\, works against the prevalent model of hierarchical encompassment and state control of local society by introducing multiple planes of reference\, alternative and transversal sources of cultural invention and investment\, and the possibility of local cultural self-definition drawing creatively from multiple sources. \nStudy of the historical development and recent renewal of these networks—whether through ritual or other socio-cultural processes—should reveal essential aspects of the process of globalization and its impact on specific locales. This workshop will raise important questions about the ability of local cultures to negotiate the forces of capitalism\, ethnic identity and cultural nationalism sweeping through Asia today. For instance\, ritual practices among Chinese networks show extraordinary versatility and flexibility in creatively engaging with these forces without losing relevance to their participants. This in turn raises broader questions about the impact of modernity on contemporary Asia and the value of theories of alternative modernity for the study of these developments. \nThis workshop will examine and compare a number of specific temple networks or parallel trust networks that operate within and out of Southeast Asia. Papers will trace the spread of specific cults of regional deities and particular ritual practices (local Daoist traditions\, collective spirit medium training and group trance dance) out of China\, across Southeast Asia into Malaysia\, Singapore\, Indonesia\, and into a wider inter-Asian region\, where they often evolved new ritual forms. We will also explore the return flow of ritual knowledge and economic support within these networks during the massive revival of popular religion in Southeast China over the past 30 years. Papers will be presented on Islamic trust networks and networks of Indian temples and their links to trade and other cultural networks. The workshop can also showcase new technologies for the mapping and analysis of religious networks (GIS and spatial network analysis). Case studies of specific sites (Malacca\, Penang\, Singapore\, Semarang\, Kuching\, etc.) will examine the complex interactions between different temple communities\, and their interactions with other ethnic and religious communities.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/inter-asian-temple-and-trust-networks-within-and-out-of-southeast-asia/
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SUMMARY:How Asia Became Territorial
DESCRIPTION:Workshop Directors\nItty Abraham\nUniversity of Texas at Austin\nittya@austin.utexas.edu \nSee Seng Tan\nS. Rajaratnam School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University\nissstan@ntu.edu.sg \nWorkshop Participants\nCarolyn Cartier\, Professor of Human Geography and China Studies\, China Research Centre\, University of Technology\, Sydney\n“Regional Governmentalities or Territorializaton with/out Boundaries” \nMichele Ford\, Chair\, Department of Indonesian Studies\, University of Sydney and Lenore Lyons (in absentia)\, Research Professor in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia\n“Sovereignty\, territory and citizenship: The production of subaltern cosmopolitans in Indonesia’s maritime borderlands” \nSiba N. Grovogui\, Professor Department of Political Science\, The Johns Hopkins University and Hitomi Koyama\, Ph.D. candidate\, The John Hopkins University\n“Continental Drifts: Imperial Cartography\, Sovereignty\, and Postcolonial Conflicts” \nTuran Kayoaglu\, Professor\, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington\, Tacoma\n“How Asia Ended Extraterritoriality” \nL. H. M. Ling\, Associate Professor\, Graduate Program in International Affairs\, The New School\n“‘ASIA IS A WOMAN’: Episteme and Territorialization” \nDavid Ludden\, Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the History Department\, New York University\n“Uneven Development\, Spatial Inequity\, and Territorial Politics: Remapping 1905 in Bengal and Assam” \nKen MacLean\, Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change (IDSC)\, Clark University\n“The Cultural Politics of Lines: Performing Sovereignty in the Greater South China/ Eastern Sea” \nTorsten Weber\, Research Associate\, History Department\, School of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Jacobs University Bremen\n“Utopias of ‘One Asia’: Visual Portrayals of ‘Asia’ in the Age of Nationalism” \nCall for Workshop Papers\nAsia today has more inter-state disputes over territory than any other continent in the world. The majority of its states—Japan\, Korea\, China\, Taiwan\, Philippines\, Vietnam\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Pakistan\, India\, Bangladesh\, Afghanistan\, etc.—find themselves embroiled in deeply contentious and long-standing disputes with neighbors and others over bits of land and/or in the maritime domain. What is most alarming is that these disputes are not merely historical legacies of imperial cartography that can be resolved in the well-tempered meeting rooms of international diplomacy. Struggles over disputed lands repeatedly generate the nationalist ire of domestic Asian populations\, fuelled further by nostalgia for some idealized past\, frustrated economic and political aspirations\, and tensions between the competing yet symbiotic dynamics of globalization and nationalism. Subaltern histories and armed insurgencies seeking self-determination may complicate further the fray of disputed official histories. The net effect is to create a situation where the most likely cause of inter-state conflict in Asia today is a situation emanating from a territorial dispute. However\, we believe that these very practical concerns cannot be fully understood unless scholars look beyond territorial disputes per se. \nTerritorial disputes raise questions of history\, historiography\, conquest\, colonization\, legitimacy\, legality\, nations\, nationalism\, boundaries and borders—issues that invite interrogation by critically minded political scientists\, geographers\, international legal scholars\, historians\, and anthropologists. Disputes\, however\, are not our primary interest. Rather\, this workshop proposes to examine critically the foundational relation underlying disputes\, namely\, the self-reinforcing equivalence between “state” and “territory” that is the unquestioned condition of modern sovereignty. \nAmong the questions we would like to see raised are historical concerns—when and how did the state-territory equivalence emerge in Asia; How are “geo-bodies” (Winichakul 1994) constructed in different Asian countries—as well as theoretical\, spatial\, cultural\, and political issues: How are multiple territorial sovereignties understood\, represented\, contested\, and resolved; How did/do ideas of territory travel within and beyond Asia; What were/are the technologies of territorial sovereignty; how and where do “zomias” (van Schendel 2005)\, SEZ’s\, and utopias emerge; What does state-and-territory do to borderlanders; How can we conceptualize the many relations between territory and citizenship\, involving diasporas\, foreigners\, sojourners\, strangers\, exiles\, minorities\, fifth columnists\, and aliens; How are “real” and “virtual” maps imagined\, produced\, and deconstructed through popular culture and everyday life? \nThe objective of this proposed workshop is an inter-disciplinary discussion that leads to the untangling of the dense historical\, ideological\, and political relations that made Asia territorial.
URL:https://www.ssrc.org/events/how-asia-became-territorial/
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