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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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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: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: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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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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