Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Rural Revitalization in Contemporary Korea and China
Korea and China have similar patterns in rural modernization and rapid urbanization. More and more rural communities are incorporated into the urban area. In rural areas of the two countries, it is easy to see high rised apartments in rural towns. Traditional rural life has been fundamentally tranformed. This radical transformation entails serious challenges. For …
Constructing the Cultural Public Sphere of and Beyond Japan: Fluidity and Dynamics in East Asia
Jürgen Habermas highlighted the development of bourgeois public spheres, which refers to a mediating domain between private and public authorities that emerged in eighteenth-century Europe. To account for increasingly complicated social realities, McGuigan proposes the idea of the cultural public sphere, referring to articulation of politics, public and personal terrains through effective modes of communication. …
Regimes of Disaster Truth in the Aftermath of 3.11
Disasters always cause panic, involve casualties and take a heavy toll on the lives of affected communities. However, some regions and groups of people are being affected by disasters more severely than others. This panel brings together original papers that explore the link between disaster and justice. By discussing whose narratives gain media attention and …
Experiencing ‘China’ at the World’s Fairs
Though much has been written about the relationship between China and modernity through its participation and presentation to the world in various international expositions, none have reconstituted the actual experience of being at those gatherings. Taking cues from recent works on sensory and memory studies, these papers aim to reexamine and resituate the personal experience …
Body as Strategies in Contemporary China: The Multiplicity of the Body in Literature, Media, and Social Practice
This panel seeks to explore the strategic uses of the body in Chinese literature, media, and social practice. Following what the anthropologist and philosopher Annemarie Mol calls the body multiple, we contend that bodies are always more than one and less than many. The body multiple demands to be enacted in specific situations, and in …
Hinduism at the Crossroads at Home and Abroad
The papers in this session explore emergent forms of Hinduism that exist at a variety of geographical, technological, political, economic, and theological crossroads both in India and elsewhere in the world. We understand the term “crossroads” as encompassing a variety of intersecting vectors, and we focus our attention on the religious forms that such intersections …
Politics of Landscape Photography in East Asia
This panel explores the ways in which landscape photography involves national identity as well as a discourse on photographic genres in East Asia during the postwar period. Professional photographers in countries, such as China, Korea, and Taiwan, engaged themselves in creating images of local views, while consciously aware of a mode of visualizing a new …
Identities, Cultural Practices and the Changing Political Landscape of Modern Southeast Asia
This panel consists of young and mid-career scholars engaging with cultural politics and political ideologies that emerged from rapidly changing politics in Southeast-Asia, late 19 and 20 centuries, in response to modernism and so-called ‘identity threats’. Hanwong discusses how Burmese elites reconciled Buddhism and Marxism ideologies and created their own religious and political prospects in …
Social, Political, and Cultural Dynamics of Collective Actions in Asia
Academic studies of social movements focus on social, political, and cultural centered approaches. The main social movements that have occurred since the 60`s have their own actors and all of them play an important role in shaping the discourses. over mobilizations. It is significant to analyze the actors involved in the movements and characteristics shaping …
Imam, Educator, Soldier, Modernist? Envisioning New Worlds in the Lives of Muslims From the Warlord Era in Northwest China and Xinjiang
In the early twentieth century, Muslims in Northwest China and Xinjiang sought to remake themselves and their communities in response to emerging nationalisms and currents of modernist Islamic thinking. This panel highlights the ways this turbulent period was understood and configured in the lives of Muslims between Northwest China and Xinjiang. It looks both to …