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Alienation From Policy Processes Across Asia
The papers in this panel focuses on alienation from policy processes. By alienation, we indicate groups and constituencies that feel unrepresented by policy-makers or detached from policy formations. We ask if this alienation is necessarily linked to rising nationalism and an inflated perception of risk; we seek inspiration from small-scale markets in Cambodia, Chinese musical …
Japan and Korea in China-US Relations: A Reappraisal of the Post-War Order
This is supported by the Korea Foundation. This round table examines Japan-Korea relations by focusing on the bilateral relationship’s rapidly changing international context. Rather than focusing on the dominant issues particular to Japan–Korea relations, this project looks at the two powerful drivers of East Asian international politics of late, namely China and the US, that …
Affective Politics on the Rise: The Emotional Turn in Studying Politics in Asia – The Case of China and India
In the last few years, a renewal of academic interest in affect (the more embodied and less conscious dimension of the human feeling) and emotion (feelings which are more conscious and anchored by language and meaning) is sweeping through all social science disciplines (Clough and Halley, 2007). In political studies, affects and emotions are considered …
NGO, Network and Activism in China
This panel sheds light on how community-based activists organise their activities in contemporary China that falls in the dichotomy of the authoritarian state and civil society. To move beyond this Eurocentric imagination on the political dynamics of collective action, the three papers map out the making of the network in activist programs for migrant workers, …
City Life in Nineteenth Century Beijing
The nineteenth century was a time of tremendous change throughout the Qing empire. The local history of its capital city, Beijing, can be read as an assortment of stories – from crime and surveillance to spectacle and sensation, from imperial presence and absence to evolving forms of popular worship and entertainment. Utilizing sources ranging from …
Indonesian Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion: Candra Aditya’s Dewi Goes Home
Candra Aditya’s short film Dewi Goes Home (Dewi Pulang) follows a young Javanese woman as she travels back to her native home in Central Java to help prepare funerary rites for her father. In 18 minutes of studied realism, and closely observed dialogue – in Indonesian, Javanese and English – Candra’s film explores a profound …
Ambition, Naked, Muted, and Mediated: Exploring Young Adult Aspirations in the Fast-changing Global South
Studies of developing Asia show that opportunities have emerged alongside dramatic economic changes but, as with many globalising processes, these have come with psychic, social and environmental costs. It is a truism that avenues for self and economic transformation are not available to everyone. In this atmosphere where aspirations emerge but their actualisations are limited …
Everyday Politics in Maoist China
In Maoist China, from the 1950s to the 1970s, the political found expression in everyday life in a variety of ways. From the language used in public and private discourse, to relations between family members, work routines, and economic activity at the village and household level, Maoist ideology touched nearly every facet of daily life. …
New Implications of Land Commodification in China’s Local Development
Land’s public ownership is one of CCP’s socialist ideological strongholds in an otherwise vigorous embrace of the market. Nevertheless, China has developed a system whereby although this principle is maintained, land can be marketed and mortgaged. State and non-state actors have largely taken advantage from land as an economic and financial asset, which have thus …
Orbiting Asia: Contemporary Asian Art in Transnational Spaces
“Can artists truly be, paradoxically, both orbital and local? If a contemporary Southeast Asian art historian’s task is to transcend the reductive, ideological frame of nationalism and its modernist fictions, a simultaneous challenge is to do so without simply replacing old narratives with a new, if more sanguine, mythology”. As if a timely response to …