ASIEN – Nr. 132 Juli 2014 Strange Bed Fellows? — Area Studies and DisciplinesIssue Editor Claudia Derichs, Ursula Birsl, Samuel Salzborn und and Claudia Wiesner
Editorial Team Günter Schucher
Editorial Manager Benedikt Skowasch

• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 5–11 {:en}Area Studies cum Disciplines: Asia and Europe from a Transdisciplinary PerspectiveSeeking common ground: the notion of “unwritten rules” This special issue or Themenheft of ASIEN addresses the burgeoning relationship between area studies and different academic disciplines. Most of the articles that are included were first presented as papers in an international workshop held at Marburg University, Germany, in January 2013. The other contributions have been … von by Claudia Derichs
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 12–25 {:de}Unwritten Constitutions of Political Rule: Conceptual Approaches to Comparative Area Studies of Asia, the Middle East & North Africa, and EuropeThis article discusses conceptual considerations regarding the constituting and structuring of political governance in Asia, MENA (the Middle East and North Africa), and Europe. It investigates how formal and informal institutions combine with politics and unwritten political rules to form an “unwritten constitution” that acts as a de facto constitution for political governance. Particular emphasis … von by Ursula Birsl und and Samuel Salzborn
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 26–34 {:en}Theory-Driven Conceptualization and Epistemic Reflection in Comparative Area Studies: Some Thoughts on “Unwritten Constitutions” and Research DesignsThe discussion of the relationship between disciplines and area studies often revolves around the two issues of theory and methodology. A shared understanding on the part of both disciplinary-oriented scholars and area experts exists with regard to the necessity of making empirical findings regarding the generation of theory, as well as regarding theory testing and … von by Claudia Derichs
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 35–52 {:en}Social Order as a Boundary Concept: Unveiling Dichotomies and Conceptualizing PoliticsThis paper introduces social order as an analytical concept that heuristically helps to grasp phenomena related to unwritten rules. It illustrates how the dichotomies of written vs. unwritten rules, formal vs. informal institutions and state vs. society have limited analytical value for understanding societal complexities. Underlying this proposition is the insight that focusing on rules … von by Katja Mielke
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 53–59 {:en}China’s Unwritten Constitution: Ideological Implications of a “Non-ideological” ApproachSince the promulgation of China’s present constitution in 1982, liberal approaches have been dominating debates in Chinese constitutional jurisprudence as well as political and legal dialogues between the Chinese and Western governments. More recently, however, the liberal mainstream seems to be challenged by new strands of a “Sinicized Marxist” or “political constitutionalism” criticizing the Chinese … von by Heike Holbig
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 60–80 {:en}Political Parties in Europe and South Asia and Unwritten Rules: Patterns, Differences, and Similarities of Party StructuresThis article traces indicators for the “unwritten rules” that shape the functioning of political parties. Unwritten rules are taken to be ideas and patterns of meaning that are not formalized, but that nevertheless still influence and inform the political choices and actions of both individual and collective actors. For these unwritten rules to be able … von by Claudia Wiesner und and Andrea Fleschenberg
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Artikel Article 81–97 {:en}Women’s Empowerment in Religious Contexts: Competitive Modernity and the Feminized Public Sphere in MalaysiaThe Malaysian public sphere has provided an effective communication structure for the espousal of group positions. The empowerment of the country’s women in the religious context can only be properly understood when examined within this social framework. However, the feminization of the public sphere in Malaysia has been complicated by the existence of multiple understandings … von by Maznah Mohamad
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• Nr. 132 (2014) Neuere Literatur 147–53 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• Governance, Adaptability and System Stability under Contemporary One-party Rule. Comparative Perspectives, Nanchang, PR China, 27.–29. March 2014 (Katja Levy)
• Adapting Institutions: A Comparative Area Studies Perspective, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 10.–11. April 2014 (Andreas Mehler)
• 11th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS), University of Portsmouth, 30. April – 1. May 2014 (Ann Heylen and Jens Damm)
• Regional Dynamics and Afghanistan in 2014, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 26.–27. May 2014 (Sandra Destradi and Meena Singh Roy)

Rezensionen

• Jan Kruse, Stephanie Bethmann, Deborah Niermann, Christian Schmieder (Hgg.): Qualitative Interviewforschung in und mit fremden Sprachen. Eine Einführung in Theorie und Praxis (Nora Sausmikat)
• Subrata Ghoshroy, Götz Neuneck (Hgg.): South Asia at a Crossroads. Conflict or Cooperation in the Age of Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Space Rivalries (Malte Gaier)
• Cornelia Mallebrein und Johannes Beltz: Elefanten, schaukelnde Götter und Tänzer in Trance (Sophia Pietryga und Clemens Stauder)
• Sandra Kurfürst: Redefining Public Space in Hanoi. Places, Practices and Meaning (Tilmann Schiel)
• Yvonne Bach: Frauen in der Arbeitsmigration. Eine ethnographische Studie zu transnationalen Familien zwischen Singapur und Indonesien (Karin Sixl-Daniell)
• Patrick Ziltner: Regionale Integration in Ostasien. Eine Untersuchung der historischen und gegenwärtigen Interaktionsweisen einer Weltregion (Martin Chan)
• Frank Dikötter: The Tragedy of Liberation. A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–57 (Thomas Weyrauch)
• Georg Egger, Daniel Fuchs, Thomas Immervoll, Lydia Steinmassl (Hgg.): Arbeitskämpfe in China. Berichte von der Werkbank der Welt (Robert Pauls)
• Johannes Gabriel: Der wissenschaftliche Umgang mit Zukunft. Eine Ideologiekritik am Beispiel von Zukunftsstudien über China (Frédéric Krumbein)
• Pamela Hartmann: Flexible Arbeitskräfte. Eine Situationsanalyse am Beispiel der Elektronikindustrie im Perlflussdelta, China (Antonia Sperber)
• Fritz B. Simon, Margarete Haaß-Wiesegart, Xudong Zhao: „Zhong De Ban“ oder wie die Psychotherapie nach China kam. Geschichte und Analyse eines interkulturellen Abenteuers (Joachim Gentz)
• Tilman Aretz: Politicians in the Republic of China. Register and Explanations (Günter Schucher)
• David Chiavacci: Japans neue Immigrationspolitik. Ostasiatisches Umfeld, ideelle Diversität und institutionelle Fragmentierung (Gabriele Vogt)
• György Széll, Roland Czada (Hgg.): Fukushima. Die Katastrophe und ihre Folgen (Rainer Werning)

Forschung / Lehre / Informationen

• Hamburg Summit: China meets Europe

→ hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/asien/1093

ISSN → 0721-5231 ／ eISSN → 2701-8431