ASIEN – Nr. 136 Juli 2015 Civil Society and Democracy in South and Southeast AsiaIssue Editor Günter Schucher
Editorial Team Stefan Rother
Editorial Manager Deike Zimmann und and Benedikt Skowasch

• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 5–13 {:en}Civil Society and Democracy in South and Southeast Asia — An IntroductionThis special issue discusses the relationship between civil society and democracy in South and Southeast Asia. The case studies range from the subnational and national to the transnational and regional levels. Based on these case studies from across South and Southeast Asia, the role of civil society in a number of currently unfolding democratic and … von by Stefan Rother
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 14–33 {:en}Civil-society Support — A Decisive Factor in the Indonesian Presidential Elections in 2014This paper argues that the enormous support of civil-society organizations was a major reason for Joko Widodo’s victory in the Indonesian presidential elections in 2014. Social-science theories generally assign civil-society organizations a leading role in strengthening a democratic political order and improving the quality of democracy in it. The authors’ assessment of Joko Widodo’s election … von by Ririn Sefsani und and Patrick Ziegenhain
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 34–50 {:en}The role of civil society in the creation of India’s new state of TelanganaThe creation of India’s 29th state on June 2, 2014 realized a 58-year-old demand for the division of the state of Andhra Pradesh due to internal economic inequalities. The center’s decision to create a new federal unit was preceded by massive protests that had been going on since 2009. These mobilizations were organized by various … von by Lorenz Graitl
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 51–72 {:en}Mapping Pakistan’s Heterogeneous, Diverse, and Stratified Civil Society and Democratization — Gendered Tales of Collaboration, Networking, and ContestationPakistan’s civil society is marked by diversity in its forms of and spaces for agency, organization/institutionalization setup, value systems, agenda-setting, and the profiles of its constituent members — ranging from critical public intellectuals and dissident citizens to donor civil society organizations, grassroots movements, and socially segmented, as well as politically engineered, sociopolitical movements, among others. … von by Andrea Fleschenberg
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 73–97 {:en}The Claims of the ASEAN to Human Rights and Democracy: What Role for Regional Civil Society?Reacting to the devastating effects of the Asian financial crisis of 1997/8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has recently increasingly embarked upon a range of reforms aiming at greater regional integration. At the same time, the various states and societies in Southeast Asia have undergone complex political, economic, and social transformations that have … von by Maria-Gabriela Manea
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Artikel Article 98–119 {:en}Democratizing ASEAN through “Alternative Regionalism”? The ASEAN Civil Society Conference and the ASEAN Youth ForumThis article is situated in the literature on the democratization of international institutions. The research puzzle presented is how civil society can increase participation in a regional organization with mostly nondemocratic member states and which has very limited space for non-state political engagement. This increased participation is seen as a building block for democratization, since … von by Stefan Rother
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• Nr. 136 (2015) Neuere Literatur 151–57 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• Jahrestagung der DGA: Der Aufstieg Asiens und die Lage der Asienwissenschaften in Deutschland,
  Berlin, 28.–29. Mai 2015 (Carmen Brandt, Kai Enzweiler, Christina Maags)
• Cultural Mediation: Creativity, Performance, Display, 6th Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, 8.–10. Oktober 2014, Karl Jaspers Centre (Marlène Harles and Martijn de Rooij)
• Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien, Universität Münster, 07.–11. November 2014 (Isea Cieply)
• Translocal Spatial Practices, Urban Transformations: Migration and Mobile Urbanism in South and South-East Asia. FRIAS Junior Researcher Conference, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, 14.–16. Januar 2015 (Anne-Kathrin Haase, Friederike Heitmann)
• Towards an Effective NCD Surveillance System for the City of Pune,  Pune/India, 14. März 2015 (Mareike Kroll, Carsten Butsch and Frauke Kraas)
• Zugang zu & Umgang mit Ostasien. Ostasientag 2015, Universität Wien, 12. März 2015 (Ute Wallenböck,   Martin Mandl)
• Research Network “Governance in China” and Association for Social Science Research in China (ASC) Joint Conference,  Freie Universität Berlin,  21.–22. November 2014 (Sören Vogler, Sabine Mokry)

Rezensionen

• Lars Willnat und Annette Aw (Hg.): Social Media, Culture and Politics in Asia (Katharina Markgraf)
• Banerjee, Dipankar/Jabin T. Jacob (Hgg.): Military Confidence-Building And India-China Relations | Smith, Jeff M.: Cold peace, China-India Rivalry in the Twenty-First Century (Dieter Reinhardt)
• Husa, Karl; Trupp, Alexander; Wohlschlägl, Helmut (Hgg.): South-east Asian Mobility Transition. Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (Kerstin Schiele)
• Viola Thimm: Geschlecht und Bil-dungsmigration. Lebensentwürfe und Weiblichkeitsbilder malaysischer Bildungsmigrantinnen in Singapur (Frauke-Katrin Kandale)
• Sylvia Yazid: Indonesia’s Civil Society in the Age of Democratization. NGO-Responses on the Issue of Labor Migration (Sophia Hornbacher-Schönleber)
• Yuling Pan; Dániel Z. Kádár (Hgg.): Chinese Discourse and Interaction. Theory and Practice (Peter Jandok)
• Robert Heuser: Grundriss der Geschichte und Modernisierung des chinesischen Rechts (Astrid Lipinsky)
• Barbara Mittler: A Continuous Revolution. Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Mascha Jacoby)
• Felix Wemheuer: Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union (Marcel Will)
• Frank Käser (Hg.): Deutschland und das Große Kanto-Erdbeben von 1923 (Albrecht Rothacher)
• Morris, Paul et al. (Hgg.): Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia. Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture (Torsten Weber)
• Sven Saaler: Japanisch-deutsche Wissenschafts-beziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Matthias Hennings)

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