ASIEN – Nr. 160/161 Juli/Oktober 2021 Entangled Environments in AsiaIssue Editor Florian Pölking und and Martina Padmanabhan
Editorial Team Carmen Brandt, Thilo Diefenbach, Anna Julia Fiedler, Julia Gerster, Carolin Kautz, Ludmila Lutz-Auras, Martin Mandl und and Diana Schnelle
Editorial Manager Deike Zimmann
Editorial Assistant Leo Maximilian Koenig und and Miriam Meyer
Nr. 160/161 (2021) Editorial 7–16 {:en}Entangled Environments in AsiaFor a long time, Asia attracted the European gaze and interest through its abundant and seemingly endless endowment with natural goods like timber, plants and minerals. Meanwhile, one of the most pressing issues of our time is to how reconcile the exploitation of natural and biological resources with socioecological needs. How to cultivate, appreciate and … von by Martina Padmanabhan- Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Artikel Article 17–42 {:en}Untangling Agricultural Ethics: Women’s Collective Agriculture in India as AlterbiopoliticsAlternative food narratives imply an ethical relationship to food production and consumption practices. Organic food and agriculture are known as ethical alternatives since they use methods which counter dominant food systems and markets dependent on industrial agriculture and chemical inputs. The organic movement itself, although global, is locally articulated and relationally situated in ecologies, cultures …von by Enid Still
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Artikel Article 43–62 {:en}Legally Entitled or Dispossessed? Gender, Large-Scale Land Acquisitions and Agrarian Transformation in CambodiaOver the last decade, large-scale land acquisitions for the purposes of natural resource extraction and agribusiness have expanded in several countries, particularly in the Global South. In Cambodia, large-scale land acquisitions were enabled through Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) under the 2001 Land Law, which also transformed customary norms governing land access. Between 2001 and 2012, …von by Saba Joshi
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Artikel Article 63–86 {:en}At the Capitalist Frontier: Changing the Riverine Ethnic Identity in Central KalimantanEthnic identity has long been a contested issue in Kalimantan, the home island of the Dayak in Indonesia. This paper draws on fieldwork in a Dayak Murung village to trace the evolution of Dayak ethnic identity – understood as a process of transformation through encounter – in response to successive waves of territorialisation for the …von by Siti Maimunah
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Artikel Article 87–117 {:en}Integrating Organic Farming into the Indonesian Bioeconomy? Sustainable Agriculture between Productivism and Deep EcologyThe production, utilisation and management of natural and biological resources, and the rapidly expanding web of relations accompanying them, are increasingly conceptualised as a ‘bioeconomy’, or as multiple bioeconomies. Various interpretations of the concept set different premises and priorities. In Indonesia, the bioeconomy as a national project aims to improve resource efficiency and to find …von by Patrick Keilbart
Themenschwerpunkt Feature - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Research Note 118–35 {:en}Who is Driving Financial Market Governance of Cryptocurrencies in Japan? Actors and Institutions behind Japan’s FinTech RevolutionThe spread of FinTech around the globe has posed new challenges for financial market governance. As disruptive new products and technologies such as cryptocurrencies and blockchain reshape financial markets and lead to new forms of financial services, established financial institutions and government agencies alike face the challengers’ new businesses. Among these are cryptocurrency exchanges and …
von by Felix Doege - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Research Note 136–50 {:en}A Far-Eastern Locarno? Japanese Proposals for a Regional Security Pact in the 1930sFollowing World War I, nations were bent on making the Versailles peace arrangements work. Within the framework of the League of Nations, regional arrangements came to play an important role. Taking the 1925 Locarno Treaties concluded between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy as the model, the Japanese Government, with Shidehara Kijūrō as foreign …
von by Klaus Schlichtmann - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Research Note 151–68 {:de}Administrative Monopole in China: Ursachen und ReformversucheAs an answer to the structural problems facing the Chinese economy, the Chinese leaders proclaimed comprehensive reforms that aim at establishing a united, open and fair market order and a rule by law system for the “new era” of development starting in 2013. The accomplishment of those goals requires the reshaping of the relations between …
von by Shiwei Shi - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Research Note 169–84 {:de}Vietnam unter der Herrschaft der „Partei-Staat- Unternehmens-Allianz“ – Herausforderungen für die Zivilgesellschaft im Jahr 2021Vietnam’s civil society continues to face major challenges in 2021: A hegemonic “party-state-business alliance”, which occupies all political and economic “commanding heights” and is also ideologically in a relatively strong position not least due to the lack of practicable alternatives, has a civil society as an opposite that is deliberately divided. Numerically strong it is …
von by Jörg Wischermann - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Asien Aktuell 185–200 {:de}Die Gründe für die Rückkehr der Taliban an die MachtOn 15 August 2021, the Afghan government, supported by the international community, collapsed: President Ashraf Ghani fled to the United Arab Emirates and the Islamist Taliban militias seized Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan – without resistance. Throughout Afghanistan, helplessness and fear of an unpredictable future prevailed. Thousands of Afghans tried to leave the country in …
von by Ratbil Shamel - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 201–205 {:en}Berbahasa Indonesia di Yerussalem — Speaking Indonesian in Jerusalem — A language encounter funded by the Small Grants Programme of the DGAIt seems trivial, just language, but conflicts and wars occur because of being „lost in translation.“ When this event was held, I was very touched to meet Israelis who can speak Indonesian. Hopefully this event can continue, and the participants will increase. (Arif Maftuhin, Indonesian participant in the project)von by Mirjam Lücking - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 206–209 {:en}SpEAking: Language Skills as a Key for Contemporary Research on Southeast AsiaIn order to connect language learning and other classes and to enhance the quality of language classes, the SpEAking project at the Department for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn consists of four parts: digitalization of language learning materials, eTandems in cooperation with Universities in Southeast Asia, a module which combines Thai classes …von by Timo Duile, Kristina Großmann, Adriani Nangoy, Xuang Hang Nguyenund and Oliver Pye - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Forschung und Lehre Research and Teaching 210–20 {:en}Principles of Critical Development Studies: A MinifestoUniversity of Passau Why we want to become the chair of “Critical Development Studies—Southeast Asia” Renaming the chair of “Comparative development and Cultural studies with a focus on Southeast Asia” to “Critical Development Studies—Southeast Asia” is the outcome of an intense intellectual, political and yet intimate process over the last three years. In autumn 2019 …von by Martina Padmanabhan, Samia Dinkelaker, Mareike Hoffmann, Dimas Laksmana, Siti Maimunah, Elena Rudakova, Enid Stillund and Friederike Trotier - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Konferenzen Conferences 221–23 {:en}2021 Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Social Science Research on China (ASC), “Tensions and Conflicts”The Working Group on Social Science Research on China (ASC), November 26–27, 2021von by Marc Henrici - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Konferenzen Conferences 224–26 {:en}6th Annual Conference, Bangladesh Studies NetworkSAI Heidelberg, 29.–30. Oktober 2021von by Hans Harder - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Konferenzen Conferences 227–29 {:de}5th World Conference of Chinese Studies 20215th World Conference of Chinese Studies 2021 DCG/WACS, Witten/Brüssel, 7. –9. August 2021von by Thomas Weyrauch - Nr. 160/161 (2021)
Konferenzen Conferences 230–31 {:de}Neues Format: Virtuelle DGA-Roundtable-Reihe zu Schwerpunktthemen der AsienforschungErster Roundtable, 26. November 2021von by Nele Noesselt - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 232–34 {:de}Lin Chu-mei / Yoshida Shingo: T’ai-wan Hua-yü [Taiwanese Mandarin]Lin Chu-mei 林初梅 / Yoshida Shingo 吉田真悟: T’ai-wan Hua-yü 台灣華 語 [Taiwanese Mandarin] Osaka 大阪: Osaka University Press 大阪大學出版会, 2022. 233 pp., 2600 Yen (plus taxes). Also available in electronic form. I have to admit this is the first time that I write a review about a book which is mostly written in a language …
von by Thilo Diefenbach - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 235–37 {:de}Yuanshi Bu: Chinese Civil Code — The General PartBaden Baden: Nomos, 2019. 264 S., 170 EUR (gebundene Ausgabe), ISBN 978-3-406-71478-8 Als der Rezensent vor 45 Jahren den Allgemeinen Teil des Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches studierte, befand sich die Volksrepublik China in der Kulturrevolution und damit in einer rechtlichen Wüstenlandschaft. Mao Zedong hatte mit der Machtübernahme 1949 alles „reaktionäre“ Recht der Republik China für nichtig erklärt, …
von by Thomas Weyrauch - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 238–40 {:de}You Jae Lee: Glück Auf! Lebensgeschichten koreanischer Bergarbeiter in DeutschlandTübinger Reihe für Koreastudien, 4. München: iudicium, 2021. 209 S., 20€ Im Jahr 2013 begingen Deutschland und die Republik Korea (im Folgenden Südkorea) zugleich zwei runde Jahrestage. Zum einen jährten sich die offiziellen Beziehungen zwischen den beiden Ländern zum 130sten Mal, auch wenn der „Handels-, Freundschafts- und Schiffahrtsvertrag“ im Jahr 1883 noch vom Deutschen Kaiserreich …
von by Florian Pölking - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 241–43 {:en}Jie Guo: Reshaping Chinese Cities: Neoliberal Transition, Embedded Contestation, and Urban Renewal of LanzhouLIT Verlag, 2020. 309 pp., 34,90 EUR In her monograph on urban renewal in Lanzhou, the capital of China’s northwestern Gansu province, Jie Guo analyzes the interplay between different stakeholders during the relocation of industrial enterprises from the urban core to the outskirts of the city. While studies on Chinese urbanization largely tend to be …
von by Michael Malzer - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 244–47 {:en}Care and Ageing in North-West and South-West ChinaRose K. Keimig, Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care Rutgers University Press, 2021. 195 pp. Heila Sha, Care and Ageing in North-West China Berlin: LIT, 2017. 307 pp. Since China is facing rapid demographic ageing, a lot of scholarly attention has been paid to study how this process plays out within …
von by Björn Alpermann - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 248–50 {:de}Daniel Leese: Maos langer Schatten. Chinas Umgang mit der VergangenheitMünchen: C.H. Beck, 2020. 606 S., 38 EUR, ISBN 9783406755453 Denken wir an die Nürnberger und Tokyoter Kriegsverbrecherprozesse, den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof für das ehemalige Jugoslawien oder an den Ad-hoc-Strafgerichtshof zu Völkermordvorwürfen in Ruanda, so bewegten sich jene Tribunale auf dünnem Eis, weil systembedingtes Unrecht dort zu ahnden war, wo international geschützte Rechtsgüter missachtet wurden. Historisches …
von by Thomas Weyrauch - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 251–53 {:de}Rosalie Stolz: Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits — Sociality among the Khmu of Northern LaosCopenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. 349 S., ISBN: 978-87-7694-298-4 Die Khmu gelten als die größte ethnische Minderheit von Laos. Die linguistisch wie kulturell sehr heterogene Hochlandgruppe aus der austronesischen Sprachfamilie zählt mehr als 700.000 Menschen, deren Alltagsleben geprägt ist vom Brandrodungsfeldbau und einer vielfältigen animistischen Vorstellungswelt. Rosalie Stolz legt mit ihrer Ethnografie des Khmu-Dorfes Pliya – …
von by Oliver Tappe - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Rezensionen 254–56 {:de}Sören Urbansky: An den Ufern des Amur. Die vergessene Welt zwischen China und RusslandMünchen: C.H. Beck, 2021. 375 S., ISBN 978-3-406-76852-1 Der Amur oder Heilongjiang (Schwarzer Drachenfluss) ist ein Mythos auf der geopolitischen Landkarte Nordostasiens. Die russische Expansion nach Sibirien und an die Pazifikküste machte ihn seit dem 17. Jahrhundert zu einem Grenzfluss zwischen Russland und China. Fernab der Herrschaftsmetropolen St. Petersburg/Moskau und Peking stellt er auf der …
von by Eva-Maria Stolberg - Nr. 160/161 (2021) Neuere Literatur 257–66 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden.
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