Seminars/Symposia:FY2009
May, 2009
- Special SeminarSorry, but this seminar is called off.
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- Date & Time:May 25 (Mon.), 2009 15:00-
- Place:Room 201 (Tonantei) of Inamori Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University
- Topic:The Aboriginal Sewang Performance: Preserving Tradition
- Speaker:Professor Solelah Ishak, University of Malaya
- Abstract:
This paper traces the production of an aboriginal Temuan cultural performance,
the Sewang. The logistics and economics of producing a Sewang performance,
its asthetics and performativity are discussed firstly within its own communal
and cultural contexts and secondly seen in relation to modernization and
the opening up of the aboriginal society. This paper concludes by positing
the choices, changes and imagined collective cohesiveness which the Temuan
must engaged in so as to encounter the encroachment and impact of modernization.
Solehah Ishak is Professor of Theatre Arts and Director of the Cultural
Center, University Malaya. She graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Cornell
University in the field of Theatre Studies. Her latest publications are
Staging Eastern Voices (Akademi Seni Kebangsaan, 2004) and Siddhartha’s Journey to the East (Goethe Institute, 2005). Currently she is heading a research project
on the structures, genres and performativity of musical theatres in Malaysia.
She has just completed (2005) a research on the performance arts and culture
of the aborigenes of Malaysia, which was funded by IRPA, the Intensive
Research in Priority Areas. Solehah Ishak has translated numerous Malay
plays into the English language all of which have been published by Dewan
Bahasa dan Pustaka, the Institue of Language and Literary Malaysia. These
include Children of this Land, The Opera House and T. Pinkie’s Floor.
- Coordinator:Hau Caroline (CSEAS)
- Special Seminar
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- Date & Time:May 14 (Thu.), 2009 16:00-18:00
- Place:Room 331, 3rd floor of Inamori Foundatin Memorial Hall
- Topic:"Bridging the social, ecological and economic dimensions of sustainability
in mountain watersheds of Southeast Asia"
- Speaker：Dr. Andreas Neef, CSEAS Visiting Research Fellow from University of Hohenheim
- Abstract:
Many past research and development efforts in the mountains of Southeast
Asia did not have a long-term impact because they tended to focus only
on one dimension of sustainability rather than employing a multi-dimensional
approach. Attempts to introduce soil and water conservation measures, for
instance, have largely failed because they concentrated merely on the technical
feasibility and potential ecological effects, while neglecting economic
viability and socio-cultural acceptance. The predominant state-paradigm
of environmental resource governance with its emphasis on command-and-control
approaches has often undermined community-based resource management systems
of common-pool resources, such as forests and water. The production of
agricultural commodities, on the other hand, has mostly been market-driven
and often induced unsustainable boom and bust cycles.
Public investments towards sustainable land use and rural development in
marginal mountain regions will need to move from financing piecemeal research
and technology development to building long-term ‘Multi-Stakeholder Knowledge
and Innovation Partnerships’. Such partnerships can bridge the social,
ecological and economic dimensions of sustainability and integrate the
community, the market and the state -- which have often been regarded as
antagonistic forces. The underlying rationale of multi-stakeholder knowledge
and innovation partnerships is that efforts to reverse widespread environmental
degradation and alleviate rural poverty in mountain watersheds of Southeast
Asia require collective and concerted action by a wide range of stakeholders
and across different scales. Drawing primarily on research work in Thailand,
but also on other countries in Southeast Asia, I argue that ‘Multi-Stakeholder
Knowledge and Innovation Partnerships’ towards sustainable watershed development
in mountainous regions need to be based on three pillars: (1) participatory
resource governance, (2) payments for environmental services, and (3) rural
processing and marketing cooperatives.
- Coordinator:Yasuyuki Kono (CSEAS)
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