Seminars/Symposia: FY2010
January, 2011
- International Seminar on Radically Envisioning a Different Southeast Asia:
From a Non-State Perspective
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- This workshop addresses to what extent Southeast Asia can be reconceptualized,
researched, and rewritten, from a non-state-centered perspective. The principal
aim of the workshop will be to seek a radically different epistemological
approach by taking the state out of Southeast Asia. Professor James C.
Scott (Yale University), who recently published The Art of Not Being Governed
(2009) will also participate.
- The nation-state-centered perspective has long generated a center-periphery
dichotomy in the territory of the state, presupposing the spatially uneven
expansion of the nation. The geo-ecological juxtaposition between hills
and plains, has for instance, laid the basis for a societal model reinforcing
stark differences between these two niches in terms of their political
and economic status, agricultural modes, social mobility, civilization’s
worldviews, religion, and kinship systems.
- In this conventional binary view on Southeast Asia, the upland tends to
be a fixed passive periphery vis-à-vis river-mouth state formations. This
dichotomous model is an archetypal case of “lived essentialism” in Southeast
Asian scholarship (Scott 1999) and is regarded as problematic, as this
simplifying narrative neglects regional complementarity and dynamism constraining
scholarly analysis.
- What is the proto-typical social formation of Southeast Asia, where cultural
plurality, ecological diversity, and economic development predominates
beyond the confines of the state? Recent scholarship on Southeast Asia
has suggested that a state-centered view often fails to investigate the
dynamic responses emanating from the periphery and influencing the center
as well as active agents on the ground. The understanding of upland-lowland
interaction requires an alternative framework, which goes beyond a one-way
diffusionist treatment of power.
- The turn of the century has seen newly emergent scholarship in search of
a radically different Southeast Asian social formation that emphasizes
“non-state space”, “border zone,” “hill-plain continuum,” “colonial arc,”
and “Southeast Asian massif.” These concepts on the spatial configurations
of Southeast Asia all pose fundamental questions on the ways in which ethnographies
and historiographies of Southeast Asia have been produced and will be tackled
in our workshop.
- Date：January 18th - 19th, 2011
- Place：Inamori Foundation Hall (Room No. 333), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
Kyoto University
- Organizers：Asian Connections: Southeast Asian Model for Co-Existence in the 21st Century
Asian CORE Program, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/ Planted
Forests in Equatorial Southeast Asia: Human-nature Interactions in High
Biomass Society Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)/ In Search of
Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa, Global COE Program, Kyoto
University,
- Program：PDF
- International Seminar on Rural Social Structure in Vietnam at Hanoi
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- This is an announcement of an International Seminar on "Structure
and Dynamics of Village Community in Vietnam" at Hanoi in the coming
January 2011, jointly organized by Hanoi Agricultural University, Collaborative
Research on 'Comparative Study on Rural Social Structure in Asia' in the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (Leader: Dr. Masayuki
Yanagisawa, Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University), and
the Initiative 1 of Kyoto University G-COE Program 'In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa'.
- Date & Time：January 6th (Thurs.), 2011
- Place： Hanoi Paradise Hotel (Hanoi City, Vietnam)
- Program：
9:30-10:10
- Koichi Fujita (Kyoto University), “Rural Social Structure in Asia in Comparative
Perspective”
10:10-10:40 Discussions
10:40-11:40
- Yoshihiro Sakane (Hiroshima University), “Family and Kinship System in
Vietnam”
11:40-12:10 Discussions
12:10-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30
- Takashi Okae (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Fisheries, Japan),
- “Discussing Vietnamese Village Based on Yumio Sakurai’s Book ‘The Formation
of Vietnamese Village' and others”
14:30-15:30 Discussions
15:30-16:00 Business Meeting
Other participants:
- Masato Hiwatari (Hokkaido University),
- Kei Kajisa (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies),
- Satoru Kobayashi (Kyoto University),
- Akihiko Ohno (Aoyama Gakuin University),
- Sumiaki Iwamoto (Tokyo Agricultural University),
- Tamae Sugihara (Tokyo Agricultural University), and Huu Khanh and other
participants from Hanoi Agricultural University.
- Contact：Koichi Fujita （CSEAS)
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