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Seminars/Symposia in 2012

  1. The 6th Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Research Seminar
  2. Date：January 28　（Mon.), 2013　14:00 - 16:00
  3. Place：Tonan-tei (Room No.201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  4. Speaker：Jafar Suryomenggolo, CSEAS, Kyoto University
  5. Title：In Search of the Living Archives: the Discursive and Historical Formation of Archives
  6. Abstract：This talk shares some early observations on how archives are kept, guarded, and utilized for the purposes of historical research in our modern times. It will draw upon, and is based on my field experiences in Indonesia and the Netherlands. In both societies, there are differences in terms of the socio-cultural attitudes towards archives. While acknowledging this factor in shaping the institutional development of the archives in the nation's collective memories, this presentation highlights the discursive formation of the archives as a living memory.
  1. International Workshop: Authoritarian State, Weak State, Environmental State? Contradictions of Power and Authority in Laos
  2. Date：January 18-19, 2013
  3. Place：Small Meeting Room II (Room No. 331), Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg, Kyoto University
  4. Conveners：Simon Creak (CSEAS and Hakubi Project), Keith Barney (Australian National University, formerly CSEAS)
  1. International Workshop: INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT: TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY IN TODAY'S SOCIETY
  2. Date：January 17, 2013 13:30 - 17:30
  3. Place：Meeting room (Room no. E107), East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
  4. Organizer：Kok-Boon NEOH, CSEAS
  1. International Workshop on Global Powers and Local Resources in Southeast Asia: Impact of International Forces on Local Society and Environment
  2. Date：January 17, 2013 9:00 - 12:40
  3. Place：Seminar Room (Room No. 331), 3rd Floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University
  4. Organizer：Akiko Morishita, CSEAS
  5. Moderator：Jafar Suryomenggolo, CSEAS
  1. International Workshop: Disaster and the City: Historical Perspectives from the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan, 1945-2011
  2. Date：January 16 (Wed.), 2013 9:00 - 17:45
  3. Place：Tonan-tei (Room No.201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  4. Organizer：Loh Kah Seng, CSEAS
  1. Kyoto-Cornell Joint International Workshop on Trans-national Southeast Asia: Paradigms, Histories, Vectors
  2. Date：January 11-12, 2013
  3. Place：Rakuyu Kaikan, Kyoto University
  4. Sponsered by：The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University (“Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere” Research Program)/ Research Project (B) 24330109 on “The Environmental Foundations of Postwar Asian Economic Development” (Organizer: Prof. Kaoru Sugihara, University of Tokyo)/ the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University
  1. The 5th Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Research meeting
  2. Date & Time：Nov 27th (Tues) 2012 14:00 - 16:00
  3. Place：Tonan-tei (Room No. 201) 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University
  4. Speaker：Osamu KOZAN (CSEAS)
  5. Title：Caring for the Geosphere and Active Adaptation: Water and Agriculture in the Tropics
  6. Abstract：
  7. In the tropics, the geosphere is energy-rich and active, influencing the Earth’s system. It is also characterized by the complexity of its mechanisms, ranging from the local to global circulation of atmosphere and water with their own various time scales. This results in large fluctuations and spatial variations and makes it difficult to make precise predictions. This presentation will focus on caring for the geosphere and active adaptation as major approaches for living with the tropical geosphere. Caring for the geosphere involves learning about its complex mechanisms and its potential performance. Special attention is paid to temporal and spatial heterogeneity and extreme events. Although the complexity and potentiality of the tropical geosphere, including El Nin~o and the Southern Oscillation, has been of great concern among scientists since the emergence of global warming in the 1990s, the down-scaling approach of science has not yet examined the micro-geosphere as a fundamental part of a sustainable humanosphere. This presentation proposes linkages of the scientific down-scaling and up-scaling based on fragmented but elaborate experience and knowledge accumulated in local societies, as an alternative learning process.
  1. The 4th Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Research Meeting
  2. Date：October 2 (Tues.), 2012 　14:00-16:00
  3. Place：Tonan-tei, (Room No. 201 on the 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University)
  4. Speaker：Loh Kah Seng, Program-specific Researcher, CSEAS, Kyoto University
  5. Title：Nature, Culture and History: Early Thoughts on Floods in Manila and the Humanosphere
  6. Abstract：As Manila is inundated once again by floods - brought about unexpectedly by heavy monsoon rains - this presentation offers preliminary thoughts on an historical inquiry into the relationship between human and natural environments. Filipinos are often thought to be a resilient people in the face of adversity (see cultures of disaster, Bankoff 2003). This may be seen in the numerous community-based disaster management projects operating in the country. In my fieldwork with the informal settlers in Barangay Banaba in Manila, many of them have embraced disaster risk reduction efforts implemented by a people’s organisation.
    A historical approach to disasters pays attention to context (including local history), long-term processes, events, and subjective notions about change and continuity. History supports the main ideas of disaster studies in some ways, but also complicates them. Processes like urbanisation, development and environmental degradation have rendered Banaba’s informal residents vulnerable to floods and landslides. This collaborates the contention by scholars (Blaikie et al. 1994, Pelling 2003) that the root causes of people’s vulnerability to disaster are often (macro-)historical. Conversely, their ability to cope with hazards is based on recurring experiences over an extended time; my interviewees tell me, ‘Floods can’t stay forever,’ ‘The flood is only a short time,’ ‘Flooding is regular for us .’ Their attitudes towards living in flood-prone areas combine the agency and resignation that are typical of poor urban migrants: ‘*kung meron lang*’ (if only there was a choice), ‘This is the place I chose.’
    However, there are also signs that communities and cultures of disaster are not homogenous or shielded from change. Informal settlements in Banaba received numerous new migrants before and after Typhoon Ondoy in 2009, straining social cohesion among the established residents. Ondoy also appears to be a catalyst for change in disturbing one’s sense of historical continuity. Residents recall in particular the speed and height of rising waters: ‘Ondoy was the first time,’ ‘it was the end of the world.’ Traumatic experience led many residents to support disaster risk reduction efforts; ‘Every time there is rain, you must prepare for another Ondoy.’ Yet, it is also possible that repeated instances of such trauma may weaken people’s ability to cope with hazards, even when they are offered organisation and technical resources to do so. This point is worth noting as the most recent floods have lasted longer than Ondoy and may be changing people’s ideas about ‘the end of the world.’
  1. The Second Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Research Meeting
  3. Date：June 12 (Tues.), 2012 15:00～
  4. Place：Tonan-tei（Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University）
  5. Presenter：Keith Barney, Program-Specific Researcher, CSEAS
  6. Title：‘Green Neoliberalism’ and Other Logics of Order and Authority in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from Forest Governance in Laos and Sarawak, Malaysia
  7. Abstract：The concepts of neoliberalism and neoliberal nature have been used extensively in academic geography to understand the last thirty years of post-Fordist political-economic order, and the emergence of market-based approaches to environmental governance. As applied to nature and the poverty-environment nexus, neoliberalism advocates for a broadly coherent set of market-friendly policy reforms, including privatization, commodification/marketization, state de/re-regulation, the externalization of environmental degradation, as well as the increasing subsumption of nature into the logics and circuits of capital accumulation (e.g. payments for ecosystem services). As Karen Bakker (2010) well argues, neoliberalism is a multifaceted concept and can be understood as a political doctrine, an economic project, a set of regulatory practices and a process of subject formation and governmentalization, which are oriented around the concept of ‘governing through markets.’ To counter simplistic ideas of a spreading homogenous geography of neoliberalism, more nuance has been provided through the associated terms ‘neoliberalisation’ and ‘variegated neoliberalism,’ which are used to indicate the contingent, process-based, and articulated relationships of neoliberal actors, policies and processes with national to local political-economic institutions, discourses, and material ecologies. While some scholars now present neoliberalisation as the dominant mode of political-economic and governmental power in Southeast Asian contexts, this presentation will argue for a far more circumscribed understanding, of the power, but also the real political limits and unexpected outcomes, to neoliberal environment governance in the region. I will seek to examine in more detail how neoliberal reforms find eventual political expression in Southeast Asian forest zones. I highlight the uneven socio-natural and territorial configurations that result when neoliberal-influenced projects and policies meet some of the decidedly ‘illiberal’ actors and logics of forest governmentality in the region. Neoliberalization represents a significant and still-useful concept, but I will argue it is far from a hegemonic, meta-rationality in the forests of Southeast Asia, and its limits need to be clarified for it to retain analytical purchase. Examples will be drawn from the author’s research on forest-land governance in Lao PDR and Sarawak, Malaysia. Reflections will be provided on what this research suggests for the continued salience of a Southeast Asian Area Studies in critical social science research, and for efforts toward a ‘Sustainable Biomass Society’ in Southeast Asia.
  1. The first Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Research Meeting
  2. Date： May 30, 2012, 16:00～
  3. Place：Tonan-tei（Room No. 201, 2nd floor of Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University）
  4. Presenter：Kok Boon Neoh, Program-Specific Researcher, CSEAS
  5. Title：Sampling Termite and Ant Assemblages in Coffee Plantation, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam
  6. Abstract：Vietnam is now aptly dubbed the world's second-largest exporter of coffee after Brazil. Coffee production accounts for approximately 3% of national GDP in Vietnam. The coffee industry also provides a livelihood to approximately 2.6 million farmers in Vietnam. Nevertheless, in parallel to the increase in global demand, vast coffee plantations in Vietnam come at an environmental cost. Hectares of forest have been uprooted and excessive agrochemicals have been pumped into the earth. This results in losses in insect biodiversity and indirectly disrupts the interaction of the prey-predator population in given plantation areas. Today, sustainable farming practices are now at the forefront in the development of coffee production in Vietnam due to market threat. However, efforts are still limited where only 10% of coffee produced meets sustainable standard compared with 75% of production in Latin America. Restoration of insect ecosystem services is one of the pivotal steps to promote sustainability in agriculture today. However, termites and ants are claimed to have mixed roles in this context. The present study aims to identify whether both insects provide a service to the ecosystem or if they are a pest in coffee agro-ecosystems in SE Asia.

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