ASIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE REPORTS 2013

ANNUAL REPORT 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 1 ARI’s logo depicts rice grains in star-like formation. Rice has been the main staple food for many of Asia’s peoples since the 15th century. It forms the basis of communal bonds, an element of ritual in many Asian societies, and a common cultural thread across nations and societies. Rice cultivation, as one of the major agricultural activities in Asia, has implications for population, sustainability and ecology. In symbolic as well as material ways, rice touches upon many of the key socio-economic and cultural issues in Asia, and is fitting emblem of the Asia Research Institute. The leaves symbolise the sustainability and environmental issues facing Asia. The arrangement of the leaves highlights the close interdependency of countries within Asia. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 1 CONTENTS 03 1.0 VISION AND MISSION 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 10 2.0 MANAGEMENT 11 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES 14 16 16 16 16 18 18 19 19 21 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL Message from Chair of International Advisory Board International Advisory Board Message from Chair of Management Board Director’s Foreword Steering Committee Administrative Staff Director Deputy Director Research Leaders Principal Research Fellows/(Senior) Research Fellows Postdoctoral Fellows Other Joint Appointments/Secondments Visiting Research Professors/(Senior) Research Fellows Assistant Professor on FASS Writing Semester Scheme 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Research Clusters 39 Aceh Project 40 Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis State Boundaries, Cultural Politics and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia 44 Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium 46 Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore 2 66 67 70 70 71 71 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 72 73 78 79 80 81 8.0 PUBLICATIONS 90 91 91 9.0 ARI RECOGNITION 93 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 94 95 96 100 101 Graduate and Other Teaching at NUS Conferences and Workshops ARI Seminar Series Study Groups and their Seminars Cluster Seminars Other Events Asia Trends Series Public Lectures Newsletters and Reports Media Coverage Digital and Social Connectivity Books ARI-Springer Asia Series Asian Population Studies ARI Working Paper Series Articles and Book Chapters Research Assistants/Associates 23 47 6.0 EVENTS Management Board 22 42 48 49 60 62 63 65 External Funded Projects ANNUAL REPORT 2013 102 103 106 106 Awards and Honours Keynotes and Plenaries Asian Graduate Forum Asian Graduate Student Fellowships Research Scholarships ARI Internship Programme 11.0 EXTERNAL RELATIONS MOU/External Funding Received International Visits Visitors 1.0 VISION To be a world-leading hub for research on Asia MISSION Inspiring new knowledge and transforming insights into Asia ANNUAL REPORT 2013 3 2.0 MANAGEMENT 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 MANAGEMENT 2.0 MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD PROFESSOR TOMMY KOH Chairman International Advisory Board I congratulate the Director and all members of the Asia Research Institute for another successful year in 2013. ARI has proven to be resilient and relevant by adapting well to the changing landscape of research and tertiary education. It has established itself as a leading centre in the world of critical scholarship on Asia. I am particularly heartened to see the Institute forging ahead with its interdisciplinary and cross-cluster approach in knowledge creation and sharing. For instance, its Metacluster hosted a lecture by the Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Anthony Leggett, on the topic of “Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?” It was made accessible and well-received by the audience comprising mainly of humanities and social science scholars not only through the speaker’s choice of language but also by a deliberate exploration of philosophical themes in quantum mechanics and connecting them to the Eastern traditions of thought. Another prominent example is the newly promoted research focus on “Disaster Governance” which is a theme of great importance given the dramatic climate changes affecting our world today. This new project is fostered jointly by the Asian Urbanisms Cluster, the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster and the Metacluster. A large grant application is being lodged with the Ministry of Education and the engagement will reach out beyond academia to international organisations such as the United Nations, USAID, and various national environmental disaster centres. Through this initiative, ARI strives to make NUS and Singapore a key centre of research, education and training on disaster governance within a pan-Asian context. Indeed, ARI’s move towards greater international collaboration is most obvious with its busy preparation this year for the hosting of the large-scale inaugural AAS (US Association for Asian Studies)-in-Asia conference entitled Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation, scheduled for July 2014. The large-scale event will consist of 80 panels, involving 350 speakers from 28 countries and ARI is expecting as many as 500 people to register for the event. support base. After many rounds of multiparty discussion, ARI has succeeded in securing a large endowment for the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies. This is a major step forward for ARI to have the research capacity to promote inter-Asian studies relating to the historic and contemporary relations between the Arabian Peninsula and Asia. Prof Ho Eng Seng, Professor of History, Cultural Anthropology and Islamic Studies at the Duke University in the United States will be the first recipient of the Distinguished Professorship, spending about two months of residency in ARI for each of the next five years. I am most delighted to have taken part in the official launching of this meaningful and prestigious ARI professorship on 3 January 2014. I am confident that ARI under the directorship of Professor Prasenjit Duara and his team will continue on its steady path towards moulding the Institute into being the intellectual leader of studies on Asia and we can expect more exciting events and impactful research for the coming year. While having continuous financial support from NUS University Hall is of critical importance, ARI has also been putting in effort to expand its funding ANNUAL REPORT 2013 5 MANAGEMENT 2.0 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN BOARD MEMBERS Prof Tommy Koh Rector, Tembusu College, Chairman, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, and Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Prof Tani Barlow Director, Chao Centre for Asian Studies, Rice University, USA Prof Craig Calhoun Director, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK EX OFFICIO Prof Prasenjit Duara Director, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Prof Srirupa Roy Professor and Chair of State and Democracy and Director, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany Prof James Scott Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, and Director, Agrarian Studies, Yale University, USA Prof Takashi Shiraishi Professor, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University, Japan 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 MANAGEMENT 2.0 MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF MANAGEMENT BOARD PROFESSOR CHONG CHI TAT Chairman Board of Management In its 11th year, ARI continues to attract scholars from all over the world to come under one roof within the NUS Bukit Timah campus to collaborate, synergise and contribute towards research on Asia. Moving into its second decade, ARI remains on course in its commitment to be a vibrant, world-class Institute. ARI research activities are grouped under seven thematic research clusters. A sample of cluster-based activities is the Cultural Studies Cluster that hosted the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference (IACS) 2013 with close to 400 participants on the theme “Beyond the Cultural Industry”. The Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts Cluster took charge of this year’s InterAsia Roundtable on the event theme of “Religion and Development in China: Innovations and Implications”. The Asian Migration Cluster was particularly successful with its segment of ARI Asia Trends 2013 on the topic of transnational domestic workers. Similarly, the Asian Urbanism Cluster pulled together a wideranging group of local and international collaborators to stage a combined international conference and workshop on Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City. The Changing Family in Asia Cluster not only contributed towards event organisation but also put much effort into publications, including launching a new monthly research brief entitled Asian Family Matters. Emergent Forms of Life and Practice, putting Singapore, NUS and ARI on the global map as the primary Asian centre for the study of biomedicine and society. Its other landmark event was the hosting of the international conference AsiaPaciic STS Network, attracting over 160 delegates. Apart from the usual activities on research fieldwork and writing, event organisation, and publications, there was one other notable development in 2013. As a follow-up to the recommendations of the ARI External Review Committee of the previous year, ARI conducts an exercise of a thorough review of each Research Cluster once every three years, particularly pertaining to membership composition, research direction, performance, leadership and succession. This measure will contribute towards a further strengthening of ARI, helping it to reflect and craft responses to new developments on the horizon. I wish to commend the entire ARI team of researchers and administrators under the leadership of Professor Prasenjit Duara for their effort in continuously striving for higher levels of achievement. As one of the youngest, the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster is maturing well with the completion of its flagship grant project Asian Biopoleis: Biotechnology and Biomedicine as ANNUAL REPORT 2013 7 MANAGEMENT 2.0 MANAGEMENT BOARD CHAIRMAN BOARD MEMBERS Prof Chong Chi Tat Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore Prof Andrew Harding Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore EX OFFICIO Prof Heng Chye Kiang Dean, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore Prof Prasenjit Duara Director, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore Prof Tan Tai Yong Vice-Provost (Student Life), Office of the Provost, National University of Singapore Prof Wang Gungwu Chairman, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore Dr Wang Hui Director, Division of Research Administration, Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), National University of Singapore Prof Bernard Yeung Dean, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore 8 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 MANAGEMENT 2.0 DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD PROFESSOR PRASENJIT DUARA Director, Asia Research Institute Concurrently, Director of Research, Humanities and Social Sciences, Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), Raffles Professor of Humanities, and Professor of History 2013 in ARI saw a stepping up of our activities in conferences, research and publications. Several new themes or foci emerged in our research activities during this year. Thus the Asian Migration Cluster which has developed a vast database of migration materials, papers and books over the years, undertook a leadership role in theorising the topic of “mobilities”. Its flagship conference in 2013 was appropriately entitled Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia. Meanwhile, three other ARI Clusters of Asian Urbanisms, Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts, as well as Science, Technology, and Society, developed a new initiative entitled “Disasters in Asia: Locality, Knowledge and Governance.” Involving collaboration with the Australian National University and others, this project aims to position ARI as a hub in the study of disasters in Asia. Another emergent overlapping theme is “new media and social movements” which straddles Cultural Studies, Asian Urbanisms and Asian Migration. New themes in the Changing Family in Asia Cluster include “transnationalism and gender hierarchies” as well as the growing phenomenon of “living alone” in Asia. The Metacluster which is involved in the new projects –especially Disaster Governance – also continued with its research project on Asian connections in the emergence of modern science. In the midst of its high-speed drive to become one of the world’s best centres of research on Asian societies, ARI received a wake-up call. The rapid increase in research activities, conferences, seminars, publications, and visitors accompanied by a similarly rapid rise in the application numbers for all our categories of researchers was slowed by the realisation that our sources of funding had not kept up with the rising costs of these activities. In particular, sharply increased housing costs in Singapore and NUS rentals had affected our budgeting and this had led us to review our priorities in two ways. First, we decided in 2013 to temporarily reduce the numbers of visiting researchers, including senior fellows as well as postdoctoral fellows. Second, we are seeking sources of greater external funding, especially for the new initiatives outlined above. In particular, we are trying to increase the size of our endowment. One of the efforts undertaken through much of 2013 was rewarded on 3 January, 2014, when ARI was the recipient of the largest grant endowed to it in its brief history, the Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies. We also have increased the number of collaborations with very high-level global organisations which are cofunding prestigious events that will bring greater recognition to ARI while requiring relatively low levels of financial commitments on our part. Moreover, during 2013, a good number of our staff was engaged in preparing for the US Association for Asian Studies’ inaugural conference of AAS-in-Asia which will be held in July 2014 together with ARI and FASS. The new ARI strategy is to leverage upon our enhanced reputation to continue to grow in strength. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 9 MANAGEMENT 2.0 STEERING COMMITTEE DIRECTOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Prof Prasenjit Duara Assoc Prof Huang Jianli (From 1 January 2013) Dr Kumiko Kawashima (Till 31 December 2013) (SENIOR) RESEARCH FELLOWS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (AS SECRETARY) RESEARCH LEADERS Prof Chua Beng Huat Prof Michael Douglass Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey Assoc Prof Michael Feener Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh Dr Maureen Hickey (Till 1 September 2013) Ms Verene Koh Dr Michelle Miller (Till 8 January 2013) Dr Rita Padawangi (From 1 September 2013) Prof Jean Yeung Dr Wu Keping (Till 31 December 2013) ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Verene Koh Hwee Kiang MBA (National University of Singapore) Associate Director Norsahida Bte Mohamad Salleh (Till 6 February 2013) Management Assistant Officer Vernice Tan Ser Nee BA (Murdoch University) Senior Executive (Human Resources) Noorhayati Bte Hamsan Management Assistant Officer (Finance) Sharon Ong BFA (RMIT/Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts) Executive (Events/PR) Kristy Won Tien Min BSc (University of London) Senior Executive, and Secretary to Director Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Graduate Diploma (Southern Cross University) Management Assistant Officer (Human Resources) Valerie Yeo Ee Lin Diploma (Singapore Polytechnic) Management Assistant Officer (Events/PR) Henry Kwan Wai Hung Diploma (Singapore Polytechnic) Specialist Associate (IT) Jonathan Lee Ming Yao BA (State University of New York at Buffalo) Management Assistant Officer (Events/PR) 10 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES ANNUAL REPORT 2013 11 ARI COMMITTEES 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES Members of ARI actively contribute to the running of the Institute in various ways, including through their participation in committees. In the year 2013 the following committees took up responsibility for various aspects of work involved in the running of ARI as a resource for research on the Asian region for researchers from around the world and graduate student researchers. ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS COMMITTEE WITH SUMMER INSTITUTE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS FORUM ARI PHD SCHOLARSHIPS PROGRAMME PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE (WORKING PAPER SERIES) Prof Jean Yeung (Chair) Dr Michelle Miller (Chair) Dr Michelle Miller (Chair) Ms Kristy Won Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist (Till 24 June 2013) CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEE Assoc Prof Liang Yongjia (Till 15 July 2013) Assoc Prof Titima Suthiwan Assoc Prof Huang Jianli (Chair) (From 1 January 2013) Dr Nausheen Anwar Dr Jonathan Benney (Till 10 April 2013) Prof Chua Beng Huat Prof Brenda Yeoh Dr Kumiko Kawashima Ms Kristy Won Dr Maria Platt Ms Valerie Yeo Dr Zhang Juan LIBRARY COMMITTEE Dr Philip Fountain (From 1 September 2013) Dr Philip Fountain (Chair) Dr Shawna Tang (From 1 September 2013) Dr Li Haibin (From 1 September 2013) Mrs Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Dr Malini Sur (From 1 September 2013) Ms Norsahida Bte Mohamad Salleh (Till 6 February 2013) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Dr Maureen Hickey Dr Peter Marolt Dr Zhang Juan Dr Nausheen Anwar (From 18 March 2013) Dr Tamra Lysaght (From 1 September 2013) Ms Tharuka Prematillake (From 1 September 2013) Ms Valerie Yeo Dr Zhong Yijiang (Till 4 September 2013) 12 Dr Jonathan Benney (Till 10 April 2013) ARI COMMITTEES 3.0 NEWSLETTER AND OUTREACH COMMITTEE Dr Peter Marolt (Chair) (Till 1 April 2013) Dr Rita Padawangi (Chair) (From 2 April 2013) SEMINAR COMMITTEE WEBSITE COMMITTEE Prof Jean Yeung (Chair) Dr Maria Platt (Chair) Prof Chua Beng Huat Dr Marco Garrido (From 1 September 2013) Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell Ms Sharon Ong Assoc Prof Michael Feener Ms Valerie Yeo Dr Andrea Acri (Till 1 February 2013) Dr Jerome Whitington Dr Jonathan Benney (Till 10 April 2013) Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi (From 1 September 2013) GREEN COMMITTEE Dr Lee Hyun ok (Till 7 August 2013) Dr Wu Keping (From 1 September 2013) Dr Wu Keping (Chair) Dr Thum Ping Tjin Mrs Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Dr Lee Hyun ok (Till 7 August 2013) Dr Zhang Juan Ms Sharon Ong (Till 31 December 2013) Dr Zhang Juan Dr Cho Kyuhoon (From 18 July 2013) Mr Jonathan Lee Dr Sharon Quah (From 1 September 2013) Dr Eric Kerr (From 18 July 2013) SOCIAL AND STAFF WELFARE COMMITTEE Ms Noorhayati Bte Hamsan Dr Suzanne Naafs (From 18 July 2013) Dr Sally Liu (From 1 September 2013) Mr Henry Kwan Ms Valerie Yeo Dr Tinn Honghong (Chair) (Till 1 August 2013) Mr Henry Kwan Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer (Chair) (From 1 September 2013) FIRE SAFETY COMMITTEE (From 8 April 2013) Dr Ravi Rajan (From 1 September 2013) Dr Maureen Hickey Ms Saharah Abubakar Ms Kristy Won Ms Sharon Ong Ms Vernice Tan (From 1 September 2013) Ms Noorhayati Bte Hamsan Mr Jonathan Lee Ms Li Hongyan Mr Henry Kwan Mr Henry Kwan (Chair) Dr Peter Marolt Ms Sharon Ong Ms Valerie Yeo ANNUAL REPORT 2013 13 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 14 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL The Asia Research Institute aims to be the hub for high-quality social science and humanities research on Asia, and attracting high quality researchers is paramount to the success of the Institute. The increasing number of applications for fellowships with its various research programmes each year is a clear indication of ARI becoming the preferred choice for researchers and academics. ARI received an increasing number of applications each year over the last five years for the medium and short term visiting researchers, from about 180 applications received in 2008 to more than 500 applications received in 2013. This is a clear indication of ARI becoming the preferred choice for researchers working on Asia. Since 2005, ARI has brought to NUS a mix of well-established scholars and younger researchers from the region who wish to spend research time in the Institute and interact with the best in their fields. The Institute also attracts many established scholars on paid sabbatical leave from their home institutions to spend time conducting research and establishing connections in ARI and NUS. Scholars who joined under the sabbatical scheme in 2013 are listed in the following section on visiting research professors/(senior) research fellows. The research personnel in ARI are diverse; they vary in terms of research foci, nationalities, international experience, and duration of appointments. ARI further maintains a good balance between established scholars and those who are at the start of promising careers. The research personnel are led by distinguished research leaders, each heading a research cluster. Most of the research leaders are tenured faculty members, part-seconded on joint appointments from their home departments in NUS, while the others have been recruited after exhaustive international searches. ARI awards two-year principal/(senior) research fellowships to well-established researchers as well as researchers in early career stages. The research leaders and (senior) research fellows provide the stability and experience necessary for implementing longer-term plans of the Institute, while other shorter-term members add agility and vibrancy to the ARI community. A high proportion of appointees in ARI are visiting fellows who are mostly established scholars on leave from their home institutions, and are recruited internationally on a competitive basis. They assume short-term visiting fellowships ranging from three months up to a year. Postdoctoral fellows are appointed through an annual international competition. The postdoctoral fellowships engage promising young scholars in their research fields, allowing them space and time to build up their research and publishing capacities in their early career development. Outstanding performers often succeed in securing tenure-track positions in NUS or other universities worldwide. In 2013, ARI continued to interact with the faculties of NUS in different ways. Apart from co-organising events and collaborating in research, the FASS Writing Fellowship scheme, designed to enable assistant professors to devote six months primarily to completing publications needed for tenure review, awarded writing fellowships to assistant professors in the faculty to spend time writing in ARI. A proportion of ARI’s research staff was appointed on the basis of external funded programmes or projects. Two research project grants awarded by the NUS Global Asia Institute provided full or partial support for four research assistants/associates. The Global Asia Institute also funded a research assistant at ARI. A continuing research programme grant for the Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through the University of Sussex provided full or partial support for three research assistants and a research associate. A grant for a project on migration and Chinese families partially supported the appointment of a postdoctoral fellow and another for a project on China children provided for the appointment of a postdoctoral fellow. Last but not least, a postdoctoral fellow partially self-funded her fellowship at ARI through an external grant awarded to her by the Humboldt Foundation. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 15 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 DIRECTOR Duara, Prasenjit, Professor. BA (Delhi), MA (Delhi), M.Phil (Jawaharlal Nehru), PhD (Harvard). Director since 1 January 2011; Historical Sociology of Asian Connections Metacluster Research Leader from April 2011; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS, and concurrently Director of Research, Humanities and Social Sciences, Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS. History of China and more broadly of Asia in the twentieth century; historical thought and historiography. DEPUTY DIRECTOR Huang Jianli, Associate Professor. BA (Hons) (NUS), PhD (ANU). Deputy Director since 1 January 2013; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS, and concurrently Research Associate at the East Asian Institute, NUS. History of Republican China from the 1910s to 1940s, student political activism, local governance, and Chinese diaspora, in particular the relationship between China and the Chinese community in Singapore. RESEARCH LEADERS Chua Beng Huat, Professor. BSc (Acadia), MA (York), PhD (York). Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster Research Leader since 1 January 2004; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, and concurrently Head, Department of Sociology, FASS. Public policy research in Singapore, politics in Southeast Asia; consumerism across Asia. Clancey, Gregory Kevin, Associate Professor. BA (Hons) (Oxford), MA (Boston), PhD (MIT). Science, Technology, and Society Cluster Research Leader since 1 August 2009; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS. History and anthropology of science and technology; architecture and cities; natural disaster; Japan. 16 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Douglass, Clyde Michael, Professor. BA (California), MA (Hawai’i), PhD (California). Asian Urbanisms Cluster Research Leader since 1 August 2012; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, FASS, from 12 June 2012. Liveable cities (the environment, personal well-being, and social-cultural life); globalisation, the public city and public space; international migration and the globalisation of households in Pacific Asia; the environment and the urban transition in Asia; trans-border intercity networks in East Asia; filmmaking for social research and planning. Feener, Michael, Associate Professor. BA (University of Colorado at Boulder), MA (Boston), PhD (Boston). Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts Cluster Research Leader since 1 February 2009; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS, from 28 June 2006. Intellectual and cultural history of Islam in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Yeoh Saw Ai, Brenda, Professor. BA (Hons) (Cambridge); MA (Cambridge), PhD (Oxford). Asian Migration Cluster Research Leader and Asian MetaCentre Principal Investigator since February 2000; joint appointment with Department of Geography, and concurrently Dean, FASS. The politics of space in colonial cities; heritage issues and tourism studies; place histories and landscape studies; the geography of gender, with particular reference to women and migration; global cities, transnationalism and diaspora. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean, Professor. BA (Soochow), MA (Illinois State), PhD (Alberta). Changing Family in Asia Cluster Research Leader from 1 November 2011; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, FASS, since 15 July 2008. Intergenerational studies, family and children’s well-being and policies, poverty, fatherhood, and China’s economic and demographic transition. PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOWS/ (SENIOR) RESEARCH FELLOWS Anwar, Nausheen Hafeeza, BA (CUNY), MIA (Columbia), PhD (Columbia). Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Politics of urban development, governance and globalisation; linkages between structural-political violence, gender, poverty/inequality and improved access to public services; urban land markets and pro-poor housing issues; state and non-state practices and community participation in global city formation; migration, security and citizenship. Bala, Arun, BSc (University of Singapore), MA (University of Singapore), MA (Sussex), PhD (Western Ontario). Senior Research Fellow from 1 December 2011. Civilisations and modern science; deployment of neo-Lakatosian model for scientific method, involving the consilience of research programmes, to explain how reservoirs of knowledge from different Asian traditions came to be epistemologically incorporated in the making of modern science. Benney, Jonathan David, BA (Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne). Research Fellow from 1 January to 10 April 2013. Legal and rights activism in China; rise and fall of “rights defence” (weiquan) movement; changing role of the lawyer in China; the party-state’s response to legal activism; use of new media in activism. Bush, Robin, BA (South Carolina), MA (Ohio), PhD (Washington). Senior Research Fellow since 5 December 2011. Interfaces between Islam, politics, and development, particularly in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Chen Haidan, BA (Shenyang), MA (Zhejiang), PhD (Zhejiang). Research Fellow from 1 December 2012 to 30 July 2013; joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College. Governance of biomedical research in China, in particular stem cell translational research, biobanks, and biomarkers; bioethics; biopolitics of science and technology; sociology of health and illness; biomedical innovation. Cho Soung Soo, Philip, BS (MIT), MA (Pennsylvania), PhD (Pennsylvania). Research Fellow since 7 July 2011; joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College. Influence of popular religion on the development of Chinese science, technology and medicine in late-imperial China and early-modern Europe; contemporary developments in science and technology in China in the context of global technological systems, data networks and models. Das, Dhiman, MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru), PhD (City University of New York). Research Fellow since 16 January 2013. Health economics and public policy. Fountain, Philip Michael, BA (Wellington), MSc (Wellington), PhD (ANU). Senior Research Fellow since 1 November 2013. Emerging engagements between “religion” and international aid and development. Hickey, Maureen Helen, BA (Washington), MA (Washington), PhD (Washington). Research Fellow since 6 September 2012. Migration and development; internal migration in Thailand; gender, masculinity and migration; labour migration and shifting political identities. Ji Yingchun, BA (Nanjing), MA (Victoria), PhD (California, Chapel Hill). Research Fellow since 21 August 2012. Social demography, family sociology and medical sociology. Jung Sun, BA (Toledo), MA (Griffith), PhD (Melbourne). Research Fellow since 26 September 2011. South Korean popular cultures and online youth cultures. Kawashima, Kumiko, BA (New South Wales), PhD (ANU). Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. International mobility, youth, labour and identity in postindustrial contexts. Lai Ah Eng, B.Soc.Sci (Universiti Sains Malaysia), M. Phil (Sussex), D.Phil (Cambridge). Senior Research Fellow from 3 January 2007 to 30 June 2013. Migration and multiculturalism; migration and family; multiculturalism and social cohesion, ethnicity, culture and religion; family and gender; local histories and heritages. Lee Hyun ok, BA (Yonsei), MA (Sussex), MS/PhD (Cornell). Research Fellow from 1 January to 7 August 2013. Gender relations in the political economic changes. Liang Yongjia, BA (Wuhan), MA (Wuhan), PhD (Peking). Senior Research Fellow from 16 July 2009 to 15 July 2013. World renunciation; Esoteric Buddhism; territorial cults and Chinese intellectual tradition. Marolt, Peter Wolfgang, PhD (Southern California). Research Fellow since 17 May 2010. Social theory, urban and cultural/ political geographies, and related post-disciplinary studies pertaining to globalisation, the Internet, and China. Lysaght, Tamra Maree, BBus (Newcastle), BSc (Newcastle), PhD (Sydney). Senior Research Fellow since 1 December 2012. Ethical and sociopolitical issues surrounding translation mental health research, whole genome sequencing, reproductive tissue donation and stem cell science, governance models for experimentation in biomedical innovation. Miller, Michelle Ann, MA (Northern Territory), PhD (Charles Darwin). Research Fellow since 1 April 2010. Decentralisation; minority rights; the politics of Islamic law; urban-rural relations; and conflict-related issues in Indonesia. Naafs, Suzanne, BA (Leiden), MA (Leiden), PhD (Erasmus). Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Youth studies, development studies and cultural anthropology, with a geographical focus on Indonesia. Padawangi, Rita, MA (NUS), MA (Loyola – Chicago), PhD (Loyola – Chicago). Senior Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Public space, urban heritage; sociology of architecture and the built environment; social movements and politics of space; environmental sociology in the city; environmental resource governance. Platt, Maria Wendy, B.App.Sci (Hons) (Deakin), PhD (La Trobe). Research Fellow since 1 July 2012. Marriage, gender and Islam within Indonesia and the Southeast Asian context. Sen, Ronojoy, BA (Calcutta), MA (South Carolina), PhD (Chicago). Senior Research Fellow since 1 August 2013; joint appointment with Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS. Religion, state and civil society in India. Thum Ping Tjin, BA (Oxford), MSt (Oxford), PhD (Oxford). Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Postdoctoral Fellow from 9 July to 31 December 2012. Transnational movements between Southeast Asian port cities. Tinn Honghong, BA (National Taiwan), MA (National Taiwan), PhD (Cornell). Research Fellow from 1 January to August 2013. Historical relationships between the digital electronic computing technology, development discourse underlying the Cold War; international exchanges of scientific and technological expertise. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 17 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Whitington, Jerome, BA (Texas), MA (California, Berkeley), PhD (California, Berkeley). Research Fellow since 3 August 2011; joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College. Climate change and energy; ASEAN policy initiatives; East Asian approaches to carbon markets and greenhouse gas management. Wasson, Robert James, BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (Macquarie). Principal Research Fellow since 1 July 2013. Flood risk in monsoon Asia; landscape change; role of land use and climate change in landscape change; catchment management systems; extreme hydrologic events in the Australian and Asian tropics. Bork-Hüffer, Tabea, PhD (Cologne). Since 2 January 2013; and concurrently Fellow at the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Bonn. Changing geographies of migration, health and urban spaces in the 21st century. Chang Yufen, PhD (Michigan). Since 1 July 2013. Cultural sociology, comparative historical sociology, nationalism, social movements, literature, religions, East Asia, and overseas Chinese. Cheung Ka-lok, Adam, PhD (Chinese University of Hong Kong). Since 1 November 2012. Household division of labour, domestic outsourcing, marital conflict, and domestic violence. Wu Keping, BA (Peking), MA (Boston), PhD (Boston). Senior Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Religion and development in contemporary China; anthropology of Christianity, ethnic and religious pluralism in Southwest China; conversion and Buddhism in contemporary Southeast China. Cho Kyuhoon, PhD (Ottawa). Since 3 June 2013. Conceptualisation of the category “religion” in modern Korea, public role of Buddhism and Christianity in a globalised Korea, religious system of North Korea, and religion as an alternative communication system in modern global Asia. Zhang Juan, MA (NUS), PhD (Macquarie). Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Borders and boundary-making; contemporary Chinese subjectivity; everyday practices in post-socialist conditions. Elinoff, Eli Asher, PhD (California, San Diego). Since 16 December 2013. Citizenship, emerging political practices, notions of sustainability, and contestations over urban development in Thailand. Zhong Yijiang, BA (Beijing International Studies), MA (Toronto), PhD (Chicago). Research Fellow from 1 January to 4 September 2013. Religion and modernity in East Asia from the thematic perspectives of authority, epistemology and space. Garrido, Marco Antonio Zialcita, PhD (Michigan). Since 1 July 2013. Relationship between urban fragmentation and political polarisation in Metro Manila, Philippines. POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Acri, Andrea, PhD (Leiden). From 2 April 2012 to 1 February 2013. Sanskrit and Old Javanese languages and textual criticism, with special focus on Śaiva sources from both South and Southeast Asia. Kerr, Eric Thomson, PhD (Edinburgh). Since 15 July 2013. Issues that arise in the intersection between epistemology and the philosophy of technology. Li Haibin, PhD (Sydney). Since 2 January 2013. Resilience, parenting, self-concept, and Chinese migrant children. Lin Qianhan, PhD (Oxford). Since 8 October 2012. Parental migration and effects on the development of children in China. 18 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Liu Liangni, Sally, PhD (Auckland). Since 10 June 2013. Areas of migrant transnationalism; especially Chinese migratory transnationalism in New Zealand and Australia. Quah Ee Ling, Sharon, PhD (Sydney). Since 3 June 2013. Singaporean divorcees; subjective experience of Singaporean divorced individuals. Rathina-Pandi, Asha, PhD (Hawai’i). Since 3 June 2013. Dynamic relationship between space, technology (Internet and new media), and society; focusing on minority populations, social justice and equality, and democratisation. Saxer, Johannes Martin, PhD (Oxford). From 9 May 2011 to 8 May 2013. Effects of China’s rapid growth, its strategic decisions to secure influence and natural resources in adjacent countries, and its efforts to prevent unrest. Sur, Malini, PhD (Amsterdam). Since 3 June 2013. Partition studies and emerging political formations at militarised borders, with a focus on South Asia. Tang Ser Wei, Shawna, PhD (Sydney). Since 3 June 2013. Convergence of postcolonial theory, transnational feminist studies and queer theory in engaging questions of modernity, globalisation, sexuality, gender, citizenship, state and nationalism. OTHER JOINT APPOINTMENTS/ SECONDMENTS Bunnell, Timothy, Associate Professor, BA (Nottingham), PhD (Nottingham). Joint appointment with Department of Geography, FASS, since 1 July 2009. Landscape symbolism and national identity; politics of urban infrastructure development; network conceptions of landscapes, places and the city; Malay communities beyond the “Malay World”. RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Coopsman, Catelijne, Lecturer. BA (Maastricht), MA (Oxford), PhD (Oxford). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 17 September 2012. Social and cultural dynamics of knowledge production and technological innovation in the domain of eye research; cultivation of local talent for the biomedical research sector; articulation of expertise in neuroscientific studies of Buddhist meditation. Dean, Kenneth, Visiting Research Professor. BA (Brown), MA (Stanford), PhD (Stanford). Joint appointment with Department of Chinese Studies, FASS, from 1 June to 2 September 2013. Nanyang Chinese in modern Chinese history, history of religion in China; daoist studies, comparative study of Chinese regional history, Henghua temple networks in Southeast Asia; Singapore Chinese temples. Fischer, Michael M. J., PhD (Chicago). Visiting Research Professor from 1 January to 30 June 2013. Anthropological methods for the contemporary world with special attention to the interface between science and technology and anthropology; anthropology of the biomedical sciences and technologies; anthropology of media circuits, with foci of regional attention on the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia. Graham, Connor Clive, Lecturer. BA (Nottingham), PhD (Melbourne). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 17 September 2012. Information systems; science, technology, and society; and human-computer interaction. Tan Ai Hua, Margaret, Lecturer. BFA (RMIT/Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts), MA (London), PhD (NUS). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 1 December 2012. Intersections of body with space, technology and culture. RESEARCH ASSISTANTS/ ASSOCIATES Abubakar, Saharah, B.Soc.Sci (NUS), MA (NUS). Research Associate since 10 July 2007. Social networks and resilience of divorced Malay mothers. Anver, Mohammed Shamraz, BComp (NUS). Research Assistant from 14 June 2010 to 31 August 2013. Artificial Intelligence for sediment prediction; historical and cultural aspects of biotechnology in Asia. Baey Hui Yi, Grace, BA (Western Ontario), MA (Queen’s). Research Assistant since 30 December 2010. Labour migration issues in Southeast Asia; borders and boundary-making; identity politics; international political economy. Chandrasekaran, Muthukumar, BE (Anna). Research Assistant from 2 January to 31 December 2013. Analytics, data/ text/web mining and machine learning. Ee Jie, Miriam, BSc (University College London), MA (Melbourne). Research Assistant from 16 February 2012 to 15 April 2013. Economic development, socio-economic differentials, ageing, and migration in Southeast Asia. Escoffier, Nicolas Rene, MSc (Lyon II), PhD (NUS). Research Associate since 1 July 2013. Relationship between speech and music cognition, cognitive and neural underpinnings of musical and vocal communication of emotions. Gan Luhui, BA (Nanyang Technological University). Research Assistant from 11 July 2012 to 31 July 2013. Export variety and human capital distribution; and sequential Monte Carlo method. Hamid, Wajihah, MA (Sussex). Research Assistant since 1 November 2013. Migration, South Asian diaspora and transnationalism. Lai Uin Rue, Cynthia, BA (Malaya), M.Soc.Sci (Malaya). Research Assistant from 8 November 2010 to 23 October 2013. Population planning; estimating and projecting urbanisation and city growth. Lam Choy Fong, Theodora, B.Soc. Sci (Waikato), BA (NUS), M.Soc.Sci (NUS). Research Associate since 15 November 2005. Transnational migration, population, gender, geographical education. Li Hongyan, BA (NUS), MSc (Nanyang Technological). Research Assistant since 9 June 2011. Perceptions and representations of deviancy; problematisation of social anxieties. Ng Xinyi, Esther, B.Soc.Sci (Hons) (NUS). Research Assistant since 1 July 2013. Study of children’s views on health, food and activity. Prematillake, Tharuka Maduwanthi, BA (RMIT). Research Assistant since 1 October 2012. Media and health reporting, women and children, cross cultural communications, religion and globalisation, labour migration and international relations. VISITING RESEARCH PROFESSORS/(SENIOR) RESEARCH FELLOWS Baas, Michiel, PhD (Amsterdam). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 January to 1 April 2013. Highly skilled (Indian) migration to Singapore, especially in terms of connections to space and place. Blackburn, Anne Margaret, PhD (Chicago). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 14 January to 30 June 2013. Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, with special interest in Buddhist monastic culture and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia before and during colonial presence in the region. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 19 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Brooks, Irene Ann, PhD (London). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 21 December 2012 to 20 June 2013. Cultural theory and cultural economy in an Asian context; contemporary social theory and its application within an Asian context; interrelationship between cultural economy, consumption and the State in Asia and the US. Callahan, William Arthur, PhD (Hawai’i). Visiting Research Professor (Sabbatical) from 3 September 2012 to 2 September 2013. Culture and politics in China and Asia, and domestic and international politics. Chan Eng Bin, Felicia, PhD (Nottingham). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 8 April to 7 July 2013. Construction of national imaginaries in cross-cultural, diasporic and multilingual cinemas (primarily East and Southeast Asian films); cosmopolitanism and cultural practices, such as film festivals. Cheah, Pheng, PhD (Cornell). Visiting Research Professor from 27 August 2012 to 26 August 2013. World literature from different parts of the postcolonial world (Southeast Asia, Africa and the Caribbean), and globalisation and human rights with special reference to Southeast Asia. Chou, Pokan, PhD (Chicago). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 1 July to 30 September 2013. Formation of Chinese Buddhism through the re-organisation of Buddhist doctrines and practice; Buddhist scriptures by Chinese Buddhist elites. du Cros, Hilary Louise, PhD (Monash). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 1 October to 31 December 2013. Urban cultural tourism and the youth of Asia. 20 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Du Yongtao, PhD (Illinois).Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 2 October 2012 to 1 January 2013. Late imperial China, in particular, subjects related to locality, spatial mobility, and geographical knowledge. Hoang, Lan Anh, PhD (East Anglia). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 22 November 2013. Migration, development, family and gender in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Huynh, Toni Tu, PhD (Binghamton). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 1 July to 30 September 2013. African women and their views of mobility in the context of China-Africa relations; African women’s experiences in China and their views of China. Iveković, Rada, PhD (Delhi). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 6 February to 5 June 2013. Epistemological issues and translation. Joseph, George Gheverghese, PhD (Manchester). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 16 January to 15 April 2013. Circulation of ideas in mathematics within an Asian context. Kathirithamby-Wells, Jeyamalar, PhD (London). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 31 December 2013. Southeast Asian historical inter-connections in natural resource extraction, utilisation and trade, and environmental implications for postcolonial nation building. Keeler, Ward William, PhD (Chicago). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 30 May to 29 August 2013. Gender, social relations, and music and performing arts in Burma and Indonesia. Khan, Tabassum, PhD (Ohio). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 9 December 2013. Emergent identities of Indian Muslim youth within contexts of economic liberalisation and neoliberal globalisation. Kim Sung Kyung, PhD (Essex). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 15 January to 30 June 2013. Asian film studies; cultural geography; Asian popular culture; political economy of cultural industry in Asia; mobility in Asia; North Korean defectors. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, PhD (Burdwan). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 5 August to 4 November 2013. Researching natural resources through a feminist lens; community issues in natural resource management; challenges around water and the extraction of minerals. Larson, Wendy Ann, PhD (California). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 3 January to 2 July 2013. Modern Chinese literature and film; negotiations of Chinese filmmakers and writers with the conditions of modernity and post-modernity. Lavin, Maud, PhD (CUNY). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 4 January to 3 April 2013. Aesthetics of androgyny, cuteness, and covering in the representation and production of contemporary Asian femininities circulating in the media landscape. Lim Bee Yin, Joanne, PhD (East London). Visiting Research Fellow since 7 October 2013. Discourses on media and globalisation; politics and implications of (new/social) media within Asian transformations (identities, cultures and state politics), youth engagement and participatory culture in Southeast Asia. Lim Song Hwee, PhD (Cambridge). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 15 April to 14 July 2013. Transnational Chinese and East Asian cinemas, films and cultural identity, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial and diaspora studies. RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Lindquist, Johan, PhD (Stockholm). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 25 September 2012 to 24 June 2013; Visiting Research Professor from 25 June to 24 September 2012. Forms of labour recruitment and brokerage that are shaping contemporary transnational migrant mobility from Indonesia to countries across Asia and the Middle East. Mankekar, Purnima, PhD (Washington). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 28 June to 15 September 2013. Interdisciplinary theories of affect; transnational cultural studies; feminist theory and sexuality studies; postcolonial theory. Mehta, Nalin, PhD (La Trobe). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 19 March 2012 to 30 September 2013; joint appointment with Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS. Changing political economy of Indian television and its social implications; and the transformation of the Congress Party and Indian politics over the past three decades. Meulenbeld, Mark R. E, PhD (Princeton). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 28 May to 27 August 2013. Various aspects of Daoism; Daoist ritual as represented in canonical sources, local gazetteers, and vernacular narratives. Park, Hyunjoon, PhD (Wisconsin). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 30 September to 29 December 2013. Educational stratification and family in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and Japan. Peterson, William Dwight, PhD (Texas). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 2 December 2013. Communitybased performance in the Philippines, transnational/transcultural flows and spectacle, religion and performance, theatre in Singapore. Phelps, Nicholas Alfred, PhD (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 8 January to 7 April 2013. Economic development implications and geographical organisation of multinational companies. Sim Siang Choon, Gerald, PhD (Iowa). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 24 June to 23 August 2013. American cinema, national cinema, critical theory, and film studies. Pieke, Frank Nikolaas, PhD (California). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 July to 25 August 2013. Contemporary Chinese society and politics, the changing role of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese international migration, foreign immigrant groups in China. Strand, David Gregory, PhD (Columbia). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 15 May to 14 August 2013. Modern Chinese and Asian urban history; political leadership and public life in early 20th century China; parks and green spaces in global perspective; and cosmopolitan and republican ideas at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Pillai, Shanthini, PhD (NUS). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 1 April to 30 June 2013. Diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora. Thambiah, Shanti, PhD (Hull). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 15 April to 14 July 2013. Gender, migration and identity; gender and work; families in flux and gender relations, gender and public policies. Rajan, Ravi, PhD (Oxford). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 2 July 2013. Political economy and intellectual history of environment-development conflicts; expertise and environmental governance; environmental basis of poverty. Thazhathupadathil, Gopalan Suresh, PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru). Visiting Research Fellow from 9 January 2012 to 8 January 2013. Critical globalisation studies and the comparative political economy of India and China. Riemenschnitter, Andrea M., PhD (Göttingen). Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sabbatical) from 10 April to 9 July 2013. Modern and contemporary Chinese cultural history (late Ming to present), theories and methodology of cultural analysis, processes of cultural flow and exchange, Chinese transnational and translation studies, theories and mythologies of/in modernity, theatre and performance studies. van Bruinessen, Martin, PhD (Utrecht). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 18 September 2012 to 17 September 2013. Politics; history; philology; nonfundamentalist transnational Islamic movements active in various parts of Asia, including the Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya and the Fethullah Gülen movement. Sheel, Ranjana, PhD (Banaras Hindu). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 15 May to 14 August 2013. Social history and women’s studies with a focus on India, gendered changes in property rights, marriage forms and associated rituals, role of the state; both in colonial and independent India, and their implications on dowry and related problems. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ON FASS WRITING SEMESTER SCHEME Sasges, Gerard, PhD (California). At ARI from 1 July to 31 December 2013; from Department of Southeast Asian Studies, FASS. Diffusion and reception of alcohol distilling, marketing, and distribution technologies in Vietnam during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Shen Yipeng, PhD (Oregon). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 3 July 2013. Mass nationalism in post-socialist China. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 21 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Credit: magicinfoto / Shutterstock.com 22 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 RESEARCH CLUSTERS The research clusters in ARI each focuses on research and analysis of a particular feature of Asian society. There are currently seven clusters in ARI and they serve as platforms to bring people together in a collective effort to produce useful interactions. Individual scholars in clusters also have independent areas of interest which may overlap and flow between clusters. The Institute constantly explores new potential areas of research for ARI, leading to the incorporation of important emergent areas of inquiry. Two such new research areas are Disaster Governance in Asia, a theme common to the Asian Urbanisms, Religion and Globalisation, and Science, Technology and Society clusters. Another is the area of “new media and social movements” which straddles Cultural Studies, Asian Urbanisms and Asian Migration. A number of scholars from NUS and beyond contribute as cluster associates. The “Open” cluster serves as a platform for hosting researchers conducting work on topics related to Asia that fall outside of designated clusters. The full diversity and heterogeneity of work carried out at ARI are reflected in its members and its publications. There are also two active reading groups in ARI, the Asian Connections Reading Group and the Religion and Development Reading Group, hosted by the Asian Connections metacluster and the Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts cluster respectively. Members of the reading groups meet regularly to examine texts and share ideas related to their interests. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 23 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 ASIAN MIGRATION PROF BRENDA S.A. YEOH The Asian Migration research cluster continues to deepen critical scholarship on Asian migration by exploring new knowledge frameworks through which to understand the complex and diverse linkages between global change and transnational mobility, both within and beyond Asia. Cluster members explore a broad range of human mobilities and interconnectivities, including transnational flows of professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites; contract migrant workers filling low-waged niches in the urban economy, international students, and marriage migrants. Transnational modes of migration – of varying degrees of permanence and transience – have become a compelling force not only in increasing diversity in Asian cities, but also transformed the social, economic and demographic fabric of source areas. The cluster’s leading role in pushing forth new theoretical insights on Asian mobilities was energised by its flagship conference for 2013, Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia, which provided a critical forum for migration scholars from within and beyond the region to explore novel ways of conceptualising different mobile practices, rhythms, and rationalities that characterise Asia on the move. An earlier conference in August 2013, Migration Infrastructure in Asia and the Middle East, trained the analytical spotlight on the concept of “migration infrastructure” as a way of thinking about new regimes of transnational migration across Asia and the Middle East that are characterised by growing demands for documentation and stringent immigration controls. The cluster was also active in organising several panels at the International Convention of Asian Scholars, Macau, in June 2013. Cluster members continue to be busy with analysing data and publishing papers from three large, recently 24 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 completed projects: the Wellcome Trust funded project Children and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA) which examines migration, gender dynamics and the impact on left-behind children’s health and well-being in four Southeast Asian countries; the MOE Tier 2 project on State Boundaries, Cultural Politics and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia; and the Migrating Out of Poverty project on Financing Migration, Generating Remittances, and the Building of Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Indonesian Migrant Women as Domestic Workers in Singapore. The CHAMPSEA team published a number of journal papers including a special issue of the Asian and Paciic Migration Journal on Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia: Risks and Resilience among Children, while International Marriage project members have papers published or accepted in Third World Quarterly, Geoforum, Asian Ethnicity, the Asian and Paciic Migration Journal and Citizenship Studies. Publications produced by the Migrating Out of Poverty team included a working paper and an upcoming policy brief on migration and domestic work in Singapore. The cluster also began work on two new research projects – Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore funded by an NUS HSS research grant, and Migration and Precarious Work: Negotiating Debt, Employment and Livelihood Strategies Amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men Working in Singapore’s Construction Industry, funded under the Migrating Out of Poverty Consortium. More recently, the cluster has stepped out to explore different channels of communication to engage the wider public on pertinent migration issues in Asia. Alongside its annual public lecture, Here Today and Tomorrow: Transnational Domestic Workers and the Decent Work Agenda in Asia, organised as part of the ARI ASIA TRENDS 2013 series, the RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 cluster hosted a short film screening and photo exhibition featuring the story of Ristanti Ningrum, an Indonesian domestic worker who recently returned home after 10 years of work in Singapore to set up a children’s library for her village community in Desa Bader, Dolopo, East Java. Invited speakers included prominent NGO practitioners and award-winning director, Mr Anthony Chen, whose debut film Ilo Ilo won the prestigious Caméra d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The event attracted over 200 attendees including academics, students, civil society representatives, policymakers, and the media. In continuing to build ARI’s visibility and networks, we are looking forward to organising institutional panels at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS)-inAsia conference in Singapore in July 2014. RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Dr Dhiman Das: Health economics and public policy Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Research Leader): The politics of space in colonial cities; heritage issues and tourism studies; place histories and landscape studies; the geography of gender, with particular reference to women and migration; global cities, transnationalism and diaspora Dr Michiel Baas: Highly skilled (Indian) migration to Singapore, especially in terms of connections to space and place Ms Grace Baey: Labour migration in Southeast Asia; recruitment practices; gender and migration; identity politics; international political economy Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer: Changing geographies of migration; health and urban spaces in the 21st century Prof Ann Irene Brooks: Cultural theory and cultural economy in an Asian context; contemporary social theory and its application within an Asian context; the interrelationship between cultural economy, consumption and the State in Asia and the US reap several publications stemming from previous conferences including a special issue of Geoforum (on Householding in Transition: Emerging Dynamics in “Developing” East and Southeast Asia) and two edited volumes, Migration and Diversity in Asian Contexts (ISEAS Press) and Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia (Duke University Press). The cluster continues to focus on high quality publications, stemming from both individual and collaborative research. This year, apart from a range of papers from individual and collective projects, we Ms Miriam Ee: Economic development; socio-economic differentials; ageing; migration in Southeast Asia Dr Maureen Helen Hickey: Migration and development; internal migration in Thailand; gender, masculinity and migration; labour migration and shifting political identities Dr Huynh Toni Tu: African women and their views of mobility in the context of China-Africa relations; African women’s experiences in China and their views of China Dr Kumiko Kawashima: International mobility, youth, labour and identity in post-industrial contexts Dr Kim Sung Kyung: Asian film studies; cultural geography; Asian popular culture; political economy of cultural industry in Asia; mobility in Asia; North Korean defectors Dr Lai Ah Eng: Migration and multiculturalism; migration and family; multiculturalism and social cohesion; ethnicity, culture and religion; family and gender; local histories and heritage Ms Theodora Lam: Transnational migration, children’s geographies, gender, geographical education Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist: Forms of labour recruitment and brokerage that are shaping contemporary transnational migrant mobility from Indonesia to countries across Asia and the Middle East Dr Sally Liu Liangni: Areas of migrant transnationalism; especially Chinese migratory transnationalism in New Zealand and Australia Ms Esther Ng Xinyi: Labour migration in Southeast Asia; gender studies; culture; inequality Prof Frank Pieke: Contemporary Chinese society and politics; the changing role of the Chinese Communist Party; Chinese international migration; foreign immigrant groups in China ANNUAL REPORT 2013 25 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Dr Maria Platt: Marriage, gender and Islam within Indonesia and the Southeast Asian context Dr Malini Sur: Partition histories; transnational flows; emerging political formations at militarised borders, with a focus on South Asia Assoc Prof Shanthi Thambiah: Gender, migration and identity; gender and work; families in flux and gender relations, gender and public policies Dr Zhang Juan: Borders and boundarymaking, subjectivity, mobility and contemporary Chinese cultural politics RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Assoc Prof Michael Ewing-Chow Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Esther Goh Department of Social Work, NUS Dr Elaine Ho Department of Geography, NUS Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong Department of Sociology, NUS Assoc Prof Shirlena Huang Department of Geography, NUS Dr Lai Ah Eng University Scholars Programme, NUS (From 1 July 2013) Assoc Prof Eric Thompson Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Wang Gungwu East Asian Institute, NUS Dr Sallie Yea Humanities and Social Studies Education, Nanyang Technological University 26 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 ASIAN URBANISMS PROF MIKE DOUGLASS The Asian Urbanisms cluster (AUC) continued to advance basic and applied research on Asia’s diverse urban experiences along three major lines of inquiry: (1) The Vernacular City as living urban heritage and participatory citymaking in Asia’s diverse contexts of modernisation and globalisation; (2) Spaces of Hope through grassroots initiatives for alternative development that often arise from a milieu of urban discontents in an age of digital media technologies; and (3) Disaster Governance in the context of Asia’s rapid urban transition and global climate change. Research on the Vernacular City directs attention to both historically inherited urban structures and living culture as they are expressed through place-making and local production of urban spaces by people who reside in the city. In addition to collaborations with other programmes at NUS, such as the FASS Cities Research Cluster and the Future Cities Lab, this research theme has engaged international collaborators that include the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) in Leiden, National Taiwan University in Taipei, Ewha Womans University in Seoul, and NGOs in Indonesia. The combined international conference and workshop titled Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City held in July brought together more than 50 scholars to discuss and draft a longterm agenda for collaborative research, which is now being implemented and will include several international team visits to the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio beginning in 2014. AUC staff organised this conference, while the Future Cities Lab, NUS FASS Cities Research Cluster, and UKNA funded it. For the Eighth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8) in Macau in June 2013, AUC together with the NUS Department of Sociology organised a panel on Localizing Cosmopolis in a Global Age: The City at the Grassroots in East & Southeast Asia. Working with colleagues in other countries, cluster members also organised the International Conference on Cultural Strategies and Urban Regeneration: Policy Innovations from the Grassroots funded by the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement, held in September in Anyang, South Korea. Spaces of Hope research proceeded in 2013 through key conferences, roundtables, publications and community outreach. The conference on Violence, Insurgencies, Deceptions: Conceptualizing Urban Life in South Asia, held in May, brought together scholars to critically assess underlying causalities of violence in South Asia while also searching for promising directions for peaceful resolutions. A parallel research project on Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema was also developed with colleagues in Pakistan. By using mobile cinema and cell phone videos to reach marginalised and ethnically stratified communities, this project has worked towards generating dialogues among people to develop mutual understandings that cross social, cultural and religious boundaries. AUC also collaborated in the Workshop on Friendship and the Convivial City organised with FASS Cities and the Max Planck Foundation. As an allied Spaces of Hope activity, several AUC members currently participate in the MOE Tier 2 funded multi-disciplinary research on Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities organised through FASS Cities. The project examines the conditions and consequences of community and institutional aspirations in 15 cities across 7 different countries in Asia. A key dimension linking the rise of urban contestations to alternative development initiatives in Asia and throughout the world is the widespread availability of digital media technologies, particularly hand-held devices with global research. In this light, the project on Cyber China: Making Space for Change continued in 2013 with a focus on online-offline interactions in urban China (and Taiwan). This is working toward a sole authored book. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 27 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Disaster Governance and Asia’s Urban Transition saw the beginning of extensive research collaborations from the latter half of 2013. The longer-term objective is to build on existing capacities at NUS and other institutions to make Singapore a centre of excellence in research, education and training in disaster governance. Asia was held in early November, with participation of university based scholars and international organisations such as the United Nations, USAID, UNICEF, and many environmental disaster centres from Australia, China, Germany, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand. A follow-up workshop sponsored by Paciic Affairs, a top tier journal, will take place in January 2014. AUC’s signature conference on Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in With a focus on mega-urban regions, AUC also worked with United Nations RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Dr Peter Marolt: Urban and culturalpolitical geographies, particularly studies pertaining to activism, the Internet, and public space in (urban) Asia Prof Mike Douglass (Research Leader): Disaster governance, globalisation, liveable cities, grassroots activism, households in global migration, transborder inter-city networks, urban poverty and the environment, urban planning Dr Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar: South Asian urbanism/urban development and migration/immigration with a focus on Pakistan and the Indian Ocean Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell: Urban networks, with particular interest in the “travel” of Asian cities in urban theory and planning practice Prof Chua Beng Huat: Comparative studies in public housing policy and urban planning RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Dr Michelle Miller: Disaster governance, autonomy/decentralisation, democratisation and conflict management in Indonesian cities Assoc Prof Daniel Goh Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Rita Padawangi: Public space, urban heritage; sociology of architecture and the built environment; social movements and politics of space; environment sociology in the city Dr Eli Asher Elinoff: Citizenship, emerging political practices, notions of sustainability, and contestations over urban development in Thailand Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi: Minority populations, social justice and equality, and democratisation in Malaysia, digital media and political change Dr Marco Garrido: Relationship between urban fragmentation and political polarisation in Metro Manila, Philippines Prof David Gregory Strand: Modern Chinese and Asian urban history; political leadership and public life in early 20th century China; parks and green spaces in global perspective; and cosmopolitan and republican ideas at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh: Transnational migration; gender and migration Prof Stephen Cairns Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre Assoc Prof Hilary Louise du Cros: Urban cultural tourism and the youth of Asia 28 By the end of 2013, Disaster Governance had moved beyond the cluster through the cooperation of other clusters, including the Metacluster and Science, Technology, and Society, to greatly increase its potential contribution to ARI and NUS. Dr Nalin Mehta: The changing political economy of Indian television and its social implications; the transformation of the Congress Party and Indian politics over the past three decades Prof Nicholas Phelps: Economic development implications and geographical organisation of multinational companies Prof Gavin Jones: Determinants of urbanisation and studies of mega-urban regions in Southeast and East Asia organisations in Korea and Japan on disaster governance related to new UN Rio +20 programmes on sustainable development. Dr Chang Jiat Hwee Department of Architecture, NUS Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Jane M. Jacobs Yale-NUS College Dr Joo Yu Min Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS Dr Magne Knudsen Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Kelvin Low Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Misha Petrovic Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Pow Choon Piew Department of Geography, NUS Assoc Prof Johannes Widodo Department of Architecture, NUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 CHANGING FAMILY IN ASIA PROF WEI-JUN JEAN YEUNG In 2013, the Changing Family in Asia cluster focused on (1) publications from previous conferences, (2) initiating a family cluster monthly research brief entitled Asian Family Matters, and (3) exploring new frontiers for research and (4) securing new external funding. Work from previous cluster conferences have resulted in several major publications – a book by Springer Publishing and two special issues in high impact international refereed journals have appeared, and a third special issue is forthcoming. These publications are path breaking in family research, providing systematic examination on important yet uncharted research territories about Asian families and how they differ or parallel western societies. We are starting to see the impact of the Changing Family cluster’s contributions to the field of family demography. The Asian Fatherhood volume in the Journal of Family Issues is the first ever collection that explores Asian fathers’ behaviour and fatherhood ideology and compares them to those in western countries. The Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia volume in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science examines systematically challenges faced by young Asians when transitioning to adulthood. In the new Springer book Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges, authors examine the extent to which economic stresses, caused by events such as financial crises, natural disaster, family death or dissolution, are influencing Asian family and children well-being and how policy measures could be used to help families address economic hardships. A new special journal issue, resulting from the Marriage in Asia conference co-organised in November 2012 by the cluster and the Scientific Group on “Marriage Transition in Asia” of the Asian Population Association, will appear in the Journal of Family Issues in 2014. There are many more publications by individual staff listed in the chapter on Publications. On staffing, the cluster currently has a vibrant interdisciplinary group with members from Sociology, Demography, Economics, Anthropology, and Educational Psychology. In addition, we hosted two Senior Visiting Research Fellows – Associate Prof Ranjana Sheel from Banaras Hindu University, India, and Associate Prof Hyunjoon Park of the University of Pennsylvania. The cluster continued to host international conferences, ARI ASIA TRENDS 2013, and many research seminars this year (see in the chapter on Events). Associate Prof Hyunjoon Park delivered a well-attended Asia Trends lecture in October this year on the advantages and disadvantages of the educational system of East Asian school systems, focusing particularly on Korean school systems. He used high quality empirical data from multiple countries to debunk the myth that the Korean educational system, as other systems in East Asian, creates students who are not creative. In March, a conference, Transnationalism, Gender Hierarchies and Masculinity in Asia, was held. In December, another on Living Alone: One Person Households in Asia was held co-sponsored by two FASS clusters – the Family, Children and Youth Cluster and the Health Cluster. Both conferences gathered a group of distinguished scholars to examine these topics in the context of more than ten Asian countries. Publication plans are underway. Two more conferences to be held in 2014 are currently in the planning stage, one on youth aspirations and the social economic realities they face as they transition to adulthood, and the other on one-parent families and children’s wellbeing. Cluster members work on their individual or collaborative projects on a wide range of topics including youth in Indonesia, divorce in Singapore, domestic violence in Hong Kong, marriage patterns and elderly care in China, family decision making behaviour in India, parenting behaviour and children’s cognitive development in China, and school to work transition in China. In addition, cluster members also continued to work on several larger research projects. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 29 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Work on two other large externally funded projects, with a matching fund of S$350,000 from MOE – one on Chinese Children’s Socio-psychological Wellbeing, the other on Internal Migration and Family Relationships in China – has also proceeded in full force. A new collaborative project with UCLA and Hong Kong UST on Mainland-Hong Kong comparison of cross-border migration has also been initiated. Finally, a proposal on intergenerational transfer and age at retirement in China and India was funded by the Global Asia Institute in 2013. ARI research grants were awarded to Dr Dhiman Das, Dr Ji Yingchun, Dr Li Haibin, and Prof Jean Yeung, and Dr Sharon Quah has submitted a project proposal for funding to the Singapore Family Research Network. RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Assoc Prof Park Hyunjoon: Educational stratification and family in cross-national comparative perspective, focusing on South Korea and Japan Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (Research Leader): Intergenerational studies, family and children’s well-being and policies, poverty, fatherhood, and China’s economic and demographic transition Dr Adam Ka-lok Cheung: Household division of labour, domestic outsourcing, marital conflict, and domestic violence Dr Dhiman Das: Health economics and public policy Dr Ji Yingchun: Social demography, family sociology and medical sociology Dr Li Haibin: Resilience, parenting, and self-concept Dr Lin Qianhan: Parental migration and development of children in China Dr Suzanne Naafs: Lower middle class youth and their education-to-work transitions on the Indonesian island of Java 30 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Cluster members were very active in attending international conferences this year such as those held by the Population Association of America, International Sociological Association, International Union for Study of Population, and the American Sociological Association. In March this year, two activities were initiated by the cluster members. First, a monthly research brief entitled Asian Family Matters was started to feature the good work of the cluster members and Dr Sharon Quah Ee Ling: Singaporean divorcees; subjective experience of Singaporean divorced individuals Assoc Prof Ranjana Sheel: Gender equity and women’s empowerment from a historical perspective Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh: The politics of space in colonial cities; heritage issues and tourism studies; place histories and landscape studies; the geography of gender, with particular reference to women and migration; global cities, transnationalism and diaspora RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Assoc Prof Angelique Chan Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Premchand Dommaraju School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University share with the research communities. Secondly, cluster members started a monthly reading group jointly organised with the FASS Family, Children, and Youth cluster, in which cluster members and attendees from the university share readings and discuss issues related to the changing family in Asia. In sum, the Changing Family in Asia cluster is healthy and robust in all facets – in staffing, intellectual impact and achievements, and in garnering substantial external financial support. Prof Gavin Jones J Y Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, NUS (From 3 October 2013) Dr Erin Kim Hye-Won Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS Dr Maznah Mohamad Department of Malay Studies, NUS Dr Shirley Sun Hsiao-Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Dr Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University Dr Teo You Yenn School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University Assoc Prof Thang Leng Leng Department of Japanese Studies, NUS Dr Yap Mui Teng Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA PROF CHUA BENG HUAT The highlight of events in 2013 for the Cultural Studies in Asia research cluster is the hosting of the 2013 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society international conference, with the theme of Beyond The Cultural Industry. Taking more than one year in preparation, with co-funding from ARI, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), NUS, and the Singapore Tourism Board, the five-day event took place on 1-5 July; the first two days of the conference was dedicated to graduate students and the remaining three days a conference for scholars. Dividing the conference into two parts provided a comfortable environment for graduate students to share their research work and network, without the intimidating presence of senior academics. Reflecting the growing field of Cultural Studies in Asia, participants came from the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and of course, different parts of Asia. Prof Chua Beng Huat, who is also co-executive editor of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal, delivered the keynote address for the graduate students’ conference, with the theme of “Inter-referencing Asia” in comparative research. More than eighty students presented works in progress from their MA and PhD research. Professors Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, and Chair, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society), Tejuswini Niranjana and Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India), Melani Budianta (University of Indonesia) and Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), attended various panels to provide guidance and comments for the graduate students. They formed a closing panel for this part of the conference that provided responses on disciplinary, theoretical, methodological and practical matters observed during the students’ presentations. ARI Director, Prof Prasenjit Duara, gave the welcome address at the main conference. The opening keynote was delivered by Prof Lily Kong, former ARI Director and currently, Vice-Provost (Academic Personnel), NUS. Speaking directly to the conference theme, she provided a wide ranging survey of the current state of the field in both academic and policy research on cultural industry. Prof Koichi Iwabuchi, Director, Monash Asia Institute (Melbourne), gave a short commentary. The proceeding was chaired by Prof Meaghan Morris. The closing keynote was delivered by Prof Thongchai Winichakul, former ARI Principal Research Fellow. He provided a masterly analysis of the “hyper royalty” phenomenon in contemporary Thai politics. Three plenary sessions were held. Between the keynotes and plenary, sixty-seven panels with more than 200 papers were presented, covering a very wide range of topics. Among the presenters were many former fellows of the Cultural Studies in Asia research cluster, making the occasion as a reunion of ARI alums. By coincidence, the cluster had brought together several East Asia film scholars, particularly on Chinese cinema. They included: Prof Wendy Larson (University of Oregon) who was preparing a manuscript on the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou; Prof Pheng Cheah (University of California, Berkeley), who was preparing a manuscript on three filmmakers, Taiwanese/Malaysian Tsai Ming Liang, Jia Zhangke of China, Fruit Chan of Hong Kong, and Associate Prof Lim Song Hwee (Chinese University of Hong Kong), editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinema who had just completed a book on the “slowness” of Tsai Ming Liang’s films. In addition, we had Dr Felicia Chan (University of Manchester), working on cosmopolitanism in film and Dr Gerald Sim (Florida Atlantic University) who was researching the work of the late Malaysian filmmaker, Yasmin Ahmad. Both Dr Chan and Dr Sim, being Singaporeans, also conducted research on Singapore cinema. This coincidental gathering of so many film scholars, with overlapping research interests, created a very exciting environment ANNUAL REPORT 2013 31 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 and productive exchanges for all. Dr Lim Song Hwee presented his research on Tsai Ming Liang as a public seminar in the ARI Asia Trends Series, an ARI outreach programme, in collaboration with the National Library Board. Prof Pheng Cheah provided a commentary, followed by an active question and answer session from the audience. Finally, in conjunction with the research focus on Chinese cinema, ARI co-sponsored an international conference on Producing Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century, organised by Dr Lim Song Hwee, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, UK, and held at the Singapore Management University. The Cultural Studies in Asia research cluster will continue to consolidate its position as a critical centre for the study of East Asia Pop Culture in the coming year but will also expand into other areas of research, especially in new media and cyber culture. RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Assoc Prof Purnima Mankekar: Interdisciplinary theories of affect, transnational cultural studies, feminist theory and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Prof Chua Beng Huat (Research Leader): East Asian pop culture; multiculturalism Dr Felicia Chan: Construction of national imaginaries in cross-cultural, diasporic and multilingual cinemas (primarily East and Southeast Asian films), cosmopolitanism, cultural practices Prof Pheng Cheah: Theory and practice of cosmopolitanism Dr Sun Jung: South Korean popular cultures and online youth cultures, social media Prof Wendy Larson: Modern Chinese literature and film, Chinese culture under the conditions of modernity and postmodernity Prof Maud Lavin: Genders, sexualities, mass media, and transnational digital circulation Dr Joanne Lim: Media and globalisation, youth engagement and participatory culture in Southeast Asia Dr Lim Song Hwee: Transnational Chinese and East Asian cinemas, cinema and cultural identity, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial and diaspora studies 32 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Dr William Peterson: Communitybased performance in the Philippines, transnational/transcultural flows and spectacle, religion and performance, theatre in Singapore Assoc Prof Shanthini Pillai: Diaspora and transnationalism in literary and cultural texts, with particular reference to the global South Asian diaspora Dr Shen Yipeng: Mass nationalism in post-socialist China Dr Gerald Sim: American cinema, national cinema, and critical theory Dr Shawna Tang: Convergence of postcolonial theory, transnational feminist studies and queer theory in engaging questions of modernity, globalisation, sexuality, gender, citizenship, state and nationalism Dr Thum Ping Tjin: Transnational history of maritime Southeast Asia Dr Brenda Chan Independent Scholar Prof Philip Holden Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Dr Liew Kai Khiun Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Dr Deborah Shamoon Department of Japanese Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University Prof C.J.W.-L. Wee School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 RELIGION AND GLOBALISATION IN ASIAN CONTEXTS ASSOC PROF MICHAEL FEENER The Religion and Globalisation cluster is dedicated to exploring reconfigurations in the understandings and experiences of “religion” in diverse Asian contexts. Particular attention is given to the dynamic interactions of secularisation and religion in the modern period, as well as to related issues of the invocation of authority and tradition in contemporary discourse and practice. In terms of coverage, the cluster works to facilitate studies of significant developments in major established religions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, as well as in more localised indigenous traditions and new religious movements across Asia, broadly conceived. This year has been an extremely busy year for the cluster, featuring a series of key events that have generated momentum for the Religion and Development in Asia (RADA) project. In March we held a seminar on Religion, Secularity, and the Public Sphere in East and Southeast Asia which was cosponsored by the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy. This was followed in April by a one-day symposium on Missionaries and Democracy in Asia which explored the cascading effects religious movements can have on wider social processes. In June we held a cluster seminar entitled Interfaith Approaches to Development that focused on the interfaith initiatives of both government and non-government actors in Singapore. In early August, cluster member Dr Philip Fountain represented the cluster and coorganised an event at Oxford University, entitled The Service of Faith: Christian Entanglements with International Development. This symposium represented an interdisciplinary conversation with some of the foremost thinkers in the UK and Europe on issues of Christianity and development. The cluster’s flagship event entitled Religion and the Politics of Development was held in late August. This international conference brought together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to explore the nexus of religion, development, and politics in Asia. Featuring four leading keynote speakers, over 18 academic presentations and 2 five-member practitioner panels, the two-day conference resulted in a lively and provocative conversation, whose emergent themes will be published in a forthcoming edited volume. This conference was co-sponsored by the Henry Luce Foundation. Immediately following this conference, the cluster held a one-day closed-door design workshop with 20 of the most senior scholars and practitioner participants, during which the cluster presented and sought input on its Religion and Development in Asia (RADA) project. This input was then channelled into an MOE Tier 2 funding application, which was submitted the following month. Lastly, in October the cluster hosted the 2013 Inter-Asia Roundtable on the topic of Religion and Development in China: Innovations and Implications which over the course of two days brought together a select group of scholars from China and around the world for lively and stimulating discussions of the rapidly changing social roles of religion in the world’s most populous nation. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the cluster has actively maintained its Religion and Development reading group, with meetings on a near-monthly basis throughout the year. The group has discussed eight key works in 2013, including Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare (Nancy J. Davis and Robert V. Robinson); Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors without Borders (Peter Redfield); and The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order (David Ekbladh). Over the course of the year, the group has explored development approaches taken by different religious traditions – Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., as well as how different sub-sectors of development (humanitarian response, disaster response, overseas development assistance, philanthropy, and charity) engage with religious actors and with religiosity within their own institutions. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 33 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Assoc Prof Michael Feener (Research Leader): Cultural and intellectual history of Islam; law and society; religion and development Dr Andrea Acri: Hinduism and Indian philosophies, Sanskrit and Old Javanese languages and literatures, intellectual history of the Indic world Prof Anne M. Blackburn: Buddhist monastic culture and Buddhist participation in networks linking Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia before and during colonial presence in the region Prof Martin van Bruinessen: Politics, history and philology; non-fundamentalist transitional Islamic movements in Asia Dr Robin Bush: Islam and politics in Indonesia; changing roles of mass-based religious organisations; religious and development/social justice Dr Cho Kyuhoon: The conceptualisation of the category “religion” in modern Korea; the public role of Buddhism and Christianity in a globalised Korea; the religious system of North Korea; and religion as an alternative communication system in modern global Asia Prof Kenneth Dean: Temples and communities 34 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Dr Philip Fountain: Emerging engagements between “religion” and international aid and development Dr Tabassum Ruhi Khan: Emergent identities of Indian Muslim youth within contexts of economic liberalisation and neoliberal globalisation Assoc Prof Liang Yongjia: World renunciation; esoteric Buddhism; territorial cults; Chinese intellectual tradition Dr Mark Meulenbeld: Various aspects of Daoism; Daoist ritual as represented in canonical sources, local gazetteers, and vernacular narratives Dr Ronojoy Sen: Religion, state and civil society in India Dr Wu Keping: Religion and development in contemporary China; anthropology of Christianity, ethnic and religious pluralism in Southwest China; conversion and Buddhism in contemporary Southeast China Dr Zhong Yijiang: Religion and modernity in East Asia, from the thematic perspectives of authority epistemology and space RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Dr Julius Bautista Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Gary Bell Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Patrick Daly University Scholars Programme, NUS Dr Zeliha Gul Inanc Department of History, NUS Dr Arif A. Jamal Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Jeremy Kingsley Tembusu College, NUS Assoc Prof Vineeta Sinha Department of Sociology, NUS Assoc Prof John Whalen-Bridge Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Assoc Prof Robert D. Woodberry Department of Political Science, NUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY ASSOC PROF GREGORY CLANCEY In its fourth full year of operation, the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) research cluster completed its “flagship” three-year grant project, Asian Biopoleis: Biotechnology and Biomedicine as Emergent Forms of Life and Practice (co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the NUS Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund). As intended, the project has put Singapore, NUS, and ARI on the global map as the primary Asian centre for the study of biomedicine and society. By the end of 2013, the project had produced 27 publications, seven more than the number originally promised to the grantors. These include special issues of three international journals, with a fourth planned for 2014. Additional papers remain in the pipeline. The appointment of Dr Tamra Lysaght, formally a grant collaborator in the NUS Medical Faculty, as a Senior Research Fellow in the STS cluster, is another legacy of the project, as is the ongoing training of two doctoral students, supervised by cluster members or affiliates, one of whom will be the first to receive a joint PhD from NUS and the University of Edinburgh. The landmark STS cluster event in 2013 was the hosting of a major international conference at NUS University Town, attracting over 160 delegates. The Asia-Pacific STS Network (APSTSN) invited us to organise their bi-annual conference, which we combined with two ARI workshops (on biomedicine and climate change) to showcase our research to a regional and global audience. This was the first large academic conference to take place on the new University Town campus and was co-sponsored by Tembusu College. Dr Jerome Whitington took the lead in organising the event, closely assisted by Drs Chen Haidan and Tinn Honghong. Dr Whitington was also elected Singapore representative to the APSTSN. Our handling of the APSTSN Conference sufficiently impressed a visiting delegation from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) that the organisation voted to trust us with their own annual conference in 2016. SHOT is one of the “big three” organisations in the field of STS, the others being the Society for the Social Study of Science (4S) and the History of Science Society (HSS). The 2016 Singapore event will be their first annual conference to take place in Asia. If the APSTSN Conference marked the emergence of ARI as the leading STS research centre in Asia, the SHOT Conference will cement our reputation globally. In the spring a delegation from the STS cluster was invited by the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, to present a special seminar on our Asian Biopoleis project, in conjunction with the dedication of a new wing funded by the Singapore-based Lee Foundation. Singapore’s ambassador to the UK officiated the seminar. Prof Michael M. J. Fischer (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at MIT) joined us for a six-month joint appointment as Visiting Research Professor and Ngee Ann Kongsi Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Tembusu College. Fischer is one of the world’s foremost theorists in cultural anthropology, and is making an extended study of Singapore’s biopolis. Cluster Leader Gregory Clancey was engaged for a second year as a consultant to the Division of Human Health of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Among his roles was co-convenor of the May expert meeting Radiation, Health, and Society: PostFukushima Implications for the Training of Health Professionals in Vienna. In November he also co-convened (and gave a keynote) at the first STS-related conference to take place in Fukushima prefecture, sponsored by the IAEA and the Fukushima Medical University. As a result of this project Clancey was also invited to give a keynote in Tokyo (at the East Asia STS Network Conference) and a paper at Nagasaki University. He has been invited to present another paper at Hiroshima University in early 2014. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 35 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Toward the end of the year the STS and Asian Urbanisms cluster joined forces to write a new Tier 2 Grant Proposal entitled Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanizing Asia. The point-man on the STS side was Dr Eric Kerr, newly-arrived from Edinburgh. The proposal, for close to S$1,000,000, has been submitted and is currently under consideration. Members of the STS cluster also attended and delivered papers at a major conference on the same topic sponsored by the Asian Urbanisms cluster. The two clusters hope to cooperate closely on this increasingly important theme in the years ahead. RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Prof Michael Fischer: Anthropological methods for the contemporary world with special attention to the interface between science and technology and anthropology; anthropology of the biomedical sciences and technologies; anthropology of media circuits Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey (Research Leader): History and anthropology of science and technology; architecture and cities; natural disaster and the concept of emergency; modern Japan Mr Shamraz Anver: Artificial intelligence; health communications; participatory video; experiential learning Mr Muthukumar Chandrasekaran: Analytics, data/text/web mining and machine learning Dr Chen Haidan: Bioethics, the biopolitics of science and technology, sociology of health and illness, and biomedical innovation Dr Philip Cho: History of science; popular religion and ritual in the development of science, technology, and medicine in late-imperial China and earlymodern Europe; contemporary technical development in China in the context of global technological systems, data networks, and models Cluster Affiliate Dr John DiMoia published the monograph Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Dr Connor Graham: Information systems; human-computer interaction; social studies of work and technology; digital heritage, death, dying and afterlife Dr Eric Kerr: Philosophy of science and technology, petroleum engineering in South East Asia Dr Tamra Lysaght: Contested science and emergent technologies, experimentation in biomedical innovation Assoc Prof Ravi Rajan: Political economy and intellectual history of environment–development conflicts; expertise and environmental governance; environmental basis of poverty Dr Catelijne Coopmans: Social and cultural dynamics of knowledge production and technological innovation in ophthalmology and vision research Dr Margaret Tan: Pervasive/wearable computing history and aesthetics; philosophies of technology and critical theory in new media; performance, installation, and new media arts history and practice; feminist history/theory in art, science and technology Mr Nicolas Rene Escoffier: Cognitive neuroscience, speech and music cognition, link between religious practices and cognition Dr Tinn Honghong: History of electronic computing; history of science and technology in Taiwan; technology and gender 36 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013), the research for which was partly funded by the Asian Biopoleis grant project, in which he collaborated. Cluster Affiliate Dr John Van Wyhe published Dispelling the Darkness: Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin (World Scientific, 2013). Dr Jerome Whitington: Climate change and green energy development as sites for exploring human futures; environmental anthropology, Laos and South East Asia RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Dr Catelijne Coopmans Tembusu College, NUS (Till 30 June 2013) Dr John Paul DiMoia Department of History, NUS Dr Axel Heinz Gelfert Department of Philosophy, NUS Dr Connor Graham Tembusu College, NUS (Till 30 June 2013) Dr Denisa Kera Communications and New Media Programme, NUS Assoc Prof John Phillips Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Dr John van Wyhe Department of Biological Sciences, NUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 METACLUSTER: HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF ASIAN CONNECTIONS PROF PRASENJIT DUARA The goal of exploring Asian Connections derives from current research that shows that countries in East, Southeast and South Asia, and more recently West Asia, are becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent. These connections have stimulated research not only on contemporary developments but also the ignored or forgotten histories of these relations. Today these nations are beginning to derive benefits and to face challenges from this emergent or re-emergent region which needs to be grasped by a new historical and sociological paradigm that goes beyond “methodological nationalism” and area studies. In 2013 the Metacluster met every month as a reading group drawn from social scientists, historians and area studies specialists in both ARI and the Faculties. We isolated several themes that showed the role that population, economic, cultural and scientific exchanges, and empires, trade and religions, played in connecting the different parts of Asia in the second millennium. In particular these readings also facilitated a deeper understanding of the comparative versus connected perspectives on history to be explored through close collaboration with the participants in the Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts cluster. In February the Metacluster conducted a workshop in collaboration with the Canadian Situating Science Cluster – a multi-university partnership on history and philosophy of science – to explore scientific exchanges across the Asian region in the millennium preceding the modern era, and its implications for comparative and connective understanding of the history of science. This collaboration with the Canadian Situating Science Cluster is now being widened through the inclusion of Australian partnership forged with the Center for Dialogue in La Trobe University with a forthcoming workshop in 2014. The Metacluster organised a talk in January by the Nobel Laureate in Physics, Sir Anthony Leggett, on the theme Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics? Couched in language accessible to humanities scholars it was well received by an audience some of whom were also interested in exploring the ways in which certain philosophical themes in quantum mechanics can be illuminatingly connected to Eastern traditions of thought. The theme of exploring Asian connections to modern science also featured in the workshop Understanding The Mind: Exploring New Partnerships organised by the Metacluster with the US-based Mind and Life Institute in November, in partnership with YaleNUS College, to explore academic collaborations to expand understanding the mind by paying closer attention to contemplative psychological techniques in Asian religious traditions. Other Metacluster events over the year included seminars that explore from a connectivist and comparative perspective topics such as hybridity, moral economy, subjectivity, religious ethics and the mathematical zero. These seminars continue interests developed in the past and will be pursued in the future in the process of articulating the paradigm of Asian connections that informs the core orientation of the Metacluster. The Asian connections perspective was extended in a novel direction this year with the growing awareness that disasters in Asia are increasing in both frequency and magnitude, and that they can have pan-Asian impacts. Under the rubric Disasters in Asia: Localities, Knowledge, and Governance members of the Metacluster have worked with scholars in the Asian Urbanisms, Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts, and Science, Technology, and Society clusters to fashion an approach that simultaneously honours the particular perspectives of each cluster but provides the beginnings of an overall conceptual framework. A Metacluster planning workshop entitled Flood Risk in Monsoon Asia: Hazard and Vulnerability in the Past and Future involved scholars from NUS, India and Thailand. A follow-up workshop in Chiang Mai focused on documentary sources from which histories of floods and flood vulnerability can be derived. These histories will complement ongoing research that constructs flood histories from the sediments left by floods. A similar workshop is planned in India in February 2014. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 37 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 RESEARCH CLUSTER MEMBERS Prof Prasenjit Duara (Research Leader): Social and cultural history; problems of development; nationalism and imperialism; religion; historical thought; social theory Dr Arun Bala: Exploration of how a new-Lakatosian model for scientific method, involving the consilience of research programmes, can be deployed to explain how reservoirs of knowledge from different Asian traditions came to be epistemologically incorporated in the making of modern science Prof William Arthur Callahan: Interplay of culture and politics in China and Asia, and overlap of domestic and international politics Assoc Prof Michael Feener: Intellectual and cultural history of Islam in the Middle East and Southeast Asia Prof Rada Iveković: Epistemological issues and translation Dr George Gheverghese Joseph: Circulation of ideas in mathematics within an Asian context 38 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Dr Peter Marolt: Urban and culturalpolitical geographies; post-disciplinary studies pertaining to environmental activism, the Internet and (urban) Asia RESEARCH CLUSTER ASSOCIATES Dr Martin Saxer: Effects of China’s rapid economic growth, its strategic decisions to secure influence and natural resources in adjacent countries, and its efforts to prevent unrest Dr Jack Fairey Department of History, NUS Prof Robert James Wasson: Flood risk in monsoon Asia; role of land use and climate change in landscape change; catchment management systems; extreme hydrologic events in the Australian and Asian tropics Dr Daniel Goh Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Zhang Juan: Borders and boundarymaking, contemporary Chinese subjectivity, and everyday practices in post-socialist conditions Dr Zhong Yijiang: Religion and modernity in East Asia from the thematic perspectives of authority, epistemology and space Dr Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied Department of Malay Studies, NUS Dr Kurtulus Gemici Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Manjusha Nair Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Misha Petrovic Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Tansen Sen Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 ACEH PROJECT Over the past eight years, ARI has taken a number of research and development initiatives in response to the catastrophic damage wrought by the earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004. Singapore was the first country to provide emergency assistance to Aceh following the tsunami, serving as the vanguard of the largest international aid effort ever organised. have occurred there. Over the course of the past year, they have continued to pursue their own individual studies and field research in Aceh, and they have produced several publications based on this work, including a new monograph by the ARI Aceh Project Coordinator, Michael Feener, titled Shari’a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia (Oxford University Press). We have also created a special “Aceh Section” of the online ARI working papers series. There are currently seven papers published in this series, and more are planned for publication over the coming year. In March 2006, Dr Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Director of the Indonesian governmental Body for the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Aceh and Nias (BRR) invited Prof Anthony Reid and ARI to organise The First International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, which was held in Banda Aceh in February 2007. Preparation for this conference was led by an ARI team comprised of Prof Reid, Associate Prof Michael Feener and Dr Patrick Daly. The conference served to consolidate momentum for reinvigorating academic work on and in Aceh. This led to the establishment of an International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS) in Banda Aceh. ARI’s founding Director, Prof Anthony Reid and Religion Cluster Research Leader Michael Feener currently sit on its International Board of Directors. The cooperation between ARI and ICAIOS continues, particularly through the ongoing series of biennial conferences – the most recent of which was held in June 2013 at Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, with keynote addresses given by Michael Feener (ARI/ NUS) and Prof Mary-Jo Good of the Harvard Medical School. PROJECT MEMBERS Dr Michelle Miller: Decentralisation and post-conflict governance Dr Patrick Daly University Scholars Programme, NUS PROJECT ASSOCIATES Dr Saiful Mahdi International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies Assoc Prof Michael Feener (Coordinator): Islamic law in contemporary Aceh Dr Philip Fountain: Religion and postdisaster reconstruction As years pass since the tsunami and the end of the conflict in Aceh, the scholars associated with ARI’s Aceh project continue to monitor the situation on the ground and to produce critical analyses of the long-term effects of the dramatic social transformations that Dr Caroline Brassard Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS Prof Anthony Reid Australian National University ANNUAL REPORT 2013 39 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 ASIAN METACENTRE FOR POPULATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS Headquartered at the Asia Research Institute (ARI), NUS, in Singapore, the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis (AMC) was established in 2000 with funding from The Wellcome Trust’s major Awards for a Centre of Excellence in Asia. AMC was constituted through a collaborative effort between ARI, NUS; the College for Population Studies (CPS) at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. The National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at the Australian National University joined as a principal collaborator in 2002. AMC’s research foci includes: population-developmentenvironment-health interactions at the regional level, rapid urbanisation, urbanism and health in Asia, and demographic change, migration and the “Asian family”, and their impacts on social and psychological wellbeing. research proposals and subsequently publish research papers and books. The series of conferences, workshops and seminars organised through the Asian MetaCentre had thus served as a platform for strengthening demographic research and the analysis of population dynamics in the Asian context in relation to health and wellbeing. One of AMC’s major aims is to improve the synergy between existing population studies centres around Asia through an internet platform, training courses, topical workshops, support for project development and a general enhancement of the interaction among scientists working on population, health and sustainable development. It brings together Asian centres, fostering international collaborations and skills transfer. It also aims to consolidate the Asian Population Network (APN), organise relevant workshops, provide training for skills development, develop high quality proposals, engage in 40 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 The CHAMPSEA team continues to yield a string of high quality publications in 2013 using the rich quantitative and qualitative datasets from the project on Child Health and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia. Key members of the team also met in Singapore in July with funding awarded by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (R-109000-156-112) to discuss publication plans and to work on the proposal for a followup longitudinal study for the CHAMPSEA project. Publications by the CHAMPSEA team in 2013 include: Graham, E. and B. S. A. Yeoh (2013). Special Issue on Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3). Graham, E. and B. S. A. Yeoh (2013). Introduction: Child health and migrant parents in South-East Asia: Risk and resilience among primary school-aged children. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 297-314. Graham, E. and L. P. Jordan (2013). Does having a migrant parent reduce the risk of undernutrition for children who stay behind in South-East Asia? Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 315-348. Asis, M. M. B. and C. Ruiz-Marave (2013). Leaving a legacy: Parental migration and school outcomes among young children in the Philippines. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 349-376. Jampaklay, A. and P. Vapattanawong (2013). The subjective well-being of children in transnational and non-migrant households: Evidence from Thailand. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 377-400. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Jordan, L. P., E. Graham, and D. V. Nguyen (2013). Alcohol use among very early adolescents in Vietnam: What difference does parental migration make? Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 401-420. Lam, T., M. Ee, L. A. Hoang, and B. S. A. Yeoh (2013). Securing a better living environment for left-behind children: Implications and challenges for policies. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 421-445. Sukamdi and A. M. Wattie (2013). Tobacco use and exposure among children in migrant and non-migrant households in Java, Indonesia. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 447-464. Adhikari, R., A. Jampaklay, A. Chamratrithirong, K. Richter, U. Pattaravanich, and P. Vapattanawong (2013). The impact of parental migration on the mental health of children left behind. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, online first, DOI 10.1007/ s10903-013-9809-5. Yeoh, B. S. A. and T. Lam (2013). Transnational migration in Southeast Asia and the gender roles of left-behind fathers. ARROW for Change, 19(1), 8-9. http://arrow.org.my/publications/AFC/ v19n1.pdf Lam, T., B. S. A. Yeoh and L. A. Hoang (September, 2013). Transnational migration and changing care arrangements for left-behind children in Southeast Asia: A selective literature review in relation to the CHAMPSEA study (ARI Working Paper Series No. 207). Asia Research Institute, Singapore. Available online at http://www.ari.nus. edu.sg/docs/wps/wps13_207.pdf PROGRAMME MEMBERS Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Ms Theodora Lam (Research Associate) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 41 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 STATE BOUNDARIES, CULTURAL POLITICS AND GENDER NEGOTIATIONS IN COMMERCIALLY ARRANGED INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES IN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA This research was funded by an MOE Tier 2 research grant from May 2008 to August 2011. Its aim was to understand the phenomenon of international marriages and the dynamics of marriage migration within the Asian region. Through an examination of the processes through which these international marriages occur and the circumstances, researchers involved attempt to unpick circumstances and social forces that are both enabling and restricting to the actors in their decision making process. The nature, role and function of the state, individual agency, as well as the matchmaking industry were also interrogated in the context of international marriage. In 2013, the research team continued to analyse data and produce publications that pay specific attention to an array of issues relating to social capital, citizenship rights, gender and sexuality, racialisation and social exclusion, (im)mobility, transnational family strategies and global householding, the “commercialisation” of intimacy, “entrepreneurial marriage” and the social production of migrant (il)legality. These engaged discussions are materialised in a number of published and forthcoming articles below: Yeoh, B. S. A., H. L. Chee, T. K. D. Vu, and Y. E. Cheng (2013). Between two families: The social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore. Global Networks, 13(4): 441458. 42 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Yeoh, B. S. A., H. L. Chee, and T. K. D. Vu (2013). Commercially arranged marriage and the negotiation of citizenship rights among Vietnamese marriage migrants in multiracial Singapore. Asian Ethnicity, 14(2): 139-156. Yeoh, B. S. A., H. L. Chee, and G. H. Y. Baey (2013). The place of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore: Social reproduction, social “problems” and social protection. Third World Quarterly, 34(10): 1927-1941. Yeoh, B. S. A., H. L. Chee, and T. K. D. Vu (2013). Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men. Geoforum. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. geoforum.2013.09.012 Brickell, K. and B. S. A. Yeoh (2013). Geographies of domestic life: “Householding” in transition in East and Southeast Asia, Geoforum. http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.007. Chee, H. L. and B. S. A. Yeoh (2012). Becoming a commercial marriage broker in Malaysia, Asia Paciic Memo, no. 133, posted on 22 February, available at: http://www.asiapacificmemo.ca/ becoming-a-commercial-marriagebroker-in-malaysia Chee, H. L., B. S. A. Yeoh, and R. Shuib (2012). Circuitous pathways: Marriage as a route toward (il)legality for Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 21(3): 317-344. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Chee, H. L., B. S. A. Yeoh, and R. Shuib (2012). In-between (il)legality and legitimacy: Marriages between foreign workers and citizens in Malaysia. In DooSub Kim (ed) Cross-Border Marriage: Global Trends and Diversity. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA). Chee, H. L., B. S. A. Yeoh, and T. K. D. Vu (2012). From client to matchmaker: Social capital in the making of commercial matchmaking agents in Malaysia. Paciic Affairs, 85(1): 91-115. Yeoh, B. S. A. and T. Lam (2012). Migration and diverseCity: Singapore’s changing demography, identity and landscape. In D. W. Haines, K. Yamanaka, and S. Yamashita (eds) Wind over Water: Rethinking Migration in an East Asian Context (pp. 60-77). New York: Berghahn. Cheng, Y. E., B.S.A. Yeoh, and Zhang, J. (forthcoming). Still “breadwinners” and “providers”: Singaporean husbands, money, and masculinity in transnational marriages. Gender, Place and Culture. Chee, H. L., C. W. Lu, and B. S. A. Yeoh (forthcoming). Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia. Citizenship Studies, 18(8). RESEARCH TEAM EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Dr Rashidah Shuib Universiti Sains Malaysia Prof Gavin Jones (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr Vu Thi Kieu Dung Independent Scholar Dr Chee Heng Leng (Senior Research Fellow) Dr Melody Chia-Wen Lu (Research Fellow) Dr Zhang Juan (Research Fellow) Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam (Research Assistant) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 43 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 MIGRATING OUT OF POVERTY RESEARCH PROGRAMME CONSORTIUM Migrating out of Poverty is an international research programme consortium (RPC) funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID, or UK Aid). It focuses on the relationship between migration and poverty, with the aim of maximising the development impacts of migration whilst minimising the costs and risks of migration for the poor. A key facet of the Consortium is the communication of research through policy engagement and capacity building initiatives directed at delivering high quality research evidence into policy and practice. The Consortium is coordinated by the University of Sussex, led by CEO, Prof L. Alan Winters, and Research Director, Dr Priya Deshingkar. It has five core partners located across different regions in Asia and Africa: the Asia Research Institute (ARI) in Singapore; the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) in Bangladesh; the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) in Ghana; the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) in South Africa; and the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (AMADPOC) in Kenya. As a core partner, ARI’s role is to manage and facilitate the Consortium’s work within Southeast Asia through a range of research, communications, and capacitybuilding initiatives. In 2013, the project team at ARI undertook several projects under the auspices of the Consortium. The first regional project (RP1) entitled Financing Migration, Generating Remittances, and the Building of Livelihood Strategies: 44 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 A Case Study of Indonesian Migrant Women as Domestic Workers in Singapore began in 2012. RP1 drew upon quantitative and qualitative methodologies to highlight the perspectives of Indonesian domestic workers embarking on migration as a livelihood strategy for poverty alleviation. The first global project (GP1; or Global Quantitative Project) drew upon surveys with 1,200 households in the central Javanese city of Ponorogo. The aim of GP1 was to probe the relationship between migration and poverty, and identify the mediating factors that shape the impacts of migration on poverty alleviation. The surveys focused on issues concerning migration, remittances and wellbeing. In April 2013, the ARI team conducted a fieldwork-training workshop in conjunction with the Centre for Population and Policy Studies at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This three-day workshop provided fieldworkers with an overview of the project, as well as practical and ethical skills for administering the survey in Ponorogo. A subsequent global project (GP2; or Global Qualitative Project) began in the latter half of 2013. Consisting of an additional 50 follow-up interviews with current and returned migrants from the Ponorogo region (set to be conducted in early 2014), GP2 focuses on individuals engaged in construction, domestic and factory work. These are occupations that have emerged in the context of economic growth, persistent inequalities and declining agriculture and where conglomerations of those who are socially excluded and poor are over-represented. Research on these occupations will generate a significant body of evidence on forms of migration that are important to the poor and relevant for the Consortium. Another regional project (RP2) entitled Migration and Precarious Work: Negotiating Debt, Employment and Livelihood Strategies amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men working in Singapore’s Construction Industry was initiated in late 2013. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the project aims to understand the financial and social costs of migration for Bangladeshi migrant men working in Singapore’s construction industry, and issues of precarity that contribute to job uncertainty and insecurity amongst these workers. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Since its inception, the project team has consulted a range of organisations in our efforts to engage key stakeholders and conduct policy-oriented research that is relevant to ongoing discussions on migration issues in the Southeast Asian region. In particular, the team has worked closely with Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), a local non-governmental organisation that advocates for the rights and welfare of migrant workers in Singapore, in developing the project’s research instruments, as well as in the coordination of its fieldwork. In November 2013, the team organised a closed-door policy roundtable discussion to reflect upon the findings of RP1. The roundtable held at ARI drew upon the perspectives of different stakeholders on migration issues in EVENTS PROGRAMME MEMBERS Surveyor’s Training Workshop 21-23 April 2013, Centre for Population and Policy Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta Indonesia Convenors: Dr Maria Platt and Dr Silvia Mila Arlini Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) ARI ASIA TRENDS 2013 Lecture and Visual Exhibition “Here Today and Tomorrow: Transnational Domestic Workers and the Decent Work Agenda in Asia” 12 August 2013, NTUC Centre, Training Room Level 8 Convenors: Prof Brenda Yeoh and Ms Grace Baey Closed-door Policy Roundtable Discussion 12 November 2013, Asia Research Institute, NUS Convenors: Prof Brenda Yeoh, Dr Maria Platt, and Ms Grace Baey Singapore, including academics, senior policy makers, business practitioners, as well as key representatives from civil society organisations. A policy brief has been developed as an outcome of the discussions, which outlines key recommendations for enhancing the existing regulatory framework for Singapore’s domestic work industry. Dr Maria Platt (Co-Investigator) Ms Grace Baey (Co-Investigator) Dr Silvia Mila Arlini Dr Dhiman Das Ms Theodora Lam Ms Khoo Choon Yen Ms Miriam Ee (Till March 2013) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 45 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 CASINO MOBILITIES: LABOUR MIGRATION, GLOBAL CONSUMPTION AND REGULATION IN SINGAPORE Casino Mobilities is a new project launched by the Asian Migration Cluster on 1 April 2013. It investigates Singapore’s newly opened casino resorts as unique sites of mobility and interconnectivity. This is the first academic research in the Singapore context that looks into the complex linkages of transnational mobilities of labourers and consumers, the emerging casino economy in Asia, and the transforming regulatory regime in Singapore. This research is fully funded by the NUS-HSS grant for two years (2013-2015) with a project value of S$199,867.50. In 2013, the research team initiated collaborations with Singapore’s two Integrated Resorts, where mega casinos are a key feature, and the official governing bodies including the Casino Regulatory Authority, the National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG), and the Ministry of Social and Family Development. Researchers involved in this project carried out PROJECT TEAM Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Dr Zhang Juan (Research Fellow) Dr Esther Goh (Collaborator) 46 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 detailed background studies on regional economies, industry outlooks, national policies, regulatory frameworks, and media and public discourses. The research team has also started conducting in-depth interviews with employees and visitors to the casinos, both local and transnational, and carrying out participant observations at NCPG, family centres, and self-organised community groups to gain first-hand understanding on issues related to problem gambling. In June 2013, members of the research team participated in an international conference (ICAS 8) in Macau to present initial findings and to consolidate collaboration with researchers based in the University of Macau (UM). The ARI research team will continue dialogue with UM researchers and engage in Dr Melody Chia-Wen Lu (Collaborator, University of Macau) Ms Esther Ng (Research Assistant) academic exchange activities in the next two years. The research team has also offered two internship opportunities under the NUS Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project scheme, and trained two undergraduate students with regard to conducting independent research. In 2014, the project team expects to complete fieldwork and data analysis, and to start the process of writing and publishing. Plans are also being made for conferences, meetings and possible roundtable discussions involving both local and overseas collaborators. The project team aims to share research findings and discussion outcomes through publications and consultations, and to engage with the public through various forms of participation in NCPG and community groups. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 EXTERNAL FUNDED PROJECTS Bork-Hüffer, Tabea Principal Investigator in project on “Formation and Change of Migrants’ Notion of Place Under the Influence of Information and Communication Technologies and Glocalization. The Example of German Expatriates in Singapore”, S$120,000 funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, 1 January 2013-31 December 2014. Bunnell, Tim Principal Investigator in project on “Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities”, Daniel Goh and Eric Thompson (Co-PIs); Michelle Miller, Peter Marolt, Rita Padawangi, Kelvin Low, Vineeta Sinha, Jamie Gillen, Elaine Ho (Collaborators), S$634,997 funded by Academic Research Council, Ministry of Education (ARC, MOE), Singapore, for AcRF Tier 2, 2013-2015. Cho, Philip Principal Investigator in project on “Religion’s Impact on Human Life: Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives”, £50,000 funded by the John Templeton Foundation Grant, 1 September 2012-31 August 2015. Principal Investigator in project on “Mapping the Technological and Cultural Landscape of Scientific Development in Asia”, Kan Min-Yen and Benjamin Sovacool (Co-PIs), S$250,000 funded by the Global Asia Institute, NUS, 1 November 2010-31 December 2013. Clancey, Gregory Principal Investigator in project on “Asian Biopoleis: Biotechnology and Biomedicine as Emergent Forms of Life and Practice”, Ryan Bishop (Co-PI), Edison Tak-Bun Liu, John W. Philips, Catelijne Coopmans, John P. DiMoia, Axel Gelfert, Denisa Kera, Karen Winzoski (Collaborators), total of S$1,000,000 awarded by the Academic Research Council, Ministry of Education (ARC, MOE), Singapore, for AcRF Tier 2 funding, and by DHSS Grant, 2010-2013. Feener, Michael Principal investigator in project on “Religion and the Politics of Development”, Robin Bush, Philip Fountain and Wu Keping (Co-PIs), US$35,000 funded by the Henry Luce Foundation (USA), Research Grant from the Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, February-October 2013. Tan Ai Hua, Margaret Co-Director of Art/Science Residency Programme 2013, S$43,240.00 funded by Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd for the 2013 Art/Science Residency, 1 August-31 December 2013. Yeoh S.A., Brenda Principal Investigator in project on “Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore”, S$199,867.50 awarded by Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, April 2013-March 2015. Principal Investigator in project on “Transnational Migration in Southeast Asia and the Health of Children Left Behind”, Theodora Lam (Collaborator), S$79,800 awarded by the Academic Research Fund Tier 1, June 2013-May 2014. Principal Investigator in project on “Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium”, approximately £116,688 awarded by Department for International Development (DFID), UK, through the University of Sussex for the inception phase from June 2010-September 2011, and approximately £500,000 for 6 years from October 2011 to September 2017. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean Principal Investigator for project on “China’s Internal Migration, Family Relations, and Youth Development”, S$250,000 awarded by Lippo Pte Limited, with matching fund of S$250,000 from the Singapore Ministry of Education, since April 2011. Co-Principal Investigator for project on “Creating a Life course Panel from Birth to Early Adulthood”, Stafford F. (PI), US$3,862,490 funded by National Institute of Health, USA, 8 January 201031 July 2014. Principal Investigator for project on “Age of Retirement and Intergenerational Transfer in China and India: Implications for Human Capital and Labor Market”, Feng, Q. (Co-PI), S$168,000 funded by Global Asia Institute, NUS, March 2013-February 2015. Co-Principal Investigator for project on “Consequences of Internal and Crossborder Migration in China for Children: A Mainland-Hong Kong Comparison”, Wu Xiaogang (Co-PI), HK$1,150,000 funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, January 2012-December 2014. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 47 6.0 EVENTS 48 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 EVENTS 6.0 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ARI continues working on its objective “to be a place of encounters between the region and the world” by hosting seminars, workshops and conferences aimed at the generation and exchange of ideas. During the year 2013, the Institute organised about 26 conferences and workshops. These conferences were driven by ARI’s research fellows and postdoctoral scholars. The participants came from diverse academic communities in Singapore and throughout the world. Invisible Connection: Syncretism and Esotericism between Asia and the West in the Modern Era Jointly organised with the Office of Research, Humanities & Social Sciences, NUS 10 Jan 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus, Singapore Convenors: Prof Prasenjit Duara, Prof Janet Hoskins and Assoc Prof Michael Feener Esotericism developed as a special tradition of knowledge that only a select few could master. But as it emerged from the confines of institutional knowledge, it also developed a special relationship with the accommodative and syncretistic Oriental religions. The relationship has long been associated with ideas of invisible connections that can be discovered within the self through particular techniques, forms of self-cultivation or ritual practice. Replaying the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in India and Bali Jointly organised with the Religion Cluster at FASS, NUS 31 Jan – 1 Feb 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Andrea Acri and Dr Andrea Pinkney This day-long workshop reassessed the rich motif of syncretism for religion scholarship today by critically examining the relationship between syncretism and religious boundaries, in the context of both Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic religions. Discourses about religious mixing are often described as syncretism, which is both a way of describing the permeability and fluidity of religious traditions and a way of evaluating these combinations. The term developed in the context of Abrahamic religions where religions had perceptible boundaries, and may not be as useful for Asian religions where these boundaries are harder to determine. It has come into wider usage in the modern era, with world religions defined as “isms” and regulated by scriptures, clergy, temples and institutions. Esotericism developed in part as a reaction against the separation of religions into “isms”, and against the increasingly limited place given to religion, as it was separated off from science, medicine, divination/prediction and other entities. This event, that assembled 17 scholars from around the world specialising in India-studies and Bali-studies, highlighted the necessity of applying a trans-local perspective to the study of the long and deep links between the Hindu cultures and societies of India and Bali. There was discovery of shared traditions, and divergences and development of shared traditions in both settings. There was a general consensus that exposure to traditions from the other side of the fence enabled us to see familiar traditions in a new light, and to discover something about ourselves in the process. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 49 EVENTS 6.0 The keynote speech was delivered by Dr McComas Taylor (ANU, South Asia Program) and seven formal panels were convened, namely Contemporary Performances of the Past, Premodern Hindu Texts in (Post)Modern Bali, New Perspectives on Yoga, Hindu Texts in Song, Hindu Texts through Narrative, New Lives of the Epics in India and Bali, and Balinese Narrative in Historic and Aesthetic Perspectives. These bodies of work will be published as journal special issues in two of the foremost international journals in the field of Hindu Studies: the International Journal of Hindu Studies and the Journal of Hindu Studies. Orders and Itineraries: Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian Networks in Southern Asia, c. 900-1900 Co-sponsored with the Religion Cluster at the FASS, NUS 21 – 22 Feb 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Assoc Prof Michael Feener and Prof Anne M. Blackburn This workshop brought together 18 speakers from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Europe, North America, Australia, and Singapore. For many in the room, this was the first chance to investigate comparatively the history of religious orders (corporate structures of ritual and interpretive specialists). It hoped to stimulate conversation about the viability of “orders” as a focal category for the study of mobile religious specialists, their institutions, and their networks. Moreover, it aimed to develop a comparative perspective on the periodisation of orders’ institutional forms and activities, seeking to discern whether temporal patterns are visible within and/or across religious traditions in terms of how mobile religious specialists are institutionalised, integrated into new local settings, and participate in text production and communicative technologies. About 8-10 papers from the workshop, focused on Buddhist and Islamic “orders” and ranging across the period between the 14th century and the early 20th century, will be published. This provides a deeper temporal context within which to analyse events and processes characteristic of “early modern” 50 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 and colonial periods. The similarities and contrasts between the Buddhist and Islamic cases, and the particularly productive connections between these selected papers, will generate a strong and well integrated edited volume. Reassessing Ritual in Southeast Asian Studies Jointly organised with the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University, Japan 25 – 26 Feb 2013, Kyoto University, Japan Convenors: Assoc Prof Michael Feener, Prof Yoko Hayami, Prof Carol Hau Scholars working across diverse disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are developing new explorations of the ways in which ritual practice can serve to reconfigure human relationships even in the face of powerful trajectories of secularising modernity. This workshop aimed to build upon these broader conversations to rethink the ways in which the study of ritual might come to inform new research in Southeast Asian Studies. In his opening address, ARI Director Prof Duara presented some of the work of his own current research as well as on overview of some of the ongoing conversations at ARI in both the Religion Cluster, and the Metacluster. These lines of conversation were further developed in presentations by other colleagues who have been involved with these discussions at ARI, including Assoc Profs Michael Feener and Daniel Goh, Dr Julius Bautista, and Prof Janet Hoskins. To this were added some exciting new perspectives from both the Japanese scholars (Profs Ryoko Nishii and Yoko Hayami, Assoc Prof Mario Lopez, Asst Prof Tatsuki Kataoka, and Dr Yasuko Yoshimoto) selected by our hosts in Kyoto, as well as others invited to the event from further afield (Prof John Holt and Assoc Prof Justin McDaniel from the United States, and Mr Sehat Ihsan from Indonesia). The Bright Dark Ages: Comparative and Connective Perspectives Jointly organised in association with Situating Science, Canada, and University of Iceland 27 – 28 Feb 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Prasenjit Duara and Dr Arun Bala EVENTS 6.0 This workshop brought together 15 paper presenters from Singapore, India, China, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe to investigate how to globalise historical sociology and philosophy of science by including the content and contexts of Asian science – especially the Chinese, Indian and IslamicArabic traditions. It was inspired by the recognition that the millennium between the sixth and sixteenth centuries, often characterised as the dark age of European science, was also the bright age of Asian science when seminal advances in many areas of science were made. The workshop examined how comparative and connective perspectives have shaped our understanding of the historical sociology and philosophy of science not only in the Asian civilisations (Chinese, Indian, Islamic-Arabic) but also early modern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan has expressed in principle interest in the project since it complements an earlier volume of chapters based on conference papers entitled Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries (ed. Arun Bala, Palgrave: 2012). The workshop has also generated considerable international institutional interest for future collaborations with ARI. The La Trobe University Center for Dialogue in Australia, through the initiative of the keynote speaker, Prof Andrew Brennan, has already offered a seed-fund of A$10,000 for a joint workshop with ARI, and in making this the start of a series of future collaborations. religious and the secular, and argue that the public sphere is the very terrain where the public power of the state is deployed to ensure the proper formation of its national-citizens by shaping what they believe as truth. This debate reflects a primary concern with religion and the state as manifested in European and North American context. This conference was an attempt to engage the conversations on religion, secularity and the public sphere from the specific sites of East and Southeast Asia. The goals were to problematise social-political conditions and generate new ways to understand state-society relations in these regions. Thirty two presenters and panel chairs from the various disciplines of anthropology, history, religious studies, area studies, philosophy, and economics, and participants contributed valuable disciplinary insights to the problems of religion, secularity and the public sphere in generating possible ways of thinking beyond the current, Western-derived paradigm of secularisation. Transnationalism, Gender Hierarchies and Masculinity in Asia Jointly organised with the Migration Research Cluster at FASS, NUS 11 – 12 Mar 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Lee Hyun ok, Dr Zhang Juan and Assoc Prof Eric Thompson Religion, Secularity, and the Public Sphere in East and Southeast Asia Jointly organised with the University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy Contemporary Philosophy in the Age of Globalization, Japan 7 – 8 Mar 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Zhong Yijiang and Assoc Prof Liang Yongjia The papers presented in this workshop mainly addressed the issue of masculinity and men’s experiences in the contexts of heterosexuality, migration and transnationalism with the case studies of Filipino seafarers, Thai migrant taxi drivers, Bangladesh migrant workers in Singapore, South Asian migrants in the gulf, young Vietnamese men in the changing Vietnamese economy, masculinity in the global sex industry in Vietnam, formerly indentured labour in Nepal, pregnancy of Indonesian female domestic workers, cross border marriage of men in Singapore and Korea, and commercial surrogacy in India. The ongoing debate about the secular public sphere reaches to the core of the issue of the foundation of modern political power. Scholars upholding liberal democracy insist on a normative, privatised definition of religion in their efforts to sustain the secular, rational public sphere. Critiques of this approach question the viability of the distinction between the Across the sessions, discussions were focused around the questions: how masculinities are constructed under particular conditions, including particular contexts of migration and regimes of neo-liberal commodification and value?; how men’s experiences are embedded or disembedded vis-à-vis traditional ANNUAL REPORT 2013 51 EVENTS 6.0 or newly emergent assemblages of gender, power, economics and cultural ideals? It was a precious opportunity to discuss the possibility of theorising masculinities and men’s experience in the transnational context. Presented papers can be grouped into two major contexts: 1) the experience of labour and labour migration; 2) the intimate relationship including sexuality and familial relationship. Violence, Insurgencies, Deceptions: Conceptualizing Urban Life in South Asia 6 – 7 May 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenor: Dr Nausheen H. Anwar Symposium on Missionaries and Democracy in Asia 12 Apr 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Philip Fountain and Dr Robin Bush The main purpose of the workshop was to generate a dialogue on and to explore and compare issues of violence, insurgencies and deception as these relate to the changing dynamics of urban life across South Asia, and the mechanisms of change viewed at multiple scales with particular attention to aspects of political citizenship. This symposium investigated the connections between missionaries and political formations, and particularly democracy, in Asia. Papers were interested in mission activity undertaken primarily by Christian and Muslim traditions. The forum was one of dynamic debate about the various possible relationships. The initial impetus for the symposium was a provocative article published by Robert Woodberry, an NUS faculty member from the Political Science department. The symposium was conceptualised as continuing a series of conferences convened by the Religion and Globalisation cluster, under the leadership of Assoc Prof Michael Feener, to engage with themes of “religion and development”. As such, while the symposium was a one-off event it was also intentionally from the outset designed to tie into a series of other initiatives and a wider research programme. Of particular note were the synergies between the Missionaries and Democracy symposium and the Religion and Development Reading Group, hosted by ARI and organised by Dr Robin Bush and Dr Philip Fountain. The symposium was an important boost to the momentum in the research agenda around these themes. 52 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 In exploring the relationship between violence and the politically ambivalent spaces of urban life in South Asia, the participants focused on structural themes and processes ranging from the material practices of governance that undermine and/or mediate relationships between people and places, to the role of law, media and gender relations in new engagements of citizenship, as well as changes in a city’s built environment in the context of an everyday, postwar militarisation. Certain presenters used the lens of art and cinema to question and debate the role of violence and everyday realities in the South Asian city. The speakers came from a range of countries including India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Canada, UK, US, Australia and Singapore. Vibrant discussion took place between the panel members, discussants and members of the audience around the role of violence and deception in South Asian cities, which are home to a large proportion of the world’s urban population and to many of the most populous cities. EVENTS 6.0 IACS Graduate Conference 2013: Cultural Studies Transcending Borders 1 – 2 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 IACS Conference 2013: Beyond the Cultural Industry 3 – 5 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Both events are organised by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACS), and is hosted by ARI, and FASS, NUS; with support from the Singapore Tourism Board Convenors: Prof Chua Beng Huat and Assoc Prof Daniel P.S.Goh Kong, India and Singapore. The closing keynote by Prof Thongchai Winichakul provided a masterly analysis of the “hyper royalty” phenomenon in contemporary Thai politics. Two other plenary sessions were held: one on “Culture of Emergency”, with case studies from Indonesia, Korea and India; another dedicated to the examination of the writings of Prof Chua Beng Huat, the founding coexecutive editor of the InterAsia Cultural Studies journal and Cultural Studies in Asia cluster research leader at ARI. Between keynotes and plenary sessions were 67 panels with more than 200 papers, covering a very wide range of topics in Cultural Studies in Asia. Among the panel organisers and paper presenters were many former members of the Cultural Studies in Asia research cluster. Reflecting the growing field of Cultural Studies in Asia, conference participants came from the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and different parts of Asia. The graduate students’ conference (1-2 July) began with Prof Chua Beng Huat’s keynote speech. More than eighty graduate students presented papers of their master and doctoral dissertation work. Profs Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney; Lingnan University, Hong Kong; and IACS Society Chair), Tejaswini Niranjana and Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore), Melani Budianta (Universitas Indonesia), and KuanHsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) attended various presentations and gave comments to the students. The Professors formed the closing plenary panel and spoke on disciplinary, theoretical, methodological and practical matters in response to the students’ presentations. The question and answer session that followed saw discussions on “what is cultural studies” and “where is cultural studies heading”. The 3-day main conference (3-5 July) opened with Prof Prasenjit Duara’s welcome address and the opening keynote address by Prof Lily Kong which provided a wide ranging survey of the current state of the field in both academic and policy research. Prof Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne) gave a short commentary. A plenary session followed, examining contemporary developments of the cultural industry in Hong Producing Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century Funded by The Leverhulme Trust, UK; jointly organised and sponsored by the University of Exeter, UK, the School of Social Science of Singapore Management University; with support from ARI, and the Asian Film Archive, Singapore 1 – 2 Jul 2013, Singapore Management University Convenor: Dr Lim Song Hwee This conference was part of a larger project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, UK) on “Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination” led by the Dr Lim Song Hwee. The study of Chinese cinema has tended to focus on analysis of film texts and on issues of history and politics of the region. This project proposes, instead, to examine historical, socio-cultural, economic and political issues through the material conditions of production and consumption (for example, questions of censorship and sponsorship), and the role of imagination in the making and viewing of films. This conference brought together the Leverhulme scheme’s seven Network Partners from across the world and Singaporebased academics into a dialogue with film archivists, filmmakers and producers from Singapore and Malaysia. Participating archivists included Karen Chan of the Asian Film Archive and Eric Chin, Director of the National Archives of Singapore. Participating filmmakers included, from Malaysia, Woo Ming Jin, Liew Seng Tat and Yeo Joon Han, and, from Singapore, Eva Tang, Sherman Ong, Chai Yee Wai and Eugene Lee. The events also featured film screenings, including the recently restored Moon Over Malaya (1957). An edited volume for the Leverhulme project is being planned for publication in 2015/16. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 53 EVENTS 6.0 Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City Jointly organised with the FASS Cities Research Cluster, Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA), and the Future Cities Lab 1 – 2 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Town Convenors: Prof Mike Douglass, Dr Rita Padawangi and Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell Held at the Future Cities Lab at NUS, this roundtable and workshop brought together more than 30 scholars in the region to deliberate over major issues and to present research on the cities in Asia. The first day was devoted to a Roundtable presentation and discussion of concept papers on 3 themes: the Idea of the City; Cities by and for the People, and the Future of Cities. Agreements were reached on the draft of a visionary statement tying the three themes together to provide the foundation for a long-term research programme organised through the Urban Knowledge Network Asia at the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden). On the second day selected on-going research was presented, on the vernacular city in Ahmedabad, Beijing, Tianjin, Taipei, Singapore and Jakarta, which together contributed to discussions of how to ground theory in the complexities, diversities, and richness of cities in Asia. The success of this meeting has led to plans for several annual network meetings at the Rockefeller Centre in Bellagio, the first of which will be in April 2014. On the second evening of the workshop, the organisers held the second annual City Possible Film Festival open to participants and free to the public at a popular art house. An overflow audience saw independent films from Asia and Latin America on everyday forms of city making by and for residents, and open discussions followed. from 22 countries. Keynote speakers included noted historian Warwick Anderson and Daiwie Fu, Taiwan’s top STS scholar. We also hosted a major session on the Fukushima nuclear accident organised by Dr Rethy Chhem, the director of medicine at the International Atomic Energy Agency. ARI’s funding support made possible a sponsored workshop organised by Jerome Whitington titled Imaginative Environments: Technology and Climate Change across the Humanities and Social Sciences, with involvement by Kim Fortun, Sulfikar Amir, Helen Verran and Togo Tsukahara among others. Through the ARI-based Asia Biopoleis grant (PI, Greg Clancey), the NUS Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund supported the third workshop for the purpose of fulfilling the obligations of the grant. The Asian Biopoleis workshop included presentations by Profs Aihwa Ong, Greg Clancey, Michael M. J. Fischer, and Assoc Prof John Phillips among others. Prof Bruce Seely and Prof Emerita Francesca Bray, currently President and Vice-President of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), and Assoc Prof Suzanne Moon, editor of Technology and Culture, sponsored panels and made a roundtable presentation with the objective of hosting a future SHOT annual meeting at NUS. Geographies of Aspiration: Urban Places, Constitutive Connections and Methodological Innovations Jointly organised with the Cities Research Cluster of the FASS, NUS; and the cities@manchester at University of Manchester, UK 22 – 23 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Convenors: Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell, Prof Kevin Ward, Prof Mike Douglass and Dr Rita Padawangi Asian Biopoleis III 16 – 17 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Town Convenors: Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey, Dr Chen Haidan and Mr Shamraz Anver The first of three workshops funded by the MOE Tier 2 research grant on “Aspirations, Urban Governance and the Remaking of Asian Cities”, this event brought together collaborators in the project with six members of the cities@manchester initiative at the University of Manchester, UK. Pairs of presenters over the two days considered three overarching questions: what kinds of urban lives and places do city dwellers aspire to? where do these aspirations come from? and, how do we go about studying them? In line with the wider goals of the Tier 2 project, this gave rise to discussion of how relational understandings of cities might increasingly extend beyond networks of policymakers – giving more attention to the lived experiences, aspirations and capacities of ordinary urbanites – and of the kinds of methodological innovations that are necessary to make such research possible. With about 150 presentations, Knowing, Making, Governing was the largest event ever hosted by the ARI Science, Technology, and Society research cluster (see http://apstsn2013.com). The conference was attended by approximately 160 participants The workshop provided time and space for ARI and FASS faculty members involved in the research grant on urban aspirations to share empirical findings from their respective research sites with each other as well as with urban scholars at Asia-Pacific Science, Technology and Society Network (APSTSN) Biennial Conference 2013: Knowing, Making, Governing Jointly organised with the STS Research Cluster at FASS, and Tembusu College, NUS; with funding support from the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Fund, NUS 15 – 17 Jul 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Town Convenors: Dr Jerome Whitington, Assoc Prof Greg Clancey, Dr Chen Haidan, Assoc Prof Axel Gelfert and Dr Tinn Hong Hong 54 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 EVENTS 6.0 the University of Manchester. In addition to garnering critical feedback on work in specific cities, the event brought into view relational comparative dimensions of urban Asia. The Service of Faith: Christian Entanglements with International Development Jointly organised with the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK 16 Aug 2013, University of Oxford, UK Convenors: Dr Philip Fountain and Mr Tobias Tan This symposium built upon emerging anthropological and theological research on the entanglements between Christianity and development. It further expanded the horizons of scholarly debate by attending to both theologies and practices. We opened new lines of enquiry by asking: How have interactions between Christianity and development reshaped each other? What are the genealogical and historical connections between various Christian traditions and the values, formations and practices of mainstream international development? What tensions have arisen between Christian and development (and within Christian development) actors and what do these reveal about the nature of development today? What directions should anthropological and theological analysis take in future research on development? Short provocations by leading scholars from anthropology and theology facilitated a broad-ranging interdisciplinary conversation which opened new spaces for rethinking analytical frameworks and moved the debate about Christianity and development into new questions and arenas. The presenters included Philip Quarles Van Ufford (Vrije Universiteit), Brian Woolnough (Oxford Center of Mission Studies), Benjamin Kirby (Leeds), Maia Green (Manchester), Paula Clifford (former Christian Aid), Afe Adogame (Edinburgh), and David Mosse (SOAD). The sessions were chaired by Graham Ward, Masooda Bano, and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, all from Oxford, and exceptionally well attended, with a capacity crowd of 60 in attendance. Migration Infrastructure in Asia and the Middle East Jointly funded by ARI and The Forum for Asian Studies, Stockholm University. 22 – 23 Aug 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist, Dr Xiang Biao and Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh Building upon the project’s initial focus on migrant labour brokers, the workshop attempted to develop discussions concerning the “middle space” of migration – that concerning recruitment and transport – by using migration infrastructure as a starting point for conceptualising transnational migration across Asia and the Middle East. The convenors argued that transnational migration is increasingly managed through infrastructural development as opposed to the control of bodily movement per se. More specifically, migration infrastructure suggests an approach that engages with the services and facilities that make migration possible in the context of an increasingly complex relationship between state and market. The workshop brought together eleven scholars from around the world working on transnational labour migration from countries such as China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Singapore, and primarily to the Middle East. Focusing on topics such as airports, transport, databases, documents, and architecture, the presenters offered empirically rich papers that allowed for the creation of a problem space centred on migration infrastructure. By co-hosting the conference, ARI’s Religion and Development in Asia (RADA) project received invaluable publicity in the UK. It also facilitated numerous networking opportunities, not only among those working in Asia but also particularly with scholars focused on Africa. This has given RADA extra resources to draw upon as it continues to develop its research programme. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 55 EVENTS 6.0 Religion and the Politics of Development: Priests, Potentates and “Progress” Jointly funded by the Henry Luce Foundation 28 – 29 Aug 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Hall Convenors: Dr Robin Bush and Dr Philip Fountain The event was well-attended, attracting an audience of over 100 people, including scholars from multiple disciplines and universities in the region, practitioners from a range of development and humanitarian organisations also spanning the region, civil servants, and students. It began with introductory remarks by the organisers, calling attention to recent shifts in the geo-politics of development assistance and the power imbalances that still mark the fight against poverty. The organisers called for an introduction of analysis of “religion” in conversations on the politics of poverty, and discussions of ways in which development and religion are mutually constitutive. Across the two days of the conference, a number of key themes emerged as prevalent talking points. One of these was the broad disjunction between many scholars, who felt there was a “resurgence” of interest in religion in development studies and social science more broadly, and some practitioners who were more ambivalent about engagement with religion. Another frequent theme was the lack of data or evidence on how engagement with religion affects development outcomes, and vice-versa – how engagement with development shapes religious institutions and identities. A third point of discussion was the complex and varied relationship between the state and religion in differing historical and political contexts, and ensuing implications for citizen welfare. 56 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Friendship and the Convivial City Jointly organised with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany; and Cities Research Cluster at FASS, NUS 5 – 6 Sep 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Convenors: Dr Laavanya Kathiravelu and Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell This workshop was conceptualised with the aim of bringing the concept of friendship as a form of social relation and interaction into the study of diverse and multicultural cities, reflecting a growing concern with migrant populations and the implications of “strangers” in crowded urban societies. Following Amin’s Land of Strangers (2012), we conceived of friendship networks as social ties that make possible a functioning, yet convivial, society of strangers. Friendships, in this sense, are seen as tangible ways in which the larger “urban unconscious” can be felt, linking the intimate sphere of private lives and relationships with a public urban commons. In the workshop we brought the geographical literature around the politics and spatiality of quotidian encounter together with more sociological understandings of relationships, networks and ties built on trust, respect and reciprocity. This was in order to initiate a research agenda around the social and spatial configurations of friendship, which have implications for urban dwellers’ experiences of city life, and open up potentialities for new ways of living together with diversity. Composed of research from Africa, Latin America, across Asia and the Middle East, the papers from this workshop make contributions to contemporary understandings of everyday encounters in the diverse city, as well as further debates on the potential convivialities of dense urban spaces. EVENTS 6.0 Flood Risk in Monsoon Asia: Hazard and Vulnerability in the Past and Future 24 – 25 Sep 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenor: Prof Robert Wasson This project brought together researchers from Chiang Mai University, H. N. B. Garhwal University (Srinagar), the Physical Research Laboratory, CEPT University (Gujarat), the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore), NUS Department of Geography, CRISP, ISAS and ARI. A research plan was formulated, and research questions identified in the areas of: Histories of Flood Threats; Histories of Vulnerability to Large Floods; Generalisability of flood risk, hazard and vulnerability assessment in the future. The project was organised into three “Cells”: The Chiang Mai Cell led by Prof Wasan Jompakdee; The Srinagar Cell led by Prof Yaspal Sundriyal; The Singapore Cell led by Profs Alan Ziegler and Bob Wasson. Each “cell” will report on progress every six months in an electronic newsletter. Fieldwork continues at the two main research sites in Thailand and India, and a meeting was held with the Institute of Disaster Management in Delhi. Finally two very large floods have been identified to help policy makers focus their attention for planning purposes, and two NUS researchers are currently at the Physical Research Laboratory in India where they are dating flood sediments from Thailand. INTER-ASIA ROUNDTABLE Religion and Development in China: Innovations and Implications Organised by Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts Cluster 17 – 18 Oct 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Wu Keping and Assoc Prof Michael Feener This year’s Inter-Asia Roundtable is organised by the Religion and Globalisation Cluster on the theme of “Religion and Development in China.” Over the past thirty years, China experienced a simultaneous burst of religious revival and economic boom. On the one hand, wealth floods into the construction and rebuilding of religious spaces. On the other, the widening gap between the rich and poor, metropolitan centres and rural margins has increased the needs for development projects that are able to re-distribute the wealth to a certain degree. As the Chinese government sheds some of its burdens of social welfare provision, it leaves room for other social actors to participate in the field of delivering social services. Among those actors who find themselves in the new space of public engagement, religions not only provide valuable social capital for identifying the needy, organising volunteers and distributing goods, but also provide salient spiritual and cultural meaning for people’s actions. Not only do religious individuals and institutions invent new ways of giving, mobilising and organising people, individuals adopt new ways of adhering to religions, and local and central government have to forge new ways of managing or collaborating with religious organisations. This Roundtable examined such contemporary innovations in the field of religion and development in China in order to understand the implications for the reconfiguration of religious groups, renegotiation of state-religion-society relationship, and the reshaping of new kinds of subjectivities in China. This two-day roundtable brought together 18 scholars from different continents to discuss five papers addressing issues of the state, the problems of scale, the implications of urbanisation as well as two case studies (one on Islam, one comparatively on Buddhism and Christianity). The edited volume which includes both the papers and discussions will be available in Spring 2014. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 57 EVENTS 6.0 Understanding the Mind: Exploring New Partnerships 6 Nov 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Town Convenor: Dr Arun Bala Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in Asia 7 – 8 Nov 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Convenors: Prof Mike Douglass and Dr Michelle Miller ARI organised this workshop to discover and develop the potential for future partnerships and exchanges between the NUS community and members of the US-based Mind and Life Institute. The workshop aimed to forge new partnerships crossing disciplinary and cultural divides that would be informed by more embracing integrated perspectives. In particular it was designed to investigate the possibility of bringing together rigorous first person experiences rooted in contemplative practices with the third person studies of cognitive and affective sciences. Scholars from the Mind and Life Institute trained as physicists, neuroscientists, Buddhist monks and philosophers, with academics from diverse disciplines in NUS and the wider community came together in discussion focused on Francisco Varela’s methodology of neurophenomenology which attempts to integrate the deepest insights of the contemplative traditions with those of cognitive science. This international conference, sponsored by ARI, brought together 25 speakers focusing on disaster governance in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts of twelve countries in Asia. The event focused on how Asia’s urban populations deal with disaster and its threat from a governance perspective, with governance understood as a process of social decision-making involving government, civil society and private enterprise. Remaining mindful of the blurred boundaries and frequent areas of overlap between “anthropogenic” and “natural” disasters in urban contexts, our presenters took “disaster” to denote any event that causes widespread destruction. Our central concern at the conference was with how the structures and processes of urban governance are working to develop more effective and inclusive initiatives to manage and prevent these large-scale destructive events. The event attracted more than seventy scholars from a wide array of disciplines in NUS including philosophy, history and English language in the humanities, psychology, sociology and economics in the social sciences, neurology and medicine, and even the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Department of Computer Science. The ensuing discussion was lively and animated and has led to deeper interest in consolidating the attempt to forge shared research projects. In view of this Prof Arthur Zajonc, Director of Mind and Life Institute, will be returning to Singapore in April 2014 to explore the possibility of establishing the institute’s Asia centre here that will complement its US-based centre and its European centre in Switzerland. 58 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 The conference included two keynote speeches by Prof Anthony Reid on “Twentieth Century Urbanism in a Tectonically Dangerous Zone” and by Dr Mike Digregorio on “How a Grassroots Analysis of Extreme Climate Events can Reveal the Failures of Technically Driven Strategies for Urban Climate Change Adaptation.” The first North American Ambassador to ASEAN, David Carden, also delivered opening remarks. EVENTS 6.0 Theorising Mobilities in/from Asia 14 – 15 Nov 2013, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Convenors: Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Mr Lin Weiqiang This worskhop was attended by about 90 participants, which included speakers and chairpersons, members of the public, as well as colleagues from NUS and other universities. The event hosted a total of 29 papers, as well as a keynote speech by Prof Tim Cresswell (Northeastern University, USA), over two days. The 29 papers were divided up into nine panels or themes, and included topics that straddled both migration studies (a key strength at ARI) and transport studies. Some notable themes included mobilities, imaginaries and symbolisms; manufacturing aeromobilities; urban mobilities; mobile practices and cosmopolitanisms; migration agencies and regimes; and mobilities and borders. Each of these was intended to explore a particular dimension of the emerging “new” mobilities paradigm, but with an added twist of theorising the subjectmatter from the perspective of “Asia”. The aim was to thus de-centre the logics of mobilities from their usual AngloScandinavian (and to a lesser extent American) concerns, and this objective was achieved to a large extent by papers which specifically examined mobility systems in a cross-regional/ translocal manner. Attendees of the conference were generally appreciative that such a diversity of viewpoints in mobilities had been drawn together in a single event – a rare endeavour that could be likened to the decennial Centre of Mobilities Research Global Conference at Lancaster, UK, last held in September 2013. Living Alone: One-person Households in Asia Jointly supported by the Family, Children and Youth Cluster, and the Health Cluster at FASS, NUS 5 – 6 Dec 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and Dr Adam Ka-lok Cheung By 2020, it is estimated that four out of the top ten countries with highest number of one-person households in the world will be in Asia. The increasing number of one-person households for both young adults and elderly warrants special attention as they are the two groups with the highest propensity to live in a one-person household. This group of population may be at higher risk of financial stress or social isolation. This conference advances theoretical and empirical knowledge on the formation of one-person households in Asia and their implications for individual well-being and intergenerational relations. This two-day conference brought together 30 local and overseas speakers and chairpersons from the United States, Netherlands, France, New Zealand, and other Asian countries and 40 participants. Presenters examined the trends and determinants of oneperson households in Asian countries as well as the well-being of those who live alone. Based on data from censuses, surveys, or in-depth interviews, these studies used either quantitative or qualitative methods to investigate the main theme of this conference in East Asia (Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), South Asian (Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal) and West Asia (Iran). ANNUAL REPORT 2013 59 EVENTS 6.0 ARI SEMINAR SERIES The Asia Research Institute Seminar Series features seminars that vary in scope and are able to appeal across various academic disciplines. Seminars are usually scheduled on a Tuesday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30 pm at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus. 15 Jan 2013 Migrants’ Health Seeking Practices in Guangzhou, China: Understanding the Nexus between Reflexivity, Rules and Constraints Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Asia Research Institute, NUS 05 Mar 2013 Who Wants Clean Recruitment? Young Men and the Competition for Jobs in Heavy Industries in Cilegon, Banten, Indonesia Dr Suzanne Naafs, Asia Research Institute, NUS 22 Jan 2013 Constructing the Way of the Gods (Shinto): Religion and Science in Early Modern Japan Dr Zhong Yijiang, Asia Research Institute, NUS 19 Mar 2013 Governing the Citizen-consumer: Citizenship, Reflexivity and the State – A Case Study of the Introduction of Casinos into Singapore Prof Ann Brooks, Asia Research Institute, NUS 29 Jan 2013 Non-traditional Wife with the Traditional Husband: Gender Attitudes and Husband-to-Wife Violence in Hong Kong Organised with the FASS Family, Children and Youth Cluster, NUS Dr Adam Ka-lok Cheung, Asia Research Institute, NUS 19 Feb 2013 Whither Integration? Singapore’s Social Fabric at a Crossroad Dr Leong Chan-Hoong, Institute of Policy Studies, NUS 26 Feb 2013 Within and Beyond: Urban Policy Mobility in a Decentralized Indonesia Prof Nicholas Phelps, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK 60 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 21 Mar 2013 P.R.C. Idol Li Yuchun and Androgyny Prof Maud Lavin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 26 Mar 2013 Special Zone Amnesia: Re/forming the China-Vietnam Borderlands Dr Zhang Juan, Asia Research Institute, NUS 02 Apr 2013 “I am Well-cooked Food”: The Surviving Strategies of North Korean Female Border-crosser and Possibilities of Empowerment Dr Kim Sung Kyung, Sungkonghoe University, Korea, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 03 Apr 2013 Talk and Film Screenings on Datong: The Great Society, and 2 or 3 Things about Kang Youwei Jointly organised with Department of Chinese Studies, and the Ofice of the Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS Mr Evans Chan, Hong Kong 16 Apr 2013 Generational Cohort and Value Orientations: The Case of Chinese Childrearing Expectations Assoc Prof Xiao Hong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 23 Apr 2013 Humanitarian Subjects in Post-conflict and Post-tsunami Aceh, Indonesia Dr Jesse Hession Grayman, Harvard University, USA 30 Apr 2013 An Abode of Islam: Religious and Political Authority in Eastern Indonesia Dr Jeremy Kingsley, Tembusu College, NUS 21 May 2013 Monks on the Move: Towards a Connected History of Bay of Bengal/ Gulf of Siam Buddhisms, 1100-1500 Prof Anne Blackburn, Cornell University, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS EVENTS 6.0 28 May 2013 India at the Dawn of the Gunpowder Age: Technology, Diplomacy, and the Changing Balance of Power Prof Richard Eaton, University of Arizona, USA 04 Jun 2013 ROUNDTABLE - Interfaith Approaches to Development Dr Mathew Mathews and Ms Danielle Hong, NUS Mr Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib, MUIS Academy Mr Ajit Hazra, World Vision International 11 Jun 2013 China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future Prof William A. Callahan, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and University of Manchester, UK 25 Jun 2013 From To Live to Hero: Zhang Yimou and the Politics of Culture Prof Wendy Larson, University of Oregon, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 30 Jul 2013 Economic Crisis and Asian Cinema in the Neoliberal Era Dr Rosalind Galt, University of Sussex, UK Assoc Prof Gerald Sim, Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 06 Aug 2013 Postcolonial Literature as World Literature: World Heritage Preservation and the Unworlding of the Subaltern World in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Prof Pheng Cheah, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and University of California – Berkeley, USA 13 Aug 2013 The Seeds of Change: The Role of Civil Society and State Bureaucracy in Combating Child Labor in the Hybrid Cottonseed Industry in India Ms Priyam Saharia, University of Kentucky, USA 29 Oct 2013 Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Making and Unmaking of an Asian Region Dr Sunil Amrith, Birkbeck College – University of London, UK 20 Aug 2013 Relating (to) the Chinese Past: Why Ritual is Important for Local History Dr Mark Meulenbeld, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 12 Nov 2013 Global Queering and the Queer “Asia” Critique: The Case of “Modern” Singapore and Singaporean Lesbians Dr Shawna Tang, Asia Research Institute, NUS 10 Sep 2013 Critical Islam: Perspectives on the Middle East and Asia Jointly organised with Middle East Institute, NUS, and MUIS Academy Singapore Dr Carool Kersten, King’s College London, UK 19 Nov 2013 The Roots of Citizen Concern and Welfare in India: The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in Andhra Pradesh Assoc Prof Rahul Mukherji and Dr Himanshu Jha, South Asian Studies Programme, NUS Prof Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University, USA Prof Ziauddin Sardar, Middlesex University, UK Dr Nazry Bahrawi, Middle East Institute, NUS 17 Sep 2013 Commemorating 50 Years of The Independence of Singapore: Merger, Acquisition, or Takeover? The Enduring Consequences of Operation Coldstore in Singapore Dr Thum Ping Tjin, Asia Research Institute, NUS 26 Nov 2013 Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: Recent Chinese Scholarship on Socialism and the Future of Religion Dr Thomas David DuBois, Australian National University 03 Dec 2013 Gangsters and Masters: Connivance Militancy in Contemporary Malaysia Dr Sophie Lemière, Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asian Studies (IRASEC-CNRS) 08 Oct 2013 Extracting Peasants from the Fields: Rethinking Contemporary Commodity Rushes Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, The Australian University, and Asia Research Institute, NUS ANNUAL REPORT 2013 61 EVENTS 6.0 STUDY GROUPS AND THEIR SEMINARS While ARI seminars are designed to address a wide academic audience, ARI also acts as host to a variety of study groups, bringing together NUS scholars and others to discuss interdisciplinary issues. There are five country-based study groups that provide the nucleus for scholars working on particular areas or themes. The members include our own research staff working in collaboration with other faculty members, and the convenors may vary from year to year. This is a listing of the seminars organised by each of the study groups in 2013. STUDY GROUP ON INDONESIA Convenors: Dr Michelle Miller, Asia Research Institute, NUS Dr Douglas Kammen, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS (Till 31 July 2013) Dr Andrew Marc Conroe, University Scholars Programme, NUS (From 1 August 2013) 09 Jan 2013 From Java to Jaffna: Indonesian Exiles, Soldiers and Scribes in Sri Lanka Dr Ronit Ricci, Australian National University 07 Feb 2013 The Dynamics of Controls on Government Power: Between the Courts and Independent Accountability Institutions in Indonesia Dr Melissa Crouch, Faculty of Law, NUS 23 May 2013 The Generation of Memory and Authority: “Communist Children” in New Order and Post-new Order Indonesia Dr Andrew Conroe, Department of Sociology, and University Scholars Programme, NUS 62 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 06 Jun 2013 Heirs to the Vernacular Millennium: History through Javano-Balinese Manuscript Cultures, ca. 1400–1600 AD Dr Andrea Acri, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 13 Jun 2013 Conceptualizing Indonesian Migration: Labor Recruitment, Neoliberalism, and Neopatrimonialism in a Changing Landscape Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Stockholm University, Sweden 11 Jul 2013 Can the Ciliwung Be “Saved”? Jakarta’s Use of and Preferences for Its Most Significant River Mr Derek Vollmer, Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory 16 Jul 2013 Faith, Moral Authority, and Politics: The Making of Progressive Islam in Indonesia Jointly organised with the Religion and Globalisation Cluster, ARI Dr Alexander R. Arifianto, University of Notre Dame, USA 18 Jul 2013 Rethinking Vertical Kampung in Jakarta Dr Rita Padawangi, Asia Research Institute, NUS 24 Oct 2013 Education in Post-new Order Indonesia (A Documentary Screening) Dr Alpha Amirrachman, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 31 Oct 2013 The Impact of Decentralisation on Regional Development: The Indonesia Case Dr Adiwan Aritenang, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 05 Nov 2013 Being Comfortably Muslim and Transgender in Indonesia: Reflections on Resistance from a Transgender Islamic Boarding School Dr Sylvia Tidey, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands EVENTS 6.0 STUDY GROUP ON MALAYSIA Convenors: Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad, Department of Malay Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Goh Beng Lan, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi, Asia Research Institute, NUS (From 1 August 2013) 28 Nov 2013 Makkal Sakthi (People’s Power): HINDRAF Protest Rally and Its Impact on Minority Politics in Malaysia Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi, Asia Research Institute, NUS 13 Dec 2013 Dayak Power in Sarawak Politics: The End of Dayakism? Jointly organised with the Department of Malay Studies, NUS Prof James Chin, Monash University, Malaysia, and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 17 Dec 2013 New Agents of Change: A Comparative Study on Social Media and Youth Activism between Malaysia and Singapore Dr Joanne Lim, University of Nottingham, Malaysia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS STUDY GROUP ON PHILIPPINES Convenor: Dr Julius Bautista, Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS 08 May 2013 Race, Labor, and Movement: Philippine Musical Mobilities from the 1920s to the Present Ms Anjeline de Dios, Department of Geography, NUS Mr Fritz Schenker, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA 21 Aug 2013 The “Position” of the Tsinoys in Philippine Society Today: History, Challenges, Future Jointly organised with the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Richard T. Chu, University of Massachusetts, USA 25 Oct 2013 People of God, People of the Nation: Official Catholic Discourse on Nationalism and Nation Prof Jose Mario C. Francisco, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines STUDY GROUP ON INDOCHINA Convenors: Dr Jerome Whitington, Asia Research Institute, NUS (Till 31 July 2013) Dr Zhang Juan, Asia Research Institute, NUS Dr Chang Yufen, Asia Research Institute, NUS (From 1 August 2013) STUDY GROUP ON MYANMARTHAILAND Convenors: Dr Maitrii Victoriano Aung Thwin, Department of History, NUS Dr Titima Suthiwan, Centre for Language Studies, NUS CLUSTER SEMINARS ASIAN MIGRATION CLUSTER 29 Apr 2013 Roundtable Discussion on Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Stockholm University, Sweden Dr Jerome Whitington, Asia Research Institute, and Tembusu College, NUS Dr Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied, Department of Malay Studies, NUS 08 Jul 2013 Neither Up nor Down: China’s Spatial Imaginary Shifting towards the Post-Alteric? Dr Louisa Schein, Rutgers University, USA 15 Aug 2013 International Mobility and Local Emplacement: Everyday Place-Making Practices of Skilled Migrants in Oslo, Norway Dr Micheline van Riemsdijk, University of Tennessee, USA 30 Aug 2013 A Search for a Place to Call Home: Negotiation of Home, Identity and Senses of Belonging Among New Zealand’s New Migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Jointly organised with the FASS Migration Cluster, NUS Dr Liangni Sally Liu, Asia Research Institute, NUS ANNUAL REPORT 2013 63 EVENTS 6.0 ASIAN URBANISMS CLUSTER 05 Aug 2013 A Walk in the Park: Singapore’s Green Corridor in Light of Manhattan’s High Line Jointly organised with FASS Cities Research Cluster, NUS Prof David Strand, Dickinson College, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 12 Dec 2013 Creating New Models of Travel Behavior for Independent Asian Youth Urban Tourists Assoc Prof Hilary du Cros, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and Asia Research Institute, NUS CHANGING FAMILY IN ASIA CLUSTER 15 Mar 2013 Television and International Family Change Jointly organised with FASS Family, Children and Youth Cluster, and Department of Sociology, NUS Assoc Prof Rukmalie Jayakody, Pennsylvania State University, USA 19 Apr 2013 Behind the Academic Curtain: How to find Success and Happiness with a PhD Jointly organised with FASS Family, Children and Youth Cluster, and Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, USA 26 Apr 2013 Family Complexity and Intergenerational Relations Jointly organised with FASS Family, Children and Youth Cluster, and Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, USA 20 Jun 2013 Family based Citizenship of Marriage Migrants: (Re)defining the Citizenship and the Social Reproduction in South Korea Dr Lee Hyun ok, Asia Research Institute, NUS 11 Dec 2013 Memes, Memory and Altered Spaces: Contents, Conditions and Possibilities of Youth Expressions in Cyberspace Dr Joanne Lim, University of Nottingham, Malaysia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 01 Aug 2013 Can Protest Promote Regime Support in China? Prof Tang Wenfang, University of Iowa, USA, and East Asian Institute, NUS RELIGION AND GLOBALISATION IN ASIAN CONTEXTS CLUSTER 07 Aug 2013 Marriage, Money and Gender: Indian Immigrants in Singapore Assoc Prof Ranjana Sheel, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Banaras Hindu University, India 10 Oct 2013 Political Demography: The Turbulent Intersection between Demographic Forces and Political Pressures Jointly organised by J Y Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, and FASS, NUS Dr Michael S. Teitelbaum, Harvard Law School, USA, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA CLUSTER 24 April 2013 Be of Good Cheer: 20th Century Optimism in China and the United States Prof Wendy Larson, University of Oregon, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 29 May 2013 Neoliberal Senses of History in Recent South Korean Films Dr Jecheol Park, Department of English Language and Literature, NUS 30 Oct 2013 Counter-memories, and the Internet Literature into the New Millennium Dr Shen Yipeng, Asia Research Institute, NUS 64 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 18 Mar 2013 Islamisms or Post-Islamism? Cultural and Political Perspectives Prof Susanne Schröter, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Dr Dominik Müller, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany 28 May 2013 The Gender Paradox: KAMMI Women and the Appeal of Conservative Islam Assoc Prof Nancy J. Smith-Hefner, Boston University, USA 10 Jul 2013 Another Type of Transnational Islam: Neo-Ottoman Ventures in Europe and Asia Prof Martin van Bruinessen, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Utrecht University, Netherlands 19 Sep 2013 From Borderland to Heartland: An Explanation of the Shift of the Buddhist Center from India to China Prof Chou Po-kan, Foguang University, Taiwan, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 26 Sep 2013 Islamic Charities and the Renaissance of an Ethical Moral Economy Prof Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK EVENTS 6.0 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY CLUSTER 12 Apr 2013 Science, Policy Networks and Regional Climate Planning in an Ecology of Games Dr Ryan McAllister, Georgetown University, USA METACLUSTER: HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF ASIAN CONNECTIONS 20 Feb 2013 Authority and Regional Conflict Management: Southeast Asia between China and the United States Assoc Prof Evelyn Goh, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 04 Apr 2013 The Enormity of Zero Dr George Gheverghese Joseph, University of Manchester, UK, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 18 Apr 2013 Anātman, Subjectivity and Sovereignty Prof Rada Iveković, Asia Research Institute, NUS 27 Jun 2013 Farewell to the Sublime? Postmonumental Landscapes in the Poetry of Leung Ping-kwan and Xi Chuan Prof Andrea M. Riemenschnitter, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Asia Research Institute, NUS OPEN CLUSTER 25 Apr 2013 Remote Pathways: The Non-peripheries at the Edge of Nation States Dr Martin Saxer, Asia Research Institute, NUS 07 Oct 2013 Soiled Blood: The Quest for Purity and the Perceived Dangers of Hybridity in Malaysia Prof Alberto Gomes, La Trobe University, Australia OTHER EVENTS 30 Jan 2013 A Storytelling Performance Based on Valmiki’s Ramayana Jointly organised with FASS Religion Cluster, NUS Dr Ananth Rao, Australian National University 02 Feb 2013 Ramayana: A Story Telling Performance Jointly organised with the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore Dr Ananth Rao, Australian National University 17 Apr 2013 Opening the Flatpack: Ethnography, Art, and the Billy Bookcase Collaboration with the Department of Communications and New Media, NUS Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and Stockholm University, Sweden Mr John D. Freyer, Interdisciplinary Artist 8 May 2013 Audio-visual Presentation: Cultural Heritage of Sufi Nizamuddin Aulia in South Asia Jointly organised with the NUS Museum, and South Asian Studies Programme, NUS Mr Yousuf Saeed, Film Maker, New Delhi 18 Jun 2013 Nation Remains, Mountains and Rivers Destroyed? A Cultural Perspective on China’s Environmental Issues Organised by swissnex Singapore; in partnership with University of Zurich, Switzerland Prof Andrea M. Riemenschnitter, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 02 Jul 2013 The CityPossible II Film Festival Jointly organised with FASS Cities Research Cluster, NUS, Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) and the Future Cities Lab, Singapore Prof Mike Douglass, Asia Research Institute, NUS Dr Rita Padawangi, Asia Research Institute, NUS 08 Jul 2013 Film Screening & Discussion on Health and Healing Beyond the East/West Divide: Shamans, Herbs and MDs Prof Louisa Schein, Rutgers University, USA 16 Oct 2013 DOCUMENTARY SCREENING – The Eastern Shore of Dianchi: Urbanization and Protest in Contemporary China Prof Zhu Xiaoyang, and Mr Li Weihua, Peking University, China ANNUAL REPORT 2013 65 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH ARI is committed to sharing research knowledge with the larger community in Singapore and worldwide. Its outreach efforts are made simultaneously on three fronts – locally, regionally and internationally – in various forms carried out throughout the year. 66 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 ASIA TRENDS SERIES ASIA TRENDS is an ARI flagship public outreach event that is now proudly into its eleventh year. One aim of this annual series of lectures is to bridge the perceived gap between the academia and the general public by providing a platform for sharing research expertise and for community interaction through lively question-and-answer sessions. The programme showcases how some of the work of ARI’s research clusters have dovetailed with the concerns and needs of the Singapore society at large as well as how conscious efforts have been put to relate Singapore to the rest of Asia, especially in terms of significant regional trends developed in recent years. The locations of events are deliberately chosen to maximise public contact. For 2013, three of the lectures were held at the main National Library building, one at the NTUC Centre and another at the Bishan Public Library. Confucian China in a Changing World Order 15 Apr 2013, National Library Board, Singapore Organised by Metacluster on Asian Connections; and in collaboration with the National Library Board, Singapore Prof Roger T. Ames, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA, and Department of Philosophy, NUS Assoc Prof Tan Sor Hoon, Department of Philosophy, NUS The 2013 series began with this lecture by Prof Roger T. Ames, Visiting Professor with the Department of Philosophy, NUS. The talk was attended by more than seventy participants. Also featuring Associate Prof Tan Sor Hoon as discussant and Prof William Callahan as chairperson. The lecture questioned the impact of Confucianism – a philosophy that begins from the primacy of relationality and which has been actively promoted domestically and internationally – on the future world culture, given the rise of China in the world economic and political order. With a host of problems confronting humanity that ranges from climate change to gross income inequalities, the lecture explored whether the prevailing cultural order long dominated by a powerful liberalism will be challenged by the revival of interest in Confucianism. Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness 19 Jun 2013, National Library Board, Singapore Organised by Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster; and in collaboration with the National Library Board, Singapore Dr Lim Song Hwee, University of Exeter, UK, and Asia Research Institute, NUS Prof Pheng Cheah, Asia Research Institute, NUS, and University of California-Berkeley, USA In his lecture, Dr Lim Song Hwee, Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster addressed the notion of “cinematic slowness” and the relationship between a cinema of slowness and the wider socio-cultural “slow movement”. Together with Prof Pheng Cheah as discussant and chaired by Prof Chua Beng Huat, the lecture analysed and privileged stillness and silence in cinematic production. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film and in life, this talk invited the audience to pause and listen, to linger and look, to drift and meander, to contemplate and wander, and above all, to take things slowly and to smell the roses. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 67 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 Here Today and Tomorrow: Transnational Domestic Workers and the Decent Work Agenda in Asia 12 Aug 2013, NTUC Centre, Singapore Organised by Asian Migration Cluster; with funding from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1; and the Migrating Out of Proverty Research Programme Consortium Dr Maruja M.B. Asis, Scalabrini Migration Center, Philippines Dr Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), Singapore Mr Anthony Chen, Fisheye Pictures, Singapore In this lecture, Dr Asis discussed trends in transnational domestic worker migration, notable developments in the multilevel governance of this specific category of migrant workers, the significance of ILO Convention 189 (Domestic Workers Convention), and concluded with reflections on future trends, challenges and possibilities to bring about a decent work environment for domestic workers. Her lecture was complemented by commentaries from two Singapore-based commentators: Dr Noorashikin Abdul Rahman, board member and treasurer of Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2); and Mr Anthony Chen from Fisheye Pictures, whose movie Ilo Ilo portraying the intimate relationship between a young boy and his maid in Singapore won the Camera d’Or award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The lecture also featured a 15-minute film and a photo exhibition from “Reading Across Worlds” by Mss. Bernice Wong, Ng Yiqin, and Grace Baey. The audience for this occasion was overwhelming, with more than two hundred participants from various civil society organisations, businesses, universities and colleges, as well as public sector officials in attendance. 68 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Demystifying Stereotypes on Asian Education Systems 23 Oct 2013, National Library Board, Singapore Organised by Changing Family in Asia Cluster; and supported by NLB Public Libraries Singapore Assoc Prof Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS Assoc Prof Jason Tan, National Institute of Education, Singapore Korean Foundation Associate Prof Hyunjoon Park, Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Changing Family in Asia Cluster, shared his empirical research findings centring on the controversial questions about the Japanese and Korean educational systems: Do the highly standardised ways of education make outstanding students mediocre? Are the educational systems of Japan and Korea ineffective in nurturing creativity and critical thinking? To what extent are students’ successes a result of private tuition? Bringing these issues closer to home, he also discussed the implications of his findings for other Asian countries, such as Singapore. Jason Tan who is currently Associate Prof in Policy and Leadership Studies at the National Institute of Education in Singapore served as the discussant and Prof Jean Yeung from ARI chaired the lively question-and-answer session. COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 “Male Modernity”, Puritanism, and the Southeast Asian City 5 Nov 2013, National Library Board, Singapore Organised by Asian Urbanisms Cluster; and in collaboration with the National Library Board, Singapore Prof Anthony Reid, Australian National University Prof Jane M. Jacobs, Yale-NUS College, Singapore We were honoured to have the founding director of ARI, currently Prof Emeritus Anthony Reid at the Australian National University, to return for a visit to deliver this lecture. Prof Jane M. Jacobs from Yale-NUS College of Singapore was the discussant, chaired by Prof Michael Douglass from ARI. The talk took off from his previous scholarly works which emphasised pre-modern Southeast Asia’s unusually balanced gender pattern, with females attaining parity social status and even dominant role in business. His lecture reviewed the awkward encounter in the late 19th and early 20th century when this pattern clashed with the incoming exceptionally male, puritan, and alien model of modernity in government, business and religion. Patriarchy and Puritanism indeed gained additional momentum with rapid urbanisation after 1950 and he thus posited the fascinating question of whether Southeast Asia could nevertheless eventually retain its relatively balanced gender pattern in face of these pressures. In this present age when gender, sexuality and modernity are hot-buttoned issues, this Asia Trends presentation with a broad historical perspective provided an excellent platform for community reflections. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 69 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 PUBLIC LECTURES As part of its public outreach initiative, ARI organises public lectures to reach out to the greater Singapore and regional community. The lectures are presented by distinguished scholars of Asian affairs, including scholars visiting ARI in various capacities. The lectures provide up-to-date analysis and assessments of contemporary issues and long-term trends, not only to decision makers but also to all who are concerned and seek to be informed about regional and world events. 17 Jan 2013 Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics? Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois, USA Held at NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Hall 12 Mar 2013 Religion’s Impact on Human Life: Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives Prof David Wilson, Binghamton University, USA Prof Harvey Whitehouse, Oxford University, UK Held at NUS Kent Ridge Campus, University Hall. Jointly organised with the Global Asia Institute, and Tembusu College, NUS 12 Oct 2013 ARI-MBRAS Lecture – Malaya and New Paths to Nationhood Prof Wang Gungwu, East Asian Institute, NUS Held at NUS Bukit Timah Campus Jointly organised with the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS), in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of Malaysia NEWSLETTERS AND REPORTS ARI launched its first issue of ARI Newsletters in March 2003 as a medium to share the Institute’s exciting developments with a broader constituency. Since 2013, the ARI Newsletter is published twice a year in the months of March and September. The newsletter continues to be an outreach tool to local, regional, and global readership of close to 7,000 subscribers. Present and past issues of the newsletter, which are all accessible on ARI’s website, highlight research work of individual researchers, academic publications, keynote speeches, reading groups, ARI events, as well as awards and recognition won by staff members. 70 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Similarly, the ARI Annual Report starting from its 2002/2003 issue to this latest 2013 issue is published in print and uploaded on ARI’s website. The report gives our stakeholders and other interested parties an update of the Institute’s developments and achievements for the past year. Academic reports such as the ARI Working Paper Series and specific-themed Aceh Working Papers Series, and selected conference reports and proceedings are also available on ARI’s website for knowledge-sharing. Such academic reports have been highly accessed by the community. COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 MEDIA COVERAGE ARI researchers have also been active in sharing their expertise and expert views in the media. In 2013, there were at least 16 media reports of interviews of ARI researchers by local and international presses and media, published editorials by ARI researchers and their appearance in public affairs broadcasts as guest speakers. There are currently 68 (and growing) records of media activities of ARI researchers and these are accessible from the ARI website. DIGITAL AND SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY ARI has been using the internet platform for many of its outreach activities and to share research findings. Its ARI website (www.ari.nus.edu.sg) provides up-to-date information about its research programmes, events and publications, among others. It also serves as a rich resource for research on Asia studies. The website is regularly revamped or redesigned to enhance its ease of navigation, quality of information and design. Since February 2009, ARI has been using its ARI Facebook group as a communication platform to keep its members updated of the latest developments in ARI such as announcements of upcoming events, new fellowships and new publications. It has also become a popular and effective tool for connecting among ARI members, students, alumni, and the public who are interested in ARI happenings. extend its outreach. Selected webcasts of ARI lectures and seminars are posted on YouTube. 40 videos have been posted since April 2010. ARI also participates in the NUS iTunes U, a collaborative initiative between Apple and NUS launched in August 2010, in uploading its webcasts, podcasts and working papers onto NUS iTunesU. Users worldwide who are interested in these materials are able to download them to their iPhones and iPad to listen/ read on the go, or download them to their computers. ARI continues to explore new avenues of social media to further enhance its social connectivity with its various local, regional and international stakeholders. Since 2010, the Institute has been exploiting the popular mediasharing platforms such as YouTube and iTunesU to further ANNUAL REPORT 2013 71 8.0 PUBLICATIONS A total of 15 publications in the form of edited volumes and special issues of journals were successfully published in 2013 as a result of workshops and conferences held and sponsored by ARI between 2004 – 2011. The average length of time between event and publication was about three years. In addition, 11 monographs, jointly-authored books and edited volumes were published by ARI scholars and another 15 such publications were published by ARI alumni. 72 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 BOOKS The disciplines and specialities of ARI members are remarkably diverse, a diversity which is reflected in the books they produce. Books published in 2013 are detailed below. In some cases, the terms of ARI appointees are shorter than the period required for seeing a book through to publication, and in such instances, two codes are used: * Published during the period of the ARI appointment but based largely on earlier work + Published after the member has left ARI, but based on work wholly or partly done in ARI Barker, Joshua; Harms, Erik; and Lindquist, Johan (eds) +Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2014 (Available in March 2013) Bunnell, Tim; Parthasarathy, D.; and Thompson, Eric C. (eds) Cleavage, Connection and Conlict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia Benney, Jonathan Bräuchler, Birgit Defending Rights in Contemporary China +Cyberidentities at War: The Moluccan Conlict on the Internet Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASSA), East Asian Series, 2013 Callahan, William A. *China Dreams: 20 Visions of the Future Oxford University Press, New York, 2013 Berghahn, New York, 2013 (translated from German by Jeremy Gaines, with a new epilogue by the author) Chong Siow Ann and Lysaght, Tamra (guest eds) Special Issue: Mental Health Casebook Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 2013 ARI-Springer Asia Series 3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, London and New York, 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Rural-Urban Networks in Asia: Re-Spatializing Cultural and Political Imaginaries, 25-26 February 2010) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 73 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Clancey, Gregory and Graham, Connor (guest eds) Special Issue: Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place, and Life Feener, Michael R. Finucane, Juliana and Feener, Michael R. (eds) Shari`a and Social Engineering: The Implementation of Islamic Law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 7(1), 2013 Oxford University Press, 2013 Formichi, Chiara (ed) Goh, Daniel P. S. and Bunnell, Tim (eds) Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia Symposium on Recentering Southeast Asian Cities Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series Routledge, London & New York, 2014 (Available in September 2013) (from ARI organised workshop Placing Religious Pluralism in Asian Global Cities, 5-6 May 2011) Harris, Ian +Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks Under Pol Pot University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2013 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(3), 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Global Urban Frontiers: Asian Cities in Theory, Practice and Imagination, 8-9 September 2010) ARI-Springer Asia Series 4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, London and New York, 2014 (Available in October 2013) (from ARI organised workshop Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in the Era of Globalization, 16-17 September 2010) Graham, Connor; Gibbs, Martin; and Aceti, Lanfranco (guest eds) Special Issue: Death, Afterlife, and Immortality of Bodies and Data The Information Society, 29(3), 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Afterlife and Death in a Digital Age: Asian Perspectives, 26-28 May 2011) Jeffrey, Robin and Doron, Assa Kayoko, Fujita; Shiro, Momoki; and Reid, Anthony (eds) Hachette, New Delhi, 2013 +Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia before Steamships +Cell Phone Nation ISEAS for Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre Series, Singapore, 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Northeast Asia in Maritime Perspective: A Dialogue with Southeast Asia, 29-30 October 2004) 74 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Kusno, Abidin +After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2013 Liang Yongjia (guest ed) Liew Kai Khiun and Brenda Chan (guest eds) Special Issue: Religious Revival of Ethnic China +Special Issue: The Internet and the Engendering of Transnational Alternative Soundscapes in the Asia-Paciic – Introduction to the Symposium on Popular Music and the Internet in Asia China: An International Journal, 11(2), 2013 (from ARI organised workshop Religious Revival in the Ethnic Areas in China, 25-26 August 2011) Asian Journal of Communication, 23(4), 2013 Marsden, Magnus and Hopkins, Benjamin (eds) Miksic, John N. and Goh Geok Yian (eds) Miller, Michelle A. and Bunnell, Tim (guest eds) Special Issue: Decentralized Governance and Urban Change in Asia Columbia University Press, 2013 Ancient Harbours in Southeast Asia: The Archaeology of Early Harbours and Evidence of Inter-regional Trade +Beyond Swat: History, Society and Economy Along the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier SEAMEO SPAFA, Bangkok, 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop The Archaeology of Early Harbours and Evidence for Inter-regional Trade, 14-15 June 2004) Mohamad, Maznah and Wieringa, Saskia E. (eds) Family Ambiguity and Domestic Violence in Asia: Concept, Law and Process Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, UK, 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Domestic Violence in Asia: The Ambiguity of Family in the Private-Public Domain, 7-8 October 2010) Pall, Zoltan Lebanese Salais between the Gulf and Europe: Development, Fractionalization and Transnational Networks of Salaism in Lebanon Amsterdam University Press, 2013 Paciic Affairs, 86(4), 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Decentralization and Urban Transformation in Asia, 10-11 March 2011) Perera, Nihal and Tang Wing-Shing (eds) +Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual Impasse, Asianizing Space, and Emerging Translocalities Routledge, New York, 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 75 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Rinaldo, Rachel Savage, Victor R. and Yeoh, Brenda S. A. +Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia Singapore Street Names: A Study of Toponymics Oxford University Press, 2013 Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore, 2013 Saxer, Martin +Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine. The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness Berghahn, New York; Oxford, 2013 Suryadarma, Daniel and Jones, Gavin W. (eds) Turner, Bryan S. Education in Indonesia +The Religious and the Political: A Comparative Sociology of Religion ISEAS, Singapore, 2013 Cambridge University Press, 2013 Turner, Bryan S. and Mohamed Nasir, Kamaludeen (eds) +The Sociology of Islam. Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner Ashgate, Farnham, 2013 van Bruinessen, Martin van Bruinessen, Martin (ed) Gading, Yogyakarta, 2013 Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the “Conservative Turn” Rakyat Kecil, Islam dan Politik ISEAS, Singapore, 2013 Wee, Lionel; Goh, Robbie B. H.; and Lim, Lisa (eds) The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Paciic John Benjamins, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop The Politics of English in Asia: Language Policy and Cultural Expression, 4-5 August 2009) 76 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Whalen-Bridge, John and Kitiarsa, Pattana (eds) Winichakul, Thongchai Winichakul, Thongchai Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement Fa Diew Kan Publication, Bangkok, 2013 +Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation +Democracy with the Monarchy above Politics Read Publication, Bangkok, 2013 (Thai edition with new author’s introduction; translated by Puangthong Pawakaphan, Ida Arunwong, and Ponglert Phongwanan) Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013 (from ARI co-organised International Workshop on Buddhism and the Crisis of Nation-States in Asia, 19-20 June 2008) Xiang, Biao; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.; and Toyota, Mika (eds) Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia Yeoh, Brenda S. A. Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean (guest ed) Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment Special Issue: Asian Fatherhood Duke University Press, Durham, 2013 (from ARI organised Conference on Return Migration in Asia: Experiences, Ideologies and Politics, 31 July-1 Aug 2008) NUS Press, Singapore, 2013 Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean; Alipio, Cheryll; and Furstenberg, Frank F. (guest eds) Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean and Yap Mui Teng (eds) Special issue: Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia: School, Work, and Family Life The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia: Marriage, Fertility and Labour Force Participation, 7-8 July 2011) Journal of Family Issues, 34(2), 2013 (from ARI co-organised workshop Fatherhood in 21st Century: Research, Interventions, and Policies, 17-18 June 2010) Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Policy and Research Challenges. Quality of Life in Asia Series 4 Springer, London and New York, 2013 (from ARI co-organised International Conference on Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges, 3-4 June 2010) ANNUAL REPORT 2013 77 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 ARI-SPRINGER ASIA SERIES EDITORS-IN-CHIEF MIGRATION SECTION CITIES SECTION Chua Beng Huat, Robbie B. H. Goh, Lily Kong, and Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore Section Editor: Brenda Yeoh, National University of Singapore Section Editor: Timothy Bunnell, National University of Singapore RELIGION SECTION Associate Editors: Dick Bedford, University of Waikato Xiang Biao, Oxford University Rachel Silvey, University of Toronto Associate Editors: Abidin Kusno and Michael Leaf, University of British Columbia houses globally and publishes across a wide range of media including academic books, reference works, journals, CD-ROMs, databases and online publications. ARI’s partnership with Springer in the Asia book series offers a peer-refereed avenue for the publication of exciting new scholarship on Asia, and it ensures that this scholarship is readily available worldwide to institutions as well as individual scholars. The series presents leading research on Asia in three main sections: Religion, Migration, and Cities. Nguyen-Marshall, Van; Drummond, Lisa B. Welch; and Bélanger, Danièle (eds) (2012). The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam. Section Editor: Michael Feener, National University of Singapore D. Parthasarathy, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Associate Editors: Nico Kaptein, Leiden University Joanne Waghorne, Syracuse University Kenneth Dean, McGill University Scholarship on Asia, particularly on the rapidly developing and complex nations and regions in East, Southeast and South Asia, has seen many exciting developments in recent years, due not only to significant events in Asia but also to the emergence of new research methodologies, theoretical orientations, scholarly paradigms, and multi-disciplinary approaches and collaborations. As an institute dedicated to research on Asia, in one of Asia’s best universities, and networked with prominent Asia scholars in other leading universities, ARI has played a central role in these crucial innovations in Asia scholarship. Springer is one of the leading academic publishers in the world. It has publishing 78 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 The books in the series are: Sinha, Vineeta (2011). Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains: From the Straits Settlements to Singapore. Bunnell, Tim; Parthasarathy, D.; and Thompson, Eric C. (eds) (2013). Cleavage, Connection and Conlict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia. Finucane, Juliana and Feener, Michael R. (eds) (2014). Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia. For more information, visit the website: www.springer.com and http:// www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications. asp?pubtypeid=22 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 ASIAN POPULATION STUDIES EDITOR Gavin Jones, National University of Singapore Associate Editor Premchand Varma Dommaraju, Nanyang Technological University Editorial Committee Angelique Chan, National University of Singapore Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Vipan Prachuabmoh, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Brenda S.A. Yeoh, National University of Singapore Asia Population Studies is an ARI journal that publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies ranging from population dynamics such as the analysis of fertility, mortality and migration (from both technical and social perspectives) to the consequences of population change. Heading each issue is a commentary on a topical issue by a noted demographer. Beginning with the first issue of Vol. 6, 2010, the journal has been abstracted and indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index®. Some articles published in 2013: Fertility Changes in Central Asia Since 1980 Thomas Spoorenberg Education Fever and the East Asian Fertility Puzzle: A Case Study of Low Fertility in South Korea Thomas Anderson and Hans-Peter Kohler How Fast is the Population Ageing in China? Yinhua Mai, Xiujian Peng, and Wei Chen Adult Male Mortality in India: An Application of the Widowhood Method Nandita Saikia, Abhishek Singh, and Faujdar Ram ANNUAL REPORT 2013 79 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 ARI WORKING PAPER SERIES The ARI Working Paper Series (ARI WPS) has published 211 academic research papers online. Paper submissions are invited from a worldwide pool of scholars working on Asia and are peer-reviewed before being approved for publication. In 2013, a total of 17 papers were published and all are downloadable as full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format free of charge at: www.ari.nus.edu.sg/ publications/ariwps.htm. Series No. Publication Date Title Author(s) WPS 195 Jan 2013 Kheut: Revisiting, Recasting and Reinterpreting Northern Thai Architectural Taboos Andrew Alan Johnson WPS 196 Jan 2013 The Population of Southeast Asia Gavin W. Jones WPS 197 Feb 2013 The Saemaul Undong: South Korea’s Rural Development Miracle in Historical Perspective Mike Douglass WPS 198 Mar 2013 “Forging New Malay Networks”: Economy and Aspirations in the Malaysian Diaspora Johan Fischer WPS 199 Apr 2013 China’s Higher Education Expansion and Social Stratification Wei-Jun Jean Yeung WPS 200 May 2013 Power and Political Culture in Cambodia Trude Jacobsen Martin Stuart-Fox WPS 201 May 2013 Population Change and Migration in Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Implications for Planning and Governance Ram B. Bhagat Gavin W. Jones WPS 202 Jun 2013 Urban Inter-Referencing Within and Beyond a Decentralized Indonesia Nicholas A. Phelps Tim Bunnell Michelle Ann Miller John Taylor WPS 203 Jun 2013 Planning Karachi’s Urban Futures Nausheen H. Anwar WPS 204 Jul 2013 “Itsara” (Freedom) to Work?: Neoliberalization, Deregulation and Marginalized Male Labor in the Bangkok Taxi Business Maureen Hickey WPS 205 Aug 2013 Exploring the Reverse Causational Effect of Fertility on the Infant Mortality Decline in India P. Arokiasamy Srinivas Goli Mohd Shannawaz WPS 206 Aug 2013 Sovereignties, Buddhisms, Post-1989: An Epistemological Conundrum in Rising Asia Rada Iveković WPS 207 Sep 2013 Transnational Migration and Changing Care Arrangements for Left-behind Children in Southeast Asia: A Selective Literature Review in Relation to the CHAMPSEA Study Theodora Lam Brenda S.A. Yeoh Lan Anh Hoang WPS 208 Sep 2013 Southeast Asia in the Suishu: A Translation of Memoir 47 with Notes and Commentary William Aspell WPS 209 Oct 2013 The Transformation of Child Labor in Andhra Pradesh, India: Lessons for State-NGO Collaboration Priyam Saharia WPS 210 Oct 2013 The Urbanization of Natural Disasters: Toward a Multi-scalar Approach to Disaster Governance in Asia Mike Douglass WPS 211 Nov 2013 “The Fundamental Issue is Anti-colonialism, Not Merger”: Singapore’s “Progressive Left”, Operation Coldstore, and the Creation of Malaysia Coldstore, and the Creation of Malaysia Thum Ping Tjin 80 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Acri, Andrea Reorienting the past: Performances of Hindu textual heritage in contemporary India (co-authored with A. M. Pinkney). International Journal of Hindu Studies, 17(3), 223-230. Modern Hindu intellectuals and ancient texts: Reforming Śaiva Yoga in Bali. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania, 169(1), 68-103. Alipio, Cheryll Domestic violence and migration in the Philippines: Transnational sites of struggle and sacrifice. In M. Mohamad and S. E. Wieringa (eds), Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, law and process. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 95-117. Young men in the Philippines: Mapping the costs and debts of work, marriage, and family life. Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 214-232. Introduction: Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life (co-authored with J. Yeung W.). Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 6-27. Baey, Grace Hui Yi The place of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore: Social reproduction, social “problems” and social protection (co-authored with B. S. A. Yeoh and Chee H. L.). Third World Quarterly, 34(10), 1927-1941. Balooni, Kulbhushan Governance for private green spaces in a growing Indian city (co-authored with K. Gangopadhyay and B. M. Kumar). Landscape and Urban Planning, 123, 21-29. Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar Rabindranath Tagore, Indian nation and its outcasts. Harvard Asia Quarterly, 15(1), 28-33. India-New Zealand relations in the new century: A historical narrative of changing perceptions and shifting priorities. India Quarterly, 69(4), 317-333. Bork-Hüffer, Tabea Interlinkages of global change, national development goals, urbanization and international migration in China. The example of African Migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan (co-authored with B. Rafflenbeul, F. Kraas, and Z. Li). In F. Kraas, S. Aggarwal, M. Coy, & G. Mertins (eds), Megacities: Our global urban future. London and New York: Springer, pp. 135-150. Bräuchler, Birgit Cultural solutions to religious conflicts? The revival of tradition in the Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia. In T. A. Reuter and A. Horstmann (eds), Faith in the future: Understanding the revitalization of religions and cultural traditions in Asia. Leiden: Brill, pp. 39-61. Bunnell, Tim City networks as alternative geographies of Southeast Asia. TRaNS: Trans-regional and -national Studies of Southeast Asia, 1(1), 27-43. Urban-rural connections: Banda Aceh through conflict, tsunami and decentralization (co-authored with M. A. Miller). In T. Bunnell, D. Parthasarathy, and E. C. Thompson (eds), Cleavage, connection and conlict in rural, urban and contemporary Asia. ARI-Springer Asia Series 3. London and New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, pp. 83-98. Encountering KL through the “travel” of UMPs. In G. del Cerro Santamaría (ed), Urban megaprojects: A worldwide view. Bingley: Emerald Press, pp. 57-75. Urban landscapes. In N. Johnson, R. Schein, and J. Winders (eds), The Wiley-Blackwell companion to cultural geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 278-289. Recentering Southeast Asian cities (coauthored with Goh D. P. S). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(3), 825-833. Problematizing the interplay between decentralized governance and the urban in Asia (co-authored with M. A. Miller). Paciic Affairs, 86(4), 715-729. Urban development in a decentralized Indonesia: Two success stories? (coauthored with M. A. Miller, N. A. Phelps, and J. Taylor). Paciic Affairs, 86(4), 857876. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 81 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Jim Blaut and the trajectories of tropical geography (co-authored with Ong C. E. and J. D. Sidaway). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 34(3), 285-291. Antecedent cities and inter-referencing effects: Learning from and extending beyond critiques of neoliberalisation. Urban Studies, October 14, 2013. DOI: 10.1177/0042098013505882. Callahan, William A. Assessing Chinese national identity: The debate inside China. In G. Rozman (ed), Asia’s uncertain future: Korea, China’s aggressiveness, and new leadership. Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies, 24(2013), 69-82. China’s harmonious world and postwestern world orders: Official and citizen intellectual perspectives. In R. Foot (ed), China across the divide: The domestic and global in politics and society. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 19-42. Cheah, Pheng The biopolitics of recognition: Making female subjects of globalization. Boundary 2, 40(2), 81-112. The world is watching: The mediatic structure of cosmopolitanism. Special issue on Cosmopolitanism and the new news media. Journalism Studies, 14(2), 219-231. The material world of comparison. In R. Felski and S. S. Friedman (eds), Comparison: Theories, approaches, uses. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 168-190. Political bodies without organs: On Hegel’s ideal state and Deleuzian micropolitics. In J. Vernon and K. Houle (eds), Hegel and Deleuze: Together again for the irst time. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, pp. 97-114. World as picture and ruination: On Jia Zhangke’s Still Life as world cinema. In C. Rojas and E. Chow (eds), The Oxford handbook of Chinese cinemas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 190-208. 82 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 To open: Hospitality and alienation. In T. Claviez (ed), The conditions of hospitality: Ethics, politics, and aesthetics on the threshold of the possible. New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 57-80. The physico-material bases of cosmopolitanism. In S. R. Ben-Porath and R. Smith (eds), Varieties of sovereignty and citizenship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 189-210. Acceptable uses of people. In M. Goodale (ed), Human rights at the crossroads. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 210-225. Chee Heng Leng Commercially arranged marriage and the negotiation of citizenship rights among Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore (co-authored with B. S. A. Yeoh and T. K. D. Vu). Asian Ethnicity, 14(2), 139-156. Between two families: The social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore (co-authored with B. S. A. Yeoh, T. K. D. Vu, and Y. Cheng). Global Networks, 13(4), 441-458. The place of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore: Social reproduction, social “problems” and social protection (co-authored with B. S. A. Yeoh and G. H. Y. Baey). Third World Quarterly, 34(10), 1927-1941. Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commerciallymatched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men (co-authored with B. S. A. Yeoh and T. K. D. Vu). Geoforum. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.012. Chen Haidan Stem cell governance in China: From the perspective of co-production. Journal of Dialectics of Nature, 35(2), 112-117 (in Chinese). Unruly objects: Novel innovation paths and their regulatory challenge (co-authored with C. Haddad and H. Gottweis). In A. Webster (ed), The global dynamics of regenerative medicine: A social science critique. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 88-117. From global bioethics to ethical governance of biomedical research collaborations (co-authored with A. Wahlberg et al.). Social Science and Medicine, April 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.041. Cheung, Adam K-l. Economic insecurity and husband-to-wife physical assault in Hong Kong: The role of husband’s power motive (co-authored with S. Y. P. Choi). In W. J. Yeung and M. Yap (eds), Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia: Policy and research challenges. Quality of Life in Asia Series 4. London and New York: Springer, pp. 105-127. Cho Kyuhoon The re-construction of religion in the modern Korean education. Proceedings of the 11th ISKS International Conference on Korean Studies. Osaka, Japan: International Society for Korean Studies, pp. 819-839. Chua Beng Huat Social media and cross-border cultural transmissions in Asia: States, industries, and audiences (co-authored with S. Jung). International Journal of Cultural Studies, October 2013. DOI: 10.1177/1367877913505168. Planned demi-monde and its aestheticisation in Singapore. In J. De Kloet and L. Scheen (eds), Spectacle and the city. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 27-42. A framework for audience study of transnational television. In R. Parameswaran (ed), The international encylopedia of media studies. Chicester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 276-299. PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Aesthetics of the pathetic: The portrayal of the abject in Singaporean cinema (coauthored with Wong M.). Access: Critical Perspectives on Communication, Cultural and Policy Studies, 31(2), 67-78. Exploring spaces of hope in our cities: In conversation with Professor Michael Douglass (co-authored with G. Jose). Asian Journal of Social Science, 41, 91103. Clancey, Gregory Asian biopoleis: Practice, place, and life (co-authored with C. Graham, R. Bishop, and M. M. J. Fischer). Special issue on Asian Biopoleis: Practice, Place, and Life. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 7(1), 1-6. Globalizing the household in East Asia. In D. Hoerder and A. Kaur (eds), Proletarian and gendered mass migrations: A global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Leiden: Brill, pp. 65-82. Collins, Francis L. Teaching English in South Korea: Mobility norms and higher education outcomes in youth migration. Children’s Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2013.851064. 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International Journal of Cultural Studies, October 18 2013. DOI: 10.1177/1367877913505175I. K-pop dance trackers and cover dancers: Global cosmpolitanization and local spatialization. In Kim Y. (ed), The Korean wave: Korean media goes global. London: Routledge, pp. 165-180. Lin Qianhan Lost in transformation? Employment trajectories of China’s Cultural Revolution cohort. Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 172-193. Lindquist, Johan Introduction: Southeast Asian figures of modernity (co-authored with J. Barker and E. Harms). In J. Barker, E. Harms, and J. Lindquist (eds), Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 1-17. Indonesia (co-authored with J. Barker). In J. Barker, E. Harms, and J. Lindquist (eds), Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 130-133. Introduction: Figures of urban transformation (co-authored with J. Barker and E. Harms). City & Society, 25(2), 159172. An interview with James Siegel. Public Culture, 25(3), 559-573. Beyond anti-anti Trafficking. Dialectical Anthropology, 37(2), 319-323. Rescue, return, in place: Deportees, victims, and the regulation of Indonesian migration. In Xiang B., B. S. A. Yeoh, and M. Toyota (eds), Return: Nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 122-140. Field agent (Petugas lapangan). In J. Barker, E. Harms, and J. Lindquist (eds), Figures of Southeast Asian modernity. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 154-156. Un-localized and un-globalized subculture: English language independent music in Singapore (coauthored with Tan S. E.). In A. Fung (ed), Asian popular culture: Global (dis) continuity. London: Routledge, pp. 113138. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 85 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Liu Liangni, Sally A search for a place to call home: Negotiation of home, identity and sense of belonging among New Zealand’s new Chinese migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Emotion, Space and Society. Available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ article/pii/S1755458613000030. Lu, Melody Chia-Wen South Korea and the returning Korean Chinese (co-authored with Shin H.). In Xiang B., B. S. A. Yeoh, and M. Toyota (eds), Return: Nationalizing Transnational Mobility in Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 162-178. Lysaght, Tamra Oversight for clinical uses of autologous adult stem cells: Lessons from international regulations (co-authored with I. Kerridge, D. Sipp, G. Porter, and B. J. Capps). Cell Stem Cell, 31(6), 647-651. Global bionetworks and challenges in regulating autologous adult stem cells (co-authored with I. Kerridge, D. Sipp, G. Porter, and B. J. Capps). American Journal of Medicine, 126(11), 941-943. Broadening the scope of debates around stem cell research (co-authored with A. V. Campbell). Bioethics, 27(5), 251-256. Underplayed ethics and the dilemmas of psychiatric care (co-authored with Chong S. A.). Special issue on Mental Health Casebook. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 173-175. DOI: 10.1353/asb.2013.0042. Ethics commentary. Special issue on Mental Health Casebook. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 283-288. DOI: 10.1353/ asb.2013.0035. Disclosing incidental findings in mental health research. Special issue on Mental Health Casebook. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 271-273. DOI: 10.1353/asb.2013.0053. 86 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Marolt, Peter Rethinking virtual/physical boundaries. Localities, 3, 11-32 (in English); 101-120 (in Korean). Morris, Meaghan Media and popular Modernism around the Pacific War: An inter-Asian story. Memory Studies, 6(3), 359-369. Miller, Michelle A. Urban-rural connections: Banda Aceh through conflict, tsunami and decentralization (co-authored with T. Bunnell). In T. Bunnell, D. Parthasarathy, and E. C. Thompson (eds), Cleavage, connection and conlict in rural, urban and contemporary Asia. ARI-Springer Asia Series 3. London and New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, pp. 83-98. Naafs, Suzanne Youth, gender and the workplace: Shifting opportunities and aspirations in an Indonesian industrial town. Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 233-250. Decentralizing Indonesian city spaces as new “centers”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(3), 834-848. Problematizing the interplay between decentralization and the urban in Asia (co-authored with T. Bunnell). Paciic Affairs, 86(4), 715-729. Urban development in a decentralized Indonesia: Two success stories? (coauthored with T. Bunnell, N. A. Phelps, and J. Taylor). Paciic Affairs, 86(4), 857876. Parthasarathy, Devanathan Rural, urban, and regional: Re-spatializing capital and politics in India. In T. Bunnell, D. Parthasarathy, and E. C. Thompson (eds), Cleavage, connection and conlict in rural, urban and contemporary Asia. ARISpringer Asia Series 3. London and New York: Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, pp. 15-30. Perera, Nihal Asianizing Asian cities: Spatial stories, local voices, and emerging translocalities. In N. Perera and W. Tang (eds), Transforming Asian cities: Intellectual impasse, asianizing space, and emerging translocalities. New York: Routledge, pp. 243-261. Mohamad, Maznah Domestic violence: An introduction to the debates (co-authored with S. E. Wieringa). In M. Mohamad and S. E. Wieringa (eds), Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, law and process. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 12-28. Critical vernacularism: Multiple roots, cascades of thought, and the local production of architecture. In N. Perera and W. Tang (eds), Transforming Asian cities: Intellectual impasse, asianizing space, and emerging translocalities. New York: Routledge, pp. 78-93. Malaysia’s domestic violence law: An epic passage, and the clash of gender, cultural and religious rights. In M. Mohamad and S. E. Wieringa (eds), Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, law and process. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 140-168. In search of Asian urbanisms: Limited visibility and intellectual impasse (coauthored with W. Tang). In N. Perera and W. Tang (eds), Transforming Asian cities: Intellectual impasse, asianizing space, and emerging translocalities. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20. PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Platt, Maria Everyday politics of (in)formal marital dissolution in Cambodia and Indonesia (co-authored with K. Brickell). Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, July 2013. DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2013.801505. Rathina-Pandi, Asha Civic space and political mobilization: Cases in Malaysia and Thailand (coauthored with K. Balassiano). The Journal of Development Studies, 49(11), 15791591. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2013.828834. Reid, Anthony Patani as a paradigm of pluralism. In P. Jory (ed), Ghosts of the past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the history and historiography of Patani. Singapore: NUS Press and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 3-22. Translation of Jacob van Neck’s 1602 account of Patani. In P. Jory (ed), Ghosts of the past in Southern Thailand: Essays on the history and historiography of Patani. Singapore: NUS Press and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 22-30. Introduction: Maritime interactions in Eastern Asia (co-authored with M. Shiro). In F. Kayoko, M. Shiro, and A. Reid (eds), Offshore Asia: Maritime interactions in Eastern Asia before steamships. Singapore: ISEAS for Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre Series, pp. 1-15. Roy, Anjali Distribution and exhibition of Hindi films in Singapore. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(4), 635-643. Black beats with a Punjabi twist. Popular Music, 32(2), 241-257. Filming the Bhangra music video. In B. Shope and G. Booth (eds), Popular music in India: Partying with the elephant. London: OUP, pp. 142-159. Band le gandri: Unpartitioned memory cultures. In M. Hawley (ed), Sikh diaspora: Theory, agency, and experience. Brill’s History of Religions Series, Numen Book Series 2013, pp. 67-85. Buddhist Scriptures and the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies (ed), Manuscripts in the Kongō-ji collection: The bao qie yin tuoluoni jing. Bibliotheca Codicologica Nipponica VI. Tokyo. What is Punjabi doing in an English film?: Bollywood’s new transnational tribes. In R. Rubdy and L. Alsagoff (eds), The globallocal interface, language choice and hybridity. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 153-169. Sianturi, Dinah Naming the ruins: Toward a Southeast Asian poetics of landscape. Axon, Issue 5. Available online at http://www. axonjournal.com.au/issue-5/naming-ruins. The politics of Hinglish. In L. H. A. Wee, L. Lim, and R. B. H. Goh (eds), The politics of English in Asia: Language policy and cultural expression in South and Southeast Asia and the Asia Paciic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 21-36. Simpson, Tim Scintillant cities: Glass architecture, finance capital, and the fictions of Macau’s enclave urbanism. Theory, Culture & Society, October 2013, 1-29. DOI: 10.1177/0263276413504970. Qissa and the popular Hindi cinema. In L. Khatib (ed), Storytelling in world cinemas. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 183-194. Söderström, Ola Loose threads: The translocal making of public space policy in Hanoi (co-authored with S. Geertman). Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 34(2), 244-260. Saxer, Martin Between China and Nepal: TransHimalayan trade and the second life of development in Upper Humla. CrossCurrents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 8(September 2013), 31-52. Available online at https://cross-currents. berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-8/saxer. Sen, Ronojoy Going beyond mere accounting: The changing role of India’s Auditor General. The Journal of Asian Studies, 72(4), 801811. Shi Zhiru From bodily relic to Dharma relic stūpa: Chinese materialization of the Aśoka legend in the Wuyue period. In J. Kieschnick and M. Shahar (eds), India in the Chinese imagination: Myth, religion, and thought, 1st ed. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 83-109. The architectural and religious functions of Baoqieyin Dhāranị̄ Sūtra manuscripts at Leifeng Pagoda [translated into Japanese by Yamano Chieko]. In Strategic Research Project of Japanese Manuscripts of Song Jiyoung “Smuggled refugees”: The social construction of North Korean migration. International Migration, 51(4), 158-173. Tan Sor Hoon Balancing conservatism and innovation: The pragmatic Analects. In A. Olberding (ed), The Dao companion to the Analects. London and New York: Springer, pp. 335354. Thum Ping Tjin Flesh and bone reunited as one body: Singapore’s Chinese-speaking and their perspectives on merger. In Poh S. K., Tan K. F., and Hong L. (eds), The 1963 Operation Coldstore in Singapore: Commemorating 50 years. Petaling Jaya: SIRD, pp. 73-119. Wade, Geoffrey An Asian commercial ecumene, 900-1300 CE. In F. Kayoko, M. Shiro, and A. Reid (eds), Offshore Asia: Maritime interactions in Eastern Asia before steamships. Singapore: ISEAS for Nalanda Sriwijaya Centre Series, pp. 76-111. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 87 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Wasson, Robert J. Caesium-137 in Southeast Asia: Is there enough left for soil erosion and sediment redistribution studies? (co-authored with T. Furuichi). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 77, 108-116. Earth is (mostly) flat: Apportionment of the flux of continental sediment over millennial time scales (co-authored with J. A. Warrick, J. D. Milliman, D. E. Walling, J. P. M. Syvitski, and R. E. Aalto). Geology Forum, Geological Society of America. DOI:10.1130/G34846C.1. A 1000-year history of large floods in the Upper Ganga catchment, central Himalaya, India (co-authored with Y. P. Sundriyal, S. Chaudhary, M. K. Jaiswal, P. Morthekai, S. P. Sati, and N. Juyal), Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 156-166. Wieringa, Saskia Domestic violence: An introduction to the debates (co-authored with M. Mohamad). In M. Mohamad and S. E. Wieringa (eds), Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, law and process. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 12-28. Domestic violence in the harmonious Asian family and the enforcement of heteronormativity in India and Indonesia. In M. Mohamad and S. E. Wieringa (eds), Family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia: Concept, law and process. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, pp. 78-94. Wu Keping Performing the charismatic ritual: A Catholic Charismatic movement in Massachusetts. In C. Lindholm (ed), Social movement of the spirit: the Cross-cultural study of charisma. Palgrave McMillan, pp 33-56. 88 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Xiang Biao Introduction: Return and the reordering of Transnational Mobility in Asia. In Xiang B., B. S. A. Yeoh, and M. Toyota (eds), Return: Nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1-20. Compulsory return as labor-migration control in East Asia. In Xiang B., B. S. A. Yeoh, and M. Toyota (eds), Return: Nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 83-99. Yeoh S.A., Brenda The control of “sacred space”: Conflicts over the Chinese burial grounds in colonial Singapore, 1880-1930. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 22(2), 282-311. [Reprinted in O. White (ed) (2013), The rise and fall of modern empires, (Volume I); Social organisation. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 161-191.]. “Upwards” or “Sideways” cosmopolitanism? Talent/labour/marriage migrations in the globalising city-state of Singapore. Migration Studies, 1(1), 96-116. Chinese migration to Singapore: Discourses and discontents in a globalizing nation-state (co-authored with W. Lin). Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(1), 31-54. Between two families: The social meaning of remittances for Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore (co-authored with Chee H. L., T. K. D. Vu, and Cheng Y. E.). Global Networks, 13(4), 441-458. Commercially arranged marriage and the negotiation of citizenship rights among Vietnamese marriage migrants in multiracial Singapore (co-authored with Chee H. L. and T. K. D. Vu). Asian Ethnicity, 14(2), 139-156. Introduction: Child health and migrant parents in South-East Asia: Risk and resilience among primary school-aged children (co-authored with E. Graham). Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 297-314. Securing a better living environment for left-behind children: Implications and challenges for policies (co-authored with T. Lam, M. Ee, and L. A. Hoang). Asian and Paciic Migration Journal, 22(3), 421445. Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commerciallymatched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men (co-authored with Chee H. L. and T. K. D. Vu). Geoforum. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.09.012 Geographies of domestic life: “Householding” in transition in East and Southeast Asia (co-authored with K. Brickell). Geoforum. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.007. Transnational migration in Southeast Asia and the gender roles of left-behind fathers (co-authored with T. Lam). ARROW for Change, 19(1), 8-9. Rapid growth in Singapore’s immigrant population brings policy challenges: Ongoing issues, challenges, and social change (co-authored with W. Lin). Conversations in Integration. Cities of Migration, 29 May 2013 [Extracted from Migration Information Source, April 2012, http://www.migrationinformation. org/Profiles/display.cfm?ID=887, and reprinted in http://citiesofmigration.ca/ ezine_stories/rapid-growth-in-singaporesimmigrants-brings-policy-challenges/]. PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Singapore: From postcolonial plural society to globalising city-state (coauthored with Cheng Y. E.). In P. Spoonley and E. Tolley (eds), Diverse nations, diverse responses: Approaches to social cohesion in immigrant societies. Kingston, ON: Queen’s University School of Policy Studies and McGill-Queen’s University Press, pp. 193-214. Migration and “divercities”: Challenges and possibilities in global-city Singapore (co-authored with T. Lam). In M. N. C. Poon (ed), Engaging society: The Christian in tomorrow’s Singapore. Singapore: Trinity Theological College, pp. 41-58. The place of Vietnamese marriage migrants in Singapore: Social reproduction, social “problems” and social protection (co-authored with Chee H. L. and G. H. Y. Baey). Third World Quarterly, 34(10), 1927-1941. Yeoh Seng Guan Actually existing religious pluralism in Kuala Lumpur. In C. Formichi (ed), Religious pluralism, state and society in Asia. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 153-172. Producing localities and nationhood in a globalizing Southeast Asian city. Localities, 2, 161-200. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean College expansion policy and social stratification in China. Chinese Sociological Review, 45(4), 54-80. DOI: 10.2753/CSA2162-0555450403. Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: Courtship, marriage, and work: An introduction (co-authored with C. Alipio). Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 6-27. Coming of age in times of change: Transition to adulthood in China. Special issue on Transitioning to adulthood in Asia: School, work, and family life. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 646(1), 149171. Asian fatherhood: An introduction. Special issue on Asian fatherhood. Journal of Family Issues, 34(2), 141-158. Hoping for a phoenix: Shanghai fathers and their daughters (co-authored with Xu Q.). Special issue on Asian fatherhood. Journal of Family Issues, 34(2), 182-207. Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia: Research and policy challenges. In W. J. Yeung and M. Yap (eds), Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia: Policy and research challenges. Quality of Life in Asia Series 4. London and New York: Springer, pp. 1-21. Economic stress and health among rural Chinese elderly (co-authored with Z. Xu). In W. J. Yeung and M. Yap (eds), Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia: Policy and research challenges. Quality of Life in Asia Series 4. London and New York: Springer, pp. 131-149. Implications of the college expansion policy for China’s social stratification. In D. Besharov and K. Baehler (eds), Chinese social policy in a time of transition. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 249-269. Zhong Yijiang Kannazuki: Shinto and authority construction in early Modern Japan. Gendai Shiso, 41(16), 174-186 (in Japanese). ANNUAL REPORT 2013 89 9.0 ARI RECOGNITION 90 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 ARI RECOGNITION 9.0 AWARDS AND HONOURS Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer was awarded the National Prize for the Best Dissertation Thesis in Human Geography by the Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH) or the Association of Geographers at German Universities on 4 October 2013. Her dissertation title is Migrants’ Health Seeking Actions in Guangzhou, China. Individual Action, Structure and Agency: Linkages and Change. Assoc Prof Michael Feener received the ODPRT Grant for Research Excellence from the Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology), NUS, in 2013, which is awarded to the top 20% of the researchers of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences based on research performance in the preceding year. Dr Malini Sur’s Jungle Passports and Metal Fences. Living on the Border between Northeast India and Bangladesh (2012) was long listed for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) PhD Prize 2013 in the Social Sciences category. Dr Shawna Tang was appointed Deputy Editor of International Sociology, a highly ranked peer reviewed journal of the International Sociological Association, on 3 June 2013. Prof Jean Yeung Wei-Jun was appointed, as of January 2013, editorial board member of Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, and Encyclopedia for Quality of Life. She was also appointed editorial board member of Demography, as of May 2013. KEYNOTES AND PLENARIES Bunnell, Tim “Emerging and other Asias: Regional Diversity and Hierarchies of Academic Attention”, Non-emergent Asias, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, USA, 12 April 2013. “Transborder and Global Issues: Best Practice and Policy Transfer in an Era of Globalization”, International Conference on Regional Development, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia, 20-21 November 2013. Bush, Robin “Muhammadiyah and Disaster Relief”, EuroSEAS International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-5 July 2013. Chua Beng Huat “Inter-referencing Southeast Asia: From Mimicry to Resonance”, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies International Graduate Students Conference, NUS, 1-2 July 2013. “Market and the Undoing of Home in Singapore”, International Sociological Association, RC 43 (Housing and Built Environment) Conference, Amsterdam, 10-12 July 2013. “Consumption in Asia: After the New Rich Generation”, Consumption, Lifestyle and Asian Modernities, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, 3-4 November 2013. Douglass, Mike “Spatial Justice and the Urban Ecology: Slums, Corporatization and Chronic Flooding in Jakarta”, International Conference: Towards Spatial Justice in Jakarta, Tamuranegara University, Jakarta, 25-27 January 2013. “Metropolitan Governance in South Korea”, Governance of Mega Cities Regions: International Workshop. Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 4-5 February 2013. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 91 ARI RECOGNITION 9.0 “Capacity Building Needs For Water Governance vis-á-vis Current Practices in Asia”, Working Group 3, Building Capacities for Adapting to Climate Change in Water Management. Expert Consultation on Knowledge and Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in the Post Rio Era, Incheon, South Korea, 6-8 March 2013. “Integrated Regional Planning for Sustainable Development in Asia: Innovations in the Governance of Metropolitan, Rural-Urban, and Transborder Riparian Regions”, UNCRD Expert Group Meeting on Integrated Regional Development Planning, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, JAPAN, 28- 30 May 2013. “Cities by and for the People”, International Workshop on Asian Urbanisms in Theory and Practice: The Future of the Vernacular City, Create, Future Cities Lab, NUS, 2 July 2013. “Public Space, Public City,” International Workshop on Hanoi Public City, Hanoi Women’s Museum, Vietnam, 25 July 2013. “The Urbanization of Natural Disasters: Toward a Multi-scalar Approach to Disaster Governance in Asia”, Workshop on Governance Capacity and Natural Disasters: Enhancing Preparedness, Response and Rebuilding, East West Centre, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 26-28 August 2013. “The Vernacular City and its Creative Milieu: Grassroots Innovations in Urban Regeneration in Asia”, International Conference on Cultural Strategies and Urban Regeneration: Policy Innovations from the Grassroots, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement, Anyang, Korea, 25 September 2013. “Livable Cities for Human Flourishing: Grassroots Strategies for Creative Cultural Life and Urban Prosperity”, Social Science Symposium on Community Wellness and the Future of Cities, Ewha Womans University, 27 September 2013. 92 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 “Creative Communities – Urban Kampung by and for Residents”, Gaung Bandung –“Kampung Wajah Kota”, Ikatan Mahasiswa Arsitektur Gunadharma, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, 6 October 2013. Feener, Michael “What is the Meaning of ‘Social Recovery’?” International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies IV, Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia, 9-10 June 2013. “The Urbanization of Environmental Disasters: Livable Cities = Resilient Cities”, International Conference on Resilient Cities – Beyond Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery, The Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute of Technology Surabaya, Indonesia, 8 October 2013. Wasson, Robert J. “Beyond the Usual: Climate Change, Catastrophe, and the Solid Earth”, Emplacing Climate Change: Reconstructions of Changing Environmental Realities, NUS, 6 November 2013. “The Political Ecology of Flooding in Mega-Urban Regions in Asia: Seeking Spatial Justice through Participatory Disaster Governance in Jakarta”, International Conference on Challenges of Extended Mega Urban Regions: The Changing Face of South East Asia and the World, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 19-21 November 2013. “Livability as a Process of City Making – In Search of Progressive Cities in a Global Urban Age in Asia”, International Conference on The Future Cities and the Quality of Life – Community Wellness and Livability: Qualitative Indicators of Livable Cities through Life Cycle Perspectives, Ewha University, Seoul, 13 December 2013. Duara, Prasenjit “Network Asia: Futures of the Past”, Is Asia One? Towards an Asian Art History, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, 14 September 2013. “Narratives of Community”, People, Ports and Places: The Narrative of Indian Communities in Southeast Asia Inaugural IHC Seminar, Indian Heritage Centre, Singapore, 20 September 2013. “Network Asia: China and its Asian ‘Routes’”, 7th Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA) Annual Convention, Ankara, Turkey, 25 October 2013. “Too Little, Too Much, Too Polluted: Acute and Chronic Water Disasters in the Himalayan and Tibetan Region”, Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in Asia, ARI, NUS, 8 November 2013. Wu Keping “Rebuilding Religions in China: Social Service Provision of Buddhist and Protestant Groups”, Inter-Asia Roundtable on Religion and Development in China, ARI, NUS, 17-18 October 2013. Yeoh S.A., Brenda “Multiple Mobilities and Categorical Instabilities: Feminized Migrations in the Global City-State of Singapore”, Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2013 (IAG), The University of Western Australia, Perth, 1-4 July 2013. “Mobile Subjectivities and Categorical (In)stabilities: Migrant ‘Workers’ and Foreign ‘Wives’ in the Global City-state of Singapore”, Asian Migration and the Global Asian Diasporas Conference, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 6-7 September 2013. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean “Asian Contexts of Fatherhood Research”, International Conference on Caring and Working Fathers, Stockholm University, Sweden, 29 April 2013. “Transitioning to Adulthood and Intergenerational Relations in Asia”, Institute of Social Research, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 9 December 2013. 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013 93 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 GRADUATE AND OTHER TEACHING AT NUS In 2013 ARI researchers, mostly those on joint appointment with their respective faculties in NUS, contributed to the University in the following teaching and supervisory roles: Bork-Hüffer, Tabea: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught GE5216 Geography and Social Theory. Bunnell, Tim: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught GE2204 Cities in Transition; and GE4213 Cultural Analysis. Supervised 3 PhD students, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Member of thesis committee for 5 PhD students, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Chua Beng Huat: Department of Sociology, taught SC4101 Reflections on a Sociological Education. Supervised 2 honours and 2 PhD students, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Supervised 4 PhD students, Cultural Studies in Asia Programme (Sociology), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Member of thesis committee for 1 PhD student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; and 3 PhD students, Cultural Studies in Asia Programme (Sociology), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. 94 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Douglass, Mike: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught SC4225 Sociology of Cities and Development Planning in Asia; SC6770 Graduate Research Seminar (PhD); and SC5770 Graduate Research Seminar (Master). Supervised 1 honours student and member of thesis committee of 1PhD student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Duara, Prasenjit: Supervised 1 MA student, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Member of thesis committee for 1 PhD student, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Feener, Michael: Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught HY3246 History of Muslim Southeast Asia; and HY6770 Graduate Research Seminar. Co-supervised 1 PhD student, Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment. Lysaght, Tamara: Member of thesis committee for 1 PhD student, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Marolt, Peter: Supervised 1 PhD student for GE6660 Independent Study Module, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Wasson, Robert J.: Tembusu College, taught GEM2902 Climate Change. Co-supervised 2 PhD students, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Wu Keping: Supervised 1 BA student under the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme (UROP), Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Yeoh S.A., Brenda: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught GE3237 Geographies of Migration. Supervised 3 MA and 4 PhD students, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught SC6312 Families in Transition; and SC3222 Social Transformations in Modern China. Supervised 4 PhD students, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 ASIAN GRADUATE FORUM 8th Asian Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies 22-26 Jul 2013, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Michelle Miller (Chair) Dr Nausheen Anwar Dr Jonathan Benney Dr Kumiko Kawashima Assoc Prof Johan Lindquist Dr Kay Mohlman Dr Maria Platt Assoc Prof Titima Suthiwan Dr Zhang Juan ARI’s annual Summer Institute and Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies has now become an institution. Increasing numbers of postgraduate students from around the world, and particularly from other parts of Asia, are applying to attend this week-long programme of activities. The first two days focus on developing graduate student understandings of academia and relevant skills, through roundtable discussions with faculty, focused practical seminars and breakout groups. This is followed by a three-day long presentation of papers on various aspects of Southeast Asian studies. This gives graduate students an opportunity to present their work, often for the first time in an international forum and also to communicate and interact, as they mature into the next generation of academic leaders. The Graduate Forum is linked with the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme (see the next section), which brings more than 30 graduate students working on Southeast Asia to Singapore each year for a two and a half month period of research, mentoring and participation in an academic writing workshop. Those presenting papers at the Graduate Forum include ARI’s Asian Graduate Students, as well as graduate students from Singapore, elsewhere in Asia and other parts of the world. The unifying factor is that the research is on Southeast Asia. A total of 70 papers were presented at this year’s forum in three parallel sessions over the three days. The diversity of themes can be seen from viewing the headings of the 20 different panels. Examples include: Urban Space, Borders, Health and Care, Contested Histories, Migration, Constructing Religious Identity, Recreating Heritage and Film and Theatre. As usual, there were times when some of the audience wished they could be in two places at once, but parallel sessions are the only way to accommodate so many papers within the time constraints. Three keynote speakers lent depth and interest to the programme. Prof Pheng Cheah from the University of California at Berkeley spoke on “The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization”; Assoc Prof Teo You Yenn of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University spoke on “Differentiated Deservedness: Governance Through Familialist Social Policies in Singapore”, and Prof Eric C. Thompson from the Department of Sociology at NUS addressed key issues in “Academic Fields and Scholarly Networks in Global Academia.” The Graduate Forum concluded with a field trip to Gardens by the Bay, followed by dinner. ANNUAL REPORT 2013 95 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS The Asian Graduate Student Fellowships are offered to graduate students from Asian countries working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Asian topics, and allows the recipients to be based at NUS for a period of two and a half months. The aim of the fellowship is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, with access to mentors. They have access to writing classes, as well as other “academic bootcamp” activities, such as how to make academic presentations and write proposals. The graduate students take up their appointments from May to July each year. As part of their programme at ARI, Asian Graduate Students are also given an opportunity to present a synopsis of their research at ARI’s annual Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies and to describe how their stay at NUS has contributed to their intellectual development. This enables the students to receive feedback and additional resources from the academic community here during their time at ARI. 4-YEAR STATISTICS FOR THE ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2013 Country 2012 2011 Applications Received Shortlisted Applications Received Shortlisted 6 1 1 1 6 1 Bangladesh Cambodia China 2010 Applications Received Shortlisted Applications Received Shortlisted 2 1 2 2 2 5 2 5 5 6 1 4 1 35 9 40 7 4 4 3 2 2 18 5 2 2 East Timor India 3 1 2 Indonesia 33 11 59 11 Iran 1 Japan 1 Khmer 1 1 1 Korea 2 1 Laos 1 1 1 Malaysia 3 Myanmar 2 2 1 9 8 9 2 2 14 5 6 Nepal Pakistan Philippines 3 8 4 Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand 9 5 10 6 11 9 11 5 Vietnam 10 4 11 4 10 3 6 3 Total 80 35 115 33 88 35 94 33 Uzbek 96 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS 2013 Name 1 2 3 4 Institution Adrian Perkasa Andrea Natasha Kintanar Anne Christine A. Ensomo Anwar Masduki Research Topic MA Candidate, Faculty of Cultural Science, History of heritage conservation in Majapahit Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia capital city site in Trowulan MA Candidate, Archaeological Studies Maritime trade, ceramics, historical Program, University of the Philippines- Diliman archaeology, and Islamic culture MA Candidate, Literary Cultural Studies, Nesology; study of archipelagic formations; Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Southeast Asia, and Philippines MA Candidate, Center for Religious and Local culture, identity and the everyday Cross-cultural Studies, (CRCS) Gadjah practices of religion Mada University, Indonesia 5 6 Arwut Teeraeak Boonpisit Srihong PhD Candidate, Faculty of Arts, Provision of English language education in Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Thailand in the first half of the 19th century MA Candidate, Faculty of Arts, History of newspapers and printed matters Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Industry in Singapore and South East Asian “sea-port” seaport’s countries; influence of mass media to inland country 7 Doni Jaya MA Candidate, Faculty of Humanities, Annotated translation on novel The Other University of Indonesia Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory into Indonesian 8 9 Edlin Dahniar Al-Fath Ena Angelica C. Luga MA Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Cultural conflict between Malayan and Dayak Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Kanching’k in West Kalimantan MA Candidate, Archaeological Studies Social differentiation in a 6th – 8th century jar Program, University of the Philippines-Diliman burial site in Catanauan, Quezon, Philippines; presence and distribution of beads as grave goods 10 Hoang Thi My Nhi PhD Candidate, Faculty of Literature, Social and cultural development in three Vietnam National University Indochina countries, particularly in the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV) Development Triangle 11 Honey B. Tabiola MA Candidate, Department of English, Pedagogical appropriation and resistance of Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines teachers and students in ELT development aid projects 12 13 14 I Made Arsana Dwiputra Jessie G. Varquez, Jr. Karen Anne Sun Liao MA Candidate, Center for Religious and Role of state in constructing religion (rituals) Cross-cultural Studies, Graduate School of in Bali; intersection between religion, politics Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia and violence MA Candidate, College of Social Sciences Relationship between humans and a specific and Philosophy, University of the Philippines- plant resource locally known as lumbiya Diliman (Metroxylon sagu) MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, International migration (in Asia), Chinese Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Filipino studies, media studies, cultural heritage, transnational lifestyles of Filipino highly skilled migrants in Singapore ANNUAL REPORT 2013 97 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 15 Name Institution Research Topic Kathleen Mariska Azali MA Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies, Cultural studies, media, design, literacy, University of Airlangga, Indonesia digital humanities, space and place, civic engagement, and open access 16 Katubi PhD Candidate, Faculty of Humanities Endangered languages in Alor, East Nusa (Linguistics and Oral Tradition), University of Tenggara, Indonesia; Kui people; Lego-lego Indonesia as an oral tradition; expression of ancestral experience and their maintenance in ecology 17 Khairul Ashdiq bin Basri MA Candidate, History and Civilization Islam in Southeast Asia and philology Department, International Islamic University of Malaysia 18 Kong Sopheak MA Candidate, Development Studies, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia Agricultural economics; climate change adaptation on rice production, environmental impacts assessment, farmer water user community, payment for environmental services 19 20 21 Nathathai Chansen Nay Lin Aung Nguyen Hanh Nguyen MA Candidate, Faculty of Architecture, Vernacular architecture, historic preservations, Silapakorn University, Thailand and cultural identity in built forms MA Candidate, Sustainable Development, Role of civil society in democratisation Faculty of Social Sciences, process in Myanmar; Dawei Special Economic Chiang Mai University, Thailand Zones (SEZ) MA Candidate, Hanoi School of Public Health, Women’s health; reproductive health, quality Vietnam and accessibility of reproductive health care, and violence against women 22 Nguyen Tien Dung PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, Vietnam’s foreign trade and Early Modern University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Southeast Asian History, late 19th century to Vietnam National University early 20th century Southeast Asian countries’ history of ideas 23 24 Olivia Kristine D. Nieto Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr. MA Candidate, Theater Arts Program, Community and the public sphere as related University of the Philippines-Diliman to theatre MA Candidate, Comparative Literature Globalisation studies, affect theory, rhetoric, Program, University of the Philippines-Diliman Filipino diaspora, and Philippine drama, theatre and performance 25 Park Jae Min PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Program, Cultural landscape in the industrial sites of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National modern Asia; Place Memory which is a new University, South Korea concept and methodology to interpret cultural landscape 26 27 28 98 Ranwarat Poonsri Salman Alfarisi Sanghita Datta ANNUAL REPORT 2013 PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Women’s identity and Singaporean women’s Literature, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand literature PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, Ale-ale: Tuan Guru versus Tokoh Adat within Udayana University, Indonesia Sasak Community PhD Candidate, Centre for the Study of Social Trans-border issues, forced migration refugee Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India studies and sexuality SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 29 Name Institution Research Topic Saw Keh Doe MA Candidate, Regional Center for Social Health issues along Thai-Burma borderland; Science and Sustainable Development, familial relatedness and pregnancy caring Chiang Mai University, Thailand practices of displaced Karen women in a refugee camp 30 Syafwan Rozi PhD Candidate, Religious Studies Program, Religious and ethnic identity in addressing State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung, global issues; politics, democracy, Indonesia globalisation, ideology, ecology, gender and environment 31 Taweeluck Pollachom PhD Candidate, Asian Studies Program, Three southern border provinces of Thailand School of Liberal Arts, Walailak University, of the on-going conflict Thailand 32 33 Thep Boontanondha Tran Thi Minh MA Candidate, Department of History, King Vajiravudh and his military power; role Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and support PhD Candidate, Department of Biology, Features of morphology, race and diseases of Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam human teeth in the Neolithic period in North and Northern part of Central Vietnam 34 Wahyu Kuncoro MA Candidate, The Regional Center for Social Socio-spatial issues in the borderland and Sciences and Sustainable Development (RCSD), transnational migration studies in mainland Chiang Mai University, Thailand Southeast Asia; Burmese Muslim migrant community in Thai-Myanmar borderland 35 Yoshiyuki Iwaki MA Candidate, The Regional Center for Social Tourism issues in Greater Mekong Sub-region; Sciences and Sustainable Development (RCSD), relations between virtual images and Chiang Mai University, Thailand authentic experiences made by Japanese backpackers visiting Luang Prabang, Lao PDR ANNUAL REPORT 2013 99 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS A number of NUS PhD scholarships have been allotted to ARI, although administration, coursework and assessment of graduate students remain with the relevant departments. In 2013, two students graduated, bringing the total number of graduates on ARI’s PhD scholarships programme to 11 since the start of the programme. 14 students remain on ARI’s scholarships and are supervised through the different departments. GRADUATED Tan Lee Ooi PhD (Philosophy) Joseph Nathan Cruz M.Soc.Sci (Sociology) Kim Ji Youn Department of Sociology Shelley Mae Jalandoon Sibya Department of Sociology Claire Lee Seung Eun Department of Sociology Robert David Williamson Office of Programmes Danicar Mariano Department of Geography Fan Xue Department of Chinese Studies Stefani Haning Swarati Nugroho Department of Sociology June Yap Office of Programmes Yenny Rahmayati School of Design and Environment Tabassum Zaman Office of Programmes ON-GOING STUDIES Bubbles Beverly Asor Department of Sociology Angeline Eloisa Javate Dios Department of Geography Hannah Keren Griffiths School of Design and Environment 100 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 Fiona-Katherina Seiger Department of Sociology SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 ARI INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME ARI has been receiving undergraduates and postgraduates from local and overseas tertiary institutions under the ARI Internship Programme since 2006. The objectives of the programme are to create opportunities for students to be exposed to an academic research environment, to observe the workings of a research institute, and to participate more fully in one particular designated area at the Institute. The intern gains work experience in a research environment, and is introduced to professional research practice and administration. Interns may join the research work of a cluster, and/or assist the administrative team in providing support functions. Over the years, ARI has provided internship opportunities to students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, University of British Columbia, University of California-Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Nanyang Technological University, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and others. In total, ARI provided internship opportunities to the following 7 interns and 5 volunteer interns in 2013. Candy Ip Oi Man Chinese University of Hong Kong From 17 Jun to 7 Aug 2013 Joshua Sunga University of British Columbia From 7 Jan to 30 Apr 2013 Urooba Jamal University of British Columbia From 31 Jul to 30 Nov 2013 Colman Fung Chun Ming City University of Hong Kong From 10 Jun to 16 Aug 2013 Samantha Lim Shu Fang MA Candidate, University College London Volunteer from 2 Jan to 30 Jun 2013 Hong Yee Wa Chinese University of Hong Kong From 17 Jun to 7 Aug 2013 Jimmy Ma Tsz Chun Chinese University of Hong Kong From 17 Jun to 7 Aug 2013 Simon Yin Ximing Tsinghua University From 9 Jul to 9 Nov 2013 Anmol Aggarwal BTech Student, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprasatha University, New Delhi Volunteer from 18 Jun to 18 Jul 2013 Julian Chua Ying Hao BA (Sociology) (Singapore Institute of Management) Volunteer from 5 Aug to 30 Nov 2013 Justin Lane PhD Candidate, University of Oxford Volunteer since 7 Oct 2013 Koh Choon Hwee MA Candidate, American University, Beirut Volunteer from 20 May to 28 Jun 2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 101 11.0 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 102 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 11.0 MOU/EXTERNAL FUNDING RECEIVED Organisation/Foundation Date of Agreement/ Award Project Title/Description Amount/Sponsorship 1. January 2013 A Storytelling Performance Sponsorship of Based on Valmiki’s Ramayana accommodation costs for Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore speaker and event venue 2. DFID, UK January 2013 (through University of Sussex) 3. Faculty of Arts and Social Global Quantitative Survey £85,000 in Indonesia January 2013 Sciences, NUS Workshop on Replaying the Past: $3,112 Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in India and Bali 4. Humanities and Social January 2013 Sciences Fund, Office of 5. Workshop on Invisible Connection: Deputy President (Research between Asia and the West in and Technology), NUS the Modern Era Centre for Southeast $6,375.52 Syncretism and Esotericism February 2013 Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Workshop on Reassessing Ritual Sponsorship of airfare and in Southeast Asian Studies accommodation costs for Kyoto University, Japan speakers, venue, and meals and refreshments during the event 6. Faculty of Arts and Social February 2013 Sciences, NUS Workshop on Orders and Itineraries: $5,840 Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian Networks in Southern Asia, c.900-1900 7. The Henry Luce February 2013 Foundation, Inc Conference on Religion and the US$37,500 Politics of Development: Priests, Potentates and “Progress” 8. John Templeton Foundation February 2013 (through University of Oxford) Religion’s Impact on Human Life: £50,000 Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives 9. Situating Science, Canada, February 2013 and University of Iceland Workshop on The Bright Dark Ages: Sponsorship of airfare Comparative and Connective costs for speakers Perspectives 10. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS March 2013 Workshop on Transnationalism, $3,311.51 Gender Hierarchies and Masculinity in Asia ANNUAL REPORT 2013 103 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 11.0 Organisation/Foundation Date of Agreement/ Award Project Title/Description Amount/Sponsorship 11. Humanities and Social April 2013 Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, $199,867.50 Sciences Fund, Office of Global Consumption and Regulation Deputy President (Research in Singapore and Technology), NUS 12. National Library Board April-November 2013 Asia Trends 2013 (NLB), Singapore; and Sponsorship of lecture venues NLB Public Libraries, Singapore 13. DFID, UK June 2013 Dissemination Activity (through University (Regional Project 1 of Migrating Out of Sussex) of Poverty Research Programme) 14. The Leverhulme Trust, UK, June/July 2013 University of Exeter, UK, $10,000 Producing Chinese Cinemas in Sponsorship of airfare the 21st Century and accommodation costs and School of Social for speakers, event venue, Sciences at Singapore and meals and Management University refreshments during the event 15. DFID, UK July 2013 (through University Migration and Precarious Work: £43,156 Negotiating Debt, Employment, of Sussex) and Livelihood Strategies amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men Working in Singapore’s Construction Industry (Regional Project 6 of Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme) 16. Faculty of Arts and Social July 2013 Geographies of Aspiration: Sponsorship of airfare and Sciences, NUS, and cities@ Urban Places, Constitutive accommodation costs for manchester, The University Connections & Methodological speakers, event venue, and of Manchester, UK Innovations meals and refreshments during the event 17. Faculty of Arts and July 2013 Social Sciences, NUS 18. Inter-Asia Cultural July 2013 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society $33,875.69 (IACS) Conference 2013 July 2013 Francis Group 20. Singapore Tourism Board $5,115.69 (IACS) Conference 2013 Studies Society 19. Routledge, Taylor & Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society $5,000 (IACS) Conference 2013 July 2013 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society $12,710.63 (IACS) Conference 2013 21. The Forum for Asian August 2013 Studies, Stockholm Workshop on Migration Infrastructure $20,000 in Asia and the Middle East University, Sweden 22. Max Planck Institute for August 2013 the Study of Religious Conference on Friendship and €5,000 Convivial City and Ethnic Diversity 23. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS 104 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 September 2013 Conference on Friendship and Convivial City $5,750 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 11.0 Organisation/Foundation Date of Agreement/ Award Project Title/Description 24. Consortium for Southeast October 2013 SEASIA: Charter Asian Studies in Asia Amount/Sponsorship Collaboration with several institutes to establish a international consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia 25. DFID, UK October 2013 (through University Global Qualitative Research £48,500 in Indonesia of Sussex) 26. Mind & Life Institute, November 2013 USA, and Development Understanding The Mind: Sponsorship of airfare and Exploring New Partnerships accommodation costs for Office, NUS 27. Mr Muhammad Alagil 28. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS speakers, and meals November 2013 December 2013 Muhammad Alagil Distinguished $3,000,000 Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies (Endowed Gift) Living Alone: Single-person $4,010.15 Households in Asia ANNUAL REPORT 2013 105 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 11.0 INTERNATIONAL VISITS BY DIRECTOR, PROF PRASENJIT DUARA 21 – 24 March 2013 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, USA 20 April – 20 May 2013 Contemporary China Research Centre, University of Wellington, New Zealand 23 – 25 June 2013 International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Macau 22 August – 1 September 2013 Australian National University 21 – 29 November 2013 Nalanda University, India 30 September – 8 October 2013 International Conference on Inter-Asia Connections IV, Turkey 12 – 13 December 2013 University of Zurich, Switzerland 24 – 28 October 2013 Middle East Technical University, Turkey 16 – 18 December 2013 The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland VISITORS 2 April 2013 Prof Philippe Burrin, Director, The Graduate Institute, Geneva 3 April 2013 Mr Evans Chan, Film Director, Hong Kong 15 April 2013 Prof Roger Ames, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, USA 2 July 2013 Prof Christopher P. Manfredi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University, Canada 7 July 2013 Prof Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore 106 ANNUAL REPORT 2013 16 July 2013 Assoc Prof Simon Shen, Director of Global Studies Programme and Master of Global Political Economy Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 19 August 2013 Dr Philippe M.F. Peycam, Director, International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands 3 September 2013 Mr Adityam Krovvidi, Head of Impact Forecasting Asia Pacific, Aon Benfield Asia Pte Ltd Mr Brad Weir, Head of Castastrophe Management, Aon Benfield Asia Pte Ltd Mr Kieran Dunne, Research Analyst, Aon Benfield Asia Pte Ltd Dr Adam D. Switzer, Principal Investigator, Tectonics Group, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 4 December 2013 Mr Khoo Teng Chye, Executive Director, Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore Dr Hee Limin, Acting Director (Research), Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore EDITORIAL AND PRODUCTION TEAM Huang Jianli Saharah Abubakar Sharlene Anthony Sharon Ong Verene Koh WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF Kristy Won Valerie Yeo Jonathan Lee Li Hongyan Tharuka Prematillake Theodora Lam Henry Kwan Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Vernice Tan Asia Research Institute NUS Bukit Timah Campus 469A Bukit Timah Road Tower Block #10-01 Singapore 259770 Tel: +65 6516 3810 Fax: +65 6779 1428 www.ari.nus.edu.sg