Interasian Connections VI: Hanoi December 4–7, 2018 HOSTED by VIETNAM ACADEMY of SOCIAL SCIENCES VIỆN HẢN LȂM KHOA HỌC XÃ HỘI VIỆT NAM
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi December 4–7, 2018 HOSTED BY VIETNAM ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES VIỆN HẢN LȂM KHOA HỌC XÃ HỘI VIỆT NAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERASIAN CONNECTIONS VI: HANOI 1 For more information, visit: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/interasia-program/ Follow InterAsia Program: www.facebook.com/InterAsiaProgram 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... 3 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................. 5 ORGANIZING PARTNERS ......................................................................................................................... 9 HOST INSTITUTION ................................................................................................................................ 17 A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS .................................................................................................. 19 CONFERENCE AGENDA .......................................................................................................................... 21 Welcome and Opening Remarks....................................................................................................... 25 Plenary: Vietnam: Renovations for Sustainable Development ......................................................... 27 Keynote Address: Social Knowledge and Boundary Crossing .......................................................... 29 CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS .................................................................................................................. 31 WORKSHOP ABSTRACTS & BIOGRAPHIES ............................................................................................. 33 I. Beyond the New Media: Deep Time of Networks and Infrastructural Memory in Asia ................ 35 II. China’s OBOR Initiative and its Impacts for Asian Countries ........................................................ 49 III. Divine/Transcendent Rulers of Imagined Communities .............................................................. 63 IV. Eurasia’s Islamic Socialist Ecumene ............................................................................................. 77 V. Sacred Forests and Political Ecology: Cosmological Properties and Environmentality ................ 89 VI. Sport Mega-Events as Hubs for InterAsian Interactions ............................................................ 105 VII. States of Fortification: Connecting Asia Through Technologies of Food and Health ............... 119 VIII. The Netware of the New Asian Economy Under the Industrial Revolution 4.0 ...................... 133 LOCAL INFORMATION ......................................................................................................................... 147 INDEX OF CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS .............................................................................................. 155 TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 4 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are delighted to welcome you to the conference on InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi. This is the sixth conference in the series (Dubai 2008, Singapore 2010, Hong Kong 2012, Istanbul 2013, and Seoul 2016), which has become an exciting venue enabling the intersection of research agendas and the networking of researchers to develop important and new paradigms on Asian pasts, presents, futures and global connections. The conference is the product of an active collaboration with a growing set of international partners, or hubs. Since 2009, the National University of Singapore Asia Research Institute, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and the Social Science Research Council have worked in partnership to promote InterAsia as a research site, support the development of innovative comparisons, and help build interdisciplinary and international scholars’ networks. These partners have since been joined by Yale University, Goettingen University, Duke University and Seoul National University Asia Center. Our host institution, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, is a long-time collaborator of the SSRC Vietnam Program, working since the mid-1980s to strengthen social science research capacity in Vietnam, as well as an integral collaborator on the substance and logistics of this conference. The InterAsia partnership has consistently expanded the modalities and channels through which it works, thus over the years the biennial conference was augmented by an SSRC program offering junior scholar fellowships for transregional research focusing on “InterAsian Contexts and Connections” (with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), multiple post-doctoral positions have been made available at Yale University (funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies) and a Transregional Virtual Research Initiative (TVRI) focusing on “Media, Activism and the New Political” (funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York) was launched in 2013. All of these partnership activities have been complemented by myriad activities at each of the hub institutions. Looking ahead, we will continue to link research, and promote collaboration in training and teaching on InterAsian themes. This will include an intensive two-week InterAsia Academy, which will focus on training junior scholars, and that we also hope to offer on a biennial basis beginning in 2019. Through the exciting themes presented at this sixth conference in Hanoi we continue exploring new dimensions of the varied connections and continuums that crisscross the Asian expanse, connecting its many parts with one another and with the globe. We thank the Workshop Directors for their hard work in conceptualizing their themes and helping us attract a wide variety of excellent paper contributions and we thank the participants for their enthusiastic response to our call for papers. We are also delighted to welcome important scholars who will help us frame our discussions through the plenary presentations and the keynote lecture, delivered by Alondra Nelson (President, SSRC). WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 5 A large number of institutions and individuals have made this conference possible. Prasenjit Duara would like to thank Duke University’s Vice Provost for Global Strategy and Programs for supporting Duke’s participation in the InterAsian Connections partnership. The Global Asia Initiative, which is Duke’s hub for the InterAsia program with a special interest in the Environmental Humanities, is very pleased to see its concerns reflected in this conference, IAVI in Hanoi. Srirupa Roy would like to thank her colleagues at the University of Goettingen's Transregional and Global Studies Platform who have made this collaboration possible, especially Professors Dominic Sachsenmaier and Rupa Viswanath for their encouragement of transregional research initiatives at Goettingen. The crucial organizational support provided by Dr. Michael Dickhardt, Mr. Matthew Fennessy, and Dr. Karin Klenke is gratefully acknowledged as well. Angela Ki Che Leung would like to thank Helen Siu, the then Honorary Director of the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, for her invaluable support of and advice on this initiative. She also thanks the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong, Zhang Xiang, the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Paul Tam, Vice President and Pro- Vice Chancellor for Research, Andy Hor, and the University’s senior management for their unstinting support to the Institute. She is most grateful to the Institute’s Executive Committee, Advisory Board, donors, colleagues and friends for appreciating our unconventional academic agenda and for providing institutional guidance. Special thanks to the Institute’s staff for their thoughtful planning and hard work. Jonathan Rigg and Engseng Ho would like to thank their colleagues and staff at the Asia Research Institute and the Middle East Institute respectively for their assistance and support. Importantly, the National University of Singapore has committed to funding engagement with the InterAsia Connections initiative since 2009, first through the Office of the Deputy President of Research and more latterly through ARI. SooJin Park would like to thank his colleagues at the Seoul National University Asia Center for their intellectual advice and institutional support for the InterAsia Program, including Prof. Bae-Gyoon Park and Dr. Jong-Cheol Kim. He would also like to acknowledge the administrative support given by Hwasik Yoon, Juliana Lee, and Sunjoo Cheong. Seteney Shami would like to thank SSRC President Alondra Nelson for her support as well as Senior Vice President for Strategic Learning and Special Initiatives, Mary McDonnell for her advice and guidance throughout the life of the project. A special acknowledgement is due to Holly Danzeisen, Associate Director of the SSRC InterAsia program for organizational and substantive support. Helen Siu and Shivi Sivaramakrishnan would like to thank Ian Shapiro, Director of the MacMillan Center, for funds and support to the Inter-Asia Program at Yale since 2008. They offer a special word of thanks to the business office staff of the MacMillan Center. They are also grateful to Jing Tsu, chair of the Council on East Asian Studies, and Mushfiq Mobarak, Chair of the South Asian Studies