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Journal of Urban Culture Research Volume 11 Jul - Dec 2015 Published jointly by Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and Osaka City University, Japan The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the individual author(s) and do not necessarily re!ect the policies or opinions of the Journal (JUCR), it editors and staff, Chulalongkorn University, or Osaka City University. Authors authorize the JUCR to publish their materials both in print and online while retaining their full individual copyright. The copyright of JUCR volumes is retained by Chulalongkorn University. © 2015 BY CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY ISSN 2228 – 8279 (Print) ISSN 2408 – 1213 (Online) JUCR is listed in both the Asean Citation Index – ACI and the Thai-Journal Citation Index – TCI This publication is a non-pro"t educational research journal not for sale. Journal of Urban Culture Research Executive Director Suppakorn Disatapandhu, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Editor in Chief Kjell Skyllstad, University of Oslo, Norway International Editor Alan Kinear, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Contributing Editors Bussakorn Binson, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Shin Nakagawa, Osaka City University, Japan Managing Editor Pornprapit Phoasavadi, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Editorial Board Frances Anderson, College of Charleston, USA Bussakorn Binson, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Naraphong Charassri, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Dan Baron Cohen, Institute of Transformance: Culture and Education, Brazil Gavin Douglas, University of North Carolina, USA Made Mantle Hood, University of Putra, Malaysia Geir Johnson, Music Information Centre MIC-Transposition, Norway Zuzana Jurkova, Charles University, Czech Republic Prapon Kumjim, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Le Van Toan, National Academy of Music, Vietnam Rachel Lev-Wiesel, University of Haifa, Israel Celine Motzfeldt Loades, University of Oslo, Norway Svanibor Pettan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Leon Stefanija, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Deborah Stevenson, University of Western Sydney, Australia Pornsanong Vongsingthong, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Layout & Design Alan Kinear, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Webmaster Alan Kinear, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Contact Information: Journal of Urban Culture Research Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Pathumwan Bangkok, Thailand 10330 Voice/Fax: 662-218-4582 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cujucr.com Cover image under the theme of ‘parks are important’ taken at Japan’s Nakajima Park in Sapporo was provided by Alan Kinear. Contents Editorial Building Partnerships for Change – ASEAN and the Urban Challenge 4 Kjell Skyllstad Editor in Chief Guest Author Performing Transformation in the Community University of the Rivers (Part 2) 6 Dan Baron Cohen (Brazil) Articles Urban Hum: Memory Theater of the City 22 Sandra Uskokovic & Boris Bakal (Croatia) Protecting Cultural Space or Urban Re-colonization: When Do Cultural 38 Districts Cross the Line? Tom Borrup (U.S.A.) Community Building Through Do-it-Yourself Practices and Values in Bangkok’s 58 Rock ’n’ roll Subculture Pablo Ramirez (Thailand) Creating a Contemporary Dance Based on Traditional Techniques and 76 Spirituality Fusing Elements from Lanna (Thailand), Indonesia and Japan Ronnarong Khampa (Thailand) Case Studies Rural to Urban Culture Programs – Implementation Insights 92 Barbara Bauer (Myanmar) Contemporary Textiles for Urban Living – Patterns Derived from Thailand’s 100 Lanna Culture Jaipak Burapajatana & Porsanong Vongsingthong (Thailand) Conference Reports Urban Cultures at the Crossroads – Interuniversity Center 114 Dubrovnik September 2015 Kjell Skyllstad Editor in Chief The Human Face of Radicalization – Fuuse Forum 118 Oslo September 2015 Kjell Skyllstad Editor in Chief Music and Ecology – International Council for Traditional Music – ICTM 120 Ljubljana August 2015 Kjell Skyllstad Editor in Chief Book Review Urban People 124 Alan Kinear International Editor Journal Policies 128 Editorial Building Partner- ships for Change – ASEAN and the Urban Challenge Kjell Skyllstad+ Editor in Chief “Cities should be places where interaction and participation of citizens enable them to meet their own needs and aspirations, and those of the larger community and allowing future generations to meet theirs.” I was reminded of the ambitious aims for urban development set forth by the Brundtland Report “Our Common Future” more than a quarter of a century ago when I participated at a meeting at the Singapore National University arranged by the International Forum of Urbanism and the Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities. In the four years that have since passed, the expected effects of an unbridled urbanization in the South East Asian envisioned at that conference have become a reality in cities across the region. A negative feature of urbanism worldwide has been the unimpeded growth of volatile mega-regions with increasing economic inequality and ethnic polarization fueling incidents of urban violence and leading to an obsession with security and surveillance, gated and guarded compounds ranging from administrative complexes in the city center to the “privatopias” of the western suburbs, shut out from the most glaring examples of social inequality – the favelas and urban slums. On the eve of the implementation of the ASEAN union it seems imperative to + Dr. Kjell Skyllstad, Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo, Department of Musicology, Norway Editorial: Building Partnerships for Change – ASEAN and the Urban Challenge | 5 ask: Is this an urban state of affairs that we will have to accept in the name of “development”? What will happen if the process is left to run its own course unbridled? In December 1997 the leaders of the ASEAN nations met to charter a course for a stronger union with a vision for a “Partnership in Dynamic Development” and a “Community of Caring Societies” to be realized by the year 2020. At the later Bali 4VNNJUJO $PODPSE** UIJTWJTJPOCFDBNFUIFCBTFGPSEFÎOJOHUISFFQJMMBST for the establishment of an ASEAN partnership: A political-security community, an economic community and a socio-cultural community. Finally at the 12th summit in 2007 agreement was reached (the Cebu Declaration) to hasten the integration process, with the aim of establishing the union by 2015. This paved the way for the signing of a legally binding ASEAN charter that entered into force on December 15, 2008. )PXFWFSJOOPOFPGUIFTFEPDVNFOUTPOFXJMMÎOEBDSJUJDBMBOBMZTJTPGIPXUIF ASEAN Union will be prepared to meet the real challenges and problems of a EFWFMPQNFOUBMNPEFMCBTFEPOWBMVFTUIBUCFOFÎUUIFQSJWBUFPWFSUIFQVCMJD TFDUPSBOEDPSQPSBUFQSPÎUPWFSTFSWJOHQFPQMFTBDUVBMOFFET5IFIJTUPSZPG recent global and regional economic and environmental crises including the ongoing crises of the EU shows that a system that is not based on promoting the general well-being of the population at large and, not least, ecological sustainability will not work. There is time for a wake up call and such calls are already resounding throughout our planet. It is a call for building partnerships for change. Realizing the looming risks for the rapidly growing urban regions world wide urban culture researchers have risen to the occasion. New urban studies programs are initiated at academic institutions world wide. The Interuniversity Center of Dubrovnik serving 169 member universities and other academic institutions world wide has opened its doors to host annual conferences bringing together urban culture researchers and activists with the goal of exploring and acknowledging the problems. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to energize a collective response. Government and corporate leaders, armed with the information thus provided, are already leading out in a movement for change. It is our hope that the JUCR and UIF631JOZFBSTUPDPNFXJMMDPOUJOVFUPHFOFSBUFBGSFFÏPXPGJOGPSNBUJPOGPS UIFCFOFÎUBOETVQQPSUPGDPNNVOJUJFTJOUIFXIPMFSFHJPOBOEUIFVSCBOXPSME at large. Guest Author Performing Transformation in the Community University of the Rivers(Part 2) Dan Baron Cohen+ Abstract In this two-part article, I seek to present our emerging Community University of the Rivers through the languages of storytelling (poetry, song, image and theatre) to bring to life the context and pedagogy of Transformance in action, in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco (Portuguese: Dry Hair), founding community of Marabá city, Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. I use this strategy to ensure that you meet and might identify with my collaborators in our Community University of the Rivers, as living subjects. By privileging human narration, I do OPUNFBOUPQSJWJMFHFBDUJPOPWFSSFÏFDUJPO BTPVSESBNBUJDQFSGPSNBODFTBOE our actors are highly analytical. I am simply embedding theoretical concepts and analyses in our lived experience, valuing oratory, in the search for an aesthetics of transformation. This polyphonic, narrative-based (and less-logocentric) methodology is how all our projects develop, and might be more familiar to practitioners-theoreticians in the ‘global south.’ Keywords: Community, Cultural Literacy, Transformance, Art education, Amazon + Dan Baron Cohen, Director, Community University of the Rivers, Rua Quintino Bocaiúva, 238 Cabelo Seco, Marabá, Pará, Amazônia, Brazil. voice: (55) 91-98842-0521 email: [email protected] website: www.riosdeencontro. wordpress.com Guest Author: Performing Transformation in the Community University of the Rivers | 7 This article is published in two parts across volumes