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Flowing Into The Future… Walking on the Kojin bridge, one could spot stone turtles in the Kamo River. CSEAS’s researchers— are those turtles. We do not hurry. We are situated here There are eleven of them. After long hours of torrential rain in the area of by the Kamo River learning and absorbing the freshness of those streams of Mount Sajikigatake, the Kamo tide could be very strong, and the turtles knowledge. drown under the water. When the tide recedes, the turtles reappear to the eyes Staying here for two periods— i.e., six months in 2015 and about fourteen of the passersby. Over the decades, many typhoons have come and gone, and months since October 2018— I have gradually been reminded of a passage in the river rages during those typhoon visits. Yet, most days the water ripples the Analects, where Confucius said: “In strolling in the company of just two along, softly flowing over the riverbed. other persons, I am bound to find a teacher.…” * CSEAS was established in 1965 and has since witnessed successive A turtle can never hurry, but its slowness could become its quiet strength, streams of knowledge, some raging through, others softly flowing along the no matter whether streams of knowledge rage or when they softly flow by Kamo riverbanks. Over the years, CSEAS has gradually transformed itself the riverbanks. Even the grandmaster Confucius can learn from others; who into a kind of contact zone for friends from around the world, visiting us are we to not keep our heads down and humbly learn from those streams of with a dazzling array of streams of knowledge. In many ways, some of us— knowledge that have taken us along, flowing into the future?

TANGSEEFA, Decha By the Kamo River November 28, 2019

* Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, Jr. 1998. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 7:22.

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By The Kamo River Kamo The By Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 2019/2020 University Kyoto Studies, Asian Southeast for Center

Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan Tel : +81-75-753-7302 Fax : +81-75-753-7350 https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ Kyoto University ©Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University ISBN: 978-4-906332-41-0 Production/Cooperation: Kyoto Tsushinsha Press Design: Mikiko Nakamura (Nakasone Design)

By The Kamo River

Message from the Editor

Flowing Into The Future… Walking on the Kojin bridge, one could spot stone turtles in the Kamo River. CSEAS’s researchers— are those turtles. We do not hurry. We are situated here There are eleven of them. After long hours of torrential rain in the area of by the Kamo River learning and absorbing the freshness of those streams of Mount Sajikigatake, the Kamo tide could be very strong, and the turtles knowledge. drown under the water. When the tide recedes, the turtles reappear to the eyes Staying here for two periods— i.e., six months in 2015 and about fourteen of the passersby. Over the decades, many typhoons have come and gone, and months since October 2018— I have gradually been reminded of a passage in the river rages during those typhoon visits. Yet, most days the water ripples the Analects, where Confucius said: “In strolling in the company of just two along, softly flowing over the riverbed. other persons, I am bound to find a teacher.…” * CSEAS was established in 1965 and has since witnessed successive A turtle can never hurry, but its slowness could become its quiet strength, streams of knowledge, some raging through, others softly flowing along the no matter whether streams of knowledge rage or when they softly flow by Kamo riverbanks. Over the years, CSEAS has gradually transformed itself the riverbanks. Even the grandmaster Confucius can learn from others; who into a kind of contact zone for friends from around the world, visiting us are we to not keep our heads down and humbly learn from those streams of with a dazzling array of streams of knowledge. In many ways, some of us— knowledge that have taken us along, flowing into the future?

TANGSEEFA, Decha By the Kamo River November 28, 2019

* Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, Jr. 1998. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 7:22. Research Divisions and Staff Director,s Message Research DivisionsResearch and Staff

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1 2 3 1 Division of Cross-regional Studies 4 Division of Environmental Coexistence The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is now in cial science-based thinking, in order to create its third year since its new foundation in January new paradigms of sustainable co-existence in Cross-regional Studies Political and Economic Coexistence Social Coexistence 1. ANDO, Kazuo, Professor 1. HARA, Shoichiro, Professor 2017 through the merging of two Centers—the the Anthropocene. Moreover, throughout our This division fosters area studies ap- This division analyzes and develops rel- This division explores changing interac- Center for Southeast Asian Studies, established proaches through dynamic develop- evant frameworks for studying and com- tions among culture, society, and ecology in 1965 and the Center for Integrated Area ment of both information resources paring dynamic political and economic in both contemporary and historical pe- 2. HAYAMI, Yoko, Professor/Director 2. KONO, Yasuyuki, Professor Studies, established in 2006. Towards our mis- research.half-century To ofeffectively existence, seek first relevant and foremost, questions we and pioneering studies at the cross-re- transformations in Southeast Asia and riods, aiming to advocate social coexis- 3. KOBAYASHI, Satoru, Associate Professor 3. YAMAZAKI, Wataru, Professor 5. SAKAMOTO, Ryota, Associate Professor sion to promote holistic area studies of South- andhave conduct maintained cutting a field-based edge research, approach we are in forour- gional level. It aims to develop area beyond. Attempting both to understand tence among members of different soci- 4. NISHI, Yoshimi, Associate Professor 4. KOZAN, Osamu, Associate Professor 6. THUN, Theara, Program Specific Researcher east Asia and beyond, as of October 2019 we tunate to have a wide network of collaborators the transformations and to concretely eties in Southeast Asia and beyond. The 5. YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki, Associate Professor work together with 34 full-time faculty mem- and colleagues both within and beyond campus, through basic research as well as so- and constructively contribution to those division’s research covers a broad array 7. KITANI, Kimiya, Assistant Professor 6. YANAGISAWA, Masayuki, Associate Professor bers from the natural sciences, the social sci- domestically and internationally. cialstudies cooperation that benefit and thepractice-oriented public sphere regions, the division constantly collabo- of issues, including social, religious, and 7. FUJIKURA, Yasuko, JSPS Research Fellow ences, and the humanities, in addition to almost In July 2019, we experienced the sudden and research. rates with regional stakeholders. linguistic transformations; the politics of 8. SHIRAISHI, Hanako, JSPS Research Fellow 8. OGAWA, Mariko, Assistant Professor sad passing away of our former colleague Pro- culture and knowledge production; fam- 9. FREY, Urszula, Assistant Professor, Program Specific Faculty percent non-Japanese researchers, from young fessor Emeritus Mitsuaki Nishibuchi, who has ily and gender; and sexuality. 11. 110 affiliated researchers. With more than 20 10. NAKAGAWA, Hikaru, Assist. Prof., Program Specific Faculty post-doc researchers to distinguished senior left us a rich heritage of his own research as 2 Division of scholars, whose specializations range widely, I - POZSGAI ALVAREZ, Joseph, Assist. Prof., Program Specific Faculty Political and Economic Coexistence ciplinary cooperation, and global collegiality. 12. FUKUHARA, Ryuichi, Program Specific Researcher well as the spirit of scientific probing, inter-dis - community of scholars. This, I believe, is most Our community is reinforced by welcoming new 13. KWAN, Soo Chen, Program Specific Researcher am proud to say that we are truly a diversified 2. KISHI, Toshihiko, Professor iated Assoc. Prof. appropriate for researching Southeast Asia and 1. FUJITA, Koichi, Professor 14. W ATANABE, Kazuo, Program Specific Researcher/Affil areas beyond, and also for tackling the increas- who takes over after Professor Nishibuchi as a 3. OKAMOTO, Masaaki, Professor 15. HUA, Xiaobo, Researcher faculty members: Professor Wataru Yamazaki,

E ingly diverse issues we face in this world full food hygiene and animal infectious disease spe- POLITICS CONOMY - cialist; Associate Professor Tomohiro Machikita, 4. CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin, Associate Professor lenged to move beyond disciplinary as well as an economist working on labor economics and 6. SIANI, Edoardo, Program Specific Researcher of instabilities and uncertainties. We are chal 5. NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro, Associate Professor regional boundaries to examine emerging con- industrial development; Assistant Professors 7. ADACHI, Mari, Researcher 5 Division of Global Humanosphere cerns that we share globally, such as environ- Atsushi Kobayashi, an Asian economic historian; 4 5 mental degradation, infectious diseases, aging Mariko Ogawa, a radar meteorologist, and Hikaru Environmental Coexistence Global Humanosphere populations, global warming, natural disasters, - This division employs interdisciplinary This division engages in critical analyses 1. DE JONG, Wil, Professor poverty and inequality, discrimination, and po- more, we have a line-up of promising young re- Nakagawa, a river and fish ecologist. Further approaches across the natural sciences, of global transformations occurring in 2. ISHIKAWA, Noboru, Professor searchers whom we have recruited internation- medical sciences, and informatics to study Division of Social Coexistence 3. MIENO, Fumiharu, Professor/Deputy Director - ally, who inspire us with their ground-breaking a wide variety of issues affecting the geo- on urgent economic, political, and so- 3 ieslitical, can religious, enhance or otherinter-disciplinary conflicts. research the twenty-first century. In its research 4. MURAKAMI, Yusuke, Professor sphere, biosphere, and human sphere. cio-cultural issues, the division attempts 1. HAU, Caroline Sy, Professor 6. MACHIKITA, Tomohiro, Associate Professor to goWe far aim beyond to further the questionsquestion howformed area within stud Center, which houses most of our visiting as well 5. LOPEZ, Mario Ivan, Associate Professor These issues include ecological wellbeing, to transgress contemporary disciplinary disciplines, to seek innovative ways to arrive asresearch younger and researchers, enthusiasm. is Thecurrently East Wingundergoing of our natural resources management, human boundaries across the social and natural 3. BAUTISTA, Julius, Associate Professor at solutions. Each discipline provides us with - 2. KOIZUMI, Junko, Professor/Deputy Director and animal health as well as diseases in - 7. KOBAYASHI, Atsushi, Assistant Professor new research methodologies, which are inspir- convenience caused by this, and we look forward Southeast Asia and beyond. The division ward the coexistence of both the human 8. DELOS REYES, Julie Ann, Program Specific Researcher - torenovation. the renovated We apologize building, to which visitors we for hope any will in aims to develop knowledge and theories andsciences, non-human and aims communities. to find pathways to 4. OBIYA, Chika, Associate Professor 6. ONO, Mikiko, Assistant Professor ingly involved in transdisciplinary endeavors, provide space for further exciting research as on the long-term sustainability of human 5. TANGSEEFA, Decha, Associate Professor connectinging and full withof potential. people outsideWe are ofalso academia, increas well as enhance the spirit of collegiality. 7. SHITARA, Narumi, Assistant Professor societies and human-nature coexistence. such as journalists, artists, civil activists, and - administrators. tion and cooperation. We sincerely seek your continued collabora 8. DAMALEDO, Andrey, Program Specific Researcher - ings of the hard sciences, our core approach andWhile how wewe gain think from about the newissues tools and and regions find Director For staff research interests see must be grounded in sound humanistic and so- https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/staff-page/

HAYAMI, Yoko

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Flagship Projects Japan-ASEAN Platform for Transdisciplinary Studies International Program of Collaborative Research (IPCR) https://japan-asean.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/ https://ipcr.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

To advance transdisciplinary research 1. Two-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program versity’s academic community as well as in Bangkok and Jakarta. Type II is intensive Asia. Type VI is individual studies by gradu- Research ActivitiesResearch ActivitiesResearch that draws upon the expertise and This program selects excellent young re- collaborative research involving CSEAS staff and strategic studies in collaboration with ate students and young researchers. Lastly, Having been qualified as one of the Joint knowledge of academic, government, searchers through an international open and researchers, NGOs, members of busi- of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and CSEAS Visiting Fellows. Type III is document Type VII supports young researchers to at- Usage/Research Centers by the Ministry and civil society actors in a coordinated recruitment, aiming to nurture next gen- ness communities and government person- Technology-Japan (MEXT) since April 2010, sharing through use of the CSEAS library re- tend international conferences by taking ad- manner, this collaborative research plat- erations of scholars of transdisciplinary nel from the ASEAN region. The program - pository. Type IV is exploratory studies for vantages of CSEAS’s international network form brings together scholars and practi- area studies. participants conduct research on their own laborative research in Southeast Asian stud- larger-scale research projects. Type V is a to publicize their research achievements. the IPCR Center promotes international col tioners from Southeast Asia. 2. ASEAN Local Initiative initiative for a period of two years. ies with an emphasis on (1) integrating be- publication grant of Kyoto Area Studies on The platform emphasizes an estab- This initiative supports visits to Kyoto Uni- tween the humanities and natural sciences lishment of new relationships between and collaborating with local peoples and International Collaborative Research Japan and Southeast Asia. Instead of ap- Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) societies, (2) strengthening its function as Type Ⅳ: Exploratory Area Studies Southeast Asian studies' Business community a hub in Asia of historical documents and Type I: Field-based Area Studies plying paradigms that originate in the Aiming at Larger-scale interdisciplinary community (Science and technology, Using Liaison Offices northern hemisphere to the south, it pri- (Promotion of interdisciplinary industrial development) research materials on Southeast Asian stud- Research Projects oritizes local realities and focuses on the research) ies, and (3) publishing world class academic Type II: Intensive and Strategic production of new knowledge by learn- Coordination Collaboration Type VI: Individual Research Program Area Studies in Collaboration for Fostering Young Scholars with CSEAS Visiting Fellows ing from local researchers and practi- Government/Municipalities Civil society NGO provides joint-use opportunities to share Administrative community NGO/Citizens' groups journals and monograph series. IPCR also tioners. The platform currently promotes facilities and equipment such as the CSEAS (Administrative support) (Resolution of social issues) Type : Dispatch Program for Young researchers Type III: Document Sharing through Ⅶ library, map collection and other documents Young Scholars to Join two programs: Use of the CSEAS Repository Strengthening of coordination and collaboration between new and existing communities; International Conferences promotion of project-based research (problem-solving research); nurturing of young researchers - vides a variety of support on a competitive related to area studies. Moreover, IPCR pro basis through the following seven types International Publications

Type V: Publication of Kyoto Area Studies on Asia Japan-ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Platform (JASTIP) of research collaboration. Type I is field- http://jastip.org/en/ based studies that utilize our liaison offices

Started in 2015, this project aims to estab- biodiversity, and disaster prevention. lish a solid platform of Japan-ASEAN collab- The Energy and Environment Joint genetic resources as a key principle. Center for Information Resources of Area Studies (CIRAS) oration on science, technology, and innova- Laboratory, located in Thailand, drives motes Addressing Access and an Benefit-Sharing early-warning (ABS) system of https://ciras.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ (Japanese only) tion research, and to accelerate the delivery the implementation of renewable energy for large-scale natural disasters is the top of research outcomes in order to address schemes, in particular, the utilization of priority agenda item of ASEAN and Japan. to situate those localities in the global con- search outcomes of all projects funded by the emerging challenges facing ASEAN so- To that end, the Disaster Prevention Joint - text in order to gain comprehensive un- - The Center for Information Resources of cieties, and in turn, to achieve Sustainable “Solvent treatment,” used to draw on low- Laboratory, located in , develops search Center with two primary functions: derstanding of varieties of topics in area shop in order to exchange ideas with schol- Area Studies (CIRAS) is a Joint Usage/Re CIRAS must be presented at a CIRAS work Development Goals (SDGs) as the common rankbiomass biomass in non-electrified and charcoal, is rural expected areas. to technologies and practical applications (1) Integrating and Sharing of Information studies. ars from different disciplines and other proj- agenda of ASEAN and Japan. In order to to reduce disaster risks. These include - strengthen cooperative research networks The Bioresources and Biodiversity Joint - moting of Cross-regional Area Studies. academics and non-academics, and the re- arena of interdisciplinary studies in Japan. Resources for Area Studies, and (2) Pro CIRAS accepts applications from both ects. In this way CIRAS functions as a central and foster partnerships among stakehold- Laboratory,benefit rural located communities. in , covers off-Inundation models, analysis of the (1) Integrating and Sharing of Informa- forecasting flood risks by Rainfall-Run ers and actors in ASEAN and Japan, JASTIP biodiversity conservation, bioprospecting hydrological cycle of peat swamps, and Advice, Selection of has established three joint laboratories in - research on the effects of upstream dams of two components, namely, a resource Advice Collaborative Researches tion Resources for Area Studies consists terials, microbial utilization for biomass on downstream sedimentation in the sharing system and a construction of an CIRAS steering committee Report Report CIRAS committee and the environment, bioresources and conversion,of tropical plants, and efficientbioremediation. use of wood It proma- integrated database. The resource sharing the region focusing on three fields: energy system is a common platform that allows Goal 13 : Climate action Mekong River. cross-searches of different types of infor- SDGs CIRAS Integration and Sharing of Information Three joint labs mation stored in various institutions. The Promotion of Cross-regional Goal 17 : Partnership Resources for Area Studies Area Studies Energy and Environment Lab, National Science and Technology Goal 7 : Affordable integrated database has a gateway through (Area Informatics) Development Agency, Thailand (NSTDA) Stable energy supply and clean energy which information input can be done easily.

Bioresources and Biodiversity Lab, Goal 15 : Life on land Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Efficient and wise use of biodiversity construct a basic platform to enable a wide rangeThrough of thesearea components,studies data CIRASto be aimsshared to Disaster Prevention Lab, Malaysia-Japan International Goal 11 : among different institutions and to en- Institute of Technology (MJIIT) Disaster risk reduction Sustainable cities and communities hance the presentation of study results. Categories Supporting programs for ・Promotion of young scholars ・Young scholars (2) Promoting of Cross-regional Area ・Methodologies for area studies ・Database construction Partnership and Networking JASTIP-Net: An incubator for new research collaborations toward establishing a science, technology and innovation plat- ・Publication • Fostering partnerships among researchers and form for achieving UN SDGs ・Collaboration with JCAS Studies aims not only to understand the ・Collaboration project other stakeholders JASTIP-Net is an incubating scheme to expand JASTIP activities across the ASEAN region, thus contributing to strengthening the network of Japan-ASEAN collaborative research. • Promoting transdisciplinary research toward Upon research proposals to address social challenges, researchers from Japan and ASEAN jointly carry out research to create solutions. local uniqueness of a study area, but also achieving sustainable development

6 7 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Projects CSEAS scholars have been awarded funding for various interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics under the Grants-in-Aid for

ScientificPrincipal Investigator Research ProjectsTitle run by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Period (FY) Category Comparative Area Dynamics of the Disturbance and Conservation of Eco-Resources of the Asian Maritime World 2016–19 The Visual Documentary Project (VDP) YAMADA, Isamu and the Inner Eurasian Continent HARA, Shoichiro Construction of an Information Infrastructure to Support Sharing and Utilization of “Knowledge of Areas” 2016–19 https://vdp.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/ SHIMIZU, Hiromu Anthropology of Respons-Ability: Exploring Principle and Method in the Field, at Home, and in Education 2016–20 The Visual Documentary Project (VDP) of the region, present issues in Southeast ANDO, Kazuo A Practice-Oriented Area Study Challenging Global Issues Based on Zaichi no Kyodo (Local Knowledge) in Asia 2016–20

Research ActivitiesResearch Scientific Research A ActivitiesResearch New Development Stage of South Asian Agriculture and Rural Economy: Comprehensive Study on Increased 2016–20 was set up in 2012 to offer a platform Asia to broader global audiences. Since FUJITA, Koichi Mobility of Land and Labor 2012, VDP has tapped into the rich doc- OKUMIYA, Kiyohito Neurodegenerative Diseases in Papua, Indonesia: Transition of Clinical Type 2017–21 share their realities through documenta- umentaries that are produced in the re- Ancient East-West Corridor: Historical Dynamics of Communication Networks in Mainland Southeast Asia 2018–21 ries.to young It aims Southeast to present Asian a fresh filmmakers perspective to gion and stimulated discussion within ac- SHIBAYAMA, Mamoru Comparative Anatomy of Political Transition in Southeast Asia: Exploring Interactions between Local Traditions 2019–22 on the region through the medium of doc- ademic communities as to how Southeast KOBAYASHI, Satoru and Globalism Asians are presenting their own realities YAMADA, Isamu Collaborative Studies of Local Eco-Resources with Foreign Researchers 2016–19 Investigation of the Hydrological Process of Tropical Peat Wetlands and Study on Water and Vegetation 2016–19 KOZAN, Osamu Management for Fire Protection under Large-Scale Development Eachumentary year filmthe andproject act asreceives a bridge documen between- are held in Japan and internationally, and filmmaking and the academic community. and interests. Each year film screenings YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki Hybridity and Border-Crossing in Producing and Circulating Films in 20th Century Southeast Asia 2016–19 - past submissions are used as teaching Participating directors, Japan Foundation Asia Center staff, and faculty International Comparative Studies of the Relationship between Public Diplomacy and Local Consciousness in and staff from CSEAS at Tokyo Women's Plaza (Dec.14, 2019) 2017–19 materials by scholars in Japan. KISHI, Toshihiko East Asia during the 1940s–1960s taries on a specific theme, aiming to chal KONO, Yasuyuki Agenda Setting in Southeast Asian Agriculture and Rural Studies toward Sustainable Development 2017–20 Scientific Research B lenge viewers to rethink how filmmakers, ONO, Mikiko Study of Thought Trends in 3 Countries of Indochina through Analysis of Periodicals Database 2017–20 with their fingers on the multiple pulses Year Theme HAU, Caroline Sy Network Analysis on Elite Circulation in Southeast Asia 2019–21 “Care” in Southeast Asia: Every Day 2012 NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro De-territorialization of the International Regime and Nation-State Backlash: The Case of the Northern Rakhine Crisis 2019–21 and into the Future Land Ownership and Peatland Restoration in Indonesia 2019–22 Plural Co-existence MIZUNO, Kosuke 2013 in Southeast Asia OKAMOTO, Masaaki Area Studies and Big Data Analysis for the Reconsideration of Good Governance Framework in Indonesia 2019–22 Fostering Joint People and Nature Development of Disaster and Hydro-meteorological Information Management System in Tropical Peatland, International Research B 2014 2019–22 in Southeast Asia KOZAN, Osamu Indonesia Cohort Study of Advance Care Planning for End of Life from the Viewpoint of Comprehensive Geriatric Human Flows: Movement WADA, Taizo 2015–19 2015 Assessment in Southeast Asia Fluctuating Narratives of Aging: Dynamics of Social Relationships Surrounding Elder Care in Rural and Urban HAYAMI, Yoko 2017–19 Politics in Everyday Life Northern Thailand 2016 Formation of Social Relationships among Karen Refugees in Everyday Activities: Observations Based on the 2017–19 in Southeast Asia NAOI, Riyo Production of a Documentary Film 2017 Urban Life in Southeast Asia IIZUKA, Noriko Modularization of Land-Based Wisdom of Sustainability by Cross Cultural Comparison and Its Application to Education 2017–19

2018 Popular Culture in Southeast Asia ISHIKAWA, Noboru Social Formation of Borneo: Estuary, Riverine, and Inter-Riverine Connectivities 2017–20 Reconsideration of Bulletin Journals: Demonstration of Their Significance Based on Citation Analysis and 2019 Justice 2017–20 SHITARA, Narumi Concrete Suggestions for Their Development KOIZUMI, Junko The Chakri Reform and China/Chinese Issues 2018–20 Scientific Research C Elucidation of Environmental Dynamics of Campylobacter Species and Development of a Seamless Scheme for 2018–20 YAMAZAKI, Wataru the Control of Food Poisoning CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin The Preah Vihear Conflict: Competing Concepts of Sovereign Territory between Siam and France 2018–20

HIRAMATSU, Hideki Study on Japanese Images as Orientalism in the Era of King Rama VI and King Rama VII 2018–20

FUJISAWA, Michiko Preventive Study for Clinical Course of Dementia 2018–22

MACHIKITA, Tomohiro Temporary and Foreign Workers in Local Labor Markets 2019–22

WADA, Taizo Empirical Research on Advance Care Planning at the Community Level 2019–22

Where Do Monkeys Get Malaria Parasites? Flying Traps for Tree-top Mosquitoes 2016–19 Challenging Exploratory MASUDA, Gaku Research Major Completed Projects KOBAYASHI, Atsushi Empirical Study of Southeast Asian Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century: Focus on Imports and Consumption 2017–19 Young Scientists B Establishment of the Environmental Assessment Method for a Stream with Forest Floor Degradation Due to Deer NAKAGAWA, Hikaru 2019–20 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(Mext) Global COE Program (FY2007–11) Overconsumption in Its Catchment Area SIANI, Edoardo Can the Divine Pollute? An Ethnographic Enquiry into Contemporary Buddhist Spirit Mediumship in Bangkok 2019–20 In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa Early-Career Scientists http://www.humanosphere.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/ DAMALEDO, Andrey Transnationalism and the Changing Concepts of Peacebuilding in Southeast Asia 2019–21

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Asian Core Program (FY2009–13) KAWAMOTO, Kanae On Pa-Auk Buddhist Meditation Lineage in Myanmar 2019–21

ADACHI, Mari An Empirical Study on the Difference of Zakat Institutionalization in Southeast Asia 2019–20 Asian Connections: Southeast Asian Connection for the 21st Century Research Activity Start-up HUA, Xiaobo Agrarian Transformations under Small-scale Agribusiness Investment for Fruit Crops in the China-ASEAN Borderland 2019–20 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Challenge to Ethnography of My Culture: A Perspective on Post-War Japan from Yokosuka under the Shadow 2017–19 Challenging Research Large-Scale Research Program: Promoting the Study of Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia (FY 2011–16) SHIMIZU, Hiromu of America (Exploratory) Democratization and Industrial Relations: Musyawarah-based Industrial Dispute Settlement and an Origin of the MIZUNO, Kosuke 2019 Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere Activism in Indonesia https://sea-sh.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/ CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin Unravelling Myanmar's Transition 2019 Publication of Scientific Visualizing Area Studies: Finding Resonance in Making a Documentary Film about Social Relations among HIV- Research Results Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 2019 NAOI, Riyo positive People in Northern Thailand Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation (FY2012–14) SERIZAWA, Takamichi Writing History in America's Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism 2019 Construction of a Global Platform for the Study of Sustainable Humanosphere http://brain.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/program-outline/ For details: https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research/grant-in-aid-other-funding/

8 9 Publications https://edit.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/

Since its beginning, CSEAS has prioritized publishing re- make available globally the outputs of CSEAS in collabo- Information and Field Science (In Japanese) search results. The academic journal Tonan Ajia Kenkyu ration with Ateneo de Manila University Press. The Series 6. Toward an Understanding of Nature-Human began with the founding of the Center. Since the 1960s, seeks to cultivate works that will make significant contribu- Relation Embedded in the Landscape monographs have been published in both Japanese and tions to the field of Southeast Asian and Philippine studies, YANAGISAWA Masayuki. 2019. in English, and over the years CSEAS has engaged in var- from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. ious publication initiatives. A complete list of CSEAS pub- In 2019 CSEAS also began introducing our new mono- lications is available on the website of the Editorial Office. graphs and new books from the Center’s staff via introduc- In 2019 the Center established the Kyoto CSEAS Se- tory videos on YouTube. These videos can be viewed on the Journals

Publications ries on Philippine Studies. The Series aims to promote and Editorial Office’s website. Since its first publication in 1963, the bi- Tonan Ajia Kenkyu was reorganized as a bian- Publications Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian lingual quarterly Tonan Ajia Kenkyu has re- nual Japanese journal. Reflecting the Center’s Studies (Tonan Ajia Kenkyu) flected the Center for Southeast Asian Stud- fieldwork-based, multidisciplinary, and con- https://kyoto-seas.org/ Monographs ies’ strong commitment to publishing the temporary approaches, both journals publish Published twice a year (January, July) https://edit.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/monographs/ best of empirically grounded, multidisci- work from various fields of study on South- plinary, comparative, and contemporary re- east Asia, including the natural sciences, social CSEAS publishes seven series for the presen- Southeast Asia and beyond. CSEAS receives series has a different emphasis in terms of search on Southeast Asia. sciences, and arts and humanities. Southeast tation of original academic studies contrib- manuscripts from within and outside Japan, the types of material and the regions covered. Southeast Asian Studies In 2012, CSEAS launched Southeast Asian Asian Studies is indexed in: (a) Scopus, run by https://englishkyoto-seas.org/ uting to the development of area studies, in with special emphasis on Asian authors. Each For details, please visit our website. Studies as its sister all-English journal in order Elsevier; (b) Emerging Sources Citation Index Published three times a year (April, to reach broader international audiences, and (ESCI), run by Clarivate Analytics. August, December) Series Language Publisher Published Titles Open for applicants Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies English University of Hawai`i Press 21 Kyoto Area Studies on Asia English Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press 25 Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies Frontiers of Area Studies English Kyoto University Press, partly with Trans Pacific Press 4 Kyoto University Press and NUS Press, partly with Ateneo de https://edit.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kyoto-working-papers-on-area-studies/ Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies English 20 Manila University Press Kyoto Working Papers on Area Studies is a Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (CAAS); and, the Center for Southeast Kyoto CSEAS Series on Philippine Studies English Kyoto University Press and Ateneo de Manila University Press 1 series published jointly by the three area Studies (ASAFAS); the Center for African Area Asian Studies (CSEAS). CSEAS Monographs Japanese Sobunsha 24* studies institutions of Kyoto University: the Kyoto Area Studies on Asia Japanese Kyoto University Press 38 Frontiers of Area Studies Japanese Kyoto University Press 6 Not open for applicants Area Studies on Disaster Risk Management Japanese Kyoto University Press 5 Japan-ASEAN Transdisciplinary Studies Working Paper Series Information and Field Science (Booklet Series) Japanese Kyoto University Press 6 Exploring Area Studies Japanese Seikyusha 3 https://japan-asean.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/tdwp/ Asia-Pacific Area Studies Japanese Kyoto University Press 1 Japan-ASEAN Transdisciplinary Studies ter for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), tion of research findings on transdisci- Series Asia Pacific Studies Japanese Kokusai Shoin 3 Working Paper Series (TDWPS) has been Kyoto University, to promote transdis- plinary studies and facilitate active dis- * Not published since 1991 established at the Japan-ASEAN Transdis- ciplinary research. The TDWPS aims to cussions with a wider audience. ciplinary Studies Project (J-ASEAN), Cen- serve as a platform for rapid dissemina- New Publications Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies 34. A Village without Daughters: Bride Short- 38. Visualizing Area Studies: Finding Reso- Networked: Business and Politics in Decentral- age, Marriage Migration and Women’s Be- nance in Making a Documentary Film about CIRAS Discussion Paper Series izing Indonesia, 1998–2004 longing among the Lahu of Southwest China Social Relations among HIV-positive People in https://ciras.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/research-outcome/publications/#dp Wahyu PRASETYAWAN. 2018. HORIE Mio. 2018. Northern Thailand The 22nd OKITA Memorial Prize for Interna- NAOI Riyo. 2019. The CIRAS (Center for Information Resources those involved in the CIRAS joint research tated bibliographies, and records on work- of Area Studies) Discussion Paper Series is projects. In addition to papers, this series re- shops and symposia, having CIRAS faculty Kyoto CSEAS Series on Philippine Studies tional Development Research published to ensure the quick release of re- leases a variety of research results, such as overseeing the editorial process. A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Ur- Series Asia Pacific Studies (In Japanese) search results by CSEAS faculty members and research reports, reference materials, anno- banization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines 35. Potentialities of Care in Southeast Asia: 1. Political Dynamics of “Populism”: Deepen- Michael D. PANTE. 2019. Practice of Life’s Connectivities ing Social Cleavages and Authoritarianization HAYAMI Yoko, ed. 2019. MURAKAMI Yusuke, ed. 2018. Online Academic Community of Southeast Asia Kyoto Area Studies on Asia 25. Grassroots Globalization: Reforestation and 36. Debt-Slave and Land Mortgage Contracts 2. Income Disparity in Latin America: Histori- Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia Cultural Revitalization in the Philippine Cordilleras in the 18th–19th Centuries Burma: Another cal Origin, Globalization, and Social Policy https://kyotoreview.org/ SHIMIZU Hiromu. Translated by Alexander Interpretation of Early Modern Southeast HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki, ed. 2018. BROWN. 2019. Asian Societies The Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (KRSEA) knowledge of Southeast Asian countries, we on Southeast Asia and provides a platform * The Japanese original of this book won the Japan SAITO Teruko. 2019. 3. Remaining Japanese in Sakhalin and Post- was launched to promote exchange among use translation to facilitate informed discus- for them to disseminate their work through Academy Prize in 2017 and the 11th Japanese war Japan: Post-war History in the Japan- intellectual communities of Southeast Asia. sion. Edited by Pavin Chachavalpongpun, it is CSEAS’s extensive networks across the globe. Society of Cultural Anthropology Award in 2016. 37. A Study on Kartini’s Letters: Comparing Soviet Borderland Each issue is organized around a theme and the only journal that publishes articles in six KRSEA logged page views: 453,823 (period: Door Duisternis tot Licht with Brieven NAKAYAMA Taisho. 2019. reviews recent work, especially books pub- languages: English, Japanese, Thai, Bahasa 2018/4/1 to 2019/3/30) Kyoto Area Studies on Asia (In Japanese) TOMINAGA Yasuyo. 2019.  The 9th Japan Consortium for Area Studies lished in the region and in local languages. Indonesia, Filipino, and Vietnamese. More- KRSEA site visitors: 320,064 (period: 33. Production of History: Narrating and Si- Award for Budding Scholar Recognizing that mutual inaccessibility of over, the “Trendsetters” column promotes 2018/4/1 to 2019/3/30) lencing Southeast Asia’s Past national languages is a barrier to deepening works by intellectuals who conduct research KOIZUMI Junko, ed. 2018.

10 11 Featured Publications This section showcases some of the works that were published between January 2018 and March 2020.

CSEAS Faculty Members ISHIKAWA, Noboru Noboru Ishikawa; Ryoji Soda, eds. 2019. Books Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Human–Nature Interfaces on the Plantation Frontier. : Springer Nature.

HAU, Caroline S. The studies in this volume provide an eth- hydrology, ichthyology, geomorphology, Caroline S. Hau. 2018. nography of a plantation frontier in cen- and life-cycle assessment. Interpreting Rizal: Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Reticence, Revelation, tral Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing Collectively, the transdisciplinary re- and Revolution in Jose Rizal's Novels/Daydreaming about Rizal and Tetchō on Asianism as Network and Fantasy (Co-authored with Shiraishi Takashi). on the expertise of both natural scientists search addresses a number of vital ques- Publications Publications Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. and social scientists, the key focus is the tions. How are material cycles and food webs altered as a result of large-scale land- This book collects two long essays on counter in the late 1880s between Rizal that has turned the local landscape into use change? How have new commodity process of the commodification of nature Jose Rizal and his writings. The essays and Japanese people’s rights activist anthropogenic tropical forests. Analyzing chains emerged while older ones have dis- are concerned with the issue of inter- - the transformation of the space of mixed appeared? What changes are associated pretation and its role not only in imagin- tasies about pan-Asianist solidarity on landscapes and multiethnic communi- with such shifts? What are the relationships ing Rizal, but also in making, unmaking, Suehirothe part Tetchōof Suehiro, gave as rise seen to elaboratein his Oshi fan no ties—driven by trade in forest products, among these three elements—commodity and remaking community. Generations Ryokou (1889), but, tellingly, not on the logging, and the cultivation of oil palm— chains, material cycles, and food webs? At- of Filipinos have read Rizal and his writ- part of Rizal, whose sober, realistic as- the contributors explore the changing na- tempts to answer these questions led the ings in accordance with their own times, sessment of the geopolitical situation in ture of the environment, multispecies in- team to go beyond the dichotomy of soci- in light of their own interests, concerns, Asia made him more wary of Asianism teractions, and the metabolism between ety and nature, or human and non-human. and agenda. Such fantasies about Rizal as an ideology and political project (even capitalism and nature. Rather, the research highlights the complex are by no means limited to latter-day as his optimistic view of American inten- The project involved the collaboration relational entanglements of the two, which Filipinos who have come to look at Rizal tions was proven wrong). In decades to of researchers specializing in anthro- are abruptly and forcibly connected by hu- as a national hero. Rizal in his time also in- come, different kinds of nation- and re- pology, geography, Southeast Asian his- man-induced changes in an emergent and spired the organization Katipunan, even gion-based “social daydreaming” and po- tory, global history, area studies, political compelling resource frontier in maritime though Rizal would disavow his author- litical projects would animate scholarly ecology, environmental economics, plant Southeast Asia. ship of the 1896 revolution. Rizal would and popular accounts of Rizal and the ecology, animal ecology, forest ecology, also inspire non-Filipinos. A chance en- Rizal-Suehiro meeting. BAUTISTA, Julius Julius Bautista. 2019. KISHI, Toshihiko The Way of the Cross: Suffering Selfhoods in the Roman Catholic Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Toshihiko Kishi. 2019. 『비주얼 미디어로 보는 만주국:포스터·그림엽서·우표 』 (Visualizing Manchurian Empire: Posters, Postcards and Stamps). Every year during Holy Week in the Catholic Church, most observers and Seoul: Somyung Publishing. (In Korean) Philippine province of Pampanga, hun- scholars view them as an irrational and dreds of men and women undergo acts extremist mimicry of Christ’s painful or- app.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/infolib/meta_ deal. Instead, this study demonstrates that publishing Visualizing Manchurian Em- pub/G0000021MAN). After publishing the Way of the Cross: the torment and Passion rituals are reinterpretations of the In March 2019, nine years after first of self-inflicted pain in ways that evoke very idea and experience of pain, hard- pire in Japanese 『( 満 洲 国 のビジュアル・メディ Visualizing Manchurian Empire, my ac- days of his earthly existence. This book ship, and suffering, and are premised on ア』), I am honored that it has now been tivities have been introduced to overseas crucifixion that Christ endured in the last translated into Korean by Professor research groups, such as the Association is an in-depth ethnographic analysis of an appeal for a certain kind of empower- Jeon Kyung-Sun of Dong-A University, cre- for Asian Studies in East Asia, Europe, three of these “Passion rituals.” These are ment and divine intimacy. ating an opportunity for Korean readers and the United States. As a result, my aca- (1) the pabasa, a days-long communal The book draws upon on a decade of to read it. As mentioned in the “After- demic exchanges have expanded interna- chanting of Christ’s Passion story; (2) the in-depth and often exclusive interviews word,” the motivation for writing was my tionally. Recently, overseas scholars have pagdarame with a host of local stakeholders—includ- hundreds of devotees; and (3) the pam- ing ritual practitioners, clerics, scholars, 2004 encounter with the vast Manchuri- come to see me at Kyoto University to , a public self-flagellation of an-related poster materials stored at the discuss modern Manchuria history. I have amaku king krus, in which steel nails are driven through the palms and feet of rit- author’s own participation in a Passion Ita Yusei Museum in Tottori Prefecture. also joined academic conferences at the and government officials—as well as the In 2005 we constructed a “Manchukuo University of Bonn, Harvard University, ual practitioners as part of a street play play. A host of primary and secondary Propaganda Posters & Bills” database Dong-A University, and other institutions. performed in front of tens of thousands archival sources, including unpublished, by using these visual materials (http:// of spectators. The book demonstrates locally produced oral historical accounts how such ritual acts facilitate the expres- and a survey of relevant media coverage, sion of heartfelt sentiments of pity, empa- are also considered. The Way of the Cross thy, trust, and bereavement among ritual contributes to the anthropology of reli- practitioners. gion by examining the unique ontological Because these Passion rituals are of- contexts in which ritual agents experi- ence God’s involvement in their lives.

ficially disavowed by the Filipino Roman

12 13 DE JONG, Wil TANGSEEFA, Decha Pia Katila; Carol J. Pierce Colfer; Wil de Jong; Glenn Galloway; Pablo Pacheco; Georg Winkel, eds. 2019. Decha Tangseefa. 2020. Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. แสง น้ำ� และ รวงข้าว: ทักษะวัฒนธรรมเพื่อความเป็นอื่น (Light, Water and Rice Stalk: Cultural Fluency for Alterity). 2nd Edition. Bangkok: Kobfai Publishing Project, Foundation for Democracy and Development Studies. (In Thai) Forests provide vital ecosystem services ciplinary global assessment of interlink- crucial to human well-being and sustain- ages among the SDGs and their targets After a few decades of a relatively peaceful sters and adults). Over the past 12 years, able development, and have an important and the world's forests and forest people, atmosphere in Thailand’s deep south, the the discourse of thaksawatthanatham has role to play in achieving the 17 Sustain- increasing the understanding of potential theft of guns from a military weapons de- steadily gained currency in Thai society. Publications Publications able Development Goals (SDGs) of the synergies and unavoidable trade-offs be- pot on January 4, 2004 commenced a new Saeng nam lae ruangkhao: Thaksawat- United Nations 2030 Agenda. Little at- tween goals. The volume is an ideal refer- thanatham phuea khwampenuen is the tention, however, has yet focused on how ence work for academic researchers, stu- project’s conceptual book that attempts to efforts to achieve the SDGs will impact dents, and decision-makers interested in dawn of violence. The fire of violence has- answer one basic question: How should forests and forest-related livelihoods, and sustainable development in the context since continuously flared, at times burning one understand coexistence amidst cul- how these impacts may, in turn, enhance of forests. This book will provide invalu- fiercely. Within this context, in 2008, Pro tural differences? This transdisciplinary or undermine the contributions of forests able knowledge for efforts undertaken to initiated,fessor Chaiwat and later Satha-Anand institutionalized, and Professor a proj- text weaves together etymology, political to climate and development. This book reach the SDGs. The book is available as ectParitta called Chalermpow “thaksawatthanatham Koanantakul,” togetheror “cul- theory, anthropology, psychology, and phi- Open Access via Cambridge Core at: doi. losophy (combining, predominantly, a few how SDGs are implemented and priori- org/10.1017/9781108765015. Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre and strands of poststructuralism with those of tized.discusses It provides the conditions a systematic, that influencemultidis- ledtural successively fluency.” Funded by a few by thededicated Princess manag Maha- ancient Chinese philosophies). The book’s ers, the project has organized various activ- nonessentialist treatment of identity for- ities, including trainings, youth camps for mulates “thaksawatthanatham”—“cultural

- discourse from the conventional treatment ment,victims and of violence,a few research short projects.film competitions All these offluency”—in this notion suchpropagated a way inas theto distancemainstream the activitiesfor young havefilm makers,involved board peoples game of developdifferent and global literatures of business (manage- identities and have engaged both bureau- CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin crats (civilians, soldiers, and police) and edition was published in 2017, the second ment), law, and psychology. After the first Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ed. 2020. members of the civil society (both young- will be released at the beginning of 2020. Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Articles (Note: The change of the publisher happened toward the end of 2020, while this report was published in March of 2020.) KOBAYASHI, Atsushi The decades-long reign of King Bhumibol the military. This volume examines the royal Atsushi Kobayashi. 2019. Adulyadej, in which the monarchy had “International Bimetallism and Silver Absorption in Singapore, 1840-73.” Economic History Review 72 (2): 595–617. elevated itself into becoming Thailand’s on other aspects of Thai life. The transi- doi:10.1111/ehr.12662 most important political institution, ended tiontransition sparked in Thailanda crisis thatand itsjeopardized ramifications the in October 2016. Therefore, the end of the Thai nation, from its politicized judiciaries, This article sheds light on the factors that from Java to Singapore. powerful Bhumibol era undoubtedly precip- troubled Sanga realm, militarized foreign gave rise to the silver trade in Singapore This article contributes to the research itated a heightened anxiety among political policy, and worrisome economy, to issues during the mid-nineteenth century by an- of modern monetary history. In the prevail- elite whose political interests have long directly affecting the Thais, such as human alyzing banking business and bullion arbi- ing view, Asian countries were colonized by aligned with the monarchy. To cope with the rights violations and self-censorship. trage. In the aftermath of the Gold Rushes anxiety, the military, as a part of the political The last royal succession in Thailand took in California and Australia after 1849, international gold standard. However, this elite, staged a coup in 2014 primarily place in 1946. This book is unique as it deals Singapore began to receive an unprec- the West and became subordinate to the- to take control over the royal transition. with the recent royal succession, a troubled gional monetary market for the functioning Meanwhile, the unpopular king-in-waiting, one given the lack of moral authority and countries, becoming the hub of monetary ofarticle the internationalshows the significant monetary role system of the that re , needed the military popularity of the new king. Scholars of Thai circulationedented amount in Southeast of silver Asia. from Through Western an connected diverse currency systems across to back his enthronement. Both studies comprehensively examine the effects analysis of primary sources, this article ar- the globe before the rise of the gold stan- Vajiralongkorn and the military then of the succession using both theories and real gues that the expansion of exchange oper- - began to construct a working rela- events, and encompassing the monarchy, ations by international banks in Asia and tionship against challenges from the the military, the economy, the Buddhist the reaction of the regional monetary mar- amountsdard. In particular, of silver money it clarifies in exchange that South for Thaksin Shinawatra faction. Thaksin, a community, judges, foreign policy, the people, ket centered in Singapore were crucially east Asian countries received significant former prime minister, was overthrown in and the NGOs. It is suitable for anyone in- important factors for the rise of the sil- Singapore, and that the regional economy a coup in 2006, but his popularity has never terested in Thailand, political observers, ver trade. Additionally, it reveals that the centeredexported in local Singapore products was to progressively the West via faded. He has remained a perceived threat students, scholars, journalists, government unfavorable exchange policy of the Dutch to the power position of the monarchy and integrated into the global financial market. officials, and policy practitioners. government induced the outflow of silver

14 15 Others NAKAGAWA, Hikaru KONO, Yasuyuki / LOPEZ, Mario Ivan Hikaru Nakagawa. 2019. Kono Yasuyuki; Nathan Badenoch; Mario Ivan Lopez. 2019. “Habitat Changes and Population Dynamics of Fishes in a Stream “Bridging the Disciplinary Divide: 50 Years of Research at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.” with Forest Floor Degradation Due to Deer Overconsumption in Its Catchment Area.” Japan-ASEAN Transdisciplinary Studies Working Paper Series No. 8. Conservation Science and Practice: e71. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/244123 doi: 10.1111/csp2.71 doi: 10.14989/TDWPS_8

Deer overabundance not only affects for- stream from a catchment area of the Yura Publications Since 1963, the Center for Southeast early on between the natural and med- Publications est ecosystems, but also the population River in the Ashiu Research Forest. Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto Univer- ical sciences along with the social sci- sity has continually evolved and devel- ences and the humanities. The contri- the forest. I examined this inter-ecosys- a large degree of environmental change dynamics of stream fish downstream of The study presents a novel finding: oped as an institution. This working pa- bution of this paper is to show that the tem relationship through 11 years of di- due to top-down effects of large terrestrial per elucidates what kinds of processes methodological eclectic approach at herbivores in one ecosystem can harm ad- and dialogues arose through the empiri- CSEAS makes possible the constitution of their habitats. Forest degradation due jacent ones via ecosystem linkages. This rect observation of fish populations and cally-based research approach that staff to overabundant deer populations has study demonstrated long-term habitat at the Center have developed over the domains that can constrain approaches. become a problem worldwide, not only - decades. In this paper we highlight that Thisan arena ultimately of dialogue allows not greater tied freedomto specific to affecting terrestrial ecosystems, but also radation due to deer overconsumption in over the decades, CSEAS has developed create conditions that question the basis aquatic ecosystems. However, very lit- itschanges catchment in a stream area, and after demonstrated forest floor degthat School of fish under a rock in the research site a unique methodological eclecticism in of empirical research and the subsequent tle research has focused on the indirect its approach to study in the region. This theorization that can arise from it. effects of deer overabundance on down- It suggests that catchment-level manage- developed from research bridges formed stream ecosystems. This paper investi- ment,fish populations including forest react ecosystem to these changes. conser- gated the relationships between the pop- vation, is necessary to solve fundamental problems in stream ecosystems. changes in habitat characteristics down- ulation dynamics of 13 fish species and

OGAWA, Mariko MACHIKITA, Tomohiro S. Oishi; N. Hayashi; M. Ogawa; Y. Kajikawa; E. Nakakita. 2019. Tomohiro Machikita; Tetsuji Okazaki. 2019. 「ビデオゾンデを用いた鉛直風速プロファイルの算出と雲物理的解析」 “Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan.” (Calculation of Vertical Wind Speed Profile with Video Sonde and Cloud Microphysical Analysis). CIRJE Discussion Papers. CIRJE-F-1122. Center for International Research on Japanese Economy (CIRJE), Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo. 『土木学会論文集B1(水工学)』(Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. B1 [Hydraulic Engi- http://www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/dp/2019/2019cf1122.pdf neering] ) 75(2): I_1177-I_1182. (In Japanese) This discussion paper examines how kets and access to modern technologies to the vast literature on the relationship be- political, social, and economic regime were the channels through which regime tween institutions and growth, concluding This article proposes a procedure to cal- affected by the weight of precipitation changes affect the lifecycles of manufac- change affected the experience and size that the quality of institutions affects com- particles and atmospheric stability. turing plants, using Japan’s transition parative advantage, industrial structure, balloon-type instrument observational The observational method applied in from a feudal regime to a modern regime In 1859, under military threat from and the quality of the legal system. dataculate of vertical rainfall, wind including speed profilesice particles with this study leads to improve understand- in the late nineteenth century as a case profiles of plants. in the sky, during the Baiu season in ing precipitation processes in regions study. Using plant-level data for 1902, in- policy that had existed for more than 200 Okinawa Island, Japan. with heavy rain and lightning, such as cluding the foundation year of each plant, years.the US Opening fleet, Japan the abolishedcountry to its the seclusion rest of This proposed procedure expresses those that occur in Southeast Asia. Releasing a balloon to calculate the we explore how the experience and size the world was a regime change in itself, but that the vertical wind speed profile is wind speed profile it was also the start of a broader regime regime changes. Plants were found to change—the transition from a feudal re- growprofiles much of plants faster differafter abefore regime and change, after gime under the Tokugawa government to and the acceleration of growth after a re- a modern regime under the Meiji govern- gime change was much greater for plants ment. By the end of the 1870s, the Meiji in exporting industries and industries in- government had abolished most feudal reg- - ulations and established a set of modern in- ings suggest that access to export mar- tensively using steam power. These find stitutions. The findings of this paper relates

16 17 Postdocs

Books DAMALEDO, Andrey HUA, Xiaobo Andrey Damaledo. 2018. Xiaobo Hua; Yasuyuki Kono; Le Zhang; Erqi Xu; Renshan Luo. 2019. Divided Loyalties: Displacement, Belonging and Citizenship among East Timorese in West Timor. Canberra: ANU Press. “How Transnational Labor Migration Affects Upland Land Use Practices in the Receiving Country: Findings from the China-Myanmar Borderland.” doi: 10.22459/DL.09.2018 Land Use Policy 84: 163–176. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.012 - as East Timorese. The study highlights the work, this study explores the ideas of be- - This article examines the effects of trans- activities; and (3) due to the in-migration longingDrawing and on extensivecitizenship ethnographic among former field try, and alliance in our understanding of national labor migration from Myanmar of labor from Myanmar, local villagers Publications Publications pro-autonomy East Timorese who have significanceEast Timorese of theplace-making notions of origin,and belong ances- (Burma) on upland land use practices on ing to a particular locality. Another feature the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar provide stable market prices. Such prac- The study follows different East Timorese of belonging that informs East Timorese borderland, particularly in the context ticesflexibly may adapt delay to plantingthe marginalization cash crops that of groupselected toand settle examines indefinitely various in West ways Timor. they of out-migration and the aging of the lo- farmland use. We argue that agricultural construct and negotiate their socio-po- maintain connections with their homeland cal labor force. The study is based on a - litical identities following the violent and andidentity move is on their with narrative their lives of in sacrifice Indonesia. to combined framework, with economic land of the China-Myanmar borderland destructive separation from their home- and geopolitical dimensions, and uses in- inintensification the context canof out- be achieved and in-migration. in the up land. The East Timorese might have had East Timorese spirit of struggle and resil- - - These sacrificial narratives elaborate an Indonesia as their destination when they lows: (1) the increase of available labor ricultural activities by hiring Burmese la- Burmese laborers packing lemons in China left the eastern half of the island in the af- transformation of their political activities fromdepth Myanmar, fieldwork. as The a substitution findings are for as andfol borers,Smallholders which canhelps obtain to avoid profits a land from aban ag- termath of the referendum, but they have withinience, athe feature Indonesian further political exemplified system. in the supplementation of the outgoing local la- donment scenario. not relinquished their cultural identities bor force that is migrating to China’s cit- This article contributes to the existing cross-border/transnational interactions ies, helps local villagers cultivate crops, body of literature on agrarian changes in the context of opening-up rather than and rethinks agricultural growth in the examining and discussing the spatial and (2) this inward migration from Myanmar upland rural society in the context of in- temporal processes and patterns within tothus China influencing is long-term smallholder (rather than land only use; and out-migration. It contributes to our the national border, as previous studies being seasonal), based on the year-round understanding of land system changes have done. nature and demands of China’s farming in borderlands by using a perspective of

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SIANI, Edoardo Others Edoardo Siani. 2018. “Stranger Diviners and Their Stranger Clients: Popular Cosmology-making and Its Kingly Power in Buddhist Thailand.” South East Asia Research 26(4): 416–431. ADACHI, Mari doi:10.1177/0967828X18816145 Shinsuke Nagaoka; Mari Adachi; Nur Izzati Binti Mohamad Norzilan. 2019. New Waves of Islamic Social Welfare in Southeast Asia. Kyoto: Hadhari Center for Islamic Civilizational Studies at Kyoto University.

Marshall Sahlins argues that kings are kha) in Bangkok reveals that Thai Bud- This small booklet discusses the revi- ented research design to elaborate on the “stranger kings,” as they typically origi- dhists routinely make cosmologies. Such talization of Islamic economics. It par- emerging traditional Islamic economic nate from outside their kingdom or from practice of cosmology-making entails ticularly focuses on the revitalization of institutions in Indonesia and Malaysia. the celestial realms. He advances that, appropriating foreign and divine forms Zakat (Islamic alms-giving) and Waqf This study shows that the revitalization especially in Southeast Asia, kings draw of knowledge in the manner of kings. I (Islamic endowment) in Southeast Asia of Zakat and Waqf is conducted by various authority precisely from appropriating argue that this phenomenon ultimately in the late 2000s. Zakat and Waqf have actors, such as the government, religious a geographic and cosmological Other for allows commoners—diviners and their - - clients alike—to master some of the idi- ments, which pick up the slack when institutions; along with the private sector, cle, I propose that, in contemporary Thai- oms of power of Thai Buddhist kingship. theflourished state’s commitment as Islamic economics to social welfare instru thebodies, government faith-based also NGOs, becomes and a financial driving land,the benefit a kingdom of their ruled subjects. by a Buddhist In this mon arti- This ultimately results in tension, placing force in the revitalization. It points out commoners in an ambiguous relation- A diviner in Bangkok shows tarot cards examines whether this revitalization can that the private sector and government to commoners. An ethnographic study ship with the monarchic state. beprovision regarded is notas enough.the resuscitation The first authorof the cooperating on Zakat and Waqf might ofarch, diviners this defining (mo du ability) and their of kings clients spreads (luk antique Islamic economic system or the present a huge potential for poverty alle- emergence of a novel one. The second viation and achievement of welfare within and third authors employ an exploratory, the Muslim community. descriptive survey and case study-ori-

18 19 Professors Emeriti SHIRAISHI, Takashi SHIMIZU, Hiromu Takashi Shiraishi. 2018. Shimizu Hiromu. 2019. “Emerging States and Economies in Asia: A Historical and Comparative Perspective.” Grassroots Globalization: Reforestation and Cultural Revitalization in the Philippine Cordilleras. In Emerging States and Economies: Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead, edited by Takashi Shiraishi and Tetsushi Sonobe. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and Balwyn North: Trans Pacific Press. Singapore: Springer. Openly available at State and International Policy Studies. Also jointly published in the Philippines by Ateneo de Manila University Press in Quezon City. doi: 10.1007/978-981-13-2634-9_1 In this long-term study of a mountain Lopez Nauyac, an indigenous elder-in- - eral democracy, the international bank- village of Hapao famous for its UNESCO - Publications Publications cance in the global economy and poli- ing and trading system, and the self-reg- World Heritage-listed rice terraces, I con- sued a committed anthropology or “an Emerging nations are gaining signifi ulating market and offer a new social sider the extent to which globalization anthropologytellectual. While of response-ability,”doing fieldwork, Ihelp pur- their achievement in recent years, but contract of a life of plenty and security has penetrated even the most peripheral ing Nauyac to obtain funds from Japan. confrontedtics in the twenty-first with the challenge century. of Proudthe mid of- as the basis for a new global system. This area of the Philippines at the grassroots In the process, I became an “extreme” level. The book examines globalization in participant observer and movement col- uncertainties that come with changes in a long historical and comparative per- Ifugao Province since Spain’s coloniza- laborator—yielding this multilayered broughtdle-income about trap by and their the specific rapid economic risks and spectivepaper examines and underscores the significance the importance of this tion of the Philippines and Ifugao resis- growth, they often question the post-Cold of states’ abilities to manage risks and tance through to the new wave of migrant span of 16 years. account of field entanglements over a War global system of Pax Americana, lib- uncertainties. workers traveling overseas, who have ex- Through thick description of Hapao perienced a shift in their life-world and a villagers’ present ways of life, I suggest confrontation point with global powers in moving from their home country to an should be focused not on uniqueness and away-game arena. Nowadays 10 percent differences,that fieldwork but in rather the era on ofcommonalities globalization of the 350 Hapao village households have and connectedness among us regardless been abroad to work in 27 countries. of national and cultural boundaries, in I became an honorary member of the order to contribute to the construction of Ifugao Global Forest City Movement for an international public space at the grass- reforestation, a small NPO founded by roots level.

ICHIMURA, Shinichi MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo Shinichi Ichimura. 2019. Hissei Imai ; Yusuke Ogawa; Kiyohito Okumiya; Kozo Matsubayashi. 2019. “Kerja Sama selaku Penasihat Ekonomi Jepang di Indonesia” (Cooperation of Japanese Economic “Amok: A Mirror of Time and People. A Historical Review of Literature.” History of Psychiatry 30(1): 38–57. Advisors in Indonesia). doi:10.1177/0957154X18803499 Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan Indonesia (Journal of Economics and Development) 19(1): 139– 146. (In Indonesian) The conceptualization of psychiatric dis- other words, the concept of amok changes doi: 10.21002/jepi.v19i1.1205 orders changes continuously. This study depending on a society’s history and the examined “amok,” a culture-bound syn- knowledge and intentions of people at the This article is a memorial of the cooper- They also conducted surveys of changes drome related to sudden mass homicide, time. We should consider in detail what ation work done by Japanese economists in Indonesian society, Japanese joint ven- to elucidate changing and varied con- we focus on when diagnosing a disorder. from academic, government, and busi- tures and reactions of local employees cepts. A historical review of 88 English ness societies during 1969-the early in Indonesia and East Asia, and issues of articles revealed that the meanings and Malay word “amok,” which has been a his- 2000s that aimed to develop and stabilize technology transfer and decentralization. assumed causes of amok have changed toricallyThis paperchanging is theconcept first of to psychiatric clarify the Indonesia’s economy. The economists’ Relevant academic papers and major by- over time. These changes appear to have disease in Malay worlds. It contributes to - product publications of the cooperation been affected by social events, medical Southeast Asian studies by presenting a Medical fieldwork in West Papua in Indonesia cial statistics and to construct a trial In- experience are also presented, which are discoveries, knowledge of descriptors, new interpretation of amok through med- put-Outputwork included table efforts in the early to improve 1970s, eco offi- now the precious record of Indonesian nomic forecasts and analysis based on the policy challenges of that time. econometric model, and policy design. and, occasionally, the benefit to users. In ical fieldwork and a literature review.

20 21 SHIBAYAMA, Mamoru JACKSON, Peter A. Stayed at CSEAS from October 2017 to March 2018 Shibayama Mamoru, ed. 2019. Peter A. Jackson. 2019. The Ancient East-West Corridor of Mainland Southeast Asia. Pathum Thani: Geoinformatics International, “South East Asian Area Studies beyond Anglo-America: Geopolitical Transitions, the Neoliberal Academy and Spatialized Regimes of Knowledge.” Thailand. South East Asia Research 27(1): 49–73. doi: 10.1080/0967828X.2019.1587930 The East-West Cultural Corridor is a tan- talizing but ambiguous land-based com- eighteenth century, with transitions to munication network of historical and andthe first from millennium each era. Findingsor thereabouts are derived to the as emerging from and reflecting imperial- project of critical area studies in an era ist and Cold War-era political agendas; as when neoliberal managerialism and met- Publications cultural exchanges extending over 2,000 from the GIS-based map of archaeologi- Publications kilometers in mainland Southeast Asia. cal sites and include landscape consider- being overly empirical and disinterested rification of research and teaching are This book explores the mystery of the his- ation, the commodity trade, and the sim- in or even resistant to critical theoretical casting a conservative pall over the in- torical dynamics in a regional land-based ilarities and relationships based on relics methods; and as being an outdated form ternational academy by intensifying the communication network—the “corridor” such as silver coins, ceramics, roof tiles, of knowledge that reflects a pre-global- spatialization of knowledge under early between ancient cities—from the start of and glass beads. ization era defined by the geopolitics of twenty-first-century globalization. the nation state. I challenge these three

criticisms of area studies in light of the Impression of CSEAS: fact that, contrary to predictions, spati- For me, perhaps the most productive and important re- ality has not been erased, but rather has sult of my stay at the Center was that it permitted me to meet and begin new research collaborations with been reformulated in the context of glo- members of the large community of Japanese scholars balization. Critiques that are a result of of Southeast Asian studies. Japan is home to one of the the geopolitical rise of East, Southeast, largest international communities of Southeast Asian studies scholars in the world, but not many of these Critical theorists and scholars in Asian and South Asia overlook the ways the Visiting Research Scholars scholars are well known outside of Japan. CSEAS is per- cultural studies have challenged the po- neoliberal re-disciplining of the acad- haps the most important node or point of connection litical legitimacy and analytical validity of emy is entrenching Eurocentric forms of between the field of Southeast Asian studies in Japan Stayed at CSEAS from July 2017 to January 2018 and the international academic community, and for WEISS, Meredith L. the cross-disciplinary enterprise of area knowledge. I argue for the validity and me CSEAS is truly successful in providing an essential Meredith L. Weiss. 2019. “Duelling Networks: Relational Clientelism in Electoral-authoritarian Malaysia.” Democratization 27(1): 100–118. studies. Area studies has been critiqued importance of a theoretically engaged bridge between Japan and the rest of the world. doi: 10.1080/13510347.2019.1625889

Pakatan). Bolstered by communal senti- mance, including sustained outreach and ments, habit, and charisma, the BN also distributions in states it won substantially relied heavily on deeply penetrating cli- via programmatic appeals, reinforced TAHAN, Zaher Stayed at CSEAS from October 2017 to April 2018 entelist networks and carefully pitched its standing. This “relational clientelism” Ahmad Homsi; walid AL-Said; Zaher Tahan. 2019. patronage. Opposition parties have long perversely both helped sustain the BN “Phenotype and Molecular Characterization of Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) Isolation from under Five Years Children Diarrhea.” decried the BN’s trading of infrastructure, over decades and reassured voters that Research Journal of Aleppo University - Series of Basic Science. (In Arabic) projects, and payments for votes. Yet as they could also rely on Pakatan. I consider these parties have gained greater power Malaysia’s intriguing relational clientelism fection. This was done through molecular richia coli were collected and phenotyped themselves, voter expectations have in terms of networks, resources, and discre- detection of two virulent genes (eaeA and according to cultural and characteristics pressed them to rely on similar modes of tionary control over those resources, to as- bfpA) that are responsible for adhesion to biochemical tests. The results of molecu- cultivating support. Whereas diminished sess the effects of these practices on elec- the intestinal epithelium and destruction lar investigation showed that 42 isolates access to patronage resources has imper- toral outcomes and governance. of polarized actin, leading to destruction of were EPEC while 58 were non-pathogenic. iled dominant parties elsewhere, Malaysia intestinal microvilli, resulting in diarrhea. The study showed the widespread dis- demonstrates a different dynamic. Here, One hundred samples of diarrhea tribution of EPEC among children in Syria long-term competitive electoral authori- Impression of CSEAS: were collected from children under five and its important role in causing diarrhea. Malaysia’s May 2018 elections saw the tarianism has fostered the emergence of I found CSEAS a remarkably conducive environment in years old who were admitted to Aleppo ignominious defeat of the long-domi- dueling systems of enduring, well-nur- which to research and write. The facilities and environ- University Hospital and some laborato- nant Barisan Nasional (National Front, tured clientelist ties, despite vastly un- ment are superb, but so is the chance to interact with Impression of CSEAS: excellent and interesting colleagues, for both concrete ries in Aleppo City during April 2018 to Staying and working at CSEAS gave me a unique oppor- BN) coalition at the hands of the alterna- equal access to public resources. The feedback and inspiration. I very much hope to have the March 2019. Bacterial isolates were iden- tunity to meet great researchers and intellectuals from tive Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope, demonstration effect of Pakatan’s perfor- opportunity to return in the future! CSEAS and Kyoto University. Also, my participation in tified using biochemical tests according to some CSEAS activities enriched my experience and Bergy’s manual of systematics bacteri- drives me to further work to link applied sciences with Escherichia coli is a bacteria of the human ology (2005). The pathogen pattern was social sciences. Working in an advanced and highly equipped labo- intestines, but, some serotypes may cause also investigated by detecting two genes ratory such as that of Professor Nishibuchi's laboratory serious infections among children. This eaeA and bfpA through specific primers for six months with a wonderful team gave me unique study therefore aimed to find a rapid and using a Duplex polymerase chain reaction experiences in different aspects of the sciences that I am passionate in, which reflects positively on my academic accurate diagnosis of Enteropathogenic E. (Duplex-PCR) technique. Of the 100 sam- career and my lectures to the students. I wish to have an- coli (EPEC), and their ability to induce in- ples, 100 isolates (100 percent) of Esche- other chance to work again in CSEAS in the future.

22 23 CHALERMPONG, Saksith Stayed at CSEAS from March 2018 to June 2018 MIETZNER, Marcus Stayed at CSEAS from July 2018 to December 2018 Veng Kheang Phun; Hironori Kato; Saksith Chalermpong. 2019. Diego Fossati; Marcus Mietzner. 2019. “Paratransit as a Connective Mode for Mass Transit Systems in Asian Developing Cities: Case of Bangkok in the Era of Ride-hailing Services.” “Analyzing Indonesia’s Populist Electorate: Demographic, Ideological, and Attitudinal Trends.” Transport Policy 75: 27–35. Asian Survey 59(5): 769–794. doi: 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.01.002 doi: 10.1525/as.2019.59.5.769 Marcus Mietzner; Burhanuddin Muhtadi. 2019. “The Mobilisation of Intolerance and Its Trajectories: Indonesian Muslims’ Views of Religious Minorities and Ethnic Chinese.” In this article, we examine the roles of wins. Policy implications regarding the In Contentious Belonging: The Place of Minorities in Indonesia, edited by Greg Fealy and Ronit Ricci. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. motorcycle taxis as feeder services to existence of motorcycle taxi with

Publications wins Publications mass transit systems in Bangkok, Thai- the advent of ride hailing mobile app ser- land. Using motorcycle taxi survey data vices are also discussed in the paper. populist attitudes in Indonesia. Populist some observers, the post-demonstration based on Google street view, we analyze attitudes are widely spread across the religious intolerance remained high in the number of motorcycle taxi stations political spectrum; disproportionately 2017 and 2018, showing no sign of soft- high in the middle and upper classes; ening. There was, however, a decrease in (“wins” in Thai) at different locations Impression of CSEAS: in Bangkok, controlling for various lo- I'm grateful for the CSEAS research fellowship during and particularly robust when coupled anti-Chinese sentiments after 2017, high- cation-specific factors and employing my stay in Japan in 2018. The support allowed me to with other primary ideologies, such as lighting that the legacy of the 2016 pro- concentrate on my research work as well as enable me negative Poisson and negative binomial to meet with many brilliant scholars from different Islamism and secularism. tests is a hardening of religious prejudice regression techniques. We find that prox- parts of the world. Kyoto University is an ideal place rather than ethnic sentiments. imity to mass transit stations and major for academics to work in an intellectually stimulating The Mobilisation of Intolerance environment, and in a city steeped in history and with centers of economic activities signifi- incomparable beauty. I will cherish my experience in and Its Trajectories Kyoto and hope to some day return to visit again. This chapter traces the increase in intol- cantly affect the number of motorcycle Impression of CSEAS: erance of Indonesian Muslims towards During my stay at CSEAS, I worked on several book non-Muslims and ethnic Chinese as a chapters and journal articles as well as on a book man- uscript. It was a very productive time. result of the 2016 mass demonstrations The book manuscript will only be out in 2020, but Analyzing Indonesia’s against the Christian-Chinese governor several of the other publications written at CSEAS are VILLACORTA, Wilfrido Stayed at CSEAS from May 2018 to August 2018 Populist Electorate of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. Ana- now appearing. I can't thank CSEAS enough for giving Using original survey data, we test the level, me such a wonderful environment to engage with my Wilfrido Villacorta. 2019. lyzing survey data from 2016 to 2018, we colleagues (in particular Masaaki Okamoto) and to fo- “Imperatives for ASEAN as a Community: Lessons of Fifty Years.” distribution, and demographic patterns of argue that contrary to expectations by cus on my writing. In ASEAN 50 Years Hence, edited by Rommel J. Casis and Celeste Ruth L. Cembrano-Mallari. Quezon City: Institute of International Legal Studies, Law Center, University of the Philippines.

threatening grouping of middle and small tics, economy, and society. The peoples powers, it should take the lead in giving and the leaders of ASEAN cannot confine HIRSCH, Philip Stayed at CSEAS from February 2019 to May 2019 more weight to global concerns in reck- themselves to the narrow dictates of tra- Philip Hirsch. 2019. oning its members’ national interests. ditional national interest. I propose that “Limits to Neoliberal Authoritarianism in the Politics of Land Capitalisation in Thailand: Beyond the Paradox.” Transformations in relations among na- it is time to re-define national interest to Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d' études du développement. doi: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1666705 tions result from the growing impact of include urgent concerns facing the world. the crises facing the whole of humanity— the specter of terrorism, the imminent Thailand presents several paradoxes that ism and competitive populism and by the risk of a nuclear war, the devastation complicate linear assumptions about the gap between partial de-agrarianization Impression of CSEAS: caused by climate change, threats to food The fellowship granted by Kyoto University’s Center for capitalization of land and consequent and a persistent rural identity politics. security, persistence of mass poverty, hu- Southeast Asian Studies was very beneficial to me, not processes of accumulation, disposses- man rights violations, worsening mod- only in terms of access to the Center’s trove of data for sion, and concentration. These paradoxes my research on China, Japan, and ASEAN, but also for the ern-day slavery, and human trafficking. become apparent when today’s conun- Impression of CSEAS: stimulating interaction with scholars, fellows, and faculty CSEAS provided a highly stimulating, supportive, and The globalizing character of national inside and outside Kyoto University. drums are considered in their historical enjoyable milieu within which to complete three pub- interest necessitates a serious reexam- Dr. Caroline Hau, my very supportive host profes- contexts of commercialization, establish- lications and embark on a fourth. The Center itself, This introductory chapter traces ASEAN’s sor, came with a bonus. Leading Southeast Asianist Dr. ination of the foundations of sovereignty, ment of transferable property rights, and with its wonderful library and helpful administrative evolution as a loose association of five Takashi Shiraishi, her husband, gave me valuable advice staff, its various seminars, and comfortable office fa- founding Member States to an expanded the origins of the state, and the changing and introduced me to specialists on East Asian foreign re- financialization, each tempered both by cilities, provided everything needed to focus on writ- requirements of national and interna- lations. Likewise, CSEAS Director Yoko Hayami, Vice-Pres- state policy and by counter-movements ing. Equally, the interesting and quite eclectic group of regional community of 10 Member States. ident of International Strategy Yasuyuki Kono, renowned tional governance. Even as it has gained that have maintained smallholding. Geo- fellows based at the Center during and overlapping my The grouping is now in the most critical Philippinist Dr. Hiromu Shimizu, and Dr. Mikiko Ono, Head own fellowship made for a stimulating intellectual and stage of its development. prominence as the fastest growing eco- Librarian of CSEAS, were all very encouraging. graphically, Thai capital has invested in friendly social experience. Needless to say, Kyoto itself nomic region, ASEAN has a tremendous My CSEAS fellowship was indeed very productive—a large-scale land deals across borders is a star attraction for those who spend time at CSEAS, ASEAN must strengthen and consol- rich experience upon which I shall build my future book responsibility to participate in shaping rather than within its own territory. Pres- including, but not limited to, the in early April. idate itself as an organization. It is time that will analyze the dynamics currently taking place in All in all, I am most grateful for the chance to spend to re-define its core interests. As the least the character and norms of global poli- the Asia-Pacific region. Thank you very much! ent-day land capitalization in Thailand is time at the Center and look forward to returning at complicated by resurgent authoritarian- some point.

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HE, Jun Stayed at CSEAS from June 2019 to August 2019 Jun He. 2020. “Situated Payment for Ecosystem Service: Local Agencies in the Implementation of the Sloping Land Conservation Programme in Southwest China.” Library Development and Change 51(1): 73–93. doi: 10.1111/dech.12539 https://library.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

global scholarship has focused on an out- interests and local economic develop- The CSEAS library has been one of CSEAS's Microform Materials Foronda and Ocampo Collections come-oriented approach. This has led to ment needs. This indicates that attention most essential and foundational resources The CSEAS library has acquired approx- (The Philippines) Publications debates around PES program contribu- to situated agency can help illuminate in promoting research activities in the imately 16,000 archival materials from These two personal collections of the tions to, and the trade-offs between, con- how PES can be smoothly implemented the colonial period up to recent years in famous historians Dr. Marcelino Foronda servation and development. Taking the and effectively negotiated in developing As a result of ongoing collection devel- microfilm form. and Dr. Ambeth R. Ocampo from the fields of Southeast Asian and area studies. Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) countries. opment focusing on academic publica- Philippines consist of 8,000 monographs, Facility-based Networking in China as an example, this article uses tions on Southeast Asia and related areas, Southeast Asian Vernacular rare books, and ephemera from the seven- a process-oriented analytical approach to Impression of CSEAS: the library currently holds approximately Language Books teenth century to the Marcos years. provide novel understandings of PES as The publication would not have been possible without 253,000 items and assures access by both The CSEAS library houses approximately support from CSEAS, Kyoto University. The article was a specific type of development practice. written years before my fellowship started. It was sub- domestic and overseas libraries through its 100,000 materials published in various Ishii Yoneo Collection The article shows how notions of equity mitted to a top journal in development studies entitled open access policy and reference services. vernacular languages of Southeast Asia, This collection of the late Yoneo Ishii, and justice, local knowledge and local in- Development and Change. It went through a rigorous The CSEAS International Program of including publications in Indonesian, Thai, emeritus professor of Kyoto University, review process by four reviewers. Many of those com- stitutions have played a role in shaping ments from the reviewers are challenging. Luckily, af- Collaborative Research (IPCR) now has Vietnamese, and so on. The library also contains approximately 15,000 items, the processes and outcomes of the SLCP. ter starting the fellowship at the CSEAS in June 2019, I a special slot for documents based on has the following four special collections. including books, research documents, Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) The actions of local stakeholders in an in- was able to concentrate on revising this paper. The aca- research, and provides sufficient funding and photographs, mainly on Southeast demic environment, great library facility, and kind sup- is an innovative initiative to use mar- terplay with the state created a space for port from the Center allow me extensively investigate for acquisition of library materials related Special Collections Asian studies. ket instruments for conservation that negotiating, adapting, and adjusting PES a large variety of literature and stimulate my thoughts to proposed document-based research. Charas Collection (Thailand) has spread across the world since the implementation, which eventually con- to address those challenging comments, and finally I The CSEAS library looks forward to This personal collection donated by Mr. Indonesia Islam Collection was able to satisfy all four reviewers. I am very happy late 1990s. In assessing the efficien- tributed to a local development pathway to see this publication and thanks for all the support working with other librarians in the near Charas Pikul, a former Thai government This is a collection of recent Islamic cies and effectiveness of PES initiatives, for meeting both national conservation from CSEAS. future. officer, consists of 9,000 volumes of publications in Indonesian language, monographs, including the largest collection containing approximately 2,000 volumes. of cremation volumes outside Thailand.

CHEESMAN, Nick Stayed at CSEAS from July 2019 to September 2019 Nick Cheesman. 2019. “Routine Impunity as Practice (in Myanmar).” Human Rights Quarterly 41(4): 873–892. doi:10.1353/hrq.2019.0065 Open: Weekdays 9:00-17:00 Japanese Vietnamese Books E-mail: [email protected] Thai Tel: +81-75-753-7306 Indonesian Whereas impunity is typically known by Podcast Other Languages the absence of accountability, this article The New Books Network, “New Books in Southeast Asian Fax: +81-75-753-7364 Studies” attends to impunity’s presence. It does so https://newbooksnetwork.com/tyrell-haberkorn-in- via two instances of impunity drawn from plain-sight-impunity-and-human-rights-in-thailand-u- research in contemporary Myanmar. In wisconsin-press-2018/ The largest book collection for Southeast Asian stud- https://newbooksnetwork.com/peregrine-schwartz- these, police and soldiers contained and ies in Japan comprises approximately 100,000 volumes shea-and-dvora-yanow-interpretive-research-design- (with a total number of approximately 253,000 books) managed demands for accountability for concepts-and-processes-routledge-2012/ torture and killing, even as political and

social conditions seemed to change in Impression of CSEAS: favor of human rights. Through these in- The Center is a fantastic place to think and write. I'm stances, the article invites a rethinking of very grateful for the opportunity to come to Kyoto and be in conversation with colleagues here, as well as to impunity beyond the parameters of proj- have time to work on my own projects. ects for accountability in the case of past, massive human rights violations, so as to take the recurrent, routine practice of im- punity seriously.

The CSEAS library has acquired archival materials in mi- The library’s main building was constructed in the 1870s crofilm form from the colonial period up to recent years

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The collection of maps at CSEAS cov- Materials in the collection range from photographs taken in mainland South- The Information Processing Office is re- age system of Gmail attachments, using products, and a Quora expert for contrib- ers Southeast Asia as well as almost the pre-war period maps to recent aerial east Asia during and after World War II. sponsible for supporting research and Google Authentication, Gmail, Google uting specialist knowledge to society by whole area from South Asia to East Asia surveys. In addition to these, CSEAS also CSEAS recognizes all of these maps and education activities carried out at CSEAS. Forms, Google Calendar, and Google focusing on Google, WordPress, and in- and the surrounding regions. At present, houses 24,000 topographic, geographi- photos as precious common properties The Office's activities include managing Sheets by Google Apps Script on Google formation security. the collection comprises nearly 49,000 cal, land-use, vegetation, administrative, for Southeast Asian studies and therefore information infrastructures and systems, Cloud. We have also developed WordPress sheets, and includes the historically valu- and road maps. CSEAS stores not only has, in recent years, been advancing the participating in research, cooperating with plugins for supporting web services. (3) Information Security able series “Gaihouzu,” Japanese Army maps, but also other materials, such as digitization of materials to make them various research and open source com- The Information Processing Office has topographical maps and nautical charts aerial photos. The Williams-Hunt Collec- more widely available. munities, and suggesting new frameworks (2) Contribution to Society been striving to improve information se-

Facility-based Networking covering South, East, and Southeast Asia. tion, for example, includes 4,000 aerial that support future research endeavors. In Beyond our activities at CSEAS, as a Word- curity, as there have been a lot of secu- Facility-based Networking other words, the Office's missions cover the Press Plugin Developer, we have provided rity threats from various places through following issues: plugins to the WordPress official reposi- diversified research activities. The Office tory. The Office contributed as one of the has made available the detected malware (1) Developments co-organizers of the WordCamp Osaka, report to the public since the 2011 fiscal The Office has developed a registration an event concerning WordPress, a Goo- year in order to alarm Internet users both system, an event system, and a pack- gle Product Expert for improving Google inside and outside the Center.

Search interface of maps at the CSEAS Maps and The information shown in these maps is indispensable for understand- Documents Room web page ing the environment and human activities in a locality

Databases

With the rapid spread of the Worldwide database builder, allowing researchers to Web, necessary information can be ob- use nonstandard vocabularies according tained from all over the world. Even in to their purpose to build databases with- Gmail Experts from across the globe at the Google Product Experts Meetup Sydney Experts of Japanese Quora, a service for sharing specialist knowledge such an information age, dissemination of out expert knowledge about servers and 2019 (photo by Google co.) (photo by Quora co.) academic research data using databases database systems. Most of the CSEAS data- remains a challenging problem, especially bases are built using MyDB. RSS integrates for humanities scholars, and hence acces- heterogeneous databases on the Internet sible academic research data is limited. On and provides users with a uniform inter- the other hand, many academic research face to retrieve databases seamlessly in The Workshop for Resource Discovery Service databases have not been utilized or have one operation. RSS integrates more than been forced to stop services due to budget 50 databases, including not only those of reduction or an absence of administrators. CSEAS, but also databases from interna- CSEAS has tried to facilitate the preserva- tional research institutes. We are currently tion, dissemination, and utilization of ac- developing a resource discovery service ademic research data through the devel- using MyDB (that is appropriate for most opment of MyDatabase (MyDB) and the East Asian countries), and continuing dis- Resource Sharing System (RSS). MyDB is a cussions with the iSchools in this area.

Example of MyDatabase Organizers of WordCamp Osaka 2019 (photo by WordCamp Osaka 2019) Detected malware report (https://info.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/documents-2/detected-malware-reports)

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Southeast Asia Seminar ILAS Seminars https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/seas2019/ In accordance with recent reform pro- such as comparative religion, cross-cul- dergraduate students. Visiting profes- Since 1977, CSEAS has brought together attempt, CSEAS has been able to engage and local societies in the multi-faceted grams for university education advocated tural communication, introduction to an- sors have taught courses such as climate junior and senior researchers to learn and more closely with its partner institutions learning processes, amidst each site’s by the Ministry of Education, Culture, thropology, introduction to societies in change and its effects on food production exchange ideas on Southeast Asian studies in the field-site countries, adding a new specific environment and natural setting. Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Asia, introduction to comparative political in Thailand, the modern history of South- and related area studies through its annual element of education and training to the These participants—Southeast Asian, the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences philosophy, and theology. In 2017, CSEAS east Asia, and global history seen from an “Southeast Asia Seminar.” Beginning in collaborations that have already been Japanese, and others—have, therefore, (ILAS) was established to promote further also started to offer intensive courses for Indonesian perspective. 2009, with the 33rd installment, the sem- developed through the Center’s past or learnt together and enriched one another internationalization within and outside liberal arts and common subjects for un- inar not only began its all-English format, present research endeavors. in such special atmosphere. Consequently, the university. Education through ILAS but also started to include lecturers from Over the years, the seminar has grad- the “Southeast Asia Seminar” has, since offers specialized courses across the dis- outside Japan, by organizing each annual ually shifted from a lecture-based format its inception, helped to foster the regions’ ciplinary spectrum principally for under- seminar in different country of Southeast to a more participatory style—a combi- next generation researchers as well as ex- graduate students, both domestic and vis- Asia and beyond, with young researchers nation of lecture, field visit, and group panded both academic and non-academic iting from overseas. Since 2013 Kyoto Uni- applying from all over the world. The work—providing the participants with an networks in Southeast Asia, Japan, and versity has provided around 100 teaching Education themes of the latest 2019’s seminar in opportunity to engage with both lecturers beyond. positions for ILAS. These newly employed Education Vietnam were “Economic Growth, Ecology, faculty members offer content-based En- and Equality: Learning from Vietnam.” glish courses both at undergraduate and In setting each annual thematic issues, graduate levels in the university. CSEAS has, firstly, incorporated varieties Within this context, CSEAS has, since of disciplinary perspectives—attempting 2015, also provided seminars for under- particularly to incorporate ecological, graduate students who study liberal arts biological, or medical perspectives with and common subjects in English. Three certain approaches of social sciences CSEAS faculty members teach courses An ILAS course taught by a staff of CSEAS and/or humanities so as to be cognizant of regional, national and local changing

dynamics—and, secondly, organized them 43rd Southeast Asia Seminar from local points of view. With the second at Hanoi

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CSEAS has collaborated with graduate eral joint courses. Faculty members offer CSEAS actively welcomes young schol- CSEAS also offers affiliated positions schools in Kyoto University whose ac- courses both in the Division of Southeast ars who can help foster new and exciting for young scholars and encourages post- ademic interests are deeply related to Asian Area Studies and in the Division of Southeast Asian studies and beyond. CSEAS doctoral fellows to pursue their own Southeast Asian studies and area studies. Global Area Studies. They conduct lectures has hosted postdoctoral fellows from a di- studies and projects. Frequent seminars In 1981, CSEAS launched the joint grad- and seminars, coordinate open campus verse range of research fields. In 2019, organized by the Center are held do- uate courses for Southeast Asian stud- events, provide thesis supervision, exam- CSEAS hosted 43 postdoctoral fellows. mestically and internationally, fostering ies with the Graduate School of Agricul- ine degrees, and organize entrance exam- Current postdoctoral researchers unique interactions between faculty and ture’s Division of Tropical Agriculture. inations. CSEAS also sends faculty to par- occupy fellowship positions sponsored visiting scholars from inside and outside In 1993, CSEAS started to offer graduate ticipate in the Peaceful Coexistence and by CSEAS including: a two-year CSEAS Japan. Postdoctoral students also at- courses in the Division of Southeast Asian Humanosphere Course and the Islamic Postdoctoral Fellowship and a two- tend staff meetings to share information Area Studies for the Graduate School of World Studies Course (Division of Global year Postdoctoral Fellowship under the and are greatly encouraged to launch Graduate students and colleagues during fieldwork Human and Environmental Studies. In Area Studies). Furthermore, CSEAS collab- under the program of Field Medicine at the Gradu- CSEAS program “Japan-ASEAN Platform and conduct new seminars and work- 1998, the Graduate School of Asian and Af- orates with the Graduate School of Medi- ate School of Medicine (at a clinic in Pulau Sumbawa, for Transdisciplinary Studies,” postdoc- shops. As a result, CSEAS has stimulated rican Area Studies (ASAFAS) was created. cine, where faculty also coordinate joint Indonesia) toral fellowships sponsored by the Japan numerous exciting projects produced CSEAS has supported the ASAFAS program courses for the School of Public Health Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through rich and intense interactions for graduate education for more than two and teach modules in the Division of Field (short and long term fellowships for both among young scholars. In addition, post- decades through maintaining a close and Medicine, and with the Graduate School Japanese and overseas-based scholars), doctoral fellows are able to hone and cooperative relationship with the school. of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human and research fellowships sponsored by share their knowledge through everyday CSEAS postdoctoral fellows in their office Currently CSEAS and ASAFAS offer sev- Survivability (Shishu-kan). Kyoto University’s internal projects and discussions and communications cross- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research. ing disciplines.

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The CSEAS Gender Equality Promotion vide an overview of the latest academic formation and reports on the seminars Committee was established in 2016. trends in, and discussions on, gender on the Committee’s HP. Practice-oriented Area Studies Based on Kyoto University’s and CSEAS’s studies. We invite distinguished scholars Action Plan for Gender Equality Promo- from abroad who are part of CSEAS’s in- The Department of Practice-oriented studies, which the department names as For the first principle, POAS seeks tion, we take the initiative to organize ternational network. Area Studies (POAS) was established in “practice-oriented area studies.” POAS is solutions by having researchers thinking the following activities for the purpose of (2) Improvement of support sys- 2008. It aims to understand localities grounded on two complementary princi- and acting with local people. It has, there- promoting gender equality and diversity. tem for CSEAS staff with small children: and to support their attempts to over- ples: first, global issues must be tackled fore, implemented many action-oriented (1) Organization of the “Seminar on We provide various kinds of support for come their problems by employing in- by local people; second, every locality’s research projects in cooperation with lo- Gender Issues in Academia” and the “Spe- childcare during CSEAS-organized and novatively practical solutions—based on problems share some common causes cal community organizations, including cial Seminar: Frontiers of Gender Studies -sponsored events. We also provide for action-oriented methodologies in area with those of others. autonomous residential associations, or in Asia”: These seminars provide oppor- the maintenance of child care space at jichikai, local non-profit organizations tunities for the sharing of information CSEAS, and conduct regular inquiries to (NPOs), and local governments in Shiga and exchange of opinions on situations determine the basic child care needs of and Kyoto prefectures under the program Prof. German Kim (left) and Dr. Nigora Karimova (right) of the Institute of Sustainability Science, pertaining to gender equality promotion CSEAS staff. at the Special Seminar: Frontiers of Gender Studies in at overseas institutions, as well as to pro- (3) Publicity on HP: We provide in- Asia (Dec. 2019) Kyoto University, as well as with ’s two organizations, i.e., the Center of Community and the One Town- One Campus Program. For the second, POAS attempts to in- corporate experiences from field-study Gender Promotion/Awards Equality Awards abroad to encourage participants—both from within and outside Japan—to con- Year/Month Recipient Award Award Winning Research duct practice-oriented area studies in 2018 their own localities. Outreach Programs The 33rd Daido Life Foundation Incentive Multi-dimensional aspects of political change brought about Recently, POAS has prioritized rural July OKAMOTO, Masaaki Bhutanese and Myanmar participants of the POAS Study Tour in August 2019 Award for Area Studies by democratization and liberalization in Indonesia visited rice field that was abandoned 40 years ago and converted to a plantation development and natural disasters as Selected from among the US gentlemen's 2018 editions forest in Chimi, a depopulated village in Chii, Miyama-cho, Kyoto Prefecture global issues to be targeted for reloving. Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement July NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki (Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2018) that record people Award who have made world-class achievements in their specialties Collaboration with EU designated agencies for the Cefas (Centre for Environment Fisheries and contribution to safe bivalve production and seafood trade as September NISHIBUCHI, Mitsuaki Aquaculture Science) Honorary Emeritus an expert on human pathogenic Vibrio species. Significant Fellowship Award contributions to Cefas through technology transfer, strain distribution and educating young researchers over the years. High School Collaborations Best Book of Literary Criticism/Literary History in English, the 37th National Book Award of Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture (Ateneo de Manila https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/education/high-school-university-alignment/ November HAU, Caroline the National Book Development Board and University Press, 2017) the Philippines and the Manila Critics Circle Kyoto University actively searches for happiness. Around 10 minutes long, the videos are A Village without Daughters: Bride Shortage, Marriage talented young persons who can rise to In addition, CSEAS has created a series mainly intended for high school and un- The 22nd OKITA Memorial Prize for December HORIE, Mio Migration and Women’s Belonging among the Lahu of International Development Research challenges and respond to issues on the of videos (https://onlinemovie.cseas.kyo- dergraduate students. In the videos, the Southwest China (Kyoto University Press, 2018, in Japanese) international stage. To accomplish this, to-u.ac.jp/en/) to introduce the latest re- faculty members talk about their own re- 2019 the University makes a strong effort to search activities of our faculty members. search experiences and discoveries. "Fill the Life with Hunting: Today’s ‘Forest People’ in the The Geographical Society, Best foster High School-University coopera- June SAKUMA, Kyoko Interior Borneo,” Geographical Studies Vol. 89, No. 1, 2014, Paper Award pp. 45-55 (in Japanese) tion during its public relations activities National University of Singapore , Wang for entrance examinations. Since 2013 “Bangsavadar: The Evolution of Historiographical Genres of August THUN, Theara Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best PhD Colonial Cambodia” CSEAS has supported the “Super Global thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities High School Program (SGH)” launched The 11th Kyoto University Tachibana Award for Descriptive Grammar of Tandroy-Mafahaly: The Native by the Ministry of Education, Culture, March NISHIMOTO, Noa Outstanding Women Researchers (Researcher Language of the “Land of the Thorny Bush” in South Category) Madagascar (Keio University Press, 2018, in Japanese) Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) by sending faculty to designated high Interpreting Rizal: Did Padre Damaso Rape Pia Alba? Best Book on Literary Criticism/Literary History Reticence, Revelation, and Revolution in Jose Rizal’s Novels/ schools as advisors. CSEAS also continu- in English, the 38th National Book Award of November HAU, Caroline Daydreaming about Rizal and Tetchō on Asianism as Network the National Book Development Board and ously supports the SGH’s successor pro- and Fantasy (co-authored with Shiraishi Takashi) the Philippines and the Manila Critics Circle gram, the “World Wide Learning (WWL)” (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2018) Consortium of Kitano High School in "How Transnational Labor Migration Affects Upland Land The Association of Chinese Alumni in Japan, Use Practices in the Receiving Country: Findings from the Osaka. WWL aims to create curricula that November HUA, Xiaobo The Kyoto Mayor Award for the Outstanding China-Myanmar Borderland," Land Use Policy Vol. 84, 2019, Research Paper integrates liberal arts and sciences and pp.163-176 gives opportunities to high school stu- Study on the chained marriage migration and the mobility of November HORIE, Mio The Nagoya University Ishida Prize 2019 dents to take initiative to learn about an ethnic minority women in modern China interrelation of health, medical care, and An lecture on Southeast Asia for high school students at CSEAS in April, 2019

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Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS) The Third SEASIA Conference, 2019 http://www.jcas.jp/en/ One of SEASIA’s main activities is a bien- public of China (Taiwan), His Excellency Damaledo and Ms. Motoko Kondo. The Japan Consortium for Area Studies are members. Through collaborative re- retariat of JCAS after integrating with the nial conference hosted by one of the con- the Vice President Chen Chien-jen. (JCAS) was established in 2004 as a net- search, JCAS aims to nurture the next gen- Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), sortium member institutions. Following The conference had 561 partici- work of organizations working on area eration of researchers and produce social which previously served as the secretar- on from the success of the first SEASIA pants, and 397 paper presenters from studies in Japan. Currently about 100 collaboration among organizations to en- iat since the founding of JCAS. Conference held in Kyoto in 2015 and 35 countries in Southeast Asia and be- universities, research institutes, aca- sure that knowledge and resources are Bangkok in 2017, the third SEASIA bien- yond. The event was organized by a Con- demic societies, and civic organizations fully utilized. At present, CSEAS is the sec- nial conference was held on December ference Committee that included CSEAS 5-7, 2019 in Academia Sinica, Taiwan un- as the Acting Consortium Secretar- der the theme of “Change and Resistance.” iat. Associate Professor Julius Bautista

The event had as its guest of honor the served as chair of the SEASIA Commit- SEASIA 2019 Guest of Honor: Vice President second-highest executive official of the Re- tee, and was ably assisted by Dr. Andrey Chen Chien-jen

Theme Presenters Country Participants Country Participants Country Participants Historical Continuities and Changes 42 Argentina 4 Indonesia 40 South Korea 4 Global Academic Networks Dynamics of International Relations and Regionalism 56 Bangladesh 1 Ireland 1 Spain 1 Debating Inclusive Growth in Rural and Urban Settings 29 Belgium 1 Italy 3 Switzerland 1 Environmental Justice, Land and Maritimes Sustainability, Brazil 1 Japan 48 Taiwan 156 33 and Climate Change Bulgaria 1 Laos 1 Thailand 52 Arts, Cultures, Photography, and Literatures 47 Cambodia 2 Malaysia 36 the Netherlands 5 Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies in Asia (SEASIA) Innovation, Technology, Media, and Cybercultures 18 Canada 2 Myanmar 4 the Philippines 116 Mobility and Migration 29 China 10 Poland 2 Turkey 2 https://seasiaconsortium.org/ Democratization, Populism, and Civil Society 53 France 1 Russia 1 United Kingdom 2 Dynamics of Religions and Spiritualities 35 The Consortium for Southeast Asian stitutions in ensuring the continued CSEAS was represented by Professor Yoko Germany 3 Singapore 17 United States 8 Ethnicity and Gender 37 Hong Kong 2 Slovensko 1 Vietnam 26 Studies in Asia (SEASIA, pronounced operations of the Consortium. In July Hayami, Associate Professor Julius Bautista, Challenges to Economic Vitality 18 India 5 South Africa 1

Domestic Academic Network/Global Academic Networks Domestic Academic Network/Global “see-Asia”) was established in October 2019, CSEAS was re-appointed as Sec- Dr. Andrey Damaledo. During the meeting, Global Academic Networks 2013 by 10 of the leading area studies retariat of the Consortium, temporarily CSEAS was appointed to the SEASIA Exec- Total 397 Presenters Total 561 Participants from 35 Countries institutions in Northeast and Southeast taking over from the incumbent Secre- utive Committee, which then resolved to Asia to promote region-based Southeast tariat at National Chengchi University. assign CSEAS the duty of joint-Secretariat. Asian studies. In December 2015, CSEAS In this capacity, CSEAS once again took Additionally, CSEAS was reappointed to was re-appointed as the Secretariat of the lead in liaising with SEASIA member the SEASIA Conference Committee and the Overseas Liaison Offices SEASIA for a three-year term. In this ca- institutions in cultivating collaboration Networking and Outreach Committee. https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-network/jakarta-liaison-office/ pacity, CSEAS has facilitated a number of and academic exchange. Going forward, CSEAS will continue https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-network/bangkok-liaison-office/ SEASIA initiatives that promote the Con- The SEASIA Governing Board held its to play an active part in the growth and sortium’s mandate of advancing South- biannual meeting on December 4, 2019 at flourishing of SEASIA as a one-of-a-kind CSEAS has two liaison offices: one in Moreover, the offices strongly sup- Asia through the establishment of the east Asian studies by linking the leading the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. academic consortium in the region. Bangkok and one in Jakarta. These offices port joint research between Japanese Kyoto University ASEAN Center in Bang- area studies institutions in the region function as bases for collecting research and Southeast Asian scholars through the kok in 2014. through academic meetings, seminars, information and materials, such as peri- implementation of the International Pro- Increasingly, the offices are becom- workshops, and symposia. odical publications, statistics, maps, and gram of Collaborative Research, CSEAS, ing more widely known among local and In December 2018 and May 2019, various documents in vernacular South- or IPCR-CSEAS. They have also taken an international scholars and both have re- CSEAS was instrumental in managing east Asian and other languages. Originally active role in supporting the networking ceived increased numbers of visits in re- SEASIA affairs during Consortium meet- established as research lodgings for Japa- activities of Kyoto University in Southeast cent years. ings held at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. nese researchers in Thailand and Indone- Resulting from those meetings, CSEAS sia, they now serve as a base for research continues to fulfil crucial positions of re- across the entire region, and have devel- sponsibility, most notably as a member oped to perform various functions, such of the Conference Committee tasked to as hosting collaborative meetings. organize the biennial SEASIA conference, The offices are managed by select which was held at Academia Sinica in De- researchers and faculty members from cember 2019. The conference attracted CSEAS as well as other universities and more than 500 participants from around institutions in Japan. Those managing the Jakarta Office Bangkok Office the world, including a strong contingent offices collaborate with local researchers Jl. Kartanegara No. 38, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta 12CD, GP Grande Tower, 55, Soi 23, Sukhumvit of scholars from Kyoto University. in the region to organize workshops and Selatan, Jakarta 12180, INDONESIA Road, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110, Throughout 2019, CSEAS has worked receptions to enrich the understanding of Tel: +62-21-726-2619 THAILAND E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +66-2-664-3619 to engage with the various member in- SEASIA Governing Board Meeting (Dec. 4, 2019) CSEAS activities. E-mail: [email protected]

34 35 Sweden Bangladesh MOUs: Memoranda of Understanding 69 The Forum for Asian Studies, 16 57 International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Stockholm University Bangladesh Total MOUs institutions in 25 countries https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-network/mou/ 73

CSEAS actively promotes Southeast Asian eration through programs for exchange Bhutan Myanmar 55 Sherubtse College, Royal 44 Yezin Agricultural University Total Visiting Research Scholars from 34 countries 415 2019.12.31 and area studies by establishing institu- of faculty members and researchers; University of Bhutan 24 45 The SEAMEO Regional Centre tional linkages with leading universities exchange of academic information, in- 56 Ministry of Health, for History and Tradition the Kingdom of Bhutan 46 and research institutes in the region and cluding library materials and research The University of Forestry 47 The University of Mandalay Signing on MOU between CSEAS and the Fac- Estonia  beyond. The Center has signed memo- publications; and joint research activi- ulty of Cultural Studies, Brawijaya University 65 The Estonian Institute of Humanities, (2019/1/30) randa of understanding (MOUs) aimed at ties including seminars, conferences, and Tallinn University Laos fostering academic exchange and coop- symposia. 48 Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of U.K. 6 Agriculture, Faculty of Social China Science, National University 66 The Department of Geography, 1 58 Southeast Asia Research Centre, 1 of Laos University of Leicester City University of Hong Kong 1 49 The National Agriculture and 67 SOAS, University of London 59 The School of International Studies/Academy Forestry Research Institute, of Overseas Chinese Studies, Jinan University Russian Federation Ministry of Agriculture and 69 65 4 Forestry CSEAS Fellowship 5 Azerbaijan Canada 3 63 The School of Public and https://en.kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/networks/international-net- International Affairs, ADA 1 2 University Taiwan work/visiting-research-and-guest-scholars/ 66 50 68 2 Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Research Center for Humanities and 67 Social Sciences, Academia Sinica Since 1975, CSEAS has had an established an ideal opportunity for the exchange of Kazakhstan 51 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, National Chengchi University 5 70 71 visiting scholarship program to promote ideas, collaboration, and the cultivation of North Macedonia Korea 52 The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi Nan University France 1 53 60 The Research Institute of Asian Women, The Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National Chi Nan University research activities by distinguished schol- comparative perspectives, enabling them Uzbekistan 1 Sookmyung Women’s University 54 College of Agriculture and Natural Resources to pursue their interests in Southeast Asian 61 ars. To date, over 400—many of them lead- the Netherlands The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts 30 63 Chonbuk National University College of Management and area studies. 68 The International Institute for 1 15 Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences have availed themselves of the Center’s Applicants are not limited to scholars: Asian Studies Nepal Japan 60 Center for Environmental Restoration and Disaster Reduction ing researchers in their respective fields— Egypt 61 Kyoto U.S.A. considerable scholarly resources to engage - Syrian Arab Republic Consortiums (SEASIA) 62 Center for Asian International Agriculture Center, National Chung Hsing University in path breaking, multidisciplinary re- cials, journalists, public intellectuals, librar- Germany Studies, Faculty 1 China • Center for Southeast Asian Studies CSEAS has also hosted government offi 70 Southeast Asian Studies Program, of Economics and (CSEAS), Kyoto University search and develop comparative, historical, ians, NGO workers, IT specialists, and other 62 University of Freiburg Political Science, and global perspectives on Southeast Asia professionals on short-term visits. 71 The Southeast Asian and Development Cairo University  4 and beyond. While in Kyoto, we encourage scholars Studies Programme, Passau University 1 Mexico CSEAS hosts scholars and researchers to participate in CSEAS conferences, sem- who work on comparative and regional inars, and workshops and submit articles India the Philippines issues from a multi-area perspective, and Southeast Thailand 24 Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University 2 34 Mindanao State University-Iligan

are interested in spending time in Kyoto, Asian Studies as well as to the Kyoto Review Institute of Technology Global Academic Networks 25 The Faculty of Nursing, Kohn Kaen University 1 29 to the Center’s flagship journal 35 The School of Social Sciences, Consortiums (SEASIA) Japan to conduct research, write, or of Southeast Asia and the CSEAS Newsletter. 26 Faculty of Political Science, Ubon Ratchathani University  Ateneo de Manila University pursue other scholarly interests in con- Fellows are expected to reside in Kyoto for 27 Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University Brunei Bhutan Consortiums (SEASIA) • Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC), 36 The Cebuano Studies Center, City University of Hong Kong 28 The Graduate School, Silpakorn University 55 56 • School of International Studies (SIS), the duration of their fellowship and deliver Sri Lanka 39 University of San Carlos 29 Buddhist Research Institute, Jinan University Institute of Asian 37 The College of Liberal Arts, 54 50 Consortiums (SEASIA) CSEAS is situated in Kyoto—Japan’s an- a public lecture during their term. We also Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University Studies, Universiti 59 51 Malaysia De La Salle University Bangladesh • Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies nection with their fields of study. Since 30 Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University China cient capital and the main repository of encourage fellows to consider submitting 43 Brunei Darussalam 57 47 Taiwan 30 The Malaysian Forestry Research 38 Visayas State University 58 (Research Center for Humanities and 31 The School of Social Innovation, 1 52 53 and Development28 Board Social Sciences), Academia Sinica the country’s cultural treasures—visit- manuscripts to one of our book series. Mae Fah Luang University Myanmar 40 41 32 The Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Naypyidaw ing research scholars could as well enjoy Successful applicants will receive an  31 Laos Hanoi Consortiums (SEASIA) 44 Peru Technology Ladkrabang East Timor 46 Vientiane 48 49 Consortiums (SEASIA) their time appreciating what the city has appropriate stipend to cover interna- 30 • Center for Southeast Asian 73 33 Asia Centre • The Institute of Asian Studies, Brazil 45 Studies (CSEAS), National The Institute of to offer. tional travel and living expenses in Kyoto, 1 24 25 Chulalongkorn University 1 Yangon Chengchi University Peruvian Studies The Center’s multi-disciplinary char- and research funds will also be provided Thailand 26 37 35 110 Bangkok Vietnam Manila Consortiums (SEASIA) acter and the diverse research interests of to facilitate their work. Singapore The Federal University 72 28 29 32 33 20 Madagascar 9 23 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Cambodia Consortiums (SEASIA) • Taiwan Association of of Minas Gerais our faculty offer visiting research scholars National University of Singapore 15 Phnom Penh Southeast Asian Studies Liaison Office • The Asian Center, University 38 of the Philippines, Diliman 36 42 Ho Chi Minh 19 17 18 19 21 22 the Philippines Australia 34 Indonesia 27 Brunei Europe % Others % 70 1 Research Institute and Graduate Programs, Hasanuddin University Vietnam Consortiums (SEASIA) 4 1 15 Southeast Asia 2 Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University (UIN), Jakarta 43 • Institute of Asian Studies, Oceania 302 40 Vietnam National University of Agriculture 64  Malaysia Bintulu 39 4 % 3 Cenderawasih University Universiti Brunei Darussalam 41 The Institute of Social Sciences Information, The Sydney Southeast Singapore North America East Asia 4 Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Asia Centre, 21 Pekanbaru 5 The Center for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Studies, Andalas University 42 The College of Natural Sciences, The University of Sydney 23 Consortiums (SEASIA) 7% 6 7 South Asia The Faculty of Social and Political Science, Bangka Belitung University Can Tho University • School of Social Sciences, Nanyang 22 7 University of Riau 5 Technological University, Singapore 6 8 Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University 8 South Asia % North America  11 • Asia Research Institute (ARI), National 3 5 Visiting Research 31 9 The Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Sciences, Mataram University University of Singapore Scholars 10 The Faculty of Dakwah and Communication, State Islamic University Sunan Liaison Office Makassar 1 • Institute of Southeast Asian Studies East Asia % Oceania Cambodia Jakarta 5 Totals as of 15 Kalijaga Yogyakarta 4 Indonesia (ISEAS), Yusof Ishak Institute 17 14 11 The Center for International Cooperation in Sustainable Management of Royal University of Fine Arts 2 12 Dec. 31, 2019 00  2 18 10 Europe MOUs Tropical Peatland (CIMTROP), University of Palangka Raya Royal University of Agriculture 13 18 16 9 Southeast 12 Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga 19 The Royal University of Phnom Penh East Timor Asia Others 6 00 Visiting Research 13 The Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya 20 The Authority for the Protection and Management of Consortiums (SEASIA) 14 The School of Environmental Science, Universitas Indonesia Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap Scholars  • Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) 15 The Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Syiah Kuala University 21 The Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace % Total 73 415 16 Mataram University, Udayana University 22 The Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center

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Flowing Into The Future… Walking on the Kojin bridge, one could spot stone turtles in the Kamo River. CSEAS’s researchers— are those turtles. We do not hurry. We are situated here There are eleven of them. After long hours of torrential rain in the area of by the Kamo River learning and absorbing the freshness of those streams of Mount Sajikigatake, the Kamo tide could be very strong, and the turtles knowledge. drown under the water. When the tide recedes, the turtles reappear to the eyes Staying here for two periods— i.e., six months in 2015 and about fourteen of the passersby. Over the decades, many typhoons have come and gone, and months since October 2018— I have gradually been reminded of a passage in the river rages during those typhoon visits. Yet, most days the water ripples the Analects, where Confucius said: “In strolling in the company of just two along, softly flowing over the riverbed. other persons, I am bound to find a teacher.…” * CSEAS was established in 1965 and has since witnessed successive A turtle can never hurry, but its slowness could become its quiet strength, streams of knowledge, some raging through, others softly flowing along the no matter whether streams of knowledge rage or when they softly flow by Kamo riverbanks. Over the years, CSEAS has gradually transformed itself the riverbanks. Even the grandmaster Confucius can learn from others; who into a kind of contact zone for friends from around the world, visiting us are we to not keep our heads down and humbly learn from those streams of with a dazzling array of streams of knowledge. In many ways, some of us— knowledge that have taken us along, flowing into the future?

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* Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, Jr. 1998. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 7:22.

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Flowing Into The Future… Walking on the Kojin bridge, one could spot stone turtles in the Kamo River. CSEAS’s researchers— are those turtles. We do not hurry. We are situated here There are eleven of them. After long hours of torrential rain in the area of by the Kamo River learning and absorbing the freshness of those streams of Mount Sajikigatake, the Kamo tide could be very strong, and the turtles knowledge. drown under the water. When the tide recedes, the turtles reappear to the eyes Staying here for two periods— i.e., six months in 2015 and about fourteen of the passersby. Over the decades, many typhoons have come and gone, and months since October 2018— I have gradually been reminded of a passage in the river rages during those typhoon visits. Yet, most days the water ripples the Analects, where Confucius said: “In strolling in the company of just two along, softly flowing over the riverbed. other persons, I am bound to find a teacher.…” * CSEAS was established in 1965 and has since witnessed successive A turtle can never hurry, but its slowness could become its quiet strength, streams of knowledge, some raging through, others softly flowing along the no matter whether streams of knowledge rage or when they softly flow by Kamo riverbanks. Over the years, CSEAS has gradually transformed itself the riverbanks. Even the grandmaster Confucius can learn from others; who into a kind of contact zone for friends from around the world, visiting us are we to not keep our heads down and humbly learn from those streams of with a dazzling array of streams of knowledge. In many ways, some of us— knowledge that have taken us along, flowing into the future?

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* Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, Jr. 1998. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation. New York: Ballantine Books, 7:22.