ANNUAL REPORT 2014 ARI’s logo depicts rice grains in star-like formation. Rice has been the main staple food for many of Asia’s peoples since the 15th century. It forms the basis of communal bonds, an element of ritual in many Asian societies, and a common cultural thread across nations and societies. Rice cultivation, as one of the major agricultural activities in Asia, has implications for population, sustainability and ecology. In symbolic as well as material ways, rice touches upon many of the key socio-economic and cultural issues in Asia, and is fitting emblem of the Asia Research Institute. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 1 Contents 1.0 2.0 VISION AND MISSION 03 MANAGEMENT 04 Message from Chair of International Advisory Board International Advisory Board Message from Chair of Management Board Management Board Director’s Foreword Steering Committee Administrative Staff 05 06 07 08 09 10 10 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES 11 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL 14 Director Deputy Director Research Leaders (Senior) Research Fellows Postdoctoral Fellows Other Joint Appointments/Secondments Research Associates/Assistants Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor in Arabia Asia Studies Visiting Senior Research Fellows Assistant Professor on FASS Writing Semester Scheme 16 16 16 16 17 18 19 19 5.0 2 19 20 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 21 Research Clusters Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis External Funded Projects 22 37 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 38 39 41 43 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 EVENTS 45 Conferences and Workshops ARI Seminar Series Cluster Seminars Other Event Study Groups and their Seminars 46 55 57 59 60 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 62 Asia Trends Series Public Lectures Newsletters and Reports Media Coverage Digital and Social Connectivity 63 66 66 67 67 PUBLICATIONS 68 Books ARI-Springer Asia Series Asian Population Studies ARI Working Paper Series Articles and Book Chapters 69 74 75 76 77 ARI RECOGNITION 85 Awards and Honours Keynotes and Plenaries 86 86 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 89 Graduate and Other Teaching at NUS Asian Graduate Forum Asian Graduate Student Fellowships Research Scholarships ARI Internship Programme 90 91 92 95 95 11.0 EXTERNAL RELATIONS MOU/External Funding Received International Visits Visitors 96 97 99 99 1.0 VISION To be a world-leading hub for research on Asia MISSION Inspiring new k knowledge l d and d transforming insights into Asia ANNUAL REPORT 2014 3 2.0 MANAGEMENT 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 MANAGEMENT Message from Chair of International Advisory Board 2.0 The Annual Report 2014 records another year of impressive achievements by the Asia Research Institute, now firmly established as a leader in the field of research on Asia. It is therefore with great pleasure that I congratulate the Director and all his colleagues for their achievements. Attracting some of the most influential scholars in the fields of Asian Migration, Asian Urbanisms, Cultural Studies, Religion and Globalisation, Science, Technology, and Society, Asian Connections, and Changing Family, ARI continues to create a conducive research-rich environment for scholars, pushing the boundaries of critical scholarship on Asia. This congregation of highly admired international scholars in the study of Asia, as well as the recruitment of promising up-and-coming new scholars and home-grown talents, across various faculties in NUS, have greatly facilitated knowledge creation and exchanges and further strengthened ARI’s commitment to developing a younger generation of scholars. Indeed, ARI’s impending move back to the Kent Ridge Campus in the middle of 2016 will bring it closer to other NUS faculties and schools that share similar research interests and thus allow better synergy. Preparations for this move have started with the implementation of the ARI-FASS Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme and various other joint appointments that would deepen the research-education nexus. It will also allow ARI staff to gain valuable teaching experience while pushing the frontiers of knowledge. These are timely initiatives as ARI prepares to be relocated into a brand new building on the main campus and as it builds an interactive loop between productive research and effective teaching. PROFESSOR TOMMY KOH Chairman International Advisory Board The international standing of the Institute continues to be augmented through numerous awards and recognitions this year. Professor Prasenjit Duara was honoured with a Visiting Fellowship from the Conscious Realities, Sàn Art, Vietnam; Associate Professor Michael Feener was appointed the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard University, while Dr Tamra Lysaght received the 2014 Sydney Southeast Asian Centre Mobility Award from the Sydney Southeast Asian Centre, University of Sydney. The increasing number of invited keynotes and plenaries among the staff at various international conferences and seminars further attest to the recognition of ARI’s high standing and contribution to scholarship. I am very pleased that under the able directorship of Professor Prasenjit Duara, ARI has deepened its commitment to research of the highest standard and I look forward to more exciting events and higher levels of achievement for the coming year. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 5 2.0 MANAGEMENT International Advisory Board Chairman Board Members Prof Tommy Koh Rector, Tembusu College Chairman, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore and Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Singapore Prof Tani Barlow Director, Chao Centre for Asian Studies, Rice University, USA Ex Officio Prof Srirupa Roy Professor and Chair of State and Democracy and Director, Centre for Modern Indian Studies University of Göttingen, Germany Prof Prasenjit Duara Director, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore Prof Craig Calhoun Director, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Prof James Scott Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, and Director, Agrarian Studies, Yale University, USA Prof Takashi Shiraishi Professor, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 MANAGEMENT Message from Chair of Management Board 2.0 In its 12th year, ARI continues to impress with gratifying achievements in its research activities and publications. In 2014, under the leadership of its Director Professor Prasenjit Duara, ARI successfully hosted the inaugural AAS (US Association for Asian Studies)-in-Asia conference entitled Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation in July. The Board is pleased to see continuing efforts to build on the interdisciplinary and cross-cluster approach in knowledge creation and sharing, such as the MOE (Ministry of Education) funded project “Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia” that is a collaboration of the Asian Urbanism cluster, and the Science, Technology and Society cluster. Moving forward, other possible common themes such as multiculturalism and representation of physical space in films may offer further opportunities for collaboration among researchers from various ARI clusters. ARI has continued to push for the publication of scholarly books through well-known academic publishers, special issues in prestigious journals, articles and book chapters. It is notable that an increasing number of ARI’s research and publication activities are carried out in collaborative partnership within NUS (especially the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Yale-NUS College) and with external partners. Indeed, ARI’s efforts in fostering international collaboration have truly paid off, with many universities and scholarly associations in the Americas, Europe and Asia teaming up with ARI to advance critical scholarship on Asia. PROFESSOR CHONG CHI TAT Chairman Board of Management ARI had a fruitful and productive year in 2014. The Management Board thanks Professor Prasenjit Duara and the entire ARI staff for a job well done. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 7 2.0 MANAGEMENT Management Board Chairman Board Members Prof Chong Chi Tat Director, Institute of Mathematical Sciences National University of Singapore Prof Andrew Harding Director, Centre for Asian Legal Studies National University of Singapore Ex Officio Prof Heng Chye Kiang (Till Jun 2014) Dean, School of Design and Environment National University of Singapore Prof Prasenjit Duara Director, Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore Prof Tan Tai Yong Vice Provost (Student Life), Office of the Provost National University of Singapore, and Executive Vice President (Academic Affairs), Yale-NUS College Prof Wang Gungwu Chairman, East Asian Institute National University of Singapore Dr Wang Hui Director, Division of Research Administration Office of the Deputy President (Research and Technology) National University of Singapore Prof Bernard Yeung (Till Jun 2014) Dean, NUS Business School National University of Singapore Prof Neil Coe (From Jul 2014) Head, Department of Geography National University of Singapore Prof Deng Yongheng (From Jul 2014) Head, Department of Real Estate National University of Singapore 8 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 MANAGEMENT Director’s Foreword PROFESSOR PRASENJIT DUARA Director, Asia Research Institute Raffles Professor of Humanities, and Professor of History 2.0 In several respects, ARI saw a great leap forward in 2014. It was easily ARI’s best year for securing external funding. The Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies was endowed by Mr Muhammad Alagil with a generous endowment of over SGD3 million; this was matched by the Singapore government to total more than SGD6 million. The endowment funds Arabia-Asia research; Professor Engseng Ho of Duke University was appointed the Distinguished Professor for five years. Beginning in June 2014, Professor Ho, with the help of ARI staff, held the first ARI Arabia Asia Studies conference, Slender but Supple Threads: Arabia-Asia Relations Then and Now, within a matter of a few months of receiving the award. Other sources and donors have also recognised ARI’s efforts. The Ministry of Education awarded a SGD709,000 grant for a project entitled “Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia” to the Asian Urbanisms and Science, Technology, and Society Clusters. Meanwhile the Luce Foundation in New York City awarded a SGD500,000 grant to the Religion and Globalisation Cluster for its project entitled “Religion and NGOs in Asia”. Several other smaller grants were also made to individuals and clusters in ARI. Our other major event was the inaugural AAS-in-Asia Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (USA) in July 2014. The initial response was overwhelming, so we were determined to limit the number of participants to 500 in order to ensure success. Indeed, it was a great success in no small measure due to the efficiency of the ARI staff. AAS President, Professor Mrinalini Sinha, noted, “There is no denying that this, our inaugural AASin-Asia, was a big success. On behalf of the AAS, thank you”. Judging from the enthusiasm for AAS-in-Asia to be held later this year in Taiwan and next year in Kyoto, AAS-in-Asia is here to stay and ARI can take some pride in its initiation here. It will be recalled that in 2013 we faced a severe budget crunch because of our growing number of activities and the unanticipated sharp increase in housing costs in NUS. Our cutbacks in 2014 have put us in a much more comfortable situation, although we still have to build back our reserves. We keep our fingers crossed that we will not experience such sudden increases in cost in future. Several of our staff, including the Associate Director, Verene Koh, PA to the Director, Kristy Won, and events team member, Jonathan Lee, left ARI for other opportunities. We were sad to see them leave, but were heartened by the excellent candidates we found to replace them. Sharlene Anthony joined as Senior Manager in February and subsequently Tay Minghua and Priya Latha joined as Management Assistant Officer (Events) and PA to Director, respectively. Thus ARI continues to run as smoothly as it did before. Finally, it is with a heavy heart that I announce my decision to retire from the Directorship at the end of 2015. The years spent as Director of ARI have unquestionably been the best years of my professional life and I have been truly fortunate to be able to grow intellectually and morally with this superb institution. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 9 2.0 MANAGEMENT Steering Committee Administrative Staff Director Sharlene Anthony (From 24 Feb 2014) MA (Nanyang Technological University) Senior Manager Prof Prasenjit Duara Deputy Director Assoc Prof Huang Jianli Noorhayati Hamsan Management Assistant Officer (Finance) Research Leaders Prof Chua Beng Huat Prof Michael Douglass Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh Prof Jean Yeung Verene Koh Hwee Kiang (Till 21 Feb 2014) MBA (National University of Singapore) Associate Director Henry Kwan Wai Hung Diploma (Singapore Polytechnic) Specialist Associate (IT) Senior Research Fellows Dr Michiel Baas (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Philip Fountain Dr Rita Padawangi Jonathan Lee Ming Yao (Till 22 Jul 2014) BA (State University of New York at Buffalo) Management Assistant Officer (Events/PR) Postdoctoral Fellow Sharon Ong BFA (RMIT/Lasalle College of the Arts) Senior Executive (Events/PR) Dr Malini Sur Associate Director (As Secretary) Ms Verene Koh (Till 21 Feb 2014) Senior Manager (As Secretary) Ms Sharlene Anthony (From 24 Feb 2014) Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Graduate Diploma (Southern Cross University) Management Assistant Officer (Human Resources) Vernice Tan Ser Nee BA (Murdoch University) Senior Executive (Human Resources) Tay Minghua (From 2 Dec 2014) Diploma (Kaplan Higher Education Institute) Management Assistant Officer (Events) Kristy Won Tien Min (Till 21 Nov 2014) BSc (University of London) Assistant Manager, and Secretary to Director Valerie Yeo Ee Lin Diploma (Singapore Polytechnic) Management Assistant Officer (Events/PR) 10 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 MANAGEMENT 2.0 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 11 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES 3.0 ARI COMMITTEES ARI Committees Members of ARI actively contribute to the running of the Institute in various ways, including through their participation in committees. In the year 2014 the following committees took up responsibility for various aspects of work involved in the running of ARI as a resource for research on the Asian region for graduate student researchers. Asian Graduate Students Committee With Summer Institute And Graduate Students Forum Dr Michiel Baas (Chair) (From 15 Sep 2014) Assoc Prof Titima Suthiwan Dr Nausheen Anwar (Till 31 Jul 2014) Dr Philip Fountain Dr Maria Platt Dr Michelle Miller Dr Shawna Tang Dr Zhang Juan (Till 25 Jan 2014) Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer (From 15 Sep 2014) Dr Sharon Quah (From 15 Sep 2014) Mrs Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Conference And Research Grants Committee Assoc Prof Huang Jianli (Chair) Prof Chua Beng Huat Prof Brenda Yeoh Ms Kristy Won (Till 21 Nov 2014) Ms Valerie Yeo Finance Committee Prof Prasenjit Duara (Chair) Assoc Prof Huang Jianli Prof Brenda Yeoh Ms Sharlene Anthony (From 24 Feb 2014) Dr Tamra Lysaght (Till 30 Nov 2014) Fire Safety Committee Mr Henry Kwan (Chair) Dr Peter Marolt (Till 16 May 2014) Ms Li Hongyan (Till 16 Mar 2014) Ms Noorhayati Hamsan Ms Sharon Ong Ms Kristy Won (Till 21 Nov 2014) Ms Valerie Yeo Mrs Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Ms Tharuka Prematillake (From 15 Sep 2014) Ms Wajihah Hamid (From 15 Sep 2014) 12 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 ARI COMMITTEES Green Committee Dr Wu Keping (Chair) (Till 30 Nov 2014) Dr Sharon Quah (Chair) (From 1 Dec 2014) Dr Zhang Juan (Till 25 Jan 2014) Ms Noorhayati Hamsan Ms Valerie Yeo Mr Henry Kwan Library Committee Dr Philip Fountain (Chair) Dr Li Haibin Dr Malini Sur Dr Tyson Vaughan (From 1 Nov 2014) Ms Valerie Yeo Newsletter And Outreach Committee Dr Rita Padawangi (Chair) Dr Cho Kyuhoon (Till 18 July 2014) Dr Eric Kerr Dr Sally Liu (Till 31 Jul 2014) Dr Suzanne Naafs (Till 2 Sep 2014) Dr Ravi Rajan (Till 1 Jul 2014) Dr Thum Ping Tjin (Till 8 Oct 2014) Dr Zhang Juan (Till 25 Jan 2014) Dr Celine Coderey (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Joshua Gedacht (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Ronojoy Sen (From 1 Nov 2014) Ms Saharah Abubakar Ms Sharon Ong Mr Henry Kwan Publications Committee (Working Paper Series) Dr Michelle Miller (Chair) Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell (Till 30 Jun 2014) Dr Nausheen Anwar (Till 31 Jul 2014) Dr Maureen Hickey (Till 5 Sep 2014) Dr Tamra Lysaght (Till 30 Nov 2014) Dr Peter Marolt (Till 16 May 2014) Dr Zhang Juan (Till 25 Jan 2014) Dr Eli Elinoff (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Joshua Gedacht (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Eric Kerr (From 1 Nov 2014) Dr Fiona Lee (From 1 Nov 2014) Ms Tharuka Prematillake Ms Valerie Yeo 3.0 Seminar Committee Prof Jean Yeung (Chair) Prof Chua Beng Huat Assoc Prof Tim Bunnell (Till 30 Jun 2014) Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi (Till 2 Jun 2014) Dr Jerome Whitington Dr Wu Keping (Till 30 Nov 2014) Mrs Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Ms Valerie Yeo Ms Tay Minghua (From 2 Dec 2014) Mr Jonathan Lee (Till 22 Jul 2014) Social And Staff Welfare Committee Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer (Chair) Dr Maureen Hickey (Till 5 Sep 2014) Ms Vernice Tan Ms Kristy Won (Till 21 Nov 2014) Ms Wajihah Hamid (From 4 Sep 2014) Mr Jonathan Lee (Till 22 Jul 2014) Steering Committee Prof Prasenjit Duara (Chair) Assoc Prof Huang Jianli Prof Chua Beng Huat Prof Mike Douglass Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh Prof Jean Yeung Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener Dr Philip Fountain Dr Malini Sur Dr Michiel Baas (From 1 Nov 2014) Ms Sharlene Anthony (From 24 Feb 2014) Website Committee Dr Maria Platt (Chair) Dr Marco Garrido (Till 30 Jun 2014) Ms Sharon Ong Ms Valerie Yeo Mr Henry Kwan ANNUAL REPORT 2014 13 4.0 Research Personnel 14 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PERSONNEL Research Personnel The Asia Research Institute aims to be the hub for high-quality social science and humanities research on Asia, and attracting high quality researchers is paramount to the success of the Institute. ARI has been receiving an increasing number of applications each year over the last five years for medium and short term visiting research positions, reaching 350 applications in 2014. This is a clear indication of ARI becoming the preferred choice for researchers working on Asia. 4.0 Since 2005, ARI has brought to NUS a mix of well-established scholars and younger researchers from the region who wish to spend research time in the Institute and interact with the best in their fields. The Institute also attracts many established scholars on paid sabbatical leave from their home institutions to spend time conducting research and establishing connections in ARI and NUS. Scholars who joined under visiting or sabbatical scheme in 2014 are listed in the following section on Visiting Senior Research Fellows. The research personnel in ARI are diverse; they vary in terms of research foci, nationalities, international experience, and duration of appointments. ARI further maintains a good balance between established scholars and those who are at the start of their promising careers. The research personnel are led by distinguished research leaders, each heading a research cluster. Most of the research leaders are tenured faculty members, part-seconded on joint appointments from their home departments in NUS, while others have been recruited after exhaustive international searches. The research leaders and (senior) research fellows provide the stability and experience necessary for implementing longer-term plans of the Institute, while other shorter-term members add agility and vibrancy to the ARI community. A high proportion of appointees in ARI are short-term visiting fellows who are mostly established scholars on leave from their home institutions, and they are recruited internationally on a competitive basis for periods ranging from three months to up to a year. Postdoctoral fellows are also appointed through an annual international competition. They are promising young scholars in their research fields, with ARI providing them the space and time to build up their research and publication capacities in their early career development. Outstanding performers often go on to succeed in securing tenure-track positions in NUS or other universities worldwide. In 2014, ARI continued to interact with the faculties of NUS in various ways, particularly by co-organising events and collaborating in research. In addition, the FASS Writing Semester Scheme is designed to enable assistant professors in the faculties to devote six months to writing in ARI, primarily to complete publications needed for tenure review. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 15 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL A proportion of ARI’s research staff was appointed on the basis of external funded programmes or projects. Two research project grants awarded by the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust and the John Templeton Foundation provided full or partial support for four research assistants/associates. The Global Asia Institute also funded a research assistant in ARI. A continuing research programme grant for the Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) through the University of Sussex provided full or partial support for two research assistants and a research associate. A grant for a project on migration and Chinese families partially supported the appointment of a postdoctoral fellow and another funding for a project on China children provided for the appointment of yet another postdoctoral fellow. Director Duara, Prasenjit, Professor. PhD (Harvard), MPhil (Jawaharlal Nehru), MA (Delhi), BA (Delhi). Director since 1 January 2011; Historical Sociology of Asian Connections Metacluster Research Leader from April 2011; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS. History of China and more broadly of Asia in the twentieth century; historical thought and historiography. Deputy Director Huang Jianli, Associate Professor. PhD (ANU), BA (Hons) (NUS). Deputy Director since 1 January 2013; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS, and concurrently Research Associate at the East Asian Institute, NUS. History of Republican China from the 1910s to 1940s; student political activism; local governance; and Chinese diaspora, in particular the relationship between China and the Chinese community in Singapore. Research Leaders Chua Beng Huat, Provost's Chair Professor. PhD (York), MA (York), BSc (Acadia). Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster Research Leader since 1 January 2004; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, and concurrently Head, Department of Sociology, FASS. Housing and urban studies; comparative politics in Southeast Asia; East Asian pop culture and cultural studies in Asia. Clancey, Gregory Kevin, Associate Professor. PhD (MIT), MA (Boston), BA (Hons) (Bates). Science, Technology, and Society Cluster Research Leader since 1 August 2009; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS; Master, Tembusu College, NUS from 27 September 2010. History and anthropology of science and technology; architecture and cities; natural disaster; Japan. Douglass, Clyde Michael, Professor. PhD (UCLA), MA (Hawai’i), BA (UCLA). Asian Urbanisms Cluster Research Leader since 1 August 2012; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, FASS, from 12 June 2012 to 31 July 2014; joint appointment with LKYSPP, NUS, from 1 August 2014. Disaster governance; progressive cities; liveable cities; vernacular cities; spaces of hope and alternative development; globalisation and urban development. 16 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Feener, R. Michael, Associate Professor. PhD (Boston), MA (Boston), BA (Colorado, Boulder). Religion and Globalisation Cluster Research Leader since 1 February 2009; joint appointment with Department of History, FASS, from 28 June 2006. Islamic Studies; Religion and Development. Yeoh Saw Ai, Brenda, Provost's Chair Professor. PhD (Oxford), MA (Cambridge), BA (Hons) (Cambridge). Asian Migration Cluster Research Leader; joint appointment with Department of Geography, and concurrently Dean, FASS. The politics of space in colonial and postcolonial cities; heritage issues and tourism studies; cosmopolitanism and highly skilled talent migration; gender, social reproduction and care migration; migration. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean, Professor. PhD (Alberta), MA (Illinois State), BA (Soochow). Changing Family in Asia Cluster Research Leader from 1 November 2011; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, FASS, since 15 July 2008; and Director of the Centre of Family and Population Research, FASS, since 1 April 2014. Intergenerational studies, family and children’s wellbeing and policies; poverty; fatherhood; China’s economic and demographic transition. (Senior) Research Fellows Anwar, Nausheen Hafeeza, PhD (Columbia), MIA (Columbia), BA (CUNY). Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 31 July 2014. Politics of urban development, governance and globalisation; linkages between structural-political violence, gender, poverty/ inequality and improved access to public services. Baas, Michiel, PhD (Amsterdam), MA (Amsterdam). Research Fellow since 2 June 2014. Mid-level skilled migration from India to Singapore. Bala, Arun, PhD (Western Ontario), MA (University of Singapore), MA (Sussex), BSc (University of Singapore). Senior Research Fellow since 1 December 2011. Civilisations and modern science; different Asian traditions in the making of modern science. Bush, Robin, PhD (Washington), MA (Ohio), BA (South Carolina). Senior Research Fellow from 5 December 2011 to 27 June 2014. Interfaces between Islam, politics, and development, particularly in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Cho Soung Soo, Philip, PhD (Pennsylvania), MA (Pennsylvania), BS (MIT). Research Fellow since 7 July 2011. Influence of popular religion on the development of Chinese science, technology and medicine in late-imperial China and early-modern Europe; contemporary developments in science and technology in China. Das, Dhiman, PhD (CUNY), MPhil (JNU). Research Fellow since 16 January 2013. Health; education; poverty; public policy. RESEARCH PERSONNEL Fountain, Philip, PhD (ANU), MSc (Wellington), BA (Wellington). Senior Research Fellow since 1 November 2013. Religion; international development; humanitarianism; disaster relief; anthropology of Christianity; NGOs. 4.0 Salvatore, Armando, PhD (EUI), Habilitation (Humboldt), MA (IUO). Senior Research Fellow from 1 April to 16 July 2014. Religion, civility and modern power; sociology of culture and religion; social theory; sociology of communication and historical sociology. Hickey, Maureen Helen, PhD (Washington), MA (Washington), BA (Washington). Research Fellow from 6 September 2012 to 5 September 2014. Migration and development; internal migration in Thailand; gender, masculinity and migration; labour migration and shifting political identities. Thum Ping Tjin, PhD (Oxford), MSt (Oxford), BA (Oxford). Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 8 October 2014. Transnational movements between Southeast Asian port cities. Ji Yingchun, PhD (UNC, Chapel Hill), MA (Victoria), BA (Nanjing). Research Fellow from 21 August 2012 to 20 August 2014. Social demography; family sociology; medical sociology. Wasson, Robert James, PhD (Macquarie), BA (Hons) (Sydney). Principal Research Fellow from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. Flood risk in monsoon Asia; role of land use and climate change in landscape change; catchment management systems; extreme hydrologic events in the Australian and Asian tropics. Jung Sun, PhD (Melbourne), MA (Griffith), BA (Toledo). Research Fellow since 26 September 2011. South Korean popular cultures; online youth cultures; creative activism. Kawashima, Kumiko, PhD (ANU), BA (New South Wales). Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 20 May 2014. International mobility; youth; labour and identity in post-industrial contexts. Lysaght, Tamra Maree, PhD (Sydney), BSc (Newcastle), BBus (Newcastle). Senior Research Fellow from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2014. Ethical and sociopolitical issues surrounding translation mental health research; whole genome sequencing; reproductive tissue donation; stem cell science. Marolt, Peter Wolfgang, PhD (Southern California). Research Fellow from 17 May 2010 to 16 May 2014. Social theory; urban and cultural/political geographies; globalisation; the Internet and China. Miller, Michelle Ann, PhD (Charles Darwin), BA (Hons) (Northern Territory). Senior Research Fellow since 1 January 2014. Research Fellow from 1 April 2010 to 31 December 2013. Decentralisation; governing environmental disasters; urban-rural relations; social conflict and its resolution. Naafs, Suzanne, PhD (Erasmus), MA (Leiden), BA (Leiden). Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 2 September 2014. Youth studies; development studies and cultural anthropology with a geographical focus on Indonesia. Padawangi, Rita, PhD (Loyola, Chicago), MA (Loyola, Chicago), MA (NUS). Senior Research Fellow since 1 January 2013. Sociology of urban design; social movements; environmental sociology. Platt, Maria Wendy, PhD (La Trobe), BAppSci (Hons) (Deakin). Research Fellow since 1 July 2012. Gendered labour migration; migration in colonial and post-colonial contexts; politics of intimacy and international labour migration; transnational relationships; sexual and reproductive health. Wu Keping, PhD (Boston), MA (Boston), BA (Peking). Senior Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 30 November 2014. Religion and development in contemporary China; anthropology of Christianity; ethnic and religious pluralism in Southwest China; conversion and Buddhism in contemporary Southeast China. Zhang Juan, PhD (Macquarie), MSocSci (NUS), BE (Wuhan). Research Fellow from 1 January 2013 to 25 January 2014. Borders and boundary-making; contemporary Chinese subjectivity; everyday practices in post-socialist conditions. Postdoctoral Fellows Bork-Hüffer, Tabea, PhD (Cologne), MSc (Distinction) (Cologne). Since 2 January 2013; and concurrently Fellow at the Alexandervon-Humboldt Foundation, Bonn. Changing geographies of migration, health and urban spaces in the 21st century. Brown, Bernardo, PhD (Cornell), MA (NSSR), BA (Buenos Aires). Since 3 November 2014. Forms of religiosity that emerge in transnational contexts and the encounter of different world Christian traditions. Chang Yufen, PhD (Michigan), MA (National Cheng-Chi), BA (National Cheng-Chi). From 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. Cultural sociology; comparative historical sociology; nationalism; social movements; literature; religions; East Asia; overseas Chinese. Cheung Ka-lok, Adam, PhD (CUHK), MSc (London), BA (Hong Kong Baptist). From 1 November 2012 to 31 July 2014. Household division of labour; domestic outsourcing; marital conflict; domestic violence. Cho Kyuhoon, PhD (Ottawa), MA From 3 June 2013 to 2 June 2014. category “religion” in modern Korea, and Christianity in a globalised Korea; Korea; religion in modern global Asia. (Ottawa), BA (Hanshin). Conceptualisation of the public role of Buddhism religious system of North ANNUAL REPORT 2014 17 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng, PhD (Cambridge), MA (Distinction) (Cambridge), MSc (Distinction) (London), Dipl (London), BSc (London). From 8 December 2014. Moving image medium and the discipline of architecture and urban studies. Coderey, Céline, PhD (Provence), MA (Provence), Dipl (NALCO), MA (Lausanne), BA (Lausanne). Since 13 January 2014. Health field in Myanmar; therapeutic practices and the health-seeking process; conceptions of health/disease. Gedacht, Joshua, PhD (Wisconsin-Madison), MA (WisconsinMadison), BA (McGill). Since 9 January 2014. Relationship between colonial era war-making; Islamic networks; reconfiguration of religious connections in Indonesia and the Philippines. Garrido, Marco Antonio Zialcita, PhD (Michigan), MA (Notre Dame), BA (Harvard). From 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. Relationship between urban fragmentation and political polarisation in Metro Manila, Philippines. Kerr, Eric Thomson, PhD (Edinburgh), MLitt (Aberdeen), MA (Aberdeen), LLB (Aberdeen). Since 15 July 2013. Epistemology of technology and risk; petroleum engineering in Thailand; philosophical approaches to disaster. Lee Hsiao Yen, Fiona, PhD (CUNY), MPhil (CUNY), BA (SUNY Geneseo). Since 29 July 2014. Modern/contemporary literature and visual media in Southeast Asia; postcolonial/ transnational literature; postcolonial, critical race, feminist, and queer theories. Lee Tsung-Ling, SJD (Georgetown), LLM (Georgetown), LLM (National Taiwan), BMedSci (Sydney). Since 15 December 2014. Intersection of public international law and health, with a focus on regulatory theory, regional migration pathways, elderly care. Li Haibin, PhD (Sydney), MEd (Sydney), BEd (Nanjing Normal). Since 2 January 2013. Resilience, parenting, and self-concept relating to Chinese migrant children. Lin Qianhan, PhD (Oxford), MSc (Oxford), BSc (London). From 8 October 2012 to 30 September 2014. Parental migration and its effects on the development of children in China. Liu Liangni, Sally, PhD (Auckland), MA (Hons) (Auckland), BA (Hons) (Auckland). From 10 June 2013 to 31 July 2014. Areas of migrant transnationalism, especially Chinese migratory transnationalism in New Zealand and Australia. Quah Ee Ling, Sharon, PhD (Sydney), MA (NUS), BA (NUS). Since 3 June 2013. Divorce in Singapore and Australia; alternative and transnational intimacies in the global context. 18 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Rathina-Pandi, Asha, PhD (Hawai’i), MA (Hawai’i), MSc (UTM), BA (UTM). From 3 June 2013 to 2 June 2014. Dynamic relationship between space, technology (Internet and new media), and society; minority populations; social justice and equality; democratisation. Sur, Malini, PhD (Amsterdam), MA (Distinction) (Essex), MA (TISS), BA (Jadavpur). Since 3 June 2013. Migration and border studies; anthropology of infrastructure; anthropology of violence; globalisation; transport and mobility studies; material culture; gender and sexuality studies; environmental studies. Tang Ser Wei, Shawna, PhD (Sydney), MSocSci (NUS), BSocSci (Hons) (NUS), BA (NUS). From 3 June 2013 to 31 December 2014. Non-normative sexualities; gender; globalisation; modernity; state; nationalism; LGBT politics; Singapore and Asia. Vaughan, Earl Tyson, PhD (Cornell), MA (Cornell), BA (Stanford). Since 15 January 2014. Urban planning for post-disaster recovery and disaster risk reduction; community (re-)building. Other Joint Appointments/Secondments Bunnell, Timothy, Associate Professor, PhD (Nottingham), BA (Nottingham). At ARI from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2014; joint appointment with Department of Geography, FASS. Landscape symbolism and national identity; network conceptions of landscapes, places and the city; Malay communities beyond the “Malay World”. Coopmans, Catelijne, Senior Lecturer. DPhil (Oxford), MSc (Oxford), BA (Maastricht). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 17 September 2012. Ethnography and discourse analysis; innovation and visual evidence; dynamics of expertise. Elinoff, Eli Asher, PhD (UC San Diego), MA (UC San Diego), BA (Colorado, Boulder). Postdoctoral Fellow since 16 December 2013; joint appointment with Department of Sociology, FASS from 1 July 2014. Citizenship, emerging political practices, notions of sustainability; contestations over urban development in Thailand. Graham, Connor Clive, Lecturer. PhD (Melbourne), BA (Nottingham). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 17 September 2012. Information systems; science, technology, and society; and living and dying in the age of the Internet. Kamalini Ramdas, Lecturer. PhD (NUS). Since 8 December 2014, joint appointment with Department of Geography, FASS. Transnational familyhood and community; care ethics and responsibility. RESEARCH PERSONNEL 4.0 Sen, Ronojoy, PhD (Chicago), MA (South Carolina), BA (Calcutta). Senior Research Fellow since 1 August 2013; joint appointment with Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS. Religion, state and civil society in India. Lam Choy Fong, Theodora, MSocSci (NUS), BA (NUS), BSocSci (Waikato). Research Associate since 15 November 2005. Transnational migration; children’s geographies; gender studies; cities and citizenship. Tan Ai Hua, Margaret, Lecturer. PhD (NUS), MA (London), BFA (RMIT/Lasalle College of the Arts). Joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College since 1 December 2012. Pervasive and wearable computing history and aesthetics. Li Hongyan, MSc (NTU), BA (NUS). Research Assistant from 9 June 2011 to 16 March 2014. Perceptions and representations of deviancy; problematisation of social anxieties. Whitington, Jerome, PhD (California, Berkeley), MA (California, Berkeley), BA (Texas). Research Fellow since 3 August 2011; joint appointment with Tembusu Residential College, NUS, from 3 August 2014. Climate change and energy; ASEAN policy initiatives; East Asian approaches to carbon markets and greenhouse gas management. Yuk, Joowon, PhD (Warwick), MA (Warwick), MBA (Sungkyunkwan), BA (Seoul). Postdoctoral Fellow since 29 September 2014; joint appointment with Department of Geography, FASS. Diversity and cultural policy development, migration and citizenship; the cultural politics of race, gender and class. Research Associates/Assistants Abubakar, Saharah, MA (NUS), BSocSci (NUS). Research Associate since 10 July 2007. Social networks and resilience of divorced Malay mothers. Ng Xinyi, Esther, BSocSci (Hons) (NUS). Research Assistant since 1 July 2013. Economic and social impact of casinos, children’s views on health; food and activity. Prematillake, Tharuka Maduwanthi, BA (RMIT). Research Assistant since 1 October 2012. Media and health reporting; women and children; cross cultural communications; religion and globalisation; labour migration and international relations. Reddish, Paul, PhD (Wellington). Research Associate from 1 July to 31 December 2014. Social effects of religion and rituals; cognition, religious thought and behaviour. Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Visiting Professor In Arabia Asia Studies Ho Engseng, Professor, PhD (Chicago). From 2 June 2014. Arab/Muslim diasporas across the Indian Ocean, and their relations with western empires, past and present. Visiting Senior Research Fellows Baey Hui Yi, Grace, MA (Queen’s), BA (Western Ontario). Research Assistant since 30 December 2010. Labour migration issues in Southeast Asia; borders and boundary-making; identity politics; international political economy. Ali, Daud, PhD (Chicago). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 4 February to 3 May 2014. Relations between local society and regional political entities during a period of political instability in medieval South India. Escoffier, Nicolas Rene, PhD (NUS), MSc (Lyon II). Research Associate from 1 July 2013 to 31 August 2014; and since 10 November 2014. Relationship between speech and music cognition; cognitive and neural underpinnings of musical and vocal communication of emotions. Barichello, Richard Ralph, PhD (Chicago). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 3 January to 2 April 2014. Trade policy; world food markets; Southeast Asia labour markets; cost-benefit analysis. Hamid, Wajihah, MA (Sussex), BA (NUS). Research Assistant since 1 November 2013. Migration; South Asian diaspora; transnationalism. Hu Shu, MA (Renmin), BA (Renmin). Research Assistant since 1 September 2014. Social inequality; poverty; family and child development; education stratification; gender; migration. Khoo Choon Yen, BSocSci (Hons) (NUS). Research Assistant since 1 January 2014. Labour migration from/within Indonesia and Southeast Asia; gender and migration; and youth aspirations. Duong, Lan Phuong, PhD (UC Irvine). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 June to 25 August 2014. Feminist film theory; postcolonial literature; Asian/American film and literature. Hoang, Lan Anh, PhD (East Anglia). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 22 November 2013 to 21 February 2014. Migration; development; family and gender in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Huang Yinghong, PhD (Sun Yat-sen). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 22 January to 9 April 2014. Political transformations in India and China; Gandhian Satyagraha; Sino-Indian border dispute. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 19 4.0 RESEARCH PERSONNEL Kathirithamby-Wells, Jeyamalar, PhD (London). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 3 January to 2 April 2014. Southeast Asian historical inter-connections in natural resource extraction, utilisation and trade; environmental implications for post-colonial nation building. Khan, Tabassum, PhD (Ohio). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 9 December 2013 to 8 February 2014. Emergent identities of Indian Muslim youth within contexts of economic liberalisation and neoliberal globalisation. Kuo Huei-Ying, PhD (SUNY, Binghamton). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 21 May to 20 August 2014. Chinese diaspora; nationalism; colonial empires; maritime East Asia in world history. Li, Tania Murray, PhD (Cambridge). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 3 February to 28 April 2014. Land, development, resource struggles, community, class, and indigeneity with particular focus on Indonesia. Lim Bee Yin, Joanne, PhD (East London). Visiting Research Fellow from 7 October 2013 to 6 January 2014. Discourses on media and globalisation; politics and implications of (new/social) media within Asian transformations (identities, cultures and state politics). Mahdavi, Pardis, PhD (Columbia). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 20 August to 29 November 2014. Gendered labour, migration, sexuality, human rights, youth culture, transnational feminism and public health in the context of changing global and political structures. Nguyen, Viet Thanh, PhD (UC Berkeley). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 June to 25 August 2014. Ethics of memory in literature, film, memorials, museums, and monuments dedicated to the so-called “Vietnam War”. Palmer, David Alexander, PhD (EPHE). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 12 May to 11 August 2014. Local ritual traditions; transnational religious movements; faith-based volunteering; NGOs in the Chinese world and Southeast Asia. Peterson, William Dwight, PhD (Texas). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 December 2013 to 1 March 2014. Community-based performance in the Philippines; transnational/ transcultural flows and spectacle; religion and performance; theatre in Singapore. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, BSc (Bombay). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 28 January to 20 July 2014. Indian cinema; India’s cultural policy; visual arts. 20 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Rajan, Ravi, PhD (Oxford). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 2 July 2013 to 1 July 2014. Political economy and intellectual history of environment-development conflicts; expertise and environmental governance; environmental basis of poverty. Ruwanpura, Kanchana Nimali, PhD (Cambridge). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 13 January to 12 April 2014. Connections between ethno-nationalism, post-disaster and materiality; connections between civil society initiatives and uneven development processes. Shen Yipeng, PhD (Oregon). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 3 July 2013 to 2 July 2014. Mass nationalism in postsocialist China. Sivasundaram, Sujit Pradin, PhD (Cambridge). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 2 November 2014. Age of revolutions in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Tosa, Keiko, PhD (Sokendai). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 30 October 2014. Buddhist missionary work and Buddhist movements in Myanmar. Vekkal John, Varghese, PhD (Hyderabad). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 9 May to 30 June 2014. Peasant migrations in South India for cultivation and agricultural expansion. Vickers, Adrian Hassall, PhD (Sydney). Visiting Senior Research Fellow from 31 March to 30 June 2014. Southeast Asian historiography; cultural history. Winter, Tim, PhD (Manchester). Visiting Senior Research Fellow since 7 October 2014. Heritage diplomacy in Asia; Urban sustainability, air-conditioning, and the viability of tradition based low-carbon alternatives in Southeast Asia and the Arabian Gulf. Assistant Professor On Fass Writing Semester Scheme Gemici, Kurtulu , PhD (UCLA). At ARI from 1 January to 30 June 2014; from Department of Sociology, FASS. Economic sociology; economic development; political sociology; contentious politics. 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2014 21 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Research Clusters The research clusters in ARI each focuses on research and analysis of a particular feature of Asian society. With the closure of the “Open” cluster in mid-2014, there are currently seven clusters in ARI and they serve as platforms to bring researchers together in a collective effort to produce useful interactions. The Institute constantly explores new potential areas of research for ARI, leading to the incorporation of important emergent areas of inquiry. A project involving cross-cluster members under a new research area – Disaster Governance in Asia, a theme common to the Asian Urbanisms, Metacluster, Religion and Globalisation, and Science, Technology, and Society clusters – received a large grant support from the Singapore Ministry of Education in 2014. Another common theme is the area of “new media and social movements” which straddles Cultural Studies, Asian Urbanisms and Asian Migration. There are also two active reading groups in ARI, the Asian Connections Reading Group and the Religion and Development Reading Group, hosted by the Metacluster and the Religion and Globalisation cluster respectively. Members of the reading groups meet regularly to examine texts and share ideas related to their interests. Individual cluster members also have independent areas of interest which may overlap and flow between clusters. In addition, a number of scholars from NUS and beyond contribute as cluster associates. They play an active role in the respective cluster workshops, conferences, and other research activities, and serve as resource persons for the Institute. The full diversity and heterogeneity of work carried out at ARI are reflected in its members and their publications. 22 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Asian Migration PROF BRENDA S.A. YEOH 5.0 The Asian Migration Cluster maintains research interest in a broad range of human migrations, mobilities and interconnectivities within and beyond Asia. The cluster has three priority research themes. The first draws attention to the material processes and discourses of globalisation and transnationalism as they intersect in Asian cities. The focus is on exploring new knowledge frameworks through which to understand the complex and diverse linkages between global change and transnational migration. The second research theme explores the relationship between human aspiration, migration and development in Southeast Asia, with a focus on the development impact of migration in sending communities as well as the costs and risks of migration for the poor. A third research theme highlights the organisation and constitution of transnational (im)mobility as a means of (re)conceptualising different mobile practices, rhythms and rationalities that characterise people on the move in Asia. Cluster members explore a broad range of human mobilities and interconnectivities, including transnational flows of professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites; contract migrant workers filling low-waged niches in the urban economy, international students, and marriage migrants. Transnational modes of migration – of varying degrees of permanence and transience – have become a compelling force not only in increasing diversity in Asian cities, but also transformed the social, economic and demographic fabric of source areas. The cluster continues to deepen critical scholarship by exploring new knowledge frameworks through which to understand the complex and diverse linkages between global change and transnational mobility, both within and beyond Asia. Its annual flagship conference Mobilities and Exceptional Spaces in Asia examined the nexus between changing practices of capitalism that have produced new forms of connections, flows and mobilities in the region, the increased use of “exceptions” or “special rules” to maximise capitalist profits, and transformations in fundamental notions of sovereignty, citizenship, rights, freedom and subjecthood for migrants and non-migrants. Two other workshops during the year included Encountering Urban Diversity in Asia: Class and Other Intersections which brought together scholars interested in rethinking and retheorising the production and performance of class relations in an era of growing transnational mobility and urban diversity in nonWestern contexts; and Manoeuvering Through Physical and Virtual Spaces: Mobility and New Media in Asian Cities which focused on the way ICTs influence the everyday practices of mobile subjects in the arrival/transit city. The cluster was also active in organising two panels at the AAS-in-Asia Conference 2014 – Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation in Singapore and held a parallel workshop on Futures of Migrant Care Labour: Gender Geographies of Aspiration and Servitude in July 2014. Cluster members continue to be busy with analysing data and publishing papers from recently completed projects: the Wellcome Trust funded project Children and Migrant Parents in Southeast Asia (CHAMPSEA) which examines migration, ANNUAL REPORT 2014 23 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES gender dynamics and the impact on left-behind children’s health and wellbeing in four Southeast Asian countries; the MOE Tier 2 project on State Boundaries, Cultural Politics and Gender Negotiations in Commercially Arranged International Marriages in Singapore and Malaysia; and four Migrating Out of Poverty projects: firstly, Financing Migration, Generating Remittances, and the Building of Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Indonesian Migrant Women as Domestic Workers in Singapore; secondly, Migration and Precarious Work: Negotiating Debt, Employment, and Livelihood Strategies amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men Working in Singapore’s Construction Industry; thirdly, Gendered Migration Patterns, Processes and Outcomes: Results from a Household Survey in Ponorogo, Indonesia; and lastly, Structural Conditions and Agency in Migrant DecisionMaking: A Case of Domestic and Construction Workers from Java, Indonesia. Cluster members were also involved in research projects on a variety of themes including labour migration, global consumption and regulation in Singapore’s casino space (funded by an NUS HSS research grant); borders, mobility, and citizenship in the South Asian context; changing geographies of migration; health and urban spaces in Asia; mid-level skilled migration from India to Singapore; forms of religiosity that emerge in transnational contexts and the encounter of different world Christian traditions; diversity and cultural policy development; and migration and citizenship in Asia. The cluster was also active in exploring different channels of communications to engage the wider public on pertinent migration issues in Asia. Alongside its annual Symposium on Migration and Construction Work in Asia, organised as part of the ARI ASIA TRENDS 2014 series, the cluster hosted a multimedia presentation and a short film screening titled “Gone Home” which follows the profile of two return Bangladeshi migrants. Invited speakers included Mr John Gee from Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) and Dr C. R. Abrar, Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, who founded the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) at the University of Dhaka. The event attracted 80 attendees including academics, students, civil society representatives and policymakers. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Research Leader) Dr Michiel Baas Ms Grace Baey Prof Richard Ralph Barichello Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer Dr Bernardo Enrique Brown Dr Maureen Helen Hickey Dr Kumiko Kawashima Ms Khoo Choon Yen Ms Theodora Lam Prof Tania Murray Li Dr Liu Liangni, Sally Assoc Prof Pardis Mahdavi Ms Ng Xinyi, Esther Dr Maria Platt Dr Malini Sur Dr John Varghese Vekkal Dr Yuk Joowon Assoc Prof Michael Ewing-Chow Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Esther Goh Department of Social Work, NUS Dr Elaine Ho Department of Geography, NUS Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong Department of Sociology, NUS (Till 30 June 2014) Assoc Prof Shirlena Huang Department of Geography, NUS Dr Lai Ah Eng University Scholars Programme, NUS Assoc Prof Eric Thompson Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Wang Gungwu East Asian Institute, NUS Dr Sallie Yea Humanities and Social Studies Education, NTU 24 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Asian Urbanisms 5.0 The Asian Urbanisms Cluster (AUC) continued to advance basic and applied research on Asia’s diverse urban experiences along three major lines of inquiry: (1) The Vernacular City as living urban heritage and participatory citymaking in Asia’s diverse contexts of modernisation and globalisation; (2) Spaces of Hope through grassroots initiatives for alternative development that often arise from a milieu of urban discontents in an age of digital media technologies; and (3) Disaster Governance in the context of Asia’s rapid urban transition and global climate change. Research on the Vernacular City directs attention to the role of human agency in the production and social construction of urban spaces that culturally, socially and physically shape the city. It continues its collaboration with the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) in Leiden, FASS Cities Research Cluster, the Future Cities Laboratory and various NGOs in Indonesia. PROF MIKE DOUGLASS Members of AUC represented ARI and NUS in the UKNA workshop Imagining the City: Thematic Group Workshop on Urbanisation at the Rockefeller Centre in Bellagio in April 2014, where representatives of universities in the network met to shape research publications in the three thematic areas of UKNA. AUC members are also on the editorial board of the Asian Cities book series from the Amsterdam University Press. In July 2014, the cluster successfully organised two panels on urban heritage in the AAS-in-Asia Conference 2014–Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation, namely Heritage Activism for the Vernacular City and The Vernacular City as Living Heritage. The panels brought together scholars from Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Canada, Korea, and the USA. In September 2014, The Vernacular City started research collaboration with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Duke University and the Kota Kita Foundation in Surakarta, Indonesia, on community participation in water supply provision and distribution, through which AUC will specifically look at the role of water in placemaking and community empowerment in the city. In November 2014, The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities conference was held at ARI. The first evening of the conference featured the third CityPossible Film Festival, a 3.5-hour screening of short films on the role of human agency in the shaping of urban spaces in various cities in the world. The Film Festival, organised in collaboration with the Young NTUC at the NTUC Auditorium, attracted more than 140 people, who also enjoyed the performance of and the interaction with Blues 77 – a veteran Singapore jazz band that was featured as urban heritage in one of the conference papers. Spaces of Hope research proceeded in 2014 through key conferences, publications and community outreach. The conference Conceptualising Cyber-Urban Connections in Asia and the Middle East held in January, brought together nearly 30 scholars to critically assess the relationship between emerging forms of activism in cyber space and urban space. In June, AUC hosted the Asia Trends forum with Kees Christianse under the theme Considering Centralities. The talk, held at the National Library of Singapore, considered the role of architects and major projects in the construction of the city. It also addressed questions related to liveable cities. AUC also collaborated with the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster (STS) to organise and host ANNUAL REPORT 2014 25 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES the workshop on The Quotidian Anthropocene: Reconfiguring Environments in Urbanising Asia in October 2014. The workshop covered themes related to environmental transformation, disaster, and social transformation and activism. The convenors of this workshop are currently developing the project as an edited volume to be published with University of Pennsylvania Press. Spaces of Hope research launched a new initiative in July 2014 on Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe through a collaborative grant awarded by NUS and Université Paris WHIG1 at Sorbonne Nouvelle. In November 2014 public seminars were given at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, to launch the project. As an allied Spaces of Hope activity, several AUC members continue to participate in the MOE Tier 2 funded multi-disciplinary research on Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities organised through FASS Cities. The project examines the conditions and consequences of community and institutional aspirations in 15 cities across 7 different countries in Asia. The Spaces of Hope theme continued to present films in its community outreach programmes. In March cluster leader Prof Mike Douglass showed and discussed his documentary film, Place of Hope – The Kasama Potters and the Great Ordeal, at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. establishing Singapore as a centre of leadership in Asia in the growing field of Disaster Studies. Research on Disaster Governance in an age of urban transitions and global climate change has produced extensive international research collaborations with a longer-term objective of Following the AUC’s signature Conference on Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in Asia in November 2013, the Disaster Governance programme convened a second International Workshop on Governing Flooding in Urbanising Asia in January 2014. This follow-up workshop was sponsored by the leading Tier 1 journal Pacific Affairs and brought together selected specialists from nine countries to explore how Asia’s urbanising populations deal with flooding from an inclusive governance perspective that directly links knowledge to action in policy programmes. Two edited collections stemming from these combined events will be published in 2015. In addition, the expansion of the Disaster Governance programme beyond the AUC through cooperation with STS and the Metacluster was formalised in September 2014 via the award of an MOE Tier 2 grant on Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia (MOE2014-T2-1-017). Led by the AUC, this 3-year multidisciplinary programme of research aims to improve understandings of the changing risks, vulnerabilities, responses and resilience to compounded environmental disasters in an increasingly interconnected urbanising Asia. Through this largescale project the Disaster Governance programme will continue to expand the nucleus of a global network of research on Disaster Studies centred in Asia and connected to similar initiatives in other parts of the world. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Prof Mike Douglass (Research Leader) Assoc Prof Daud Ali Dr Nausheen Hafeeza Anwar Prof Chua Beng Huat Dr Simone Shu-Yeng Chung Dr Eli Asher Elinoff Dr Marco Garrido Prof Gavin W. Jones Dr Peter Marolt Dr Michelle Ann Miller Dr Rita Padawangi Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi Dr Tyson Vaughan Prof Brenda Yeoh Prof Stephen Cairns Future Cities Lab, Singapore-ETH Centre Dr Chang Jiat Hwee Department of Architecture, NUS Dr Daniel Goh Department of Sociology, NUS Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong Department of Sociology, NUS Prof Jane M. Jacobs Division of the Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College Dr Joo Yu Min Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS Dr Kelvin Low Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Pow Choon Piew Department of Geography, NUS Assoc Prof Johannes Widodo Department of Architecture, NUS 26 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Changing Family in Asia PROF WEI-JUN JEAN YEUNG 5.0 2014 was a vibrant year for the Changing Family in Asia Cluster. Through myriad activities such as conferences, lectures and seminars, publications, and research projects, the cluster has taken steps towards its mission to be the thought leader of issues related to family and population changes in Asia. The cluster continues to examine cutting edge and new family and population issues such as family and macro-economic changes, fatherhood, the living alone phenomenon, and transition to adulthood. In 2014, the cluster hosted a number of conferences: Discrepancies between Behaviour and Attitudes toward Marriage and Fertility in Asia, in February 2014; Youthful Futures? Aspirations, Education and Employment in Asia, in May 2014; Growing Up in One-Parent Family in Asia, in July 2014. The cluster’s ARI Asia Trends 2014 lecture was titled Love and Money: Parenting after Divorce, with Dr Kristin Natalier of University of Tasmania, Australia, as speaker. Dr Natalier discussed postdivorce parenting practices in the Asia-Pacific context, focusing on Australia as a case study. She presented child support as a form of “special money” used to symbolically express what it means and how it feels to be a father or mother in times of social and personal change. In addition, preparations are now ongoing for a conference on Educational Resilience among Asian Children in Challenging Family Environment, to be held on 4-5 February 2015. Several books have resulted from conferences and cluster members’ family research, the most recent one being a special issue on Marriage in Asia (2014) in the Journal of Family Issues (guest editors, Gavin Jones and Jean Yeung). Two more special journal issues are in progress, both in leading internally reviewed journals – one on Living Alone: One-person Households in Asia in Demographic Research (guest editors, Jean Yeung and Adam Cheung); the other on Growing Up in One-parent Family in Asia in the Journal of Marriage and Family (guest editors, Jean Yeung and Park Hyunjoon). The cluster’s monthly research brief, Asian Family Matters, was started in March 2013 to feature cluster publications and events, and to date it has produced 21 issues on a wide range of topics on the family as diverse as family background and higher education in Asia; family ambiguity and domestic violence in Asia; and employment trajectories of China’s lost generation. Asian Family Matters has indeed brought visibility to ARI. In addition to individual projects, cluster members have been collaborating on several large external research grants including the project on Projecting Urbanisation and City Growth funded by the Global Asia Institute. Two other large externally funded projects, with matching fund from MOE, have also been launched in the last two years – one focusing on Chinese Children’s Socio-psychological Well-being; the other examining The Impact of Internal Migration on Family and Child Well-being in China. Postdoctoral fellow Dr Sharon Quah was awarded a research grant by the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) Family Research Fund to conduct an exploratory study on transnational divorces in Singapore. This project will take place during the period of 2014-2016. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 27 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES On a smaller scale, cluster seminars were convened in 2014: Re-conceptualizing Child Support as an Expressive Resource and a Form of Labour: Lessons from the Australian Case by Dr Kristin Natalier, 20 November 2014; The Success Frame and the Achievement Paradox: The Children of Chinese Immigrants and Vietnamese Refugees in Los Angeles, USA, by Prof Zhou Min, 7 November 2014; Hong Kong Demographic Challenges: A Second Thought by Prof Paul Yip, 1 August 2014; A Youth with No Regrets? – How China’s Sent-down Generation Reviews their Rustication Experience by Dr Lin Qianhan, 20 June 2014. This vibrant year of activities closed with former cluster leader Prof Gavin Jones’ retirement lecture on Demography as Destiny: A Demographic Perspective on Asian Development in end November 2014. We wish him a great retirement life and thank him for his numerous contributions to the cluster. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Prof Jean Yeung Wei-Jun (Research Leader) Dr Adam Cheung Ka-Lok Dr Dhiman Das Ms Hu Shu Dr Ji Yingchun Dr Li Haibin Dr Lin Qianhan Dr Suzanne Naafs Dr Quah Ee Ling, Sharon Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh Assoc Prof Angelique Chan Department of Sociology, NUS The Changing Family cluster aims to become an intellectual lighthouse for research on Asian families and toward this aim, we will continue to: (1) actively engage in intellectual exchange with both international and local research communities and agencies by publishing in internationally visible journals and books and collaborate on projects that can generate impactful findings; (2) collaborate with Singapore communities, practitioners, and government organisations in seminars, workshops and conferences to examine issues pertinent to the Singapore society. Dr Premchand Dommaraju School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU Prof Gavin W. Jones J Y Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre, NUS Dr Erin Kim Hye-Won Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS Dr Maznah Mohamad Department of Malay Studies, NUS Dr Shirley Sun Hsiao-Li School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU Dr Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan School of Social Sciences, SMU Dr Teo You Yenn School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU Assoc Prof Thang Leng Leng Department of Japanese Studies, NUS Dr Yap Mui Teng Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS 28 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Cultural Studies in Asia PROF CHUA BENG HUAT 5.0 For more than a decade, the Cultural Studies Cluster’s focus had been on media-pop culture in East Asia, including film, television dramas and pop music. The international workshops, conferences and fellowships the cluster hosted had brought practically all the established scholars and many new emergent voices in the field to ARI, in different capacities. Publications from these events are widely distributed and read and some have already become standard references in the field. The Cultural Studies Cluster has consolidated its place as an international centre for the study of East Asian pop culture. Therefore, we continue to host events in the field. In this context, Prof Gerald Sim, from film studies at Florida Atlantic University, returned to ARI to present some results of the research on the late-Malaysian filmmaker, Yasmin Ahmad. Prof Sim conducted this research during his stint as an ARI Senior Research Fellow in the previous year. In addition, Assoc Prof Duong Lan Phuong, (University of California, Riverside), a feminist film scholar, joined the cluster as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, to complete a book project on Vietnamese filmmaker Tr n Anh Hùng. In February, the cluster co-organised with the Department of English Literature, Yonsei University, a Graduate Workshop in Cultural Studies in Asia. The workshop programme consisted of a mix of presentations, with some papers presented by senior scholars from ARI and Yonsei. It also provided opportunities for the budding scholars to present their thesis research work to each other. Participants from our cluster’s side came from different departments in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS, including the Cultural Studies PhD Programme, Geography and Japanese Studies. Three of the NUS students’ papers will be published in 2015 in the journal Situations: Cultural Studies in Asian Context, published by Yonsei University. Collaboration between the cluster and Yonsei University looks likely to continue into the future. In the year 2014 the cluster also started to rethink its research focus as it is time to strike out into new arena and terrain. With the world now fully wired, some might say mired, in social media the cluster is looking at ways to extend its research focus into new media and cyber cultures. We have already hosted an InterAsia Roundtable, in 2012, on Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cyber Activism Research. We are interested in focusing on the social political consequences of the spread of social media, beyond just speed of dissemination of images and texts and the organisation of flash mobs. In our recruitment of new postdoctoral fellows, we have been looking at young scholars who are analysing structural changes and conceptual reformulations, discursive and substantive, in politics at different scales, which are consequences of the use of new media. Several research fellows working in social media will be on ANNUAL REPORT 2014 29 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES board in the coming year and a planned international workshop on Mob Politics in Asia, which examines the various mass demonstrations and “occupy” events in Asia, will also focus on the politics of representation of events on social media. For the past couple of years, the cluster has been making the argument that “cultural studies” should be an intrinsic component of all ARI’s research clusters. In a sense, the Cultural Studies Cluster should meld into the other clusters. This idea is taking root at the cluster level. Some of the postdoctoral fellows in the other research clusters, such as Asian Migration and Asian Urbanisms, are working on topics close to the interests of cultural studies, such as migration and multiculturalism and representation of physical space in films. This is, of course, a felicitous development. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Prof Chua Beng Huat (Research Leader) Dr Sun Jung Dr Fiona Lee Hsiao Yen Dr Lim Song Hwee Dr William Peterson Mr Ashish Rajadhyaksha Dr Shen Yipeng Dr Shawna Tang Dr Thum Ping Tjin Prof Adrian Hassall Vickers Prof Timothy Clifton Winter Dr Brenda Chan Independent Scholar Prof Philip Holden Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Dr Liew Kai Khiun Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU Dr Deborah Shamoon Department of Japanese Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Stephen Teo Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU Prof C.J.W.-L. Wee School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU 30 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Metacluster: Historical Sociology of Asian Connections 5.0 The Metacluster originated as an attempt to articulate a new paradigm that looks at Asian nations, cultures, and civilisations in terms of their connections, interactions, and interdependencies in both historical and geographical space. The motive for such exploration derives from contemporary research that exposes the entangled relations between countries in East, Southeast, South and West Asia not only in contemporary affairs but also in the distant past. Indeed as these regions are increasingly deriving benefits and facing challenges in emergent or re-emergent Asia there is even greater imperative for a new historical and sociological paradigm going beyond the enclaves of “methodological nationalism,” area studies, and civilisational analyses. One great leap for this orientation came in January 2014 when ARI received a donation of SGD3 million (plus SGD240,000 initial operating fund) from Mr Muhammad Alagil of Saudi Arabia to establish a Muhammad Alagil Distinguished Chair in Arabia Asia Studies aimed at enhancing inter-Asian research, particularly between the Arabian peninsula and South, Southeast and East Asia from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Prof Ho Engseng of Duke University has been appointed Visiting Professor for 2 months a year for 5 years beginning April 2014. The first conference of Chairship was held in 23-24 June 2014 titled Slender but Supple Threads: Arabia-Asia Relations Then and Now. Scholars from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea and the USA participated with about fifty attendees from Singapore and the region. Plans for a multi-sited and multi-dimensional collaborative research programme were developed as a result. PROF PRASENJIT DUARA The Metacluster held a conference Changing Role of State in Asia II: Comparative Perspective, 30-31 May 2014, convened by Prof Duara and Prof Elizabeth Perry, Department of Government, Harvard University. This conference was the culmination of a series of previous roundtables and workshops convened by Harvard and ARI on issues of state capacity and state change in Asia, with special attention to China and India. Another conference Globalising History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects, 21-22 August 2014, was jointly sponsored by ARI, NUS, Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia, and Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster in partnership with University of King's College, Canada. This conference launched a three-year international collaboration on the theme Cosmopolitanism and the Local in Science and Nature: Forging an East-West Dialogue, between six Canadian and two Indian universities, and the NUS through the Metacluster at ARI. It is largely funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada with some cofunding from participating institutions. The ARI conference, the partnership, and future conferences over the next three years in Canada, India and Singapore, are designed to explore how and ANNUAL REPORT 2014 31 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES why globalising the history of science generates intellectual and conceptual tensions that require us to revisit the leading notions that have hitherto informed the history, philosophy and sociology of science. The Metacluster also continued to organise a number of talks over the course of the year including a joint ARI and Yale-NUS talk by the distinguished economist Prof Joel Mokyr, 27 March 2014, on the theme The Great Needham Puzzle: China, Europe and the Origins of Modern Growth. Mokyr’s talk linking economics to both technology and society fitted in well with the Metacluster’s exploration of economic theory as a bridging platform between the two more consonant with the connectionist paradigm being explored within the Metacluster. exchanges mediated by empires, trade and missionaries, the emphasis this year also included looking at the impact of crosscultural connections in shaping, and being shaped by, economic practice and theory. In an important sense economics came to be seen as a bridging platform between the natural and the social for the connectionist paradigm being explored within the Metacluster. As in previous years the Metacluster continued to meet every month in 2014 as a reading group with members drawn from social scientists, historians and area studies specialists in both ARI and the Faculties. While in the previous years it isolated themes that showed the role of religious, cultural and scientific Finally, one of the key developments of the Metacluster this year has also been the publication of Prof Prasenjit Duara’s book, The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Cambridge University Press, 2014). In this major study Prof Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history and argues that the present age is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability, and the loss of authoritative sources of what he terms transcendence – the ideals, principles and ethics once found in religion or political ideologies. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Prof Prasenjit Duara (Research Leader) Assoc Prof Huang Jianli Dr Arun Bala Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener Prof Ho Engseng Dr Huang Yinghong Dr Kuo Huei-Ying Dr Lee Tsung-Ling Prof Robert James Wasson Dr Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied Department of Malay Studies, NUS (Till 30 June 2014) Dr Jack Fairey Department of History, NUS Dr Kurtulu Gemici Department of Sociology, NUS Dr Manjusha Nair Department of Sociology, NUS 32 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Religion and Globalisation 5.0 The Religion and Globalisation Cluster is dedicated to exploring reconfigurations in the understandings and experiences of “religion” in diverse Asian contexts. In terms of coverage, the cluster works to facilitate studies of significant developments in major established religions such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, as well as in more localised indigenous traditions and new religious movements across Asia, broadly conceived. Our work examines dynamics of secularisation and religion in the modern period, as well as related issues of authority and tradition in contemporary religious discourse and practice. The cluster’s central focus is on Religion and Development in Asia. This research project seeks to explore how religious actors, discourses, and practices intersect with development efforts, and how these engagements result in changes in our understandings of both “religion” and “development.” This work aims to stimulate a re-thinking of long held assumptions about the apparent binary opposition between “religion” and “development”. A prominent feature of our work in this area is the cultivation of sustained engagement between practitioners and academics, with an eye to producing analysis that is relevant both to theory and to practice. ASSOC PROF R. MICHAEL FEENER In connection with this central cluster project, we hosted a conference in October on The Ethics of Religious Giving in Asia: Historical and Ethnographic Explorations (co-organised by Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener and Dr Wu Keping). Religious groups and individuals have been providing goods and services for the poor and needy throughout history and across the globe. Though most religious doctrines teach caring for the underprivileged, the actual practices and perceptions of what is considered “proper” kinds of giving vary considerably across time and traditions. This event brought together scholars from around the world in conversation on the diverse ways in which conceptions of religion, ethics, donation, and social welfare have informed the ways in which people across Asian contexts give and receive. These discussions built upon a rich base of empirical case studies from countries including China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Singapore on diverse religious traditions (Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Daoism, and Chinese popular religions). Critical reflection on this newly presented material has enabled us to gain better understanding of the interaction between normative ideals and actual practices of religious giving in diverse communities across the region. The Religion and Globalisation Cluster has also just been awarded a major grant by the Henry Luce Foundation for research on the topic of “Religion and NGOs in Asia”. The goal of this project is to explore the negotiations and engagement of religious NGOs in Asia with policy and regulatory frameworks at multiple levels – sub-national, national, and trans-national. This work will explore four policy dimensions: 1) policies of states towards religious ANNUAL REPORT 2014 33 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES NGOs; 2) policies of development organisations (donors, UN agencies, state agencies) in engaging with religious NGOs; 3) policies and tactics of religious NGOs in responding to states and trans-national actors; and 4) internal policies and practices of religious NGOs. This project will carry out new field research in selected sites in East and Southeast Asia conducted by current cluster staff and two new postdoctoral fellows who will be hired for the project. In addition to the above-mentioned events, the cluster has actively maintained its Religion and Development reading group, with meetings on a monthly basis throughout the year. In 2014 the group discussed eight key texts including The Endtimes of Human Rights (Stephen Hopgood); Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt (Mona Atia); and Civilizing Missions: International Religious Agencies in China (Miwa Hirono). We also convened two sessions focused on article-length readings on particular themes: “Grey Literature” (texts that address religion and development themes from a practitioner or policy perspective) and Religion and Secularism. Over the course of the year, the group has explored development approaches taken by different religious traditions – Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., as well as how different sub-sectors of development (humanitarian response, disaster response, overseas development assistance, philanthropy, and charity) engage with religious actors and with religiosity within their own institutions. Toward the end of 2014 the group shifted its focus somewhat to address religion and NGOs in line with the next phase of emphasis in the cluster’s work on Religion and Development. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener (Research Leader) Dr Julius Bautista Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Dr Bernardo Brown Dr Robin Bush Dr Joshua Gedacht Dr Cho Kyuhoon Dr Philip Fountain Dr Tabassum Ruhi Khan Dr Wu Keping Assoc Prof David Palmer Prof Armando Salvatore Dr Ronojoy Sen Prof Keiko Tosa Assoc Prof Gary Bell Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Patrick Daly University Scholars Programme, NUS Dr Zeliha Gul Inanc Department of History, NUS Dr Arif A. Jamal Faculty of Law, NUS Dr Jeremy Kingsley Tembusu College; Middle East Institute, NUS Prof Vineeta Sinha Department of Sociology, NUS Assoc Prof John Whalen-Bridge Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Assoc Prof Robert D. Woodberry Department of Political Science, NUS 34 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Science, Technology, and Society ASSOC PROF GREGORY CLANCEY 5.0 Science, Technology, and Society (STS) is ARI’s youngest cluster – only five years old – but has attracted generous amounts of external grant funding. This year we collaborated with the Asian Urbanisms Cluster to file our second successful Tier 2 grant application with the Ministry of Education, for the project titled, Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia. This threeyear project, which began in October, is the first to bring two ARI clusters together in co-equal collaboration. The project seeks to make ARI the pre-eminent centre in Asia for the social study of natural disaster, including its mitigation and consequences, in eastern Asia. Dr Eric Kerr will manage the project for the STS Cluster, in collaboration with Dr Tyson Vaughan (shared by Asian Urbanisms and STS) and Dr Michelle Miller of Asian Urbanisms. Among other things, the grant will allow us to extend and deepen our existing project, ongoing since 2012, of supporting the Japanese medical community in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This year saw our most intensive participation in meetings sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Hiroshima, and Fukushima itself. Their purpose has been to study problems encountered and lessons learned by physicians on the front line of the Fukushima disaster. ARI members Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey, Dr Tamra Lysaght, and Dr Tyson Vaughan all attended one or more of these meetings at the invitation of the IAEA, and co-authored policy documents. One important goal of the project is to insert STS case studies and methodologies into Japanese medical school curricula, starting with a pilot programme at Fukushima Medical University. The pilot was launched at the end of 2014, using a handbook and other teaching materials co-authored by STS cluster members. In recognition of our contribution to the Fukushima project, the IAEA has chosen ARI and Singapore as the local host for their third forum on Radiation and Human Health in 2016. The first such forum took place in Hiroshima this year, and the second is scheduled for Nagasaki in 2015. This forum series is funded by the Japanese government, and seeks to amplify lessons learned in the wake of the Fukushima disaster for the benefit of the international community. Also in recognition of ARI contributions, cluster leader Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey has been appointed Visiting Professor at Nagasaki University. The cluster also hosted ARI’s Inter-Asia Roundtable for 2014, and the subject, appropriately, was Health and Natural Disaster. This brought together scholars from four continents to discuss a topic which, as far as we know, had never been the subject of an international meeting. In addition to distinguished academics, participants included members of the World Health Organisation, and International Atomic Energy Agency, as well as a Vice President of Hiroshima University. Building on the legacy of our previous Tier 2 grant on Biomedicine and Society in Asia, the cluster continues to attract scholars researching other aspects of medicine and medical science in Asia. We had a record number of applicants (over 100) for our postdoctoral fellowships and other positions this year. STS Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Céline Coderey, who studies medicine in ANNUAL REPORT 2014 35 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Myanmar, received internal grant funding to mount an international conference on pharmaceuticals next year. Senior Fellow Tamra Lysaght was awarded a tenure-track Assistant Professorship with the School of Medicine, continuing the tradition of STS cluster fellows receiving tenure-track positions even before the expiration of their contracts. We have made it a point this year to reach out to our NTU (and Yale-NUS) colleagues by, for example, inviting them to collaborate in our Tier 2 grant, and serve on the local organising committee for the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) conference, which we will host in 2016. of Scientific Development in Asia concluded with a number of publications, having developed innovative software to map scientific collaborations extending beyond the use of bibliometric data. STS Research Fellow Dr Jerome Whitington was appointed Convenor (Leader) of the Asia-Pacific STS Network, and at the end of the year he received appointment as a full-time Fellow at Tembusu College, NUS. The cluster also welcomed a new tenured affiliate, Assoc Prof Itty Abraham, who was subsequently appointed Head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies. Along with Assoc Prof Clancey and cluster associate Assoc Prof Axel Gelfert, Assoc Prof Abraham sits on the Joint Academic Committee managing the FASS Joint PhD with our counterparts in the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology, and Innovation (ISSTI) at the University of Edinburgh. STS Research Fellow Dr Philip Cho’s Culture and Cognition project continued to receive grant funding from overseas sources. His GAI-sponsored project titled, Mapping the Cultural and Scientific Landscape Cluster publications this year included a number of books by Fellows and Associates. Dr Catelijne Coopmans was lead author of Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited (MIT Press), on which she collaborated with some of the leading figures in the STS field, including Professors Steve Woolgar and Michael Lynch. Dr John van Wyhe continued his stunning book publication run with Charles Darwin in Cambridge: The Most Joyful Years (World Scientific Press) and The Annotated Malay Archipelago (NUS Press), which republishes the classic work by Alfred Russel Wallace. Assoc Prof Itty Abraham authored How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics (Stanford U. Press), and Assoc Prof Axel Gelfert wrote A Critical Introduction to Testimony (Bloomsbury Academic). Assoc Prof Clancey’s The City as Target (Routledge) came out in paperback. Research Cluster Members Research Cluster Associates Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey (Research Leader) Dr Philip Cho Dr Céline Coderey Dr Catelijne Coopmans Mr Nicolas Rene Escoffier Dr Connor Graham Dr Eric Kerr Dr Tamra Lysaght Dr Paul Reddish Dr Sujit Sivasundaram Dr Margaret Tan Dr Jerome Whitington Assoc Prof Itty Abraham Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Dr John DiMoia Department of History, NUS Assoc Prof Axel Gelfert Department of Philosophy, NUS Dr Denisa Kera Department of Communications and New Media, NUS Assoc Prof John Phillips Department of English Language and Literature, NUS Dr John van Wyhe Department of Biological Sciences and Tembusu College, NUS 36 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia 5.0 Research on disasters began at ARI more than a decade ago following the Indian Ocean tsunami. This is now being carried forward under a new project on “Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia” funded by a 3-year MOE Tier 2 grant. This was awarded in October 2014 and organised through the cooperation of ARI’s Asian Urbanisms and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Clusters. The programme is the only university-based disaster research effort in Asia that brings together the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and related technical disciplines. Nearly 2 billion people have been directly impacted by disasters in Asia since 2000, and economic costs are exponentially increasing. Reflecting these trends, our research focuses on three interrelated dimensions of disasters: governance, urbanisation, and compound disasters. Governance posits that the increasing complexities of disasters require a shift from expert management to participatory engagement in policymaking and action to anticipate, respond to, and build resilience in facing disasters into the future. It also considers the ways in which Asia’s accelerated urban transition is contributing to the increasing disaster incidences, risks and vulnerabilities. City systems that articulate the global economy and reach into rural and remote regions also contribute to the potential for disasters to have compounding impacts that cascade far beyond the site of a disaster. “Survivor” by Dadang Christanto at the site of the Lapindo Mudflow Disaster Photo by Rita Padawangi Project Team Prof Mike Douglass (Principal Investigator) Assoc Prof Greg Clancey (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr Eli Elinoff (Collaborator) Dr Eric Kerr (Collaborator) Dr Michelle Ann Miller (Collaborator) Dr Rita Padawangi (Collaborator) Since 2013 the project team has held 7 conferences and workshops. In July 2013 we held a plenary on Medical and Academic Responses to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident at the ARI-sponsored Asia-Pacific STS Network Biennial Conference 2013. In November 2013 we held a conference on Disaster Governance: The Urban Transition in Asia, followed by one in January 2014 by a workshop on Governing Urban Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition. In October 2014 we held a conference on The Quotidian Anthropocene: Reconfiguring Environments in Urbanizing Asia, and an Inter-Asia Roundtable on Governance of Health in Disasters: Perspectives on Asia. In November 2014 we completed a conference on The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities. In March 2015 we successfully held a conference on Decentralizing Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia. Members of our team have, in addition, been invited to participate in many similarly-themed conferences overseas. Dr Tyson Vaughan (Collaborator) Dr Jerome Whitington (Collaborator) Dr Sulfikar Amir (Collaborator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU) Adjunct Dr Caroline Brassard (Collaborator, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS) Dr Lisa Onaga (Collaborator, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU) Prof Robert James Wasson (Collaborator, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS) Three more events are planned for 2015. One is a workshop in Chengdu, China, on Post-disaster Resilience, hosted by the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design. Another is on Crossing Borders: Governing Environmental Disasters in a Global Urban Age in Asia that will be supported by The United Nations University and the Urban Knowledge Network Asia at IIAS in Leiden, the Netherlands. The third is Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Perspectives on Nuclear Science, Radiation, and Human Health: The View from Asia which will take place at Nagasaki University, and is sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Several edited books and special journal editions have been generated by these conferences and are in various stages of moving towards publication. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 37 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Casino Mobilities Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore Casino Mobilities, launched by the Asian Migration Cluster in April 2013, is currently in its second year. The project is the first academic research in the Singapore context that looks into the complex linkages of transnational mobilities of labourers and consumers, the emerging casino economy in Asia, and the transforming regulatory regime in Singapore. This research is fully funded by the NUS-HSS grant for two years (2013-2015) with a project value of SGD199,867.50. In 2014, the team carried out field visits to casinos in Singapore, Macau, the Philippines and gambling ships docked in international waters outside Singapore. Field trips were also conducted to learn more about the moneylending industry in Singapore. The research team has completed more than threequarters of the in-depth interviews planned for the project. These include interviews with employees, local and international visitors to the casinos, social workers and family centres working on issues related to problem gambling and addiction management. The team presented papers in two workshops in 2014. In July 2014, members of the research team presented “Wagering the Future: Self-fashioning Casino Resort Employees in Singapore” at an international workshop entitled Mobilities and Exceptional Spaces in Asia organised by ARI. In October 2014, members of the team also presented a paper “Managing Exceptionalism: Situating the Experiences of Licensed Moneylenders and Borrowers in Singapore since the Moneylenders Act 2008” at another workshop on Casino Development in Asia organised by the University of Macau (UM). The research team also offered three internship opportunities under the NUS Undergraduate Research Opportunity Project (UROP) scheme, and trained three undergraduate students with regard to conducting independent research. This is the second time the project has participated in the UROP scheme. Some members of the team are also undertaking a consultancy project on the effects of the Family Exclusion Order for the National Council of Problem Gambling (NCPG). Project Team Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Dr Esther Goh (Collaborator) Dr Kamalini Ramdas (Collaborator) Dr Melody Chia-Wen Lu (Collaborator, University of Macau) Dr Zhang Juan (Collaborator, University of New England) Ms Esther Ng (Reseach Assistant) 38 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 In 2015, the project team expects to complete more interviews with government officials, and focus on data analysis, revising conference papers, writing and publishing. Plans are also being made to participate in a conference entitled Beyond the State’s Reach: Casino Spaces as Enclaves of Development or Lawlessness? to be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, in August 2015. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium Migrating out of Poverty is an international research programme consortium (RPC) funded by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID, or UK Aid). It focuses on the relationship between migration and poverty, with the aim of maximising the development impacts of migration whilst minimising the costs and risks of migration for the poor. A key facet of the Consortium is the communication of research through policy engagement and capacity building initiatives directed at delivering high quality research evidence into policy and practice. Programme Members Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Dr Maria Platt (Co-Investigator) Ms Grace Baey (Co-Investigator) Ms Theodora Lam (Reseach Associate) Ms Khoo Choon Yen (Research Assistant) 5.0 The Consortium is coordinated by the University of Sussex, led by CEO, Prof L. Alan Winters, and Research Director, Dr Priya Deshingkar. It has five core partners located across different regions in Asia and Africa: the Asia Research Institute (ARI) in Singapore; the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) in Bangladesh; the Centre for Migration Studies (CMS) in Ghana; the African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) in South Africa; and the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (AMADPOC) in Kenya. As a core partner, ARI’s role is to manage and facilitate the Consortium’s work within Southeast Asia through a range of research, communications, and capacity-building initiatives. In 2014, the project team at ARI undertook several projects under the auspices of the Consortium. The field research for a global project (GP2; or Global Qualitative Project) was carried out in February-March 2014. It built upon the first global project (GP1; or “Global Quantitative Project”) which involved surveys with 1,200 households in the central Javanese city of Ponorogo. The aim of GP1 was to probe the relationship between migration and poverty, and identify the mediating factors that shape the impacts of migration on poverty alleviation. Consisting of an additional 55 follow-up interviews with current and returned migrants from the Ponorogo region, GP2 focuses on individuals engaged in construction, and domestic work. These are occupations that have emerged in the context of economic growth, persistent inequalities and declining agriculture and where conglomerations of those who are socially excluded and poor are over-represented. Research on these occupations will generate a significant body of evidence on forms of migration that are important to the poor and relevant for the Consortium. Another regional project (RP2) entitled Migration and Precarious Work: Negotiating Debt, Employment and Livelihood Strategies amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men Working in Singapore's Construction Industry was initiated in late 2013. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the project aims to understand the financial and social costs of migration for Bangladeshi migrant men working in Singapore’s construction industry. This project examines the different conditions of precarity that underpin migrant men’s work in the construction sector through findings from a quantitative survey (n=205) and qualitative in-depth interviews (n=30). This research builds on other projects under the auspices of the Consortium which have been ongoing. This includes a companion regional project (RP1) entitled Financing Migration, Generating Remittances, and the Building of Livelihood Strategies: A Case Study of Indonesian Migrant Women as Domestic Workers in Singapore. Akin to RP2, this project drew upon quantitative and qualitative methodologies to highlight the perspectives of Indonesian domestic workers embarking on migration as a livelihood strategy for poverty alleviation. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 39 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Since its inception, the project team has consulted a range of organisations in our efforts to engage key stakeholders and conduct policy-oriented research that is relevant to ongoing discussions on migration issues in the Southeast Asian region. In particular, the team has worked closely with Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), a local non-governmental organisation that advocates for the rights and welfare of migrant workers in Singapore, in developing the project’s research instruments, as well as in the coordination of its fieldwork. In November 2014, the team hosted the Asian Migration Cluster’s annual Asia Trends lecture. This lecture drew upon the findings of RP2 illuminating Bangladeshi construction workers’ employment experiences in Singapore. It specifically focused on areas of risk and vulnerability that shape the outcomes of men's migration experiences. As part of this lecture we built upon our links with key stakeholders in the community and other members of the Migrating Out of Poverty Consortium. Mr John Gee from TWC2 and Dr Chowdhury R. Abrar from RMMRU, along with Ms Grace Baey, spoke to the issues that impact upon construction workers’ experiences both in Singapore and Bangladesh. Event ARI ASIA TRENDS 2014 Lecture and Visual Exhibition “Migration and Construction Work in Asia” 28 November 2014, Scape, The Colony Level 4 Convenors: Prof Brenda Yeoh and Ms Grace Baey 40 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 Asian Metacentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis AMC was constituted through a collaborative effort between ARI, NUS; the College for Population Studies (CPS) at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. The National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) at the Australian National University joined as a principal collaborator in 2002. AMC’s research foci include: population-developmentenvironment-health interactions at the regional level, rapid urbanisation, urbanism and health in Asia, and demographic change, migration and the “Asian family”, and their impacts on social and psychological wellbeing. The Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis (AMC), headquartered at the Asia Research Institute, NUS, in Singapore, was established in 2000 with funding from The Wellcome Trust’s major Awards for a Centre of Excellence in Asia. The CHAMPSEA team continues to yield a string of high quality publications in 2014 using the rich quantitative and qualitative datasets from the project on Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia. One of AMC’s major aims is to improve the synergy between existing population studies centres around Asia through an internet platform, training courses, topical workshops, support for project development and a general enhancement of the interaction among scientists working on population, health and sustainable development. It brings together Asian centres, fostering international collaborations and skills transfer. It also aims to consolidate the Asian Population Network (APN), organise relevant workshops, provide training for skills development, develop high quality proposals, engage in research proposals and subsequently publish research papers and books. The series of conferences, workshops and seminars organised through the Asian MetaCentre had thus served as a platform for strengthening demographic research and the analysis of and wellbeing. Key members of the team have also designed and submitted the proposal for a follow-up longitudinal study for the CHAMPSEA project to prospective funders. Publications by the CHAMPSEA team in 2014 include: Programme Members Prof Brenda S.A. Yeoh (Principal Investigator) Ms Theodora Lam (Research Associate) Hoang, L. A. & B. S. A. Yeoh (2014), “I’d do it for love or for money”: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality. Gender, Place and Culture, online first. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.885892. Hoang, L. A. & B. S. A. Yeoh (2014), Children’s agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam. Global Networks, online first. DOI: 10.1111/ glob.12057. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 41 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Lu, M. C. W., C. Alipio & B. S. A. Yeoh (2014), Special section on Asian children and transnational migration. Children’s Geographies, online first. Hoang, L. A., T. Lam, B. S. A. Yeoh, & E. Graham (2014), Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and left-behind children's responses in Southeast Asia. Children's Geographies, online first. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.972653. Graham, E., L. Jordan, & B. S. A. Yeoh (2014), Parental migration and the mental health of those who stay behind to care for children in South-East Asia. Social Science & Medicine, online first. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.060. Yeoh, B. S. A. & T. Lam (2014), Long-distance fathers, left-behind fathers and returnee fathers: Changing fathering practices in Indonesia and the Philippines. In M. Inhorn, W. Chavkin, & J. A. Navarro (eds), Globalized fatherhoods: Emergent forms and possibilities in the new millennium. Berghahn, New York, pp. 103-128. 42 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 External Funded Projects Bork-Hüffer, Tabea Feener, R. Michael Principal Investigator in project on “Formation and Change of Migrants’ Notion of Place Under the Influence of Information and Communication Technologies and Glocalization. The Example of German Expatriates in Singapore”, EUR132,000 funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1 January 2013 - 31 December 2015. Principal Investigator in project on “Religion and NGOs in Asia”, Philip Fountain, Robin Bush, Wu Keping (Co-PIs), SGD500,000 funded by the Luce Foundation, November 2014 - October 2016. Bunnell, Tim Principal Investigator in project on “Aspirations, Urban Governance, and the Remaking of Asian Cities”, Daniel Goh and Eric Thompson (Co-PIs); Michelle Ann Miller, Peter Marolt, Rita Padawangi, Kelvin Low, Vineeta Sinha, Jamie Gillen, Elaine Ho (Collaborators), SGD634,997 funded by Academic Research Council, Ministry of Education (ARC, MOE), Singapore, for AcRF Tier 2, 2013-2015. Lysaght, Tamra Principal Investigator in project on “Cell Therapies with Adiposederived Stem Cells: Ethical and Regulatory Guidance for Researchers and Clinicians in Singapore, Japan and Australia”, SGD100,000 funded by Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science Fund, since September 2014. Principal Investigator in project on “One Health, Zoonotic Diseases and Pandemic Planning: Creating a Bioethics Framework in Singapore”, SGD140,908 funded by Ministry of Health Communicable Diseases Public Health Research Grant, since July 2014. Cho, Philip Principal Investigator in project on “Religion’s Impact on Human Life: Integrating Proximate and Ultimate Perspectives”, GBP50,000 funded by the John Templeton Foundation Grant, 1 September 2012 - 31 January 2015. Padawangi, Rita Co-Principal Investigator in project on “Community Participation in Urban Water Management”, Marc Jeuland (Co-PI), SGD14,940 funded by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, September 2014 - August 2015. Douglass, Mike Principal Investigator in project on “Governing Compound Disasters in Urbanising Asia”, Greg Clancey (Co-PI), Rita Padawangi, Michelle Ann Miller, Jerome Whitington, Eric Kerr, Robert Wasson, Caroline Brassard, Lisa Onaga, Sulfikar Amir, Tyson Vaughn (Collaborators), SGD709,410 funded by Ministry of Education Tier 2 Research Grant (Singapore), October 2014 - October 2017. Principal Investigator in project on “Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe”, SGD50,000 funded by USPC-SPO-NUS-01 (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité – Sciences Po – National University of Singapore), August 2014 - July 2015. Elinoff, Eli Principal Investigator in project on “Politics in the Time of ‘Post Politics’: Rethinking Anthropology’s Conception of the Political for the 21st Century”, Nancy Postero and Nicole Fabricant (Co-PIs), USD20,000 funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant, 2015. Yeoh S.A., Brenda Principal Investigator in project on “The Global City of Encounters: Migration, Precarity and Diversity in Asian Urbanism”, SGD40,000 awarded by HSS Seed Funding, 1 August 2014 - 31 January 2016. Principal Investigator in project on “Casino Mobilities: Labour Migration, Global Consumption and Regulation in Singapore”, SGD199,867.50 awarded by Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, April 2013 - March 2015. Principal Investigator in project on “Transnational Migration in Southeast Asia and the Health of Children Left Behind”, Theodora Lam (Collaborator), SGD79,800 awarded by the Academic Research Fund Tier 1, June 2013 - May 2014. Principal Investigator in project on “Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium”, approximately GBP116,688 awarded by Department for International Development (DFID), UK, through the University of Sussex for the inception phase from June 2010 - September 2011, and approximately GBP500,000, October 2011 to September 2017. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 43 5.0 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean Principal Investigator for project on “China’s Internal Migration, Family Relations, and Youth Development”, SGD250,000 awarded by Lippo Pte Limited, with matching fund of SGD250,000 from the Singapore Ministry of Education, since April 2011. Co-Principal Investigator for project on “Creating a Life course Panel from Birth to Early Adulthood”, Stafford F. (PI), USD3,862,490 funded by National Institute of Health, USA, 8 January 2010 - 31 July 2014. Principal Investigator for project on “Age of Retirement and Intergenerational Transfer in China and India: Implications for Human Capital and Labour Market”, Feng, Q. (Co-PI), SGD168,000 funded by Global Asia Institute, NUS, March 2013 – 31 March 2016. Co-Principal Investigator for project on “Consequences of Internal and Cross-border Migration in China for Children: A Mainland-Hong Kong Comparison”, Wu Xiaogang (Co-PI), HKD1,150,000 funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, January 2012 - December 2014. Director of Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, SGD1.5 million grant for CFPR funded by NUS, 1 April 2014. 44 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES 5.0 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 45 6.0 EVENTS 6.0 EVENTS Conferences and Workshops Governing Flooding in Asia’s Urban Transition Jointly organised with Pacific Affairs, Canada 20 Jan 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Michelle Ann Miller and Prof Mike Douglass ARI continues working on its objective “to be a place of encounters between the region and the world” by hosting seminars, workshops and conferences aimed at the generation and exchange of ideas. During the year 2014, the Institute organised 20 conferences and workshops. These conferences were driven by ARI’s research fellows and postdoctoral scholars. The participants came from diverse academic communities in Singapore and throughout the world. This workshop explored how Asia’s urban populations deal with flooding from a governance perspective. In this, we treated flooding disasters as compound and inter-connected events that generate cascading effects with multiple sources, impacts and long-term recovery issues. It is now widely understood that flooding disasters in cities can produce public health disasters with feedbacks to the economy and social resilience to future disasters. Mindful of the compound and inter-connected nature of flooding disasters in Asia, our invited participants adopted multi-sector, multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder approaches to governance that will advance scholarship in the search for more effective, comprehensive and inclusive policy choices. Through our governance approach to applied disaster research we strive to produce a special issue with Pacific Affairs that will enhance our understanding of the multi-dimensional causalities of flooding events and how knowledge is linked to action in governing preparedness for, responses to and recovery from floods in Asia’s cities. The workshop included eight presentations focusing on the governance of flooding disasters in urban and urbanising localities in six national contexts (Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Tibet, Japan and Vietnam). The workshop was divided into four panels with two presentations and two discussants per panel. The event concluded with an in-depth focus group on theoretical considerations involved in governance that will frame our special issue submission to Pacific Affairs. 46 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EVENTS Conceptualising Cyber-urban Connections in Asia and the Middle East 23-24 Jan 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi and Dr Peter Marolt This conference theme emerged to conceptualise the connection between the cyber and the urban. As individuals live in a networked society, with one foot in the virtual and the other in the material world, an understanding of the changes and transformations in society ought to include an interrogation of the interdependencies between online and offline domains. In this conference, young scholars and leading experts from inter- and multidisciplinary backgrounds came together to better understand and re-theorise the ways in which the “cyber-urban” connections in urban Asia and the Middle East affect people, networks, and social and built environments. Vibrant discussions yielded many insights, on the specificities and commonalities of case studies in various countries in Asia (including but not limited to China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines and Singapore) and the Middle East (including Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Morocco and Tunisia), but also on how to better conceptualise cyber-urban connections. Selected papers will be published in an edited book volume addressing the reflexivity of cyber and urban spaces, both empirically and theoretically, with a general focus on investigating the origins (roots) and processes (routes) that undergird contemporary social movements in particular and the cyberurban in general. 6.0 Graduate Workshop on Cultural Studies in Asia Jointly organised with Yonsei University, South Korea 10-11 Feb 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Chua Beng Huat and Prof Suk Koo Rhee The aim of this workshop was to create intellectual exchange between graduate students from Yonsei and NUS. The participants from Yonsei University presented papers that drew on the strengths of their English Department's teaching priorities. The majority of the papers focused on the analysis of English and American novels and contemporary films, primarily Korean films. In contrast, participants from NUS presented papers that were more clearly of Cultural Studies perspectives and a much wider range of topics from Enka music and Ainu people of Japan, food and visual arts in Singapore, Thai political documentaries and China’s effort in gaining soft-power through internationalisation of state-sponsored television programmes. The same range was reflected in the presentations by Yonsei professors and ARI research fellows in the Cultural Studies Cluster. The papers presented identified a diversity of contested cultural concepts, artifacts, practices, and institutions in terms of their historical context and significance. The interactions and conversations engendered by this workshop gave the participants opportunities to reflect on how we understand our cultural past, present, and future, as well as how our perspectives and discussions can expand and enrich Cultural Studies in Asia. Situations: Cultural Studies in Asian Context, published by Yonsei University will publish some of the NUS graduate students’ essays. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 47 6.0 EVENTS Discrepancies between Behaviour and Attitudes toward Marriage and Fertility in Asia 13-14 Feb 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenor: Dr Ji Yingchun The purpose of this conference was to promote a better understanding of the puzzling discrepancies between family attitudes and behaviour in Asia: when family behaviour is fast “modernised” and “Westernised” but people seem to still think “traditionally” and “Asian”. To address the gaps and the future diction in this research field, top scholars including Professors Gavin Jones (NUS), Ron Rindfuss (UNC-Chapel Hill; East-West Center), Arland Thornton (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) came together with other established and juniors scholars, from eight countries in three continents, to present their current work and discuss the direction of the field of family studies in Asia. Prof Thornton analysed how the Northwestern European culture has evolved into a “world culture”, while Prof Rindfuss discussed mechanisms underlying fertility transitions in different countries in the world. Prof Jones interrogated whether marriage systems have converged or diverged in Asia. Overall, the conference focused on changes in attitudes related to family and marriage over time and across generations in different societies, attitudes towards innovative family behaviours, and whether the meaning of marriage has changed in various Asian societies. This workshop examined the complexities and tensions young people face in relation to their aspirations for education, work and the future. It also explored the potential opportunities and challenges young people (aged 15 to 30) face as they attempt to realise those aspirations. These considerations were located within a recognition of the conditions of neoliberal economic change and development combined with cultural globalisation in Asia’s rapidly urbanising and transforming societies. Young scholars and leading experts from interdisciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, human geography, sociology, development studies and psychology) came together to better understand the kinds of futures that young people aspire to in Asia. Presenters discussed contemporary ideas about vocational training, skills and entrepreneurship, and the changing meaning of schooling in the context of poor quality education systems and difficult school-to-work transitions; how we study “aspirations” as future goals and everyday realities; and young people’s employment prospects and experiences in often highly informal and politicised labour markets. Taken together the papers provided rich insights into the diversity and complexity of young people’s experiences in relation to education and employment in a wide range of Asian countries, and the common experiences they face and what innovative tactics and strategies they are developing within their own cultural, social, political and economic contexts to still aspire. Encountering Urban Diversity in Asia: Class and Other Intersections Jointly organised with Migration Cluster, FASS, NUS; with support from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, & International Graphical Union Commission of Population Geography, The University of Adelaide, Australia 15-16 May 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Maureen Hickey and Dr Ye Junjia Youthful Futures? Aspirations, Education and Employment in Asia With support from Family, Children and Youth Cluster, FASS, NUS 5-6 May 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Suzanne Naafs and Assoc Prof Tracey Skelton This conference sought to explore the possibilities of changing social relations within configurations of new forms of intersecting social and economic class and to build on existing literature on cosmopolitanism and urban diversity. It brought together young scholars and leading experts from inter- and multidisciplinary backgrounds in a productive conversation on how people live with diversity and the myriad ways in which these relations transform, constitute and spatialise class in Southeast Asia’s dynamic and rapidly changing cities. 48 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EVENTS Participants built on the theme of the intersection between the built environment and the performance of identity with papers that focused on gated communities and other forms of enclavement and encounter, together with presentations that highlighted both the potentialities and frictions of growing diversity in Asia’s urban public spaces. Visual presentations were featured to highlight the expanding methodological tools with which social science might be carried out – Dr Ye Junjia’s booklet featuring photo narratives collected in a collaborative project with South Asian male migrants; Ms Bernice Wong’s multimedia narrative of her work with Bangladeshi male migrants. 6.0 Slender but Supple Threads: Arabia-Asia Relations Then and Now 23-24 Jun 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenor: Prof Ho Engseng Changing Role of State in Asia II: Comparative Perspective Jointly organised with the Harvard-Yenching Institute, USA 30-31 May 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Prasenjit Duara and Prof Elizabeth Perry While relations between Arabia and Asia have existed continuously for centuries, modern scholarship has been divided by countries and regions, rendering those relations opaque. This conference was designed to overcome these divides by bringing together scholars working along a number of ArabiaAsia axes: to compare notes, complement each other, make mutual discoveries, and identify common areas of interest and ignorance. In that respect, the meeting was stimulating, and sparked lively discussions that will bear fruit in developing research agendas. This conference aimed to gain a holistic and historical view of recent developments in the role and nature of the state in contemporary Asia, particularly in the 21st century, concerned principally with the new states in East, Southeast and South Asia. These states shared a common historical base-line towards the end of World War II when their de-colonising or de-imperialising leadership launched upon a new era of state and nation-building. These post-war states could be classed, often by sub-regions, into the socialist or semi-socialist; the developmental state, redistributive autocracies or clientelist democracies. The majority of papers focused on the two largest of these states, China and India, but distinctly with an eye on comparative developments in other states. One of the chief issues that focalised the discussion was the creation and transformation of citizenship in these states which are based largely on privatisation and, perhaps ironically, often accompanied by rights consciousness. From a longerterm historical view, we could see several temporalities at work in the production of this situation: the slow upheaval of historical structures of landownership, caste, etc. (creating new configurations of losers and winners); post-war emergence of citizenship rights tied to the systemic logic of nation-state (reactive to pro-active logic; distinctiveness in rights being given and demanded before the emergence of the middle class); global, real-time temporality (privatisation, new technologies of surveillance and hyper-connectedness, brokerage and outsourcing, new patterns of governance). Panelists came from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Korea and the USA. Panels were focused on topics such as Arabia-Asia trading ports, Arabians in Asian cities, intellectual and organisational journeys, publishing, pilgrimage, diaspora-state relations. Dr Ho Wai-Yip introduced a maximal spatial and temporal stage, linking two cities at the limits of Arabia-Asia – Aden and Canton – in the thirteenth century and the present. Prof Ho Engseng discussed Dubai’s role in Indian Ocean trade, developing primacy in global logistics, as did its counterpart Singapore. Nurfadzilah Yahaya's closing paper uncovered the strategies diasporic Hadramis employed to navigate the strictures of Islamic and colonial law governing inheritance and religious endowments in Singapore and the region. Such transactions have left a rich documentary trail that is being archived and published by Abd al-Rahman Bilfaqih and Ali Anis al-Kaf, who gave an overview of their important work in documenting and publishing the Hadrami heritage. In order to overcome the limitations of colonial recordkeeping and its profound effect on scholarship, two panels were conducted in Arabic, enabling a more robust exchange across the regions than usual. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 49 6.0 EVENTS Growing Up in One-Parent Family in Asia 1-2 Jul 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Jean Yeung Wei-Jun and Assoc Prof Park Hyunjoon This conference brought together scholars, practitioners, and policy makers to examine the trend and prevalence of oneparent family in Asia as well as consequences of such family structure for the well-being of children. 18 speakers presented in 7 panels: families coping after divorce; adolescent wellbeing; children’s experiences and educational outcomes; family and social support for one-parent families; adolescents’ schooling; adolescent employment; children’s psychological well-being – in South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, etc. Countries in Asia share some cultural and family values but also have substantial differences in demographic profiles, economic resources, religious practices, and institutional arrangements that affect who become lone parents and the consequences of such type of family. Comparative and systematic approaches help us better understand the commonality and variation in this relatively new family form in Asia, their consequences for children, and related policy implications. This conference sought to fill a gap in knowledge about the trends, causes, and consequences of oneparent families in Asia and their policy and to generate evidence for international comparison to research on western societies. Mobilities and Exceptional Spaces in Asia 9-10 Jul 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Kumiko Kawashima and Prof Brenda Yeoh 50 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 This cluster event of 2014 for the Migration Cluster brought together a range of papers exploring various spaces of exception to shed light on new ways capitalism works socially and culturally under contemporary globalisation. Papers presented explored geographically bounded spaces of exception, such as special economic zones in India and China. Borderlands were another popular focus – several papers variously argued that the state endorses and often actively creates exceptional space in the border areas. Some presenters examined integrated resorts in Singapore and Macau as places where leisure and industrial activities combine to generate certain mobile flows of domestic and transnational tourists and workers while increasing tourism consumption. Other papers focused on figurative spaces of exception, such as exploitation of ‘flexible labour”, and international mobility for the purpose of medical tourism or by students. Many of the various new formations investigated by workshop participants adapt or evolve from the "special zone" model, demonstrating the versatility of the concept of "making special" or "making exceptional", and have the potential to transform fundamental notions of sovereignty, citizenship, rights, freedom, subjecthood, and mobility. The concluding discussion was a collective effort to further theorise the changing relationships between mobility and spaces of exception, and its implications on the increasingly mutually constitutive nature between the ways in which global capitalism operate, and how people’s live their lives. Futures of Migrant Care Labour: Gender Geographies of Aspiration and Servitude Jointly organised with Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 17 Jul 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Brenda Yeoh, Prof Rachel Silvey, and Prof Rhacel Parrenas This workshop proposed to develop an explicit dialogue between the critical research on migrant servitude and migrants’ aspirations: How do migrants’ own aspirations intersect with the conditions of servitude under which they labour? How do their sending country families' and communities' imagined futures cohere and conflict with migrants’ own aspirations? What sort of temporalities, spatialities and gender politics are characteristic of the various imagined futures and lived conditions of migrant care labour? Renowned experts and young scholars in migration studies, specifically care provisioning and care work, came together to help us better understand the impact of migration on the aspirations and imagined futures of migrant care workers. Presentations included: how future dreams and fears are articulated by migrants; significant differences in how different migrant care workers experience everyday life; domestic workers’ agency in negotiating expectations of remittance placed upon them by both the nation and the individual families; the changing web of care that develops around left-behind children in their mothers’ physical absence over a long period of time. EVENTS This workshop drew together the longstanding interests in gender, migration and transnational family formation of several scholars and students. We have come away with a stronger desire to further deepen our understandings of the subjective (and highly uneven) experiences of migrant servitude and migrants’ aspirations. We hope to further explore these issues through future research. AAS-IN-ASIA CONFERENCE 2014 - Asia in Motion: Heritage and Transformation Jointly organised with the Association for Asian Studies, & FASS, NUS; with support from Singapore Tourism Board, the Singapore Exhibition and Convention Bureau, and the Best Cities Global Alliance 17-19 Jul 2014, NUS University Town Convenors: Prof Prasenjit Duara, Assoc Prof Michael Feener and Assoc Prof Huang Jianli This conference was designed to help support the development of new lines of investigation in global Asian studies. By bringing together Asian specialists from abroad with scholars and practitioners in Asia whose routine expertise is grounded in the region but not necessarily foregrounded as “Asian Studies,” a number of panels on the programme became exciting sites for interaction, and a number of them have stimulated discussions among participants about possible future research collaborations. Prof Dipesh Chakrabarty’s presentation, “Asian Studies in a Planetary Age: Rethinking Location” opened the event by posing a compelling critical question to the theme of the conference, asking “Where does one think about heritage?” His exploration of this question helped to push the discussion of issues of concern to many of the scholars at the conference from the traditional frameworks of area studies to a planetary scale engaging with the urgent and complex challenges of shared human futures in an age of an increasingly severe climate crisis. Prof Pasuk Phongpaichit’s presentation, “Inequity, Oligarchy, and Protest: Reflections on our Time” then shifted scale back to a careful consideration of major economic and political dynamics at work on the scale of human societies in contemporary Southeast Asia. Drawing on the current empirical realities of countries in the region, she challenged some of the dominant positions in global literature dealing with economic inequality and its socio-political consequences. She specifically highlighted the ways in which various combinations of traditional conceptions of 6.0 social hierarchy, cultural conservatism skeptical of democratic ideals, and the effects of interventionist development policies have served to foster the consolidation of oligarchies in many countries of the region. The wide ranging critical conversations stimulated by these two talks and the range of papers presented and discussed in the panel sessions made for a very stimulating conference and helped to foster the formation of new networks of research cooperation connecting scholars from across the region and beyond. Manoeuvering through Physical and Virtual Spaces: Mobility and New Media in Asian Cities Jointly organised with the Migration Research Cluster, FASS, & Department of Communications and New Media, NUS 4-5 Aug 2014, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, AS7 Convenors: Dr Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Assoc Prof Lim Sun Sun and Prof Brenda Yeoh This workshop explored how migrants' lives, practices, communication, networks, movements, and economic ventures are influenced by new media (the internet and mobile communications). It considered how migrants actively participate in and shape various virtual spaces, further questioning how their online interactions alter the contours of their everyday activities, societal integration, individual identities, and emotional bonds to the cities they migrate to or pass through. The papers of the workshop shed light on the role of ICT use by migrants from various cultural, educational, professional, and socio-economic backgrounds, with differential levels of ICT access, and varying migration motivations and intentions, aspirations, and expectations. Most papers addressed the following themes: social change brought about by new media, empowerment and recognition through mediated communication, migrant adaptation and assimilation via mediated communication channels, the communication of affect through mediated platforms, student migration and their translocal networks, as well as the role of mediation in place making and perception. The workshop underlined the need to further inquire into the specific qualities of the nexus of mobilities and new media, and participants agreed that there is further need to discuss and clarify the relations of the migration and mobilities paradigm as well as for studies that compare findings between different types of mobilities, different types of migrant groups and regional case studies. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 51 6.0 EVENTS Globalising History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects Ethics of Religious Giving in Asia: Historical and Ethnographic Explorations Jointly organised with Center for Dialogue, La Trobe University, Australia, and Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster in partnership with University of King's College, Canada 21-22 Aug 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Arun Bala and Prof Prasenjit Duara 9-10 Oct 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Wu Keping and Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener This workshop brought together 15 speakers from 10 countries – Singapore, Australia, Canada, China, India, the Netherlands, France, UAE, USA, and the UK. This diversity of disciplines and regions enabled a broad forum to examine how the global turn in both history of science and philosophy of science can learn from each other. In particular the workshop addressed the issue of why globalisation may be seen as problematic because different cultural traditions of science are often seen as enclosed within incommensurable world perspectives shaped by their distinctive networks of beliefs, semantics, perceptions and values. Nevertheless, both the record of successful historical exchanges of scientific knowledge across civilisations, and the possibility of transmissions of traditional environmental knowledge from one culture to another suggest that the notion of incommensurability may have to be examined more carefully. Seven panels of speakers dealt with topics such as matters of medicine, historical methodology, knowledge crossing divides, sharing practices, the global and the local, networks of exchange, and mathematics and astronomy. Despite their different disciplinary backgrounds speakers were able to engage each other in a fashion both informed and stimulating. As a result, the final discussion session at the end of the conference highlighted the significance of novel concerns which arise when we bring together movements for globalising history of science and philosophy of science, but which had hitherto developed in separate enclaves. 52 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Ethical dilemmas have filled the history of religions, especially on religious giving. This international and interdisciplinary conference was designed to explore the ethics of religious giving in Asian contexts, historically and ethnographically. “Ethics” here refers to both accepted codes of conduct and the Durkheimian sense of “means to achieve social cohesion.” “Religious giving” indicates broadly any kind of gifts/services that are delivered by religious individuals, communities or institutions. The wider goal of the conference was to explore diverse configurations of conceptions of reciprocity, as well as, the relationship between ideas (ethics) and action (giving). Young scholars and leading experts from inter- and multidisciplinary backgrounds (history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, political science and law) came together to better understand and re-theorise the ways in which religion, ethics and gifts affect the ways people across Asian contexts, such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka and Singapore, give and receive, in various religious traditions. These explorations of what people actually do and think on the ground contribute both empirically and theoretically to the understanding of religion and development in Asian societies. Together the scholars reexamined the concept of gifts (good and bad gifts, coercive gifts and destructive gifts), various agents involved (religious groups, individuals, state, NGOs, and legal institutions), and the construction of ethical subjects of the giver and receiver and ethical relations that are created between the giver and receiver in the process of exchange. EVENTS 6.0 Inter-Asia Roundtable 2014 - Governance of Health in Disasters: Perspectives on Asia The Quotidian Anthropocene: Reconfiguring Environments in Urbanising Asia 18 Oct 2014, NUS University Town Convenors: Dr Tamra Lysaght and Assoc Prof Gregory Clancey Jointly organised by the Science, Technology, and Society Cluster, and the Asian Urbanisms Cluster 16-17 Oct 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Eli Elinoff and Dr Tyson Vaughan Over the last decade, several major disasters have had significant health impacts on Asian populations. Earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, industrial accidents, influenza outbreaks, and emerging infectious diseases are expected to increase with denser populations in highly urbanised environments, climate change, rising sea levels, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and encroaching agricultural practices. Many Asian governments have implemented disaster preparedness and crisis management policies aimed at ensuring the health and wellbeing of affected citizens. These plans often include strategies for the relocation and compensation of populations, reconstruction and restoration of housing and public infrastructure, the imposition of travel restrictions and quarantine, decontamination efforts, animal control, and environmental protection but the implementation of these strategies can negatively impact the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations. This workshop brought together emerging scholars and leading experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds to interrogate these issues in a robust, open forum: the role of the medical community in communicating risk following the radiation accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan and difficulties physicians face when balancing their professional obligations with their personal commitments; the responsiveness of healthcare systems in delivering innovative medicines to vulnerable populations, focusing on the case of Ebola in West Africa and the lessons that can be learned for SEA; the policies of culling animals in preparation for pandemic response in the UK and in Singapore and alternative strategies; the unfolding humanitarian crises in Myanmar with the displacement of the Rohingya and difficulties in providing them with quality healthcare services; the emergence of slow onset disasters such as the increasing incidence of asthma and obesity. The conference theme emerged to conceptualise the connection between the macroscale impacts of Asia’s urban transition and the micro level experiences and politics taking place across the region in relation to those changes. In doing so, it built on the Asian Urbanism Cluster’s strengths in both urban studies and disaster governance in order to deepen our understanding of how cities are involved in global environmental change. As the region’s cities have grown at a rapid pace it has become necessary to situate that growth within a broader set of discussions that attempt to link both large-scale transformation and everyday politics. Moreover, intensifying of environmental change has made disaster and post-disaster politics a “newnormal.” Young and established scholars from a variety of backgrounds came together to better understand and re-theorise the ways in which the region’s cities are transforming environments and how such changed landscapes are in turn transforming everyday life. Discussions yielded many insights, on the specificities and commonalities of case studies in various countries in Asia and into the various mechanisms through which macroenvironmental change is being lived, produced, and contested. The themes discussed included: climate activism; emerging forms of knowledge production; environmental and ontological change; the spatial and temporal dimensions of urbanisation after disaster; air pollution; low carbon living; and “re-mooring” of life after disaster. The wrap-up discussion considered broader themes including how Asia acts as more than context for these questions but can work as a method to understand emerging environments, the relation between sense, science, and governance, and changing notions of ethical and political personhood in the Anthropocene. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 53 6.0 EVENTS The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities The CityPossible Film Festival III 6-7 Nov 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Prof Mike Douglass and Dr Rita Padawangi Supported by Young NTUC 6 Nov 2014, NTUC Centre Convenors: Prof Mike Douglass and Dr Rita Padawangi This conference asked questions of urban theory as well as directed attention to taking action in exploring possible alternatives to conserve and sustain urban heritage in reestablishing the idea and practices of cities as theatres of social action that are resilient towards urban disasters. It focused on the interplay between cultural practices and the production of urban space and place-making that together create the living vernacular heritages of neighbourhoods and communities of a city. Emphasis was given to community efforts and collective empowerment through heritage preservation practices that are found to enhance sustenance of the natural environment as well as resilience towards environmental threats. This was the third annual mini film festival that brings together a collection of short films. The objective was to allow the audience to imagine the breadth of possibilities to make better cities, by showcasing stories of people who have joined together to resist the loss of their life-spaces and to remake the city through their own visions of what could be. With current urban development trajectories that encourage commercialisation and unfettered capitalism pushing cities to become engines of growth rather than theatres of social life, meaningful communities are challenged to find space, time, and resources diverted to focus on lifestyle and consumption within placeless architectures. The films are inspirational short documentaries that focus on the strength of the human spirit in constructing urban spaces. Young as well as established scholars came together to address the research questions in this conference and to contribute to building a theory on vernacular heritage. The range of case studies included the Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, India, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, and Malaysia. The discussion ranged from enthusiastic comments about the cases and updates from the policy realm to robust conversations on theorising urban vernacular heritage. Papers spoke to specific themes under vernacular heritage and new ideas to contribute to theory, such as perspectives from environmental sociology, community land trust, and music. Bringing the vernacular and heritage together highlights the focus on human agency in heritage discourse to the everyday lives of people, which is important but often forgotten both in academia and in the policy realm. 54 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 The film festival was convened in conjunction with “The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities” conference (6-7 November 2014), also convened by ARI Asian Urbanisms Cluster. Presenters and observers of the conference joined in the film festival as part of the audience. The film festival also sponsored Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri, a filmmaker based in Karachi, to take part in a discussion about her work, of which “A Pakhtun Memory” was screened. The geography of the films covered many places from all over the world, including Jakarta, Singapore, Karachi, Bangkok, Berlin, Honolulu, Nagoro (Japan), among others. Blues 77, a Singapore jazz band from the 1960-1970s, performed during the intermission and in total, the programme featured 23 short documentary films and a 15 minutes discussion with Yaminay Chaudhri. EVENTS 6.0 ARI Seminar Series 14 Jan 2014 Urbanising the Guizhou Countryside: Aesthetic Governmentality, Social Ordering, and the Exhibition Economy Prof Tim Oakes University of Colorado Boulder, USA The Asia Research Institute Seminar Series features seminars that vary in scope and are able to appeal across various academic disciplines. Seminars are usually scheduled on a Tuesday afternoon from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus. 28 Jan 2014 Dancing Natives, Dancing Nation: From Bayan to Bayanihan in the Philippines Dr William Peterson Monash University, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 4 Feb 2014 ‘I’d Do It for Love or for Money’: Vietnamese Women in Taiwan and the Social Construction of Female Migrant Sexuality Dr Hoang Lan Anh University of Melbourne, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 18 Feb 2014 Exploring the Process: An Enquiry into the Development of Resilience Dr Li Haibin Asia Research Institute, NUS 11 Mar 2014 Privatising Marriage in Postsocialist China Dr Deborah Davis Yale University, USA 18 Mar 2014 Union Politics and Global Governance: A Sri Lankan Case Study Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura University of Edinburgh, UK, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 25 Mar 2014 "Trafficking" in Women: The Colonial Regulation of the Sex Trade in Southeast Asia Before 1940 Assoc Prof Julia Martinez University of Wollongong, Australia 1 Apr 2014 The Politics behind Development: Cases Study of Land Acquisition in India and China Dr Huang Yinghong Asia Research Institute, NUS 8 Apr 2014 Plantations, Monopoly and the "Mafia System": Inside Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone Prof Tania Murray Li University of Toronto, Canada, and Asia Research Institute, NUS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 55 6.0 EVENTS 15 Apr 2014 Divorce Biographies in Singapore Dr Sharon Quah Asia Research Institute, NUS 22 Apr 2014 Trapped Between Traditional and Modern Roles: Single, Educated Women in Shanghai Dr Ji Yingchun Asia Research Institute, NUS 29 Apr 2014 From Spatial to Social Division: The Spatial Organisation of Inequality in Manila and Singapore Dr Marco Garrido Asia Research Institute, NUS 20 May 2014 Secularism and the Korean Formation of Religion in a Globalised East Asia Dr Cho Kyuhoon Asia Research Institute, NUS 27 May 2014 Postcolonial Cinema Aesthetics in the Era of Global Capital Assoc Prof Gerald Sim Florida Atlantic University, USA 3 Jun 2014 Arguing Islam Prof Adrian Vickers University of Sydney, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 10 Jun 2014 The Anxieties of Romantic and Unrequited Love in Post-reform Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Dr Allen L. Tran Bucknell University, USA 8 Jul 2014 Whither Digital Citizenship? A Dialogue with Assoc Prof Itty Abraham and Mr Ashish Rajadhyaksha Assoc Prof Itty Abraham Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Mr Ashish Rajadyaksha Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 15 Jul 2014 Meat, Murrain, Germs: Examining Epizootics, Veterinarians, and Sanitary Science Dr Samiparna Samanta Georgia College and State University, USA 56 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 22 Jul 2014 The Bahá’í Faith and its Critical Engagement with the Global Discourse and Practice of “Development” Assoc Prof David Palmer University of Hong Kong, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 12 Aug 2014 War, Memory, Identity Assoc Prof Viet Thanh Nguyen University of Southern California, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 19 Aug 2014 Spectacle and Containment: Gender, French Cinema and the Work of Tr n Anh Hùng Assoc Prof Lan Phuong Duong University of California Riverside, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 9 Sep 2014 The Epitome of Asia: A Historiographic Investigation into the Durian's Western Nature Dr Leo Mariani University of Liege, Belgium, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 7 Oct 2014 Inventing the "Authentic" Self: American Television and Chinese Audiences in Global Beijing Organised with Center for Family and Population Research, FASS Dr Gao Yang Singapore Management University 21 Oct 2014 The Politics of a Mughal Princess and the Transition to Colonial Rule in Eighteenth-Century Northern India Dr Rochisha Narayan William Paterson University, USA 4 Nov 2014 Love, Labour and the Law: Regulating Migrant Women’s Bodies in the Gulf Assoc Prof Pardis Mahdavi Pomona College, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 27 Nov 2014 Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies: A Future Perspective Prof Frank F. Furstenberg University of Pennsylvania, USA 9 Dec 2014 Heritage Diplomacy: Regionalism, Cultural Nationalisms and Soft Power in Asia Prof Tim Winter Deakin University, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS EVENTS Cluster Seminars Asian Migration Cluster Cluster seminars are given by members of ARI’s different clusters or by invited speakers, usually on topics related to the clusters’ work. 7 Aug 2014 From the Ground Up: The Space for Southeast Asian Migrants’ Rights Activists in the Global Governance of Migration Dr Stefan Rother University of Freiburg, Germany 6.0 6 Aug 2014 Building Resilience through Translocality: Climate Change, Migration and Social Resilience of Rural Communities in Thailand Dr Patrick Sakdapolrak University of Bonn, Germany Asian Urbanisms Cluster 16 Jan 2014 Distributional Impacts of Environmental Regulations Dr Corbett Grainger University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 20 Feb 2014 "It was the Negro": Spectres of Global Urbanism and the Just City Prof AbdouMaliq Simone University of South Australia 3 Mar 2014 Building Community Resilience from Merapi Volcano Eruptions: Synergising Urban-rural Connections towards Sustainable Disaster Governance Jointly organised with Indonesia Study Group Mr Gatot Saptadi Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency, Indonesia Ms Mahditia Paramita Housing Resource Center Indonesia 13 Mar 2014 Aspirational Roots and Routes in Beijing’s Art World Dr Peter Marolt Asia Research Institute, NUS 30 Apr 2014 The Sultans of Swing: Muslim Rule in Ma'bar in Memory and History from Delhi to Aceh Assoc Prof Daud Ali University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 21 Jul 2014 Regional Globalisation, Town Development and Evolving Urbanisation in India: Preliminary Findings from Darjeeling Prof Tim Scrase Australian Catholic University ANNUAL REPORT 2014 57 6.0 EVENTS Changing Family in Asia Cluster 21 Apr 2014 Population Dynamics and Climate Change in Asia: The Demography of Carbon Emissions Dr Adrian Hayes Australian National University 20 Jun 2014 A Youth with No Regrets? How China’s Sent-down Generation Reviews their Rustication Experience Dr Lin Qianhan Asia Research Institute, NUS 1 Aug 2014 Hong Kong Demographic Challenges: A Second Thought Jointly organised with Global Asia Institute, NUS Prof Paul Yip University of Hong Kong 7 Nov 2014 The Success Frame and the Achievement Paradox: The Children of Chinese Immigrants and Vietnamese Refugees in Los Angeles, USA Jointly organised with Centre for Family and Population Research, FASS Prof Zhou Min Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 20 Nov 2014 Re-conceptualising Child Support as an Expressive Resource and a Form of Labour: Lessons from the Australian Case Jointly organised with Centre for Family and Population Research, and Social Service Research Centre, FASS Dr Kristin Natalier University of Tasmania, Australia Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster 27 Jan 2014 Not Only To See All, But Also To See From Anywhere: The Omnivision of the Mobile Camera Dr Jenna Ng The University of York, UK 9 Apr 2014 The Guilty Secret: The Latter Career of the Indian Cinema’s Illegitimacy Mr Ashish Rajadhyaksha Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 58 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 21 May 2014 Teaching Asian Popular Culture Prof Adrian Vickers University of Sydney, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 18 Jun 2014 Transnational Vietnamese Cinemas: Imagining Nationhood in a Globalised Era Assoc Prof Duong Lan Phuong, University of California – Riverside, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 20 Jun 2014 A New Approach to Nationalism in Postsocialist China Dr Shen Yipeng Trinity College Hartford Connecticut, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 1 Oct 2014 The Spectre of Translation Dr Fiona Lee Asia Research Institute, NUS 26 Nov 2014 Stepping into Shringaara: Variations on Love in Modern Bharata Natyam Dr Nidya Shanthini Manokara National University of Singapore Metacluster: Historical Sociology of Asian Connections 27 Mar 2014 A Conversation with Joel Mokyr - The Great Needham Puzzle: China, Europe and the Origins of Modern Growth Jointly organised with Yale-NUS College Prof Joel Mokyr Northwestern University, USA 19 Jun 2014 From the Axial Age to the “X-Factor”: Revisiting East-West Entanglements in the Sociology of Religion Prof Armando Salvatore Asia Research Institute, NUS 27 Aug 2014 Bringing the World into the History of Science: Recent Approaches to the Question of Globalisation Prof Kapil Raj École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, and Asia Research Institute, NUS EVENTS Religion and Globalisation Cluster Open Cluster 6 Feb 2014 Cyber Citizenship: Rescuing Marginalised Minority Identities Dr Tabassum Khan University of California Riverside, USA, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 19 Mar 2014 Power at the Margins: Adat Ethos and Indonesian Nationhood Jointly organised with Department of History, NUS Dr Jeyamalar T. Kathirithamby-Wells University of Cambridge, UK, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 6 Mar 2014 A Buddhist Cosmopolitanism? Thinking about the Consequences of Buddhist Networks in China, Thailand and Singapore Assoc Prof Thomas Borchert University of Vermont, USA 30 Jun 2014 The Skin of the City: Moral and Material Histories of Plastic in India Assoc Prof Sarah Hodges University of Warwick, UK 6.0 24 Apr 2014 Hikmah and Narratives of Change: Temporalities of Religion and Development in Post-tsunami Aceh Dr Annemarie Samuels University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 3 Jul 2014 On Mass Mediated Islam and the Seduction of Being Original Dr Hatsuki Aishima University of Manchester, UK 30 Jul 2014 Solar Panels from the Imam: Shifting “Secular” and “Religious” Development Realities in the Tajik Pamirs Dr Till Mostowlansky University of Bern, Switzerland 18 Sep 2014 Christian Social Engagement and the State in Singapore: Preliminary Findings Mr Mathias Deininger Heidelberg University, Germany Other Event 28 Nov 2014 Demography as Destiny: A Demographic Perspective on Asian Development Jointly organised with Centre for Family and Population Research, and Department of Sociology, FASS. Prof Gavin Jones National University of Singapore Prof Peter McDonald Australian National University Prof Peter Xenos Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad National University of Singapore Science, Technology, and Society Cluster 29 Aug 2014 The Ethical Conflicts of the Physician-Soldier: A Case Study in Civilian Medical Assistance Dr Sheena M. Eagen Chamberlin University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, USA ANNUAL REPORT 2014 59 6.0 EVENTS Study Groups and their Seminars While ARI seminars are designed to address a wide academic audience, ARI also acts as host to a variety of study groups, bringing together NUS scholars and others to discuss interdisciplinary issues. There are five country-based study groups that provide the nucleus for scholars working on particular areas or themes. The members include our own research staff working in collaboration with other faculty members, and the convenors may vary from year to year. This is a listing of the seminars that were organised by each of the study groups in 2014. Study Group on Indonesia Convenors: Dr Michelle Miller Asia Research Institute, NUS Dr Andrew Marc Conroe University Scholars Programme, NUS Dr Joshua Gedacht Asia Research Institute, NUS (From 1 Aug 2014) 27 Feb 2014 Corruption, Anti-corruption in Indonesia's Sukarno Era and Suharto Era: More of the Same? Mr Vishnu Juwono London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 3 Mar 2014 Building Community Resilience from Merapi Volcano Eruptions: Synergising Urban-rural Connections towards Sustainable Disaster Governance Jointly organised with Asian Urbanisms Cluster Mr Gatot Saptadi Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency, Indonesia Ms Mahditia Paramita Housing Resource Center Indonesia 10 Mar 2014 Are Rice Prices an Effective Anti-poverty Tool in Indonesia: A Rural-urban Labour Market Integration Approach Prof Richard R. Barichello University of British Columbia, Canada, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 17 Apr 2014 Migration and Family Relationships: Case of Gay Indonesia in Paris Mr Wisnu Adihartono École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Marseille, France 22 May 2014 Enclosing Muslim Kingdoms in Colonial Indonesia and the Philippines, 1850-1940 Jointly organised with Philippines Study Group Dr Joshua Gedacht Asia Research Institute, NUS 12 Jun 2014 Kroncong, Gamelan, and Beethoven: Music as Metaphor in Shackles (Belenggu) – A 1930’s Nationalist Indonesian Novel Assoc Prof Sarah Weiss Yale-NUS College, Singapore 60 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EVENTS 17 Jun 2014 Indonesian Studies: The View from Australia Prof Adrian Vickers University of Sydney, Australia, and Asia Research Institute, NUS 24 Jul 2014 Globalisation, Moral Authority, and Progressive Islamic Discourse: The Nahdlatul Ulama and the Gulen Movement in Comparative Perspective Dr Alexander R. Arifianto Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Study Group on Indochina Convenors: Dr Zhang Juan Asia Research Institute, NUS (Till 25 Jan 2014) Dr Chang Yufen Asia Research Institute, NUS (Till 30 Jun 2014) 27 Mar 2014 The French-speaking Reformed Church in Indochina – Reflexions on a Neglected Origin of Protestantism in Vietnam Dr Pascal Bourdeaux École Pratique Des Hautes Études, France 3 Apr 2014 Women Sorcerers in Southeast Asia: Insights from the Cham “Muk Rija” Prof Thanh Phan University of Social Science and Humanities, Vietnam Dr Mohamed Effendy Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS 21 Apr 2014 ROUNDTABLE on Reinventing “China” in Southeast Asia: Sino-Southeast Asian Literary Interconnections in Vietnam and Thailand from the 17th to the 20th Century Prof Nguyen Nam Vietnam National University, Vietnam Dr Claudine Ang Yale-NUS College, Singapore Dr Koornphanat Tungkeunkunt Thammasat University, Thailand Dr Chang Yufen Asia Research Institute, NUS 6.0 Study Group on Malaysia Convenors: Assoc Prof Maznah Mohamad Department of Malay Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Goh Beng Lan Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS Dr Asha Rathina-Pandi Asia Research Institute, NUS (Till 2 Jun 2014) 5 Feb 2014 Kangkung, Contestation, and Culture: New Media in Malaysian Counter-hegemonic Politics Dr Adrian Lee Yuen Beng Universiti Sains Malaysia 19 Mar 2014 Picking Up the Pieces Post-GE13? – Some Thoughts on Malaysia’s Media Prof Zaharom Nain University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus Study Group on Philippines Convenors: Dr Julius Bautista Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS (Till 31 Jul 2014) Dr Oona Paredes Department of Southeast Asian Studies, NUS (From 6 Nov 2014) 22 May 2014 Enclosing Muslim Kingdoms in Colonial Indonesia and the Philippines, 1850-1940 Jointly organised with Indonesia Study Group Dr Joshua Gedacht Asia Research Institute, NUS Study Group on Myanmar-Thailand Convenors: Dr Maitrii Victoriano Aung Thwin Department of History, NUS Dr Titima Suthiwan Centre for Language Studies, NUS ANNUAL REPORT 2014 61 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 62 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 ARI is committed to sharing research knowledge with the larger community in Singapore and worldwide. Its outreach efforts are made simultaneously on three fronts – locally, regionally and internationally – in various forms carried out throughout the year. COMMUNITY OUTREACH Asia Trends Series What is Sinophone World Literature?: China, Southeast Asia, and the Global 60s ASIA TRENDS is an ARI flagship public outreach platform which is now running into the twelfth year. The most important objective of this annual series of lectures is to bridge the perceived gap between the academia and the general public by providing a channel for sharing our research ideas and outputs with the community and interacting with them through a lively dialogue appended at the end of the session. It is also meant as a vivid demonstration of how some of ARI’s research projects have been deliberately crafted to dovetail with key issues within our contemporary Singapore society and to relate to recent significant trends in the larger region and the world. In addition, the locations in which these events are held are consciously selected in order to provide convenience and maximise public contact. For 2014, four of the lectures were held at the centrally located National Library building, and one at downtown *SCAPE. Prof Shih Shu-mei, University of Hong Kong, and University of California-Los Angeles, USA Dr Nicolai Volland, National University of Singapore 7.0 8 May 2014, National Library Board Organised by Metacluster on Asian Connections; in collaboration with the National Library Board This lecture by Prof Shih Shu-mei to a sizeable audience of more than 60 members explored the concept of world literature and asked whether we can think about world literature from the vantage point of Southeast Asia. While China has often been considered as the site of alternative modernity or literature to the West, Southeast Asia (as the South to both the West and to China) is seldom brought into the conversation within this “China versus the West” binarism. Hence, while taking select literary representations of the Global 60s across the West (Europe and the United States) and Asia (China and Southeast Asia) as examples, her lecture examined the possibility of viewing Sinophone world literature as a network of texts in the world with neither a pre-determined centre nor a preordained future. Dr Nicolai Volland acted as the discussant and contributed from his own study of the socialist Chinese literature of the 1950s and 1960s. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 63 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH Creating Centralities 18 Jun 2014, National Library Board Organised by Asian Urbanisms Cluster; in collaboration with the National Library Board Prof Kees Christiaanse, Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore Dr Hee Limin, Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore This lecture was given by Prof Kees Christiaanse, a renowned architect and scholar, Professor at ETH Zurich, and Programme Leader of the Future Cities Laboratory at NUS. He spoke on “The City as an Egg” as a metaphor for the evolution of the city. As overlapping spheres of influence from the city to the villages, the egg was used by Christiaanse’s design team as a principal concept for the recent London Olympic Park Masterplan. In his Asia Trend’s talk he further discussed the relevance of this concept to urban design strategies for London, Hamburg, Shenzhen and Singapore. Dr Hee Limin, Director of Research at Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), was the discussant for the evening lecture. Drawing from her recent book, Future Asian Space (NUS Press, 2012), she related the presentation to the Singapore experience and delved into its general applicability to Asia. 64 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 China's Leap from the World's Work Bench: Tech, Entertainment and the Quest for Soft Power 11 Sep 2014, National Library Board Organised by Cultural Studies in Asia Cluster; in collaboration with the National Library Board Mr Ted C. Fishman, Author of Shock of Gray, and China, Inc. Prof Zheng Yongnian, National University of Singapore Since the beginning of market reform in the late 1970s, China has forged an economy that both serves and replicates the productive power of the more mature industrial world. Its place as the "Workbench of the World" has driven the country's urbanisation, manufacturing, and educational reforms. Yet, in Mr Ted Fishman’s observation, the Chinese government is no longer content with national economic ambitions. Chinese leaders are now talking about a nation that controls its own cultural tastes and reshapes those of the rest of the world to align more with those of China. It yearns for a robust culture industry. Fisherman’s talk centered on the movie and electronic gaming industries and he suggested ways in which China can create strong entertainment which would not offend the political and cultural agendas of the Party and the State. As a discussant, Prof Zheng Yongnian added some of his own views as glimpsed from his long years of studying China at the NUS East Asian Institute. COMMUNITY OUTREACH Love and Money: Parenting after Divorce 19 Nov 2014, National Library Board Organised by Changing Family in Asia Cluster; in collaboration with the National Library Board Dr Kristin Natalier, University of Tasmania, Australia Dr Vivienne Wee, Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE), Singapore In this lecture, Dr Kristin Natalier of the University of Tasmania, Australia, discussed post-divorce parenting practices in the AsiaPacific context, focusing on Australia as a case study. In many countries, family structures and practices are diversifying. This is evident in an emergent trend in Southeast Asian countries: the caring for children after separation or divorce. This practice raises questions about change and continuity in families, including: What are the practices and identities available to mothers and fathers after separation and divorce? How do governments influence post-separation parenting identities and practices? Dr Kristin Natalier answered these questions through a comparison of family trends in Southeast Asia and Australia. She presented child support (the transfer of money between separated parents to contribute to the costs of raising their children) as a case study of the ways towards post-separation financial and care responsibilities. She suggested that this practice is more than just a financial issue as it symbolically expresses what it means and how it feels to be a father or mother in times of social and personal change. Dr Vivienne Wee from a major NGO in Singapore acted as discussant and related some of the issues to the local context. 7.0 Symposium on Migration and Construction Work in Asia 28 Nov 2014, *SCAPE Organised by Asian Migration Cluster; with funding from Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium, and *SCAPE as a Programme Partner Dr C.R. Abrar, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Ms Grace Baey, Asia Research Institute, NUS Mr John Gee, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), Singapore This a public symposium and short film screening brought together over 120 participants, which included members of civil society, NGO practitioners, policymakers, and students. Dr C.R. Abrar, Director of the Refugee Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) at University of Dhaka, gave an insightful presentation on the situation of migrant construction workers in Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. Grace Baey, Research and Communications Officer at ARI, shared findings from a recently completed study on migration and precarious' work amongst Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore. The panel also included John Gee, Head of Research at Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2). Moreover, in collaboration with local arts initiative Beyond the Border, Behind the Men (BTBBTM), a short film featuring the livelihoods of returned migrants in Bangladesh was also screened, alongside with a multimedia piece that illustrates the migration journey that Bangladeshi men undertake to secure work in Singapore. The seminar presentations and film screenings sparked a lively discussion on the key issues and challenges facing migrant construction workers in the region, and some recommendations for the way forward was offered. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 65 7.0 COMMUNITY OUTREACH Public Lectures As part of its public outreach initiative, ARI organises public lectures to reach out to the greater Singapore and regional community. The lectures are presented by distinguished scholars of Asian affairs, including scholars visiting ARI in various capacities. The lectures provide up-to-date analysis and assessments of contemporary issues and long-term trends, not only to decision makers but also to all who are concerned and seek to be informed about regional and world events. 26 May 2014 ROUNDTABLE - The Indian Elections of 2014: Ramifications for India and Beyond Mr K. Kesavapany Non-resident Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Dr Ronojoy Sen Asia Research Institute, and Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS Assoc Prof Rahul Mukherji South Asian Studies Programme, NUS Mr Ashish Rajadhyaksha Asia Research Institute, NUS Held at Management Development Institute of Singapore. Jointly organised with the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICC) 4 Oct 2014 ARI-MBRAS LECTURE - The Raffles Paradox: Liberal, Autocrat, or Something Else? Mr Tze Shiung Ng Australian National University Held at National Library Building. Jointly organised with the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (MBRAS), in collaboration with the National Library Board Singapore Newsletters and Reports ARI launched its first issue of ARI Newsletters in March 2003 as a medium to share the Institute’s exciting developments with a broader constituency. Since 2013, the ARI Newsletter is published twice a year in the months of March and September. The newsletter continues to be an outreach tool to local, regional, and global readership of close to 7,500 subscribers. Present and past issues of the newsletter, which are all accessible on ARI’s website, highlight research work of individual researchers, academic publications, keynote speeches, reading groups, ARI events, as well as awards and recognition won by staff members. Similarly, the ARI Annual Report starting from its 2002/2003 issue to this latest 2014 issue is published in print and uploaded on ARI’s website. The report gives our stakeholders and other interested parties an update of the Institute’s developments and achievements for the past year. Academic reports such as the ARI Working Paper Series and specific-themed Aceh Working Paper Series, and selected conference reports and proceedings are also available on ARI’s website for knowledge-sharing. Such academic reports have been highly accessed by the community. 66 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 COMMUNITY OUTREACH 7.0 Media Coverage ARI researchers have also been active in sharing their expertise and expert views in the media. In 2014, there were at least 27 media reports of interviews of ARI researchers by local and international press and media, published editorials by ARI researchers and their appearance in public affairs broadcasts as guest speakers. There are currently 95 (and growing) records of media activities of ARI researchers and these are accessible from the ARI website. Digital and Social Connectivity ARI has been using the internet platform for many of its outreach activities and to share research findings. Its ARI website (www. ari.nus.edu.sg) provides up-to-date information about its research programmes, events and publications, among others. It also serves as a rich resource for research on Asia studies. The website is regularly revamped or redesigned to enhance its ease of navigation, quality of information and design. Since February 2009, ARI has been using its ARI Facebook group as a communication platform to keep its members updated of the latest developments in ARI such as announcements of upcoming events, new fellowships and new publications. It has also become a popular and effective tool for connecting among ARI members, students, alumni, and the public who are interested in ARI happenings. Since 2010, the Institute has been exploiting the popular mediasharing platforms such as YouTube and iTunesU to further extend its outreach. Selected webcasts of ARI lectures and seminars are posted on YouTube. To date, close to 70 videos have been posted. ARI also participates in the NUS iTunes U, a collaborative initiative between Apple and NUS, in uploading its webcasts, podcasts and working papers onto NUS iTunesU. Users worldwide who are interested in these materials are able to download them to their iPhones and iPad to listen/read on the go, or download them to their computers. ARI continues to explore new avenues of social media to further enhance its social connectivity with its various stakeholders locally, regionally and internationally. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 67 8.0 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 PUBLICATIONS 68 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Books A total of 36 monographs, jointly-authored books and edited volumes were published by ARI scholars and alumni in 2014, of which 8, in the form of edited volumes and special issues of journals, were results of workshops and conferences held and sponsored by ARI in the years 2007 to 2013. The average length of time between event and publication is about three years. Abraham, Itty +How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics Asian Security Series Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2014 The disciplines and specialities of ARI members are remarkably diverse, a diversity which is reflected in the books they produce. Books published in 2014 are detailed below. In some cases, the terms of ARI appointees are shorter than the period required for seeing a book through to publication, and in such instances, two codes are used: * Published during the period of the ARI appointment but based largely on earlier work + Published after the member has left ARI, but based on work wholly or partly done in ARI Acri, Andrea (guest ed) +Special Issue: Text and Reality in the Study of Balinese Hinduism Journal of Hindu Studies 7(2), 2014 (from ARI co-organised workshop Replaying the Past: Performances of Hindu Textual Heritage in India and Bali, 31 January-1 February 2013) Anwar, Nausheen H. +Infrastructure Redux: Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan & Beyond Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2015 (Available in December 2014) ANNUAL REPORT 2014 69 8.0 PUBLICATIONS Brooks, Ann Brooks, Ann & Wee, Lionel +Popular Culture: Global Intercultural Perspectives Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2014 +Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities Anthem, London & New York, 2014 Carpenter, Bruce; Darling, John; Hinzler, H. I. R.; McGowan, Kaja; Vickers, Adrian; & Widagdo, Soemantri +Lempad of Bali: The Illuminating Line Editions Didier Millet, Singapore, 2014 Cho Younghan & Leary, Charles (eds) Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives Series in Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives Routledge, London & New York, 2014 [Reprint of Special Issue: Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives; Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics 15(10), 2012 (from ARI organised International Workshop on Modern Sports in Asia: Cultural Perspectives, 29-30 April 2010)] Daly, Patrick; Feener, R. Michael; & Reid, Anthony (eds) Aceh: Setelah Tsunami dan Konflik Pustaka Larasan, Denpasar; KITLV-Jakarta, Jakarta, 2013 (Available in January 2014) [Indonesian translation of From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and PostConflict Aceh, ISEAS, Singapore, 2012] (from ARI co-organised First International Conference on Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies II: Civil Conflict and Its Remedies, 23-24 February 2007) 70 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Collins, Francis L. & Ho Kong Chong (guest eds) Coopmans, Catelijne; Vertesi, Janet; Lynch, Michael; & Woolgar, Steve (eds) Special Issue: Globalising Higher Education and Cities in Asia and the Pacific Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(2), 2014 (from ARI co-organised workshop Education Mobilities in East Asia, 16-18 May 2012) Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited The MIT Press, Cambridge; Massachusetts, 2014 Din Wahid du Cros, Hilary & Jolliffe, Lee Nurturing the Salafi Manhaj: A Study of Salafi Pesantrens in Contemporary Indonesia Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2014 +The Arts and Events Routledge Advances in Event Research Series Routledge, London & New York, 2014 PUBLICATIONS Duara, Prasenjit The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future Cambridge University Press, UK, 2014 Formichi, Chiara (ed) +Religious Pluralism, State and Society in Asia Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series Routledge, London & New York, 2014 Iveković, Rada +L'éloquence tempérée du Bouddha Souverainetés et dépossession de soi Klincksieck, Paris, 2014 8.0 Duara, Prasenjit; Murthy, Viren; & Sartori, Andrew (eds) Finucane, Juliana & Feener, R. Michael (eds) A Companion to Global Historical Thought Wiley-Blackwell, UK, 2014 Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia ARI-Springer Asia Series 4 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, London & New York, 2014 (from ARI organised workshop Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in the Era of Globalization, 16-17 September 2010) Girindrawardani, A. A. A. D.; Vickers, Adrian; & Holt, Rodney Hoskins, Janet & Nguyen, Viet Thanh (eds) +The Last Rajah of Karangasem: The Life and Times of Anak Agung Agung Anglurah Karangasem (1887-1966) Sariktaksu, Denpasar, 2014 +Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2014 Jeffrey, Robin & Sen, Ronojoy (eds) Johnson, Andrew Alan Being Muslim in South Asia: Diversity and Daily Life Oxford University Press, India, 2014 +Ghosts of the New City: Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 71 8.0 PUBLICATIONS Jones, Gavin W. & Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean (guest eds) Kingsley, Jeremy J. & Feener, R. Michael (guest eds) Special Issue: Marriage in Asia Journal of Family Issues 35(12), 2014 (from ARI co-organised workshop Marriage in Asia: Trends, Determinants and Implications, 15-16 November 2012) Special Focus: Muslim Religious Authority in Modern Asia Asian Journal of Social Science 42(5), 2014 (from ARI organised workshop Muslim Religious Authority in Contemporary Asia, 2425 November 2011) Lemmings, David & Brooks, Ann (eds) Marolt, Peter & Herold, David Kurt (eds) +Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives Routledge, New York, 2014 Padawangi, Rita; Marolt, Peter; & Douglass, Mike (guest eds) Special Issue: Insurgencies, Social Media and the Public City in Asia International Development Planning Review 36(1), 2014 (From ARI co-organised conference on Asia's Civil Spheres: New Media, Urban Public Space, Social Movements, 29-30 Sept 2011) 72 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Kuo Huei-Ying *Networks beyond Empires: Chinese Business and Nationalism in the Hong KongSingapore Corridor, 1914-1941 Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2014 China Online: Locating Society in Online Spaces Routledge, New York, 2014 Miller, Michelle Ann & Bunnell, Tim (eds) Asian Cities in an Era of Decentralisation Routledge Special Issues as Books: Ethnic and Racial Studies Series Routledge, London & New York, 2014 Pall, Zoltan Söderström, Ola Salafism in Lebanon: Local and Transnational Resources Utrecht University, Netherlands, 2014 +Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2014 PUBLICATIONS 8.0 Tan, Margaret (ed) van Bruinessen, Martin (ed) +Irregular Migration and Human Security in East Asia Routledge, London, 2014 Singapore as “Model” City? A collaboration between Tembusu College, NUS, and Housing Module, Future Cities Laboratory Tembusu College, NUS, & Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore, 2014 Conservative Turn. Islam Indonesia dalam Ancaman Fundamentalisme Mizan, Bandung, 2014 [Indonesian translation of Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the “Conservative Turn”, ISEAS, Singapore, 2013] Yeoh, Brenda S. A.; Teo, Peggy, & Huang, Shirlena (eds) Yeoh, Brenda S. A. & Willis, Katie (eds) Yeoh Seng Guan (ed) Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region Routledge, London, 2014 [Paperback reprint of Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region, Routledge, London, 2002] State/Nation/Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific Routledge, London & New York, 2014 [Paperback reprint of State/Nation/ Transnation: Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific, Routledge, London & New York, 2004] Song Jiyoung & Cook, Alistair D. B. (eds) +The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City Routledge Malaysian Studies Series Routledge, London, 2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 73 8.0 PUBLICATIONS ARI-Springer Asia Series Editors-In-Chief Chua Beng Huat, Robbie B. H. Goh, Lily Kong, and Prasenjit Duara National University of Singapore Cities Section Section Editor: Timothy Bunnell National University of Singapore Associate Editors: Abidin Kusno and Michael Leaf, University of British Columbia D. Parthasarathy Indian Institute of Technology Migration Section Section Editor: Brenda S.A. Yeoh National University of Singapore Associate Editors: Dick Bedford University of Waikato Xiang Biao Oxford University Rachel Silvey University of Toronto Religion Section Section Editor: R. Michael Feener National University of Singapore Associate Editors: Nico Kaptein Leiden University Joanne Waghorne Syracuse University Kenneth Dean McGill University 74 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Scholarship on Asia, particularly on the rapidly developing and complex nations and regions in East, Southeast and South Asia, has seen many exciting developments in recent years, due not only to significant events in Asia but also to the emergence of new research methodologies, theoretical orientations, scholarly paradigms, and multi-disciplinary approaches and collaborations. As an institute dedicated to research on Asia, in one of Asia’s best universities, and networked with prominent Asia scholars in other leading universities, ARI has played a central role in these crucial innovations in Asia scholarship. Springer is one of the leading academic publishers in the world. It has publishing houses globally and publishes across a wide range of media including academic books, reference works, journals, CD-ROMs, databases and online publications. ARI’s partnership with Springer in the Asia book series offers a peerrefereed avenue for the publication of exciting new scholarship on Asia, and it ensures that this scholarship is readily available worldwide to institutions as well as individual scholars. The series presents leading research on Asia in three main sections: Religion, Migration, and Cities. The books in the series are: Sinha, Vineeta (2011). Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains: From the Straits Settlements to Singapore. Nguyen-Marshall, Van; Drummond, Lisa B. Welch; and Bélanger, Danièle (eds) (2012). The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam. Bunnell, Tim; Parthasarathy, D.; and Thompson, Eric C. (eds) (2013). Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia. Finucane, Juliana and Feener, Michael R. (eds) (2014). Proselytizing and the Limits of Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Asia. PUBLICATIONS Asian Population Studies Editor Gavin Jones National University of Singapore 8.0 Asian Population Studies is an ARI journal that publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population studies ranging from population dynamics such as the analysis of fertility, mortality and migration (from both technical and social perspectives) to the consequences of population change. Heading each issue is a commentary on a topical issue by a noted demographer. Associate Editor Premchand Varma Dommaraju Nanyang Technological University Beginning with the first issue of Vol. 6, 2010, the journal has been abstracted and indexed in Thomson Reuters’ Current Contents® /Social and Behavioral Sciences, Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index®. Editorial Committee Angelique Chan National University of Singapore Some articles published in 2014: Wolfgang Lutz International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Vipan Prachuabmoh Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Brenda S.A. Yeoh National University of Singapore Husband’s Circular Migration and the Status of Women Left Behind in Lamerd District, Iran: A Pilot Study Akbar Aghajanian, Jamileh Alihoseini and Vaida Thompson UN Population Division’s Methodology in Preparing Base Population for Projections: Case Study for India Patrick Gerland Gender “Rebalancing” in China Jane Golley and Rod Tyers Mapping Manila’s Mega-urban Region: A Spatio-demographic Accounting Using Small-area Census Data Arnisson Andre C. Ortega ANNUAL REPORT 2014 75 8.0 PUBLICATIONS The ARI Working Paper Series (ARI WPS) has published 230 academic research papers online. This pre-publication series includes contributions from a worldwide pool of scholars working on Asia and the papers are reviewed by a single peer before being accepted. In 2014, a total of 19 papers were published and all are downloadable as full text document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format free of charge at http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publications/ ariwps.htm. ARI Working Paper Series 76 Series No. Publication Date WPS 212 Jan 2014 Citizen Ai: Warrior, Jester and Middlemen William A. Callahan WPS 213 Jan 2014 Opiate of the Masses with Chinese Characteristics: Recent Chinese Scholarship on the Meaning and Future of Religion Thomas David Dubois Chi Zhen WPS 214 Feb 2014 Cyberzomia Peter Marolt WPS 215 Feb 2014 Religious Temple Management in China Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew WPS 216 Feb 2014 Extracting Peasants from the Fields: Rushing for a Livelihood? Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt WPS 217 Mar 2014 New Models of Travel Behaviour for Independent Asian Youth Urban Cultural Tourists Hilary du Cros WPS 218 Apr 2014 An Economy of Sacrifice: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labour in the Philippines Julius Bautista WPS 219 Apr 2014 Counter-Hegemonic Spaces of Hope? Constructing the Public City in Jakarta and Singapore Rita Padawangi WPS 220 May 2014 On the Origins and Reflexivity of Autonomy and Social Movements in CybUrbia Peter Marolt WPS 221 May 2014 A Snapshot of Muhammadiyah: Social Change and Shifting Markers of Identity and Values Robin Bush WPS 222 Jun 2014 Ethical Trading and Sri Lankan Labour Practices in the Apparel Sector Kanchana Ruwanpura WPS 223 Jun 2014 A Walk in the Park: Singapore’s Green Corridor as a Homegrown Import David Strand WPS 224 Jul 2014 The Revindication of Environmental Subjectivity: Chinese Landscape Aesthetics between Crisis and Creativity Andrea Riemenschnitter WPS 225 Aug 2014 The Gendered Dynamics of Indonesia's Oil Palm Labour Regime Li Tania WPS 226 Sep 2014 Negotiating Post-Divorce Familial Relationships: A Case of Singaporean Divorce Biographies Sharon Quah WPS 227 Oct 2014 Reconsidering Nationalism in 21st Century China Shen Yipeng WPS 228 Oct 2014 Humanistic Planning and Urban Flood Disaster Governance in Southeast Asia: Metro Manila and Jakarta Rita Padawangi WPS 229 Nov 2014 Socio-economic Differentials in Contraceptive Discontinuation in India Kiran Agrahari Sanjay K. Mohanty Rajesh K. Chauhan WPS 230 Dec 2014 The Guilty Secret: The Latter Career of the Bollywood’s Illegitimacy Ashish Rajadhyaksha ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Title Author(s) PUBLICATIONS Articles and Book Chapters 8.0 Abraham, Itty Prolegomena to non-alignment: Race and the international system. In N. Moskovic, H. Fischer-Tiné & N. Boškovska (eds), Delhi – Bandung – Belgrade: Non-alignment between Afro-Asian solidarity and the Cold War. Routledge, London, pp. 76-94. Acri, Andrea Text and reality in the study of Balinese Hinduism. Journal of Hindu Studies 7(2): 137-145. Pañcaku ika and Kanda Mpat. From a P upata aiva myth to Balinese folklore. Journal of Hindu Studies 7(2): 146-178. The romanization of Indic script used in ancient Indonesia (coauthored with A. Griffiths). Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde/Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 170: 365-378. Birds, bards, buffoons, and Brahmans: (Re-)tracing the Indic origins of some ancient and modern Javano-Balinese performing characters. Archipel 88: 13-70. The aiva Atim rga in the light of Ni v saguhya 12.1-22ab. Cracow Indological Studies 16: 81-123. Alipio, Cheryll Domestic violence and migration in the Philippines: Transnational sites of struggle and sacrifice. International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter 67 (Spring): 30-31. Anwar, Nausheen H. Producing cosmopolitan Karachi: Freedom, security and urban redevelopment in the post-colonial metropolis. South Asian History and Culture 5(3): 328-348. Urban transformations: Brokers, collaborative governance and community building in Karachi’s periphery. South Asian History and Culture 5(1): 75-92. The postcolonial city in South Asia. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35(1): 22-38. Baas, Michiel Victims or profiteers? Issues of migration, racism and violence among Indian students in Melbourne. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(2): 212-225. Bautista, Julius Rituals of pain and the limits of the biomedical paradigm: Selfmortification in the Catholic Philippines. In N. Hinerman & H. Sternudd (eds), Painful conversations: Making pain sens(e)ible. Interdisciplinary Press, Oxford, pp. 79-94. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 77 8.0 PUBLICATIONS The localization of radical transcendence in the Catholic Philippines. In O. Salemink & B. Turner (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Religions. Routledge, Oxford & New Delhi, pp. 96-109. Christianity in Southeast Asia: Colonialism, nationalism and the caveats to conversion. In F. Wilfred (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Christianity in Asia. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 215-230. The act of witnessing: Doing fieldwork on Passion rituals in the Philippines (co-authored with P. Bräunlein). Philippine Studies: Ethnographic and Historical Viewpoints 62(3-4): 499-523. Islam encountered: Challenging stereotypes and fostering knowledge. Education about Asia 19(1): 39-42. Benney, Jonathan The aesthetics of microblogging: State and market control of Weibo. Asiascape: Digital Asia 1(3): 169-200. “The corpses were emotionally stable”: Agency and passivity on the Chinese Internet. In P. Marolt & D. K. Herold (eds), Online China: Locating society in online spaces. Routledge, New York, pp. 33-48. Blackburn, Anne M. The sphere of the S sana in the context of colonialism. In T. Sen (ed), Buddhism across Asia: Networks of material, intellectual, and cultural exchange, volume 1. ISEAS, Singapore, pp. 371-382. Bork-Hüffer, Tabea Global change, national development goals, urbanisation and international migration in China. African migrants in Guangzhou and Foshan (co-authored with B. Rafflenbeul, F. Kraas, & Z. Li). In F. Kraas, S. Aggarwal, M. Coy, & G. Mertins (eds), Megacities: Our global urban future. Springer, New York & London, pp. 135-150. Health care disparities in megaurban China: The ambivalent role of unregistered practitioners (co-authored with F. Kraas). Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie (online first). DOI:10.1111/tesg.12116. Brooks, Ann Introduction: The emotional turn in the humanities and social sciences (co-authored with D. Lemmings). In D. Lemmings & A. Brooks (eds), Emotions and social change: Historical and sociological perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, Chapter 1. “The affective turn” in the social sciences and the gendered nature of emotions: Theorizing emotions in the social sciences from 1800 to the present. In D. Lemmings & A. Brooks (eds), Emotions and social change: Historical and sociological perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, Chapter 3. 78 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Bunnell, Tim Trauma and transformation in Banda Aceh: Collective memories of a city through war, tsunami and peace (co-authored with M. A. Miller). In S. A. Bong (ed), Trauma, memory and transformation. Southeast Asian experiences. Strategic Information and Research Development Center [SIRD], Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, pp. 77-97. Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia (co-authored with N. A. Phelps, M. A. Miller, & J. Taylor). Cities 39: 37-49. Bush, Robin NU and Muhammadiyah: Majority views on religious minorities in Indonesia (co-authored with B. Munawar-Rachman). In B. Platzdasch & J. Saravanamuttu (eds), Religious minorities in Muslim-majority states in Southeast Asia: Areas of toleration and conflict. ISEAS, Singapore, pp. 16-50. The political decline of traditional ulama in Indonesia: The state, umma and Nahdlatul Ulama (co-authored with G. Fealy). In J. J. Kingsley & R. M. Feener (eds), Special Focus: Muslim religious authority in modern Asia. Asian Journal of Social Science 42(5): 536-560. Callahan, William A. Citizen Ai: Warrior, jester and middleman. Journal of Asian Studies 73(4): 899-920. The China dream and the American dream. Economic and Political Studies 2(1): 143-160. Chinese exceptionalism and the politics of history. In N. Horesh & E. Kavalski (eds), Asian thought on China’s changing international relations. Palgrave, New York, pp. 17-33. The art of politics. In H. W. Holzwarth (ed), Ai Weiwei: Living art on the edge. Taschen, Berlin, pp. 561-588. What can the China dream “do” in the PRC? The Asan Forum, December 2014. Available at: http://www.theasanforum.org/ what-can-the-china-dream-do-in-the-prc/. Chan, Felicia British Chinese short films: Challenging the limits of the sinophone (co-authored with A. Willis). In A. Yue & O. Khoo (eds), in Sinophone cinemas. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 169-184. Maggie Cheung, “une Chinoise”: Acting and agency in the realm of transnational stardom. In Leung W. & A. Willis (eds), East Asian film stars. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 83-95. Film festivals and affective spaces: Singapore’s majestic theatre. Cinergie 6, November 2014. Available at: http://www.cinergie.it/ wp-content/uploads/2014/11/6_CINERGIE_S_Chan.pdf. PUBLICATIONS Cheah, Pheng World against globe: Toward a normative conception of world literature. New Literary History 45(3): 303-329. Second generation human rights as bio-political rights. In C. Douzinas & C. Gearty (eds), The meaning(s) of human rights. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 215-232. 8.0 Collins, Francis L. Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific (co-authored with K. C. Ho). Special Issue: Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(2): 127-131. The biopolitics of recognition: Making female subjects of globalization. In J. Potts & D. Stout (eds), Theory aside. Duke University Press, Durham, pp. 117-142. Globalising higher education in and through urban spaces: Higher education projects, international student mobilities and trans-local connections in Seoul. Special Issue: Globalising higher education and cities in Asia and the Pacific. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(2): 242-257. Chen Haidan A call for global governance of biobanks (co-authored with T. Pang), Bulletin of World Health Organization 93:113-117. Available at: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/93/2/14-138420/en/ Coopmans, Catelijne Mobility and the medical image. In N. Thrift, A. Tickell, S. Woolgar, & W. H. Rupp (eds), Globalization in practice. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 212-218. BIONET: Herbert’s road toward China. Special Issue: Valediction for Herbert Gottweis, BioSocieties 9 (advance online publication). DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2014.30. Available at: http://www.palgravejournals.com/biosoc/journal/v9/n4/full/biosoc201430a.html. Introduction: Representation in scientific practice revisited (co-authored with J. Vertesi, M. Lynch, & S Woolgar). In C. Coopmans, J. Vertesi, M. E. Lynch, & S. Woolgar (eds), Representation in scientific practice revisited. The MIT Press, Cambridge; Massachusetts, pp. 1-14. Publics and biobanks in China and Europe: A comparative perspective (co-authored with J. Starkbaum & H. Gottweis). Asia Europe Journal 12(3): 345-359. Cho Younghan Introduction: Modern sports in Asia (co-authored with C. Leary). In Cho Y. & Leary, C. (eds), Modern sports in Asia. Series in Sport in Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 1-6. Chua Beng Huat Navigating between limits: The future of public housing in Singapore. Housing Studies 29(4): 520-533. Inter-referencing Southeast Asia: Absence, resonance and provocation. In M. Huotari, J. Ruland, & J. Schlehe (eds), Methodology and research practice in Southeast Asian studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Chapter 13. Clancey, Gregory Radiation disaster medicine curricula revisited in a postFukushima context (co-authored with R. K. Chhem & A. Z. Aziz). In K. Tanigawa & R. K. Chhem (eds), Radiation disaster medicine. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 109-120. Coderey, Céline Logiques et pratiques d’automédication en Arakan (Birmanie) (Logics and practices of self-medication in Arakan (Burma). Anthropologie et Santé 9. Available at: http://anthropologiesante. revues.org/1552. Visual analitics as artful revelation. In C. Coopmans, J. Vertesi, M. E. Lynch, & S. Woolgar (eds), Representation in scientific practice revisited. The MIT Press, Cambridge; Massachusetts, pp. 37-60. Eyeballing expertise (co-authored with G. Button). Social Studies of Science 44(5): 758-785. Visual accountability (co-authored with D. Neyland). The Sociological Review 62(1): 1-23. Douglass, Mike After the revolution: From insurgencies to social projects to recover the public city in East and Southeast Asia. International Development Planning Review 36(1): 15-32. Introduction to the special issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia (co-authored with R. Padawangi & P. Marolt). International Development Planning Review 36(1): 3-13. Afterword: Global householding and social reproduction in Asia. Geoforum 51: 313-316. The Saemaul Undong in historical perspective and in the contemporary world. In I. Yi & T. Mkandawire (eds), Learning from the South Korean developmental success. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 136-171. 새마을운동의 역사적 조망과 현재적 의미 [The New Village Movement in Korea in historical perspective and current meaning]. In I. Yi & T. Mkandawire (eds), 한국적 개발 모델의 교훈 [Lessons from the Korean Development Model]. KOICA, Seoul, Ch. 7. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 79 8.0 PUBLICATIONS du Cros, Hilary Confucius institutes: Multiple reactions and interactions (coauthored with C. C. Leung). China: An International Journal 12(2): 66-86. Duara, Prasenjit The agenda of Asian Studies and digital media in the Anthropocene. Asiascape: Digital Asia 2: 11-19. Asien neu denken: Zum verstandnis einem zumsammenwachsenden region (Asia redux). In S. Conrad, S. Randeria, & R. Romhild (eds), Jenseits des eurozentrismus (Beyond eurocentrism). Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, pp. 526-553. Introduction (co-authored with A. Sartori & V. Murthy). In P. Duara, A. Sartori, & V. Murthy (eds), A companion to global historical thought. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 1-18. Empires and imperialism. In P. Duara, A. Sartori, & V. Murthy (eds), A companion to global historical thought. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 384-398. Elinoff, Eli Sufficient citizens: Moderation and the politics of sustainable development in Thailand. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 37(1): 89-108. Unmaking civil society: Activists schisms, democracy, and autonomous politics in Thailand. Contemporary Southeast Asia 36(3): 356-385. Feener, R. Michael Muslim religious authority in modern Asia: Established patterns and evolving profiles. In J. J. Kingsley & R. M. Feener (eds), Special Focus: Muslim religious authority in modern Asia. Asian Journal of Social Science 42(5): 501-516. A wall in the woods: Note on the recently discovered site at Kreung Jeureungeh, North Aceh. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Landen Volkenkunde 170(1): 99-106. Ferzacca, Steve The changing role of women in food provision and food choice decision-making and its potential impact on child nutrition and obesity in a rapidly changing economy (co-authored with Wang M. C., N. Naidoo, & R. van Dam). Ecology of Food and Nutrition 53(6): 658-677. “Sometimes they’ll tell me what they want”: Exploring the role of family and others in food decisions of Singaporean women (coauthored with N. Naidoo, Wang M. C., G. Reddy, & R. van Dam). Appetite 69: 156-167. 80 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Fischer, Johan The moderate and the excessive: Performing Malay consumption. In Yeoh S. G. (ed), The other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast Asian city. Routledge Malaysian Studies Series. Routledge, London, pp. 92-121. Muslim material culture in the western world. In R. 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Leary, Charles Introduction: Modern sports in Asia (co-authored with Cho Y.). In Cho Y. & Leary, C. (eds), Modern sports in Asia. Series in Sport in Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, London & New York, pp. 1-6. Lee Hsiao Yen, Fiona Epistemological checkpoint: Reading fiction as a translation of history. Postcolonial Text 9(1). Available at: http://postcolonial. org/index.php/pct/article/view/1656/1686. Lee Hyun ok Trafficking in women? Or multicultural family? The contextual difference of commodification of intimacy. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 21(10). Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2013. 832660#.VHbRL9KUf84. Li Haibin International note: Parenting, academic achievement and problem behaviour among Chinese adolescents (co-authored with R. Walker & D. Armstrong). Journal of Adolescence, 37(4): 387-389. Liang Yongjia Morality, gift and market: Communal temple restoration in Southwest China. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(5): 414-432. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 81 8.0 PUBLICATIONS Lindquist, Johan Migration infrastructure (co-authored with Xiang B.) International Migration Review, 50th anniversary edition, pp. 122-148. Lysaght, Tamra The ethics of regenerative medicine: Broadening the scope beyond the moral status of embryos (co-authored with A. V. Campbell). In A. Akabayashi (ed), The future of bioethics: International dialogues. Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 5-26. Oversight and evidence in stem cell innovation: An examination of international guidelines. Law, Innovation & Technology 6(1): 30-50. Cellular therapies: Regulating uncertainty in Asia’s biomedical hubs. Asian Bioethics Review 6(3): 234-245. Marolt, Peter Introduction to the special issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia (co-authored with R. Padawangi & M. Douglass). International Development Planning Review 36(1): 3-13. Miller, Michelle A. Trauma and transformation in Banda Aceh: Collective memories of a city through war, tsunami and peace (co-authored with T. Bunnell). In S. A. Bong (ed), Trauma, memory and transformation. Southeast Asian experiences. Strategic Information and Research Development Center [SIRD], Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, pp. 77-97. Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia (co-authored with N. A. Phelps, T. Bunnell, & J. Taylor). Cities 39: 37-49. Montoya, Alfred Sea snake harvest in the gulf of Thailand (co-authored with Nguyen V. C., Nguyen T. T., A. Moore, A. Rasmussen, K. Broad, H. Voris, & Z. Takacs). Conservation Biology 28(6): 1677-1687. Padawangi, Rita Reform, resistance and empowerment: Urban landscapes and the transformation of activist groups in Jakarta, Indonesia. International Development Planning Review 36(1): 33-50. Introduction to the special issue: Insurgencies, social media and the public city in Asia (co-authored with P. Marolt & M. Douglass). International Development Planning Review 36(1): 3-13. Phelps, Nicholas A. Urban inter-referencing within and beyond a decentralized Indonesia (co-authored with T. Bunnell, M. A. Miller, & J. Taylor). Cities 39: 37-49. Pieke, Frank N. Anthropology, China, and the Chinese century. Annual Review of Anthropology 43: 123-138. 82 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Pillai, Shanthini The intertwining vines of liturgy, ethnicity, and nationhood: The nativized imaginary of the Malaysian Catholic community. Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 18(1): 94-112. Rathina-Pandi, Asha Insurgent space in Malaysia: Hindraf movement, new media and minority Indians. International Development Planning Review 36(1): 73-90. Song Jiyoung Introduction. In J. Song and A. D. B. Cook (eds), Irregular migration and human security in East Asia. Routledge, London, pp. 1-20. Complex human security in North Korean irregular migration. In J. Song & A. D. B. Cook (eds.), Irregular migration and human security in East Asia. Routledge, London, pp. 137-154. Sur, Malini Divided bodies: Crossing the India-Bangladesh border. The Economic and Political Weekly 46(13): 31-35. Tosa, Keiko Using tree bark for beauty. In Y. Ochiai & C. Shirakawa (eds), Mono-to kurashi no shokubutushi [Ethnography of plant and life]. Rinsen-syoten, Kyoto, pp. 92-112. (in Japanese) From bricks to pagodas: Weikza specialists and the rituals of pagoda-buildings. In B.B. de la Perrière, G. Rozenberg, & A. Turner (eds), Champions of Buddhism: Weikza cults in contemporary Burma. NUS Press, Singapore, pp. 114-140. van Bruinessen, Martin Secularism, Islamism and Muslim intellectualism in Turkey and Indonesia: Some comparative observations. In M. T. Kusuma (ed), Ketika Makkah menjadi seperti Las Vegas: Agama, politik dan ideologi [When Makkah becomes like Las Vegas: Religion, politics and ideology]. Gramedia, Jakarta, pp. 130-157. Gunung Jati, Sunan. Encyclopaedia of Islam, third edition, Part 2014-3, pp. 148-150. Vickers, Adrian Catalogue raisonné [Catalogue of works]. In B. Carpenter, J. Darling, H.I.R. Hinzler, K. McGowan, A. Vickers, & S. Widagdo, Lempad of Bali: The illuminating line. Editions Didier Millet, Singapore, pp. 75-269. A history of the Karangasem royal family. In A.A.A.D. Girindrawardani, A. Vickers, & R. Holt, The last Rajah of Karangasem. Sariktaksu, Denpasar, pp. 1-41. Majapahit and Panji stories. In C. Kubuontubuh & P. Carey (eds), Majapahit: Inspiration for the world. Arsari, Jakarta, pp. 47-66. PUBLICATIONS Wang, May C. The changing role of women in food provision and food choice decision-making and its potential impact on child nutrition and obesity in a rapidly changing economy (co-authored with S. Ferzacca, N. Naidoo, & R. van Dam). Ecology of Food and Nutrition 53(6): 658-677. “Sometimes they’ll tell me what they want”: Exploring the role of family and others in food decisions of Singaporean women (co-authored with N. Naidoo, S. Ferzacca, G. Reddy, & R. van Dam). Appetite 69: 156-167. Wasson, Robert J. Increasing Singapore’s resilience to drought (co-authored with A.D. Ziegler, J.P. Terry, G.J.H. Oliver, D.A. Friess, C.J. Chuah, & W.T.L. Chow). Hydrological Processes 28(15): 4543-4548. Winichakul, Thongchai Foreword: Decentering Thai studies. In R.V. Harrison (ed), Disturbing conventions: Decentering Thai literary cultures. Rowman and Littlefield International Limited, London, pp. xiii-xix. Modern historiography in Southeast Asia: The case of Thailand’s royal-nationalist history. In P. Duara, A. Sartori, & V. Murthy (eds), A companion to global historical thought. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, pp. 257-268 Monarchy and anti-Monarchy: Two elephants in the room and the state of denial in Thailand. In P. Chatchavalpongpun (ed), Good coup gone bad. ISEAS, Singapore, pp. 79-108. Winter, Tim Post conflict heritage in Asia: Shifting geographies of aid. In P. Basu & W. Modest (eds), Museums, heritage and international development. Routledge, London, pp. 295-309. Xiang Biao Migration infrastructure (co-authored with J. Lindquist). International Migration Review, 50th anniversary edition, pp. 122-148. The would-be migrant: Post-socialist primitive accumulation, potential transnational mobility, and the displacement of the present in northeast China. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 2(2): 183-199. Multi-scalar ethnography: An approach for critical engagement with migration and social change. Ethnography 14(3): 282-299. Pacific paradox: The Chinese state in transpacific spheres. In J. Hoskins & V. T. Nguyen (eds), Transpacific studies: Framing an emerging field. Hawai’i University Press, Honolulu, pp. 85-105. The return of return: Migration, Asia and theory. In G. Battistella (ed), Global and Asian perspectives on international migration. Springer, Switzerland, pp. 167-182. 8.0 Xu Lanjun Translation and internationalism. In A.C. Cook (ed), Mao's little red book: A global history. Cambridge University Press, pp. 76-95. Yang, Mayfair Two logics of the gift and banquet: A genealogy of China and the northwest coast (♼㣡ㆨ呃㥟☨‫✯ץ‬䔙䎟ᱶ㺲ऌㆨ⌝よ㣩 ⌝⦽≤㺐᠄㴚䴋Ҳ). In Chang S. (ed), The gift of knowledge: Re-examining gift cultures (㺌㻳㺐♼  㴿㜳♼㣡㢶⪇). National Chengchi University, Institute of Foreign Languages, Translation Center, Taipei, pp. 11-76. Yeoh S.A., Brenda The cosmopolis and the migrant domestic worker (co-authored with M.A. Soco). Cultural Geographies 21(2): 171-187. Geographies of domestic life: “Householding” in transition in East and Southeast Asia (co-authored with K. Brickell). Geoforum 51: 259-261. Global householding and the negotiation of intimate labour in commercially-matched international marriages between Vietnamese women and Singaporean men (co-authored with Chee H. L. & T. K D. Vu). Geoforum 51: 284-293. Asia(ns) on the move: Globalisation, migration and development. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 2(2): 157-162. DOI:10.1017/trn.2014.2. Singapore’s changing demography, the eldercare predicament and transnational “care” migration (co-authored with S. Huang). TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2(2): 247-269. DOI:10.1017/trn.2014.6. Migration, society and globalisation: Introduction to virtual issue (co-authored with A.J. Bailey). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39(3): 470-475. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12056. Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia (co-authored with Chee H.L. & Lu C.W.). Citizenship Studies 18(8): 823-838. DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2014.964545. Gender, migration, mobility and transnationalism (co-authored with K. Ramdas). Gender, Place and Culture 21(10): 1197-1213. DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2014.969686. Mobility and desire: International students and Asian regionalism in aspirational Singapore (co-authored with F. L. Collins, R. Sidhu, & N. Lewis). Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 35(5): 661-676. DOI:10.1080/01596306.2014.921996. “I’d do it for love or for money”: Vietnamese women in Taiwan and the social construction of female migrant sexuality (coauthored with Hoang L. A.). Gender, Place and Culture 22(5): 591-607. DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.885892. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 83 8.0 PUBLICATIONS A situated analysis of global knowledge networks: Capital accumulation strategies of transnationally mobile scientists in Singapore (co-authored with R. Sidhu & S. Chang). Higher Education 69(1): 79-101. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-014-9762-9. Parental migration and the mental health of those who stay behind to care for children in South-East Asia (co-authored with E. Graham & L. Jordan). Social Science & Medicine (online first). DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.10.060. An exploration of memory-making in the digital era: Remembering the FEPOW story online (co-authored with H. Muzaini). Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie 106(1): 53-64. DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12087. Yeoh Seng Guan Introduction: The world class city and subaltern Kuala Lumpur. In Yeoh S. G. (ed), The other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast Asian city. Routledge Malaysian Studies Series. Routledge, London, pp. 1-21. Cosmopolitan beginnings? Transnational healthcare workers and the politics of carework in Singapore (co-authored with S. Huang). The Geographical Journal. Available at: onlinelibrary. wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geoj.12084/full Still “breadwinners” and “providers”: Singaporean husbands, money, and masculinity in transnational marriages (co-authored with Cheng Y. E. & Zhang J.). Gender, Place and Culture (online first). DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.917282. Children’s agency and its contradictions in the context of transnational labour migration from Vietnam (co-authored with Hoang L.A.). Global Networks 15(2):180-197. DOI:10.1111/ glob.12057. Transnational migration, changing care arrangements and leftbehind children’s responses in South-east Asia (co-authored with Hoang L.A., T. Lam, & E. Graham). Children’s Geographies 13(3): 263-277. DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2015.972653. Singapore: Building a knowledge and education hub (coauthored with Hoang L.A., T. Lam, E. Graham, R. Sidhu, & Ho K.C. In J. Knight (ed), International education hubs: Student, talent, knowledge-innovation models. Springer, Netherlands, pp. 121-143. Labour migration and integration in ASEAN (co-authored with M. Ee). In W. Hofmeister, P. Rueppel, Y. Pascouau, & A. Frontini (eds), Migration and integration: Common challenges and responses from Europe and Asia. Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung and European Union, Singapore, pp. 13-30. The place of migrant women and the role of gender in the cities of Asia (co-authored with K. Ramdas). In S. Parnell & S. Oldfield (eds), A Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. Routledge, London, pp. 370-384. Long-distance fathers, left-behind fathers and returnee fathers: Changing fathering practices in Indonesia and the Philippines (coauthored with T. Lam). In M. Inhorn, W. Chavkin, & J.A. Navarro (eds), Globalized fatherhoods: Emergent forms and possibilities in the new millennium. Berghahn, New York, pp. 103-128. 84 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean Marriage in Asia: Introduction (co-authored with G.W. Jones). Journal of Family Issues 35(10): 1-18. Heterogeneity in contemporary Chinese marriage (co-authored with Ji Y.). Journal of Family Issues 35(12): 1662-1682. Youth early employment and behavior problems: Human capital and social network pathways to adulthood (co-authored with E. Rauscher). Sociological Perspectives 57(3): 382-403. DOI:10.1177/0731121414531105. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Poverty Research and the Millennium Development Goals. In A.C. Michalos (ed), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 6786-6789. Zhang Juan “Walled” activism: Transnational social movements and the politics of Chinese cyber-public space (co-authored with P. Nyíri). International Development Planning Review 36(1): 111-132. Still “breadwinners” and “providers”: Singaporean husbands, money, and masculinity in transnational marriages (co-authored with Cheng Y.E. & B.S.A. Yeoh). Gender, Place and Culture (online first). DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.917282. PUBLICATIONS 8.0 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 85 9.0 ARI RECOGNITION 9.0 ARI RECOGNITION Awards and Honours Prof Prasenjit Duara was Visiting Fellow, Conscious Realities, Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 25 February - 4 March 2014. Assoc Prof R. Michael Feener received invitation and appointment as Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations/Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, January-June 2014. Dr Connor Graham received the Residential College Teaching Excellence Award 2013-2014, NUS, on 21 November 2014. Dr Tamra Lysaght received the 2014 Sydney Southeast Asian Centre Mobility Award valued AUD2,500 from the Sydney Southeast Asian Centre, The University of Sydney, 14 June 2014. Prof Jean Yeung Wei-Jun was appointed Director of the Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR), NUS, on 1 April 2014. She was also reappointed Member of Board of Trustees, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, 1 November 2014 - 31 October 2015. Keynotes and Plenaries Chua Beng Huat “Unintended Consequences of Multiracialism and Bilingual Education in Singapore”, Minority Students, Social Justice and Equal Educational Opportunity: Rethinking Multicultural Education, 20th Annual International Conference of Sociology of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 16-17 May 2014. “Return of/to the Politics of the Popular”, Conference on Culture and Commerce of Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Music Industries in Asia, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 12-13 December 2014. Clancey, Gregory “Reflections on Disaster in the 20th and 21st Centuries”, Nature, Human Beings, and Radiation, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, 16 February 2014. “What Can We Learn From Disasters?”, FMU-IAEA Technical Meeting on Enhancing Radiation Medical Education, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, 25-27 July 2014. Douglass, Mike “Place of Hope–The Kasama Potters and the Great Ordeal”, Asian Civilisations Museum, Friends of the Museum, 17 March 2014. 86 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 ARI RECOGNITION 9.0 “Asia’s Urban Transition–Mega Trends and the Future of Cities in a Global Age”, London School of Economics Asia Forum, Kuala Lumpur, 2-4 April 2014. “Confucianism and Citizenship in Nanyang”, 4th Overseas Chinese Research Lecture, Peking University, Beijing, 29 April 2014. “Secondary Cities Unbound–from Corporate to People-Centered Transborder City Regions in Asia”, Asia Research Center, Seoul National University, 2 June 2014. “Network Asia: Globalization and Regional Studies”, Director’s Seminar, Stanford Global Studies, Stanford, California, 19 May 2014. “Special Seminar on Creative Urban Communities and Progressive Cities”. University of Seoul, Graduate Programmes on Urban Sociology and Urban Engineering, Seoul, 3 June 2014. Sun Yat-sen University Lecture, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Guangzhou, China, 4 May 2014. “How to Build a Liveable City”, Sustainability Summit, City University of Hong Kong 30th Anniversary Celebration, Hong Kong, 23 October 2014. “Public Space, Public City: Resistance against the Corporatization of Urban Space in Asia”, Geography and Urban Studies Joint Seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 24 October 2014. “Progressive Cities in Asia in a New Gilded Global Age”, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3, Paris, 20 November 2014. “The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia in a Global Urban Age”, International Institute of Asian Studies/Urban Knowledge Network Asia, University of Leiden, Leiden, 26 November 2014. “Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia”, Director’s Lecture, Humanities Institute, Stanford University, 20 May 2014. Lim Boon Keng 4 September 2014. Lecture, China Society, Singapore, “Secularism, Nationalism, and Religion in Asian History”, Secularisms: Ideals, Ideologies, and Institutional Practices, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 25 September 2014. Inaugural AMES Lecture, Dartmouth College, Hanover, 15 October 2014. Tsai Lecture, Harvard University, 18 October 2014. “The Rise of Progressive Cities in Asia”, Seoul Institute, 4 December 2014. “Network Asia: Futures of Pasts”, Inaugural “Futures” Lecture, Aarhus University, Denmark, 20 October 2014. “The Urban Transition in Disaster Governance – Scaling up from Neighborhood to City and Transborder Region in Asia”, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 5 December 2014. “Is the Concept of Secularism Relevant to China”, InAsia Day, Aarhus University, Denmark, 20 October 2014. Duara, Prasenjit “Network Asia: China and its Asian ‘Routes’”, Transitions in China, Delhi University, 10-11 January 2014. “Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Global Theory”, Intra-Asia Connections Conference, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 22 October 2014. “Network Asia: Futures of the Past”, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, 26 February 2014. Feener, R. Michael “Islamic Art in Asia: Regional Traditions of a World Civilization”, Minzu University of China, Beijing, 4 November 2014. “The Agenda of Asian Studies in the Anthropocene”, New Horizons of Asian Studies, Seoul National University Asia Centre, Seoul, 20-21 March 2014. “Muslim Cultures and Pre-Islamic Pasts: Changing Perceptions of ‘Heritage’”, Islamic Pasts, UCL Qatar, Doha, 10 December 2014. “Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia”, David Deal Memorial Lecture, Whitman College, Washington, 31 March 2014. Kerr, Eric T. “Experimental Philosophy and Ethnoepistemology in the Context of ‘Asia’ and the ‘West’”, Soochow International Forum on Moral Education and Virtue Epistemology, Virtue Ethics and Chinese Philosophy, Soochow University, Taiwan, 15 May 2014. Dharma Drum Lecture, Peking University, Beijing, 28 April 2014. ANNUAL REPORT 2014 87 9.0 ARI RECOGNITION Quah, Sharon “‘The Whole Village Must Help’: Exploring the Effectiveness of Social Support for Singaporean Divorced Parents”, 11th Family Research Forum, Civil Service College, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Singapore, 28 April 2014. Yeoh, Brenda S.A. “Indonesian Domestic Workers and the (Un)Making of Transnational Livelihoods and Provisional Futures” (with M. Platt, C. Y. Khoo, T. Lam & G. Baey), Transnational Migration and Global Work, Geovetenskapens hus, Stockholm University, Sweden, 6-7 March 2014. “Care and Cosmopolitanism in the Global City: Transnational Care Workers and the Eldercare Crisis in Singapore” (with S. Huang), 10th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Tampere, Finland, 1-4 July 2014. “Emotional Entanglements, Transnational Affect and the Shaping of Migration Trajectories among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore” (with M. Platt, C. Y. Khoo, T. Lam & G. Baey), The Emotions of Migration Workshop, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 8-9 August 2014. “Migration and the Politics of Diversity in Postcolonial Singapore”, The Second Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts – Space in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: Language, Literature and the Construction of Place and Diaspora, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 3-7 September 2014. “Singapore as an Island-nation-city-state: Polarizing Debates and Productive Futures” (with T. Lam & H. Chen), Conference on Island Cities and Urban Archipelagos 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-25 October 2014. “The Global City of Encounters”, Migrant Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Multidisciplinary Conference, Castle Lecture Theatre Complex, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 24-26 November 2014. 88 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES ANNUAL REPORT 2014 89 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES Graduate and Other Teaching at NUS In 2014 ARI researchers, mostly those on joint appointment with their respective faculties in NUS, contributed to the University in the following teaching and supervisory roles: Chua Beng Huat: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught SC4101 Reflections on a Sociological Education. Supervised 5 PhD students, Cultural Studies in Asia Programme (Sociology), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Clancey, Gregory: Supervised 1 undergraduate student, GEM3901 Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP), Tembusu College. Coderey, Céline: Tembusu College, taught SSU2000 Biomedicine and Singapore Society (Senior Seminar). Douglass, Mike: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught SC4224 The Sociology of Cities and Development Planning in Asia; SC6770 Graduate Research Seminar (PhD); and SC5770 Graduate Research Seminar (Master). Tembusu College, taught GEM2909 Asia Now! The Archaeology of the Future City. Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, taught PP5153 Urban Policy and Planning. Duara, Prasenjit: Supervised 1 MA student, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and 1 PhD student, Comparative Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Feener, R. Michael: Supervised 2 MA students, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Graham, Connor: Tembusu College, taught SSU2004/ GEM2905 Singapore a “Model” City?; GEM1902F Leadership: Technology, Configuration, Work; and GEM1902S Living and Dying in the Internet Age. 90 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 Huang Jianli: Supervised 1 honours, 1 MA, 3 PhD students, Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Member of thesis committee for 2 PhD students, Department of History, and 1 PhD student, Department of Chinese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Jung, Sun: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences / 2014 Summer School FASSTrack, taught SC2880B (FASSTrack) Korean Pop Culture: Postmodernism and the Transnational. Kerr, Eric: Tembusu College, taught GEM2908: Technology and the Fate of Knowledge. Tan Ai Hua, Margaret: Tembusu College, co-taught SSU2004/ GEM2905 Singapore a “Model” City?; GEM1902P Murals: Expressions from/on the Walls; co-coordinated SSU2006/ GEM2909 Asia Now! The Archaeology of the Future City. Vaughan, Tyson: Tembusu College, taught GEM1902U Disasters. Yeoh S.A., Brenda: Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught GE3237 Geographies of Migration. Supervised 1 MA and 2 PhD students, Department of Geography; and 1 PhD student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Yeung Wei-Jun, Jean: Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, taught SC3222 Social Transformation in Modern China; and SC 6213 Families in Transition. Supervised 3 PhD students, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Member of thesis committee for 1 PhD student, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 Asian Graduate Forum 9th Asian Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies 25-27 Jun 2014, NUS Bukit Timah Campus Convenors: Dr Michelle Miller (Chair) Dr Nausheen Anwar Dr Philip Fountain Dr Kumiko Kawashima Dr Maria Platt Assoc Prof Titima Suthiwan Dr Shawna Tang Dr Zhang Juan ARI’s annual Summer Institute and Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies has now become an institution. Increasing numbers of postgraduate students from around the world, and particularly from other parts of Asia, are applying to attend this week-long programme of activities. The threeday event focuses on the presentation of papers by graduate students from across the region on various aspects of Southeast Asian studies. This gives graduate students an opportunity to present their work, often for the first time in an international forum and also to communicate and interact, as they mature into the next generation of academic leaders. The Graduate Forum is linked with the Asian Graduate Student Fellowship Programme, which brings 25 graduate students working on Southeast Asia to Singapore each year for a sixweek period of research, mentoring and participation in an academic writing workshop. Those presenting papers at the Graduate Forum include ARI’s Asian Graduate Students, as well as graduate students from Singapore, elsewhere in Asia and other parts of the world. The unifying factor is that their research is on Southeast Asia. A total of 50 papers were presented at this year’s forum in parallel sessions over the three days. The diversity of themes can be seen from the headings of the 17 different panels. Examples include: Disaster Governance, Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities, Archeological Artifacts and Historical Texts, Education, Religious Minorities and Migration and Diasporas. As usual, there were times when some of the audience wished they could be in two places at once, but parallel sessions are the only way to accommodate so many papers within the time constraints. Three keynote speakers lent depth and interest to the programme. Prof Jonathan Rigg from the Department of Geography, NUS, spoke on "Building the Neo-Liberal Asian Family: Dislocated Families, Fragmented Living, and Fractured Societies?"; Dr Chee Heng Leng of the Women’s Development Research Centre (KANITA), Universiti Sains Malaysia, spoke on “Medical Travel/ ‘Medical Tourism’: A Transnational Social Space”, and Prof Vineeta Sinha from the Department of Sociology, NUS, spoke on “The Worlds of ‘Religion’ and ‘Commerce’: Kindred Spirits or Estranged Bedfellows?.” ANNUAL REPORT 2014 91 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 Asian Graduate Student Fellowships The Asian Graduate Student Fellowships are offered to graduate students from Asian countries working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Asian topics, and allows the recipients to be based at NUS for a period of one and a half months. The aim of the fellowships is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and to provide them with guidance from mentors. They have access to writing classes, as well as other “academic bootcamp” activities, such as how to make academic presentations and write proposals. The graduate students take up their appointments from May to July each year. As part of their programme at ARI, Asian Graduate Students are also given an opportunity to present a synopsis of their research at ARI’s annual Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies and to describe how their stay at NUS has contributed to their intellectual development. This enables the students to receive feedback and additional resources from the academic community here during their time at ARI. 5-YEAR STATISTICS FOR THE ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 2014 2013 2012 Applications Received Shortlisted Bangladesh 1 1 Cambodia 3 1 China 5 1 East Timor 2 1 India 12 1 3 1 2 Indonesia 34 4 33 11 59 Country Applications Received 7 Shortlisted 1 Applications Received 2011 Shortlisted 2010 Applications Received Shortlisted Applications Received 2 1 2 Shortlisted 1 1 2 2 6 1 5 2 5 5 6 1 4 1 35 9 40 7 4 4 3 2 2 18 5 2 2 11 5 11 Iran 1 Japan 1 1 1 Korea 2 1 1 Laos 1 1 2 2 14 5 Malaysia 4 2 3 Myanmar 2 2 2 2 1 Nepal 2 Pakistan 12 Philippines 12 7 9 8 9 Sri Lanka 3 3 6 8 4 Taiwan Thailand 1 Uzbekistan 1 1 9 5 10 6 11 9 Vietnam 16 4 10 4 11 4 10 3 6 3 Total 110 25 80 35 115 33 88 35 94 33 92 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 ASIAN GRADUATE STUDENTS 2014 Name Institution Research Topic 1 Chanthy Sam PhD Candidate, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Practitioners’ Perspective and Practices of Environmental and Social Valuations in Environmental Impact Assessment in Cambodia 2 Elsa Joaquina Araujo Pinto MA Candidate, Peace Studies, National University of Timor-Lorosa’e, Timor-Leste The Women in Cooperative Setting: A Case Study in Timor-Leste 3 Fatima Gay J. Molina MA Candidate, Anthropology Programme, University of the Philippines – Diliman Panguiguilon: The Dynamics of Milkfish Production in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation 4 Fidy Ramzielah Famiersyah MA Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Airlangga University, Indonesia Modernising “Warkop”: A Symbolic Capital of Middle-Lower Class in Surabaya Public Space 5 Geraldine P. Eligan MA Candidate, Education, Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan, Philippines Expressions of Affirmation in English from a Southeast Asian Perspective 6 Hannah Lim Go MA Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies, Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines Ghost of Chinese Past: ‘Chineseness’ amongst the Huayi in Southeast Asia 7 Haokam Vaiphei PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India Democratic Transition in Myanmar: An Analysis 8 Khamindra Phorn PhD Candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Formation, Expansion, and Evolution of the Shan Buddhist Sangha of Theravada Buddhism in Burma 9 Khun Moe Htun MA Candidate, Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University, Thailand The Political Economy and Discourse of Opium, and Livelihood Strategy of Farmers in Pa-Oh Region, Southern Shan State, Myanmar 10 Lai Siow Li PhD Candidate, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya Fertility Trends and Differentials in Three ASEAN countries 11 Lamea Momen MA Candidate, Japanese Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh Self-inquiry for Self-development: A Participatory Action Research (PAR) Analysis of Rohingya Refugees’ Involvement in Early Childhood Learning in Refugee Camps 12 Lutfiyah Alindah PhD Candidate, Islamic Studies, Graduate School, Islamic State University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia Translating Text and Context: Cultural Negotiation in the Manuscript of Mas ’il Sayyidi ‘Abdull h Bin Sal m li-Nab in Arabic, Malay and Javanese 13 Maiza Elvira MA Candidate, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Andalas, Indonesia The Comparative Study of the Netherlands’ Colonial Methods and British Colonial Methods to Control the Epidemics in East Indies 14 Maria Natividad I. Karaan MA Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of English, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines Mythical Relations: Re-coordinating Philippine Mythology in SEA ANNUAL REPORT 2014 93 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES Name Institution Research Topic 15 Maria Angelica Viceral MA Candidate, Department of Art Studies, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines–Diliman The Aesthetics of a Therapeutic Site: The Philippine Heart Center Hospital 16 Nguyen Phuc Anh PhD Candidate, Sino-Nom Studies, Graduate Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences HÙNG KING Myths and Ideological Struggle to Establish Vietnamese Identity 17 Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet MA Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University The American Silver Flow via Manila to China and its Impact on the Chinese SocioEconomy, Late 16th to Early 18th Centuries 18 Pham Thi Mui MA Candidate, Anthropology, Department of History, Faculty of Anthropology, Vietnam National University Vietnamese Seasonal Migrants in Luang Prabang Province (Laos) 19 Pim-on Kaewdang PhD Candidate, Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism (International Programme), Silpakorn University, Thailand Developing a Programme of Interpretation in The Portuguese, The Dutch and The Japanese Ancient Settlements at Ayutthaya 20 Qin Wenjun MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University Gambling amidst Turmoils: Casino along the China-Burma Border 21 Rey Runtgen Martin L Del Rosario PhD Candidate, Development Studies, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines Impact of Migration Policy in Singapore on the Economic and Social Welfare of Filipino Domestic Workers 22 Suwarto PhD Candidate, Theological Faculty, Duta Wacana Christian University, Indonesia Religious Entrepreneurship among Javanese Christian Churches (A Case Study of the Practice of Economic Transformation) 23 Tan Swee Mee PhD Candidate, Department of Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Thematic Choice in Selected Short Stories from Malaysian Women Writers: Woman Identity from a Systemic Functional Perspective 24 Timothy F. Ong MA Candidate, Literary and Cultural Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, Phillipines Geographical Features of Southeast Asia alongside the Coordinates of Tropicality and Modernity 25 Vu Thi Xuyen MA Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University The “Ngu n” and the Commodities in Cochinchina in the Regional Context From the 16th Century to the 18th Century 94 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 10.0 Research Scholarships ARI Internship Programme A number of NUS PhD scholarships have been allotted to ARI, although administration, coursework and assessment of graduate students remain with the relevant departments. In 2014, 8 students graduated, bringing the total number of graduates on ARI’s PhD scholarships programme to 19 since the start of the programme. 6 students remain on ARI’s scholarships and are supervised through the different departments. ARI has been receiving undergraduates and postgraduates from local and overseas tertiary institutions under the ARI Internship Programme since 2006. The objectives of the programme are to create opportunities for students to be exposed to an academic research environment, to observe the workings of a research institute, and to participate more fully in one particular designated area at the Institute. The intern gains work experience in a research environment, and is introduced to professional research practice and administration. Interns may join the research work of a cluster, and/or assist the administrative team in providing support functions. Graduated in 2014 Hannah Keren Griffiths PhD (Architecture) Kim Ji Youn PhD (Sociology) Claire Lee Seung Eun PhD (Sociology) Stefani Haning Swarati Nugroho PhD (Sociology) Fiona-Katherina Seiger PhD (Sociology) Yenny Rahmayati PhD (Architecture) Tabassum Zaman PhD (Cultural Studies in Asia) Fan Xue PhD (Chinese Studies) On-Going Bubbles Beverly Asor Department of Sociology Angeline Eloisa Javate Dios Department of Geography Danicar Mariano Department of Geography Over the years, ARI has provided internship opportunities to students from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong, University of British Columbia, Canada, University of California-Berkeley, USA, Tsinghua University, China, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and others. In total, ARI provided internship opportunities to the following 5 interns in 2014. Meherin Anjum Kabir University of British Columbia From 4 Feb to 25 Apr 2014 Jessica Ng Tsz In City University of Hong Kong From 9 Jun to 15 Aug 2014 Ingrid Cheung Yin Nung The Chinese University of Hong Kong From 16 Jun to 8 Aug 2014 Christy Chong Wing Yee The Chinese University of Hong Kong From 16 Jun to 8 Aug 2014 Daniel Ng Kwan Wai The Chinese University of Hong Kong From 16 Jun to 8 Aug 2014 Shelley Mae Jalandoon Sibya Department of Sociology Robert David Williamson Office of Programmes June Yap Office of Programmes ANNUAL REPORT 2014 95 10.0 SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDIES 11.0 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 96 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EXTERNAL RELATIONS 11.0 MOU/External Funding Received Organisation/ Foundation Date of Agreement/ Award 1. John Templeton Foundation March 2014 The Singapore Religion and Spirituality Project GBP13,743 2. John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust April 2014 Brain to Brain Synchonisation in Collective Awareness USD6,000 3. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity May 2014 Workshop on Encountering Urban Diversity in Southeast Asia: Class and Other Intersections EUR5,000 4. Mr Muhammad Alagil May 2014 Muhamammad Alagil Distinguished Professorship in Arabia Asia Studies USD120,000 5. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS May 2014 Workshop on Youthful Futures? Aspirations, Education and Employment in Asia SGD2,031.50 6. Harvard-Yenching Institute May 2014 Workshop on Changing Role of State in Asia II: Comparative Perspective SGD28,280 7. Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, Office of Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS May 2014 Workshop on Changing Role of State in Asia II: Comparative Perspective SGD15,720 8. National Library Board (NLB), Singapore May – November 2014 Asia Trends 2014 Sponsorship of lecture venues 9. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, NUS July 2014 Conference on Growing Up in One-Parent Family in Asia SGD3,790 10. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada July 2014 Workshop on Futures of Migrant Care Labour: Gender Geographies of Aspiration and Servitude Sponsorship of airfare & accommodation costs for speakers, research assistance, meals, and refreshments 11. La Trobe University August 2014 Conference on Globalising History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects AUD10,000 12. Situating Science Cluster August 2014 Conference on Globalising History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects CAD10,000 Amount/ Sponsorship Project Title/ Description ANNUAL REPORT 2014 97 11.0 EXTERNAL RELATIONS Organisation/ Foundation Date Of Agreement/ Award Project Title/ Description Amount/ Sponsorship 13. Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, Office of Deputy President (Research and Technology), NUS August 2014 Conference on Globalising History and Philosophy of Science: Problems and Prospects SGD2,374 14. National Library Board (NLB), Singapore October 2014 ARI-MBRAS Lecture - The Raffles Paradox: Liberal, Autocrat, or Something Else? Sponsorship of lecture venue 15. Ministry of Education October 2014 Asia Trends – Symposium on Migration and Construction Work in Asia SGD709,410 16. *SCAPE November 2014 Migration and Precarious Work: Negotiating Debt, Employment and Livelihood Strategies amongst Bangladeshi Migrant Men Working in Singapore’s Construction Industry, Phase 2 Sponsorship of lecture venue 17. DFID, UK (through University of Sussex) November 2014 Workshop on Youthful Futures? Aspirations, Education and Employment in Asia GBP1,794 18. Young NTUC November 2014 The CityPossible Film Festival III Sponsorship of film screening venue 19. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation December 2014 Adaptation: What the US Can Learn from International Models SGD12,176.35 98 ANNUAL REPORT 2014 EXTERNAL RELATIONS International Visits By Director, Prof Prasenjit Duara 26 February – 4 March 2014 Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 20 – 22 March 2014 Seoul National University Asia Center 25 March – 5 April 2014 Duke University, USA Association For Asian Studies Annual Conference, USA Whitman College, Washington, USA University of California-Irvine, USA 24 April – 5 May 2014 China Agricultural University Minzu University of China Peking University, China Hong Kong Baptist University School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, China 19 – 24 May 2014 Stanford University, USA University of California-Santa Cruz, USA 4 – 6 August 2014 Portland State University, USA University of Oregon, Portland, USA 6 – 8 September 2014 Global Economic Symposium (GES), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 22 – 29 September 2014 Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland 8 – 25 October 2014 Colgate University, USA Dartsmouth College, USA Harvard University Asia Center, USA Aarhus University, Denmark University of Copenhagen, Denmark 7 – 9 November 2014 University of Hong Kong 11.0 Visitors 16 January 2014 Prof Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm University, Sweden 28 January 2014 Prof Michael Yahuda, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics, & Visiting Scholar, George Washington University, USA 8 April 2014 Dr Abraham Lotha, Principal, St. Joseph's College, Jakhama, Nagaland, India 22 April 2014 Prof Rick Halpern, Dean and Vice-Principal (Academic), University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada 2 June 2014 Prof Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Comparative Assoc Prof Peter Pang, Assistant Vice-President (University & Global Relations), Department of Mathematics, NUS 8 July 2014 Dr Cynthia Joseph, Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia 15 July 2014 Ms Qin Higley, Acquisitions Editor, Asian Studies, Brill 16 July 2014 Assoc Prof Alexander Horstmann Department of Cross-Cultural Studies University of Copenhagen, Denmark Ms Helena Kolenda, Programme Director for Asia, Henry Luce Foundation 17 July 2014 Dr Ted Bestor, Harvard University, USA Mr Haruhisa Takeuchi, Ambassador of Japan to Singapore 30 September 2014 Prof Hans van de Ven, Department of East Asian Studies, Cambridge University, UK 14 – 16 November 2014 7th All-India Conference of China Studies (AICCS) 2 October 2014 Prof Le Hong Ly, Director, Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences 10 – 22 December 2014 China in the Global Academic Landscapes, Hanover, Germany Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, India Tezpur University Assam, India 28 October 2014 Dr Ralph Weber, Senior Researcher and Lecturer, University of Zurich, Switzerland, & Lecturer in the History of Political Ideas and in Political Theory, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland ANNUAL REPORT 2014 99 Editorial Team and Production Team Huang Jianli Saharah Abubakar Sharlene Anthony Sharon Ong With the Assistance of Tharuka Prematillake Wajihah Hamid Valerie Yeo Kalaichelvi Sitharthan Noorhayati Hamsan Theodora Lam Henry Kwan Vernice Tan Priya Latha Asia Research Institute NUS Bukit Timah Campus 469A Bukit Timah Road Tower Block #10-01 Singapore 259770 T | +65 6516 3810 F | +65 6779 1428 www.ari.nus.edu.sg