Encountering Asian new horizon contesting and negotiating in fluid transitions : the work of the 2012-2013 API fellows

The 20 papers that comprise this volume cover key areas such as gender and unique differences; cultural identity and shifting boundaries; local existance in global transitions; policy making for social justice; and natural disasters.

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Other Authors: Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals, Chulalongkorn University. Institute of Asian Studies. API Regional Coordinating Institution
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bangkok, Thailand Nippon Foundation API Regional Coordinating Institution, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Engendering Lives: Being Women Do Make Unique Differences
  • Gender Challenge: The Economic Resilence of a Coastal Community Household
  • From Asahi To Abucay: The Video Archive Project
  • The Dynamics and Elan of Ijtihad to Provide New readings of Islamic Laws and Customary Practices on Womens Human Rights
  • Hidden Faces, Unheard Voices: Women Oil Palm Plantation Workers in the Philippines and Indonesia
  • 2. Strategizing Development: Policymaking, Its Impact, and Challenges for Social Justice
  • The Political Economy of the Supply Chain: The Dynamics of Industrial Policy and the Supply Chain in East and Southeast Asia
  • Addressing Social Housing and Livelihood Needs in Cambodia: Learning from Thai Experience
  • Politics Above Law? The Tension between Democracy and Social Justice
  • Investigating the Problem of Land Grabbing by an Oil Palm Plantation in Aceh: Its Impact on the Local Ecosystem and Community Rights
  • 3. Constesting the Global: How the Local Fights for Its Existence in a Fluid Transition
  • "Communities-of-Pratice": Creative Resources, Collaborations and Processes in Community-Based Revitalization Projects in Japan
  • Cultural Landscape Urban Design: Preserving Local Identity in the Global Environment Case Studies of Japanese and Malaysian Cities
  • Research for the Educative Use of Cultural Heritage and the Development of Human Resources - Through Practice in the Phrae Community, Thailand
  • Legal Pluralism in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand: Preserving Local Wisdom, Community Rights and the Eco-Cultural System
  • Ecotourism in the National Parks of Southern Thailand
  • 4. Negotiating Cultural Identity: Looking for New Horizons in Shifting Boundaries
  • Practice and Documentation of Collaborative Composition in Southeast Asia: A response to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
  • Two Families: A Comparative Study on the Influences of Saints and Their Teachings on Faith in Malaysia and Indonesia Saintliness, Wahabbism, History and Identity
  • Children of the Pearl, Children of the Sun: An Outrospective Look on Japanese-Filipino Families, Filipino-Japanese Individuals and Their Trajectories
  • Cham Muslims in Malaysia and Thailand: Then and Now
  • 5. Encountering the Inevitable: Natural Disasters and Their Aftermath
  • Japanese Nuclear Energy after March 11, 2011 Journey to the Unknown: Encountering the Evitable under the Name of the Inevitable
  • A Study of Academic Scientists' Roles and Works in Managing Problems Associated with a Natural Disaster and Related Industrial Hazards: A View From a Non-Governmental Organization's Perspective