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Publikationsreihe Southeast Asian Modernities

Schriftenreihe im LIT-Verlag Herausgeber: Christoph Antweiler, Claudia Derichs, Rüdiger Korff, Frauke Kraas, Jürgen Rüland, Judith Schlehe, Susanne Schröter

Südostasien zählt mit gut 570 Mio. Einwohnern, enormer naturräumlicher, ethnisch-kultureller und politischer Vielfalt sowie rasantem Wirtschaftswachstum zu den besonders interessanten und weltpolitisch relevanten Großregionen. Dennoch ist Südostasien im deutschen Sprachraum wenig präsent. Besonders spärlich sind wissenschaftliche Buchveröffentlichungen. Die Buchreihe „Southeast Asian Modernities“ sucht dem entgegen zu wirken. Sie wird von führenden deutschen Südostasien-WissenschaftlerInnen herausgegeben und veröffentlicht doppelt begutachtete Arbeiten mit einem breiten Themenspektrum und zugleich besonderem Aktualitätsbezug. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den unterschiedlichen Modernitäten, die in der Region entstehen. Viele der Publikationen sind wegweisend im deutschen Sprachraum, andere sind in englischer Sprache abgefasst.

 

 

Boike Rehbein, Jürgen Rüland, Judith Schlehe (Hg.)
Identitätspolitik und Interkulturalität in Asien
Ein multidisziplinäres Mosaik
Bd. 1, 2006, 272 S., ISBN 3-8258-9033-3 Pick It!

SOAM01.jpgGlobalisierung scheint zugleich ein Zusammenwachsen der Welt und eine aktive wie passive Differenzierung zu bedeuten. Neben Interkulturalität treten Versuche ihrer Kontrolle und der Abgrenzung. Beide Tendenzen haben in Asien eine lange Geschichte. VertreterInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen beleuchten das Thema aus der Perspektive ihres Faches und stellen es in einen historischen Zusammenhang. Die Beiträge beruhen auf einer Ringvorlesung des Asienschwerpunkts der Universität Freiburg. Wie die Vorlesung selbst wenden sie sich nicht nur an die Fachwelt, sondern auch an die interessierte Öffentlichkeit. Sie sind leicht lesbar und allgemein verständlich, vermitteln aber zugleich den aktuellen Stand der Forschung.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Dominique Schirmer, Gernot Saalmann, Christl Kessler (Eds.)
Hybridising East and West.
Tales beyond Westernisation. Empirical Contributions to the Debates on Hybridity.
Bd. 2, 2006, 344 S., ISBN 3-8258-0155-1 Pick It!

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Up to now, debates on hybridisation are rather theoretical. The authors of the  volume take an empirical look at both everyday cultures and lifestyles, religion,  medicine and scientific cultures and the directions of influences. The findings  suggest that hybridity and hybridising have to be conceptualised as  processes  of mixture relevant for constructing identities, being increasingly  positively denoted and displaying the multidirectionality and  multidimensionality of hybridising processes. In our globalised world such a  mixture is very frequent, highly present and rather inescapable.

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

Aurel Croissant, Beate Martin (Eds.)
Between Consolidation and Crisis
Elections and Democracy in Five Nations in Southeast Asia
Bd. 3, 2006, 392 S., ISBN 3-8258-8859-2 Pick It!

SOAM03.jpgBetween Consolidation and Crisis focuses on five countries in Southeast Asia to examine how their elections have been conducted in the past two years, their domestic implications, and how the elections have differed from one another and from elections in other parts of Asia. Case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand provide an overall understanding of the impact of elections on the consolidation or crisis of new democratic and semi-democratic polities in the region of Southeast Asia.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aurel Croissant, Beate Martin, Sascha Kneip (Eds.)
The Politics of Death
Political Violence in Southeast Asia
Bd. 4, 2006, 384 S., br., ISBN 3-8258-8860-6 Pick It!

SOAM04.jpgThis volume analyzes four aspects of political violence in Southeast Asia: elections and violence; intra-ethnic conflict; communist insurgency; terrorism and religious extremism and lethal crime and politics. Together, the ten case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand challenge the idea that democratic governance will bring an end to internal violent conflict. As some examples in the region suggest, semi-democratic polities in Southeast Asia even may be more successful in reducing levels of internal violence, compared to new democracies in their neighbourhood and other types of political regime they have tried in the past.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maren Tomforde
The Hmong Mountains
Cultural Spatiality of the Hmong in Northern Thailand
Bd. 5, 2006, 504 S., ISBN 3-8258-9313-8

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The concept of cultural spatiality includes all aspects of human agency, experiences and outside influences. As such, it encompasses socio-culturally enacted localities, whether these are real, imagined or only potential spheres of social, economic, religious, symbolic, or political action. As in the case of the Hmong in northern Thailand, people can be anchored via processes of place making in local settlements, in a diaspora spread over five continents or in the "Otherworld" of the supernatural agents. The concept of the Hmong Mountains signifies the "place" the Hmong people have constituted to maintain their socio-cultural distinctiveness despite statelessness. It is a mental model of the Hmong lifeworld which has evolved during the course of a long history of migration, dispersal and settlement in Thailand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Timo Menniken
Konflikt und Kooperation am Mekong
Internationale Politik an grenzüberschreitenden Wasserläufen
Bd. 6, 2006, 200 S., ISBN 3-8258-9727-3

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Die erstmals in den 1970er Jahren prognostizierte globale Wasserkrise bricht sich seit einiger Zeit in regionaler Verknappung Bahn. Der Topos des Wasserkrieges beherrscht öffentliche Debatte und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Dieses Szenario ist vermeidbar, wenn politische Regulierungsmechanismen etabliert werden, die eine sinnvollere und gerechtere Verteilung der verfügbaren Wasserressourcen organisieren. Am Beispiel des Mekongbeckens will die vorliegende Studie zeigen, wie regionale Flussgebietsübereinkommen jene Lücke füllen können, die die unzureichende globale Regulierung hinterlässt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frauke Kraas, Hartmut Gaese, Mi Mi Kyi (Eds.):
Megacity Yangon
Transformation Processes and Modern Developments
Bd. 7, 2006, 350 S., ISBN 3-8258-0042-3

SOAM07.jpgMegacities are new urban phenomena, results of globalisation and subject to as well as motors of global ecological, socio-economic, and political change. New are the dimensions of growth, concentrations of population, infrastructure, economic power and decisions - and the simultaneous, self-energising acceleration processes of development. But one must be wary of generalised statements since differences of economic performance, social coherence, infrastructure conditions and governance structures should not be ignored: The publication aims at analysing current transformation processes of Yangon/Myanmar, as spearhead of national development, bridge to Southeast Asia and the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Andrea Fleschenberg (Eds.):
Goddesses, Heroes, Sacrifices
Female Political Power in Asia
Bd. 8, 2008, 286 S., ISBN 978-3-8258-0540-1

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Women at the head of states and governments have become a regular phenomenon in South and Southeast Asia in the last decades, even though patriarchal structures have endured. A dynastic principle is seen to be at work where women are frequently preferred over available male successors. The publication discusses the relationship of the state and secularism, the significance of religion in society, the concept of the goddess, the perception and interpretation of martyrdom and sacrifice, and the question of moral capital as background for the emergence of women political leaders and their career paths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judith Schlehe, Boike Rehbein (Hg.):
Religion und die Modernität von Traditionen in Asien
Neukonfigurationen von Götter-, Geister- und Menschenwelten
Bd. 9, 2008, 262 S., ISBN 978-3-8258-0656-9

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Zum Verständnis der Welt sind Einsichten in die Wirkmächtigkeit und Dynamik religiöser Weltdeutungen unverzichtbar. Die diversen asiatischen Religionen verbinden sich auf vielfältige Weisen mit veränderten Lebensumständen, wobei Modernisierungs- und Traditionalisierungsprozesse gleichermaßen wichtige Rollen spielen. Die Beiträge des Bandes betrachten diese Prozesse aus der Sicht verschiedener Disziplinen. Dabei geht es nicht nur um die institutionalisierten Weltreligionen, sondern auch um lokale Weltbilder und indigene Glaubenssysteme ebenso wie um neue religiöse und charismatische Bewegungen in Asien.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Günter Burkard, Michael Fremerey (Eds.):
A Matter of Mutual Survival
Social Organization of Forest Management in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Bd. 10, 2008, 464 S., ISBN 978-3-8258-1468-7

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This volume contains a collection of articles based on empirical social science research in forest margin communities around the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It refers to a worldwide and particularly topical issue, i.e. the declining forest resources and man's role in the observed processes of nature degradation. However, it refrains from rather simplistic protectionist approaches which boil down to a separation between man and nature in order to avoid the depletion of natural resources. Instead, the approach adopted regards the existence or development of co-evolutionary potentials, both in nature and human society, as a precondition for the establishment of a sustainable equilibrium in the interaction between man and nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANKÜNDIGUNG

Frauke Kraas, Lee Boon-Thong, Sekson Yongvanit, Christine Knie (Eds.):
Urban Driving Forces in Southeast Asia
A New Perspective of Contemporary Changes in Urban Development
Bd. 11, 352 S., ISBN 978-3-8258-1621-6

 

 

Susanne Schröter (Ed.):
Christianity in Indonesia
Perspectives of Power
Bd. 12, 2011, 424 S., ISBN 978-3-643-10798-5

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Indonesia is a multicultural and multireligious nation whose heterogeneity is codified in the state doctrine, the Pancasila. Yet the relations between the various social, ethnic, and religious groups have been problematic down to the present day. In several respects, Christians have a precarious role in the struggle for shaping the nation. In the aftermath of the former president Suharto's resignation and in the course of the ensuing political changes Christians have been involved both as victims and perpetrators in violent regional clashes with Muslims that claimed thousands of lives. Since the beginning of the new millennium the violent conflicts have lessened, yet the pressure exerted on Christians by Islamic fundamentalists still continues undiminished in the Muslim-majority regions. The future of the Christians in Indonesia remains uncertain, and pluralist society is still on trial. For this reason the situation of Christians in Indonesia is an important issue that goes far beyond research on a minority, touching on general issues relating to the formation of the nation-state.

 

 

 

 

 

Sandra Kurfürst:
Redefining public space in Hanoi Places, practices and meaning
Bd. 13, 2012, 184 S., ISBN 978-3-643-90271-9

SOAM13.jpgHanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is known for its bustling street life. Public spaces, such as streets and sidewalks, are appropriated by citizens mostly for small-scale economic activities. Green parks are privatised in order to cater to the growing demand for leisure space. At the same time, official spaces like Ba Dinh Square or Ly Thai To Square are occupied by Hanoi's residents for sports and gatherings. The book takes a close look at the practices and meaning of public spaces and the development of public spheres in Hanoi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bettina Volk-Kopplin:
"... und darum ist sie so qualvoll gestorben."
Tradition und indigene Moderne bei den Diang des ostindonesischen Alor-Archipels am Beispiel ihres Umgangs mit dem Tod
Bd. 14, 2013, 248 S., ISBN 978-3-643-11881-3

SOAM14.jpgDie Kulturen der ostindonesischen Insel Pantar fanden bisher nur wenig Beachtung in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften. In dieser ersten Ethnographie der Diang Pantars zeichnet die Autorin nicht nur die heutige Kultur der Diang, sondern auch ihren kulturellen Wandel nach. Die auch für andere Ethnien Ostindonesiens überaus wichtigen Totenrituale und die ihnen zu Grunde liegenden Konzepte durchziehen und beeinflussen bei den Diang alle Bereiche ihrer Kultur. In ihnen zeigt sich, wie es den Diang gelungen ist, ihre Kultur durch die Bewahrung des Eigenen und Aneignung von Fremdem lebendig zu erhalten.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frauke Kraas, Win Maung (Eds.):
Sustainability in Myanmar
Bd. 15, ISBN 978-3-643-90536-9

SOAM15.jpgThe volume presents recent contributions on the research on sustainable transformation in Myanmar. It analyses selected key issues of ecological, economic and social sustainability: 23 articles from Myanmar and German authors are based on case studies in several parts of Myanmar. They range from studies on climatological, ecological and medicinal issues to agriculture, forestry and biotechnology and include socio-economic, urban and cultural topics. The articles are based on a conference series in Yangon/Myanmar in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

 

 

 






Anna Fünfgeld:
Staatlichkeit als lokale Praxis
Kohleabbau und Widerstand in Indonesien
Bd. 16, 176 S., ISBN 978-3-643-13035-8

SOAM16.jpgIndonesien ist Schauplatz zahlreicher Konflikte um den Abbau von natürlichen Ressourcen. In Ost-Kalimantan führt insbesondere der Kohletagebau seit einigen Jahren zu weitreichenden sozialen und ökologischen Veränderungen, was Proteste von Teilen der lokalen Bevölkerung nach sich gezogen hat.

In der vorliegenden Publikation wird am Beispiel des Großraums Samarinda aufgezeigt, wie im Kontext dieses Ressourcenkonflikts neben der Verteilung und dem Zugang zu natürlichen Ressourcen auch Dimensionen von Staatlichkeit auf der lokalen Ebene durch die Praktiken der verschiedenen AkteurInnen implizit mitverhandelt werden.

 


 

 



Asfa Widiyanto:
Religious Authority and the Prospects for Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
The Role of Traditionalist Muslim Scholars
Bd. 17, 160 S., ISBN 978-3-643-90650-2

SOAM17.jpgThis book deals with the role and authority of such traditionalist Muslim scholars as A. Mustofa Bisri and Emha Ainun Nadjib in seeding religious pluralism in Indonesia. It shows that it is not necessary to base religious pluralism on "liberal" or "modernist" stances but rather on "traditionalist" attitudes. Religious pluralism can be smoothly connected to "traditionalism", so that this may preserve greater credibility in the population. Traditionalist scholars may play a considerable role in promoting religious pluralism in the society, in general, and among anti-pluralist groups, in particular. The account of the role and authority of these traditionalist scholars is significant in revealing the prospects for religious pluralism in the country.

 

 

 



Angelica Laura Lucia Wehrli:
Vanishing Rice Fields
The Quest for Wealth and Belief in (Post-)Socialist Vietnam
Bd. 18, 226 S., ISBN 978-3-643-80368-9

SOAM18.jpgThe book delineates how the quest for wealth and belief manifests itself in contemporary Vietnam. Based on multi-local and longitudinal ethnographic research, the author examines how wealth is pursued by household members and entrepreneurs. The quest for belief is brought into relief through inquiry into how norms and values have been re-evaluated, altered, subverted or restored. Focusing on the taboo topic of female feticide, The study elucidates why some parents ultimately decide to commit feticide, and why others, especially entrepreneurs, refrain from it. The case of the entrepreneurs shows a possible way out of the "vicious circle" that leads to female feticide and perpetuates gender inequality.