JSPS Asian Core Program Final Workshop
Asian Connections: Southeast Asian Model for
Co-Existence in the 21st Century
Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University“Southeast Asian Studies for Sustainable Humanosphere”

10-11 February 2014
Inamori Memorial Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University(Access: http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_en.html)

PROGRAMFEBRUARY 10, MONDAY
13:45- Registration
14:00-14:10 WELCOME REMARKS
Hiromu Shimizu

Director, CSEAS Kyoto University

14:10-14:25 SUMMARY OF THE PROGRAM
Yoko Hayami

Program Coordinator, CSEAS Kyoto University

COFFEE BREAK

PROJECT 5Resource management in Southeast Asia
14:40-17:30
SESSION 1 Ecological interface
Convened by Osamu Kozan

Osamu Kozan （CSEAS Kyoto University）
Introduction

Wang Jie (University of Yamanashi)
Development of well-balanced urban water use system adapted to climatechange in Vietnam

Andi Amri (Hassanudin University, Indonesia)
Silvo-Fishery Systems and Natural Resource Management in Coastal Areasof South Sulawesi

Ahmad Muhanmad (Riau University, Indonesia)
Transition of Tropical Peat Land Ecosystem Induced by Land UseConversion
Discussion
18:00-20:00

DINNERFEBRUARY 11, TUESDAYPROJECT 6 Interface, Interaction and Negotiation
Convened by Yoko Hayami and Noboru Ishikawa
SESSION 2 Geographical interface
Moderator Wen-chin Chang
9:00-10:20

Kazufumi Nagatsu (Toyo University)
New Maneuver through Old Network: Maritime Folks’ Trading of Sea Turtle,
Groupers and Second-Hand Clothes in an Era of Globalization

Atsushi Ohta (Hiroshima University)
Connection of the regional trade and the riverine trade in West Kalimantan, c.
1820-1850 (tentative)

Kyoko Sakuma(Ph.D. Student, Kyoto University)

The longhouse as trade-hub of indigenous riverine network in the interior
Borneo, the late 19c

Discussant Noboru Ishikawa (CSEAS Kyoto University)

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 3 Marital interface
Moderator Masao Imamura
Chih-Hui Liang (Academia Sinica)
10:40-12:00

Negotiation and rule-following: Adat Nikah in Johol Temuan Society

Wakana Sato (Ph.D. Student, Kyoto University)
Transference of women and Miao's ethnic costumes between the natal andmarital families in Guizhou province, China

Mio Horie(Ph.D. Student, Kyoto University)
Moving soul, Moving person: Marriage and Belonging among Lahu inSouthwest China

Discussant Yoko Hayami (CSEAS Kyoto University)
12:00-13:00

LUNCH

SESSION 4 Religious interface
Moderator Noboru Ishikawa
Takahiro Kojima (CIAS Kyoto University)
13:00-14:20

Tai

Buddhist

PracticesandCross-boundary

Dynamics

ontheChina-Myanmar Border

Tatsuki Kataoka (ASAFAS Kyoto University)
Millenarianism, Ethnicity and the States: Khruba Bunchum Worship among
the Lahu in Thailand and Burma.

Masao Imamura (Harvard University)
The Divine Comedy of the Kachin Frontier: Evangelism and the Making of an
Insurgency Community

Discussant Julius Bautista (National University of Singapore)
COFFEE BREAK
14:40-16:00 SESSION 5 Narrative interface

Moderator Yoko Hayami

Wenchin Chang(Academia Sinica)
Military, Gender, and Trade: The Story of Auntie Duan of the Northern Thai
Borderlands

Yukti Mukdawijitra (Thammasat University)
Practices of Multiculturalism: An Ethno-biography of Cam Trong a Thái
Cultural Politician in Vietnam

Stan BH Tan-Tangbau (Zau Doi) (Ritsumeikan University)
Crowd Auto-Ethnography as After Method: A Theory for Kachin Life Stories

Discussant Caroline Hau (CSEAS Kyoto University)
16:00-17:00 CLOSING DISCUSSION
17:30-19:30 SPECIAL NARRATIVE SESSION:KACHIN LIFE STORIES(with wine and cheese)

Arranged by Stan BH Tan-Tangbau (Zau Doi)
Featuring

Cecilia SY Koh-Maran (Ja Hkawn)
Rev Hkangda Brang Ja
Pastor Nhkum Tang Goon
Pastor Zinghang Gamhtun
Rev Yeepa SamaiWith the U.S. hegemony at a seeming crisis, globalization today is far more
multi-faceted than imagined a decade ago. The region now designated as Southeast
Asia has over the history constructed its own pluralistic culture and society amid thetides of Hindu, Sinitic, Islamic as well as western civilization. Now having left behindthe past marked by colonialism, cold war and internal conflict, the region is in thethroes of debating democracy, neoliberal economy, and coming to terms with thevarious differences, ecological, ethnic, religious etc.
The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of the widening locallyinitiated economic, cultural, social and political networks in the face of urgent issues in
the regions, and how existing regional units and boundaries can be challenged andreconsidered in the process. The weakness of institutional and organizational bases inSoutheast Asia such as the state and legal structure, and the strength of alternativesocial capital have long been pointed out. In this program, we have looked at emergent
issues of the region such as post-crisis economic reorientation, resource andenvironmental governance across the region, the emergence of local powers, migrationand flow in the face of cultural and social reorganization. In doing so we have aimed toreorient existing views of the region as global periphery passively becoming involvedin the globalizing current.
Area studies as it started in the west was very much a politically defined endeavor,
and its viability has long been questioned in the west.

It is time we come up with analternative multi-lateral area studies created from Asia, with awareness of thewidening social networks that transect existing institutional boundaries.
In this final two-day workshop of the five-year program, we will first look back on
how we have tackled the issues through our projects. Then, we will have sessions
arranged by the two current projects.
Project 5 Resource management in Southeast Asia
The project itself has concentrated, primarily from a natural science viewpoint, on thesustainable use and management of water resources, an urgent issue for Southeast Asia,a region which has coexisted with its rich ecological system and resources, now facing
problems of flooding, deforestation, disease and pest as the underside of this richsystem, requiring appropriate management and control. Yet there has not been acomprehensive understanding of control of the ecological system, including both theindigenous systems as well as the modern technology. In this workshop, project 5 willconsider issues related to management of various resources in the region: water, forest,soil, and disaster.
Project 6 Interface, Negotiation and Interaction in Southeast Asia
This project looks at plural coexistence in the region through interface, negotiation andinteraction. It focuses on interface between ecological systems, states, and multiple
groups of people. In the region characterized by diversity, various interfaces criss-crossin mutual articulation. Commodities, technologies, capital, practices and ideas arenegotiated on the interface, and in this process, groups, categories and processes areformulated on both the macro and micro levels from historical processes to theglobalizing present. Looking at interfaces allow insights into another side of mobilityand “flow.” Mobility instigates interaction and negotiation, enabling fluidity of socialgroups and categories. This leads us to a processual and dynamic understanding ofplural coexistence in the region, relativizing existing categories and institutions such as
the state, religious doctrines, ethnic categories, etc. In this final workshop, we will lookat how various facets of interfaces overlap and mutually articulate so that multiple
interfaces become sites for formulation of new social, economic and cultural practices.
There have been a few studies examining how people, ideas, and commodities flow
beyond the borders between different states and systems, emphasizing how porous theborders are. However, people, ideas, and commodities do not flow in a vacuum.
Neither does it mean that they always meet insurmountable barriers or conflicts indifferent states and systems. It rather seems that the flow of people, ideas, andcommodities, involve encounters with interfaces which necessitate, in given social andenvironmental contexts, constant negotiation with each other. Such negotiations lead tointeraction, which affects all the parties involved, often leading to adjustments andadaptations at various levels, such as legal or institutional arrangements, technologicaldevices, social groupings and communalities, ideological discourses, or transient but
concrete on-the-ground practices.
Geographical interfaces:

Pursuing the flow of people and commodities at thegeographical interfaces, and to examine the movements and negotiation that take place
involving resources, commodities, information and people. How that in turnreconstitutes social groups and categories.
Marital interfaces: Marriage is an interface involving negotiation and interaction. It
brings together two groups of people, often of different households, religions, ethnicgroups etc., and entails the movement not only of people but also of resources andgoods. This panel examines the varied flow and negotiation that accompany marriage,and how through the process differences are highlighted or smoothed over.
Religious interfaces:

Examining how religious practices evolve at the interface ofethnic groups, states and institutions, by analyzing religious practices amongminorities in the peripheries of Mainland Southeast Asia, where Theravada Buddhism
has been institutionalized by the state. They thereby question the state-centeredinstitutionalized religion, and seek alternative ways of viewing “religion” in Southeast
Asia.
Narrative interfaces: Narrative constitutes an important part ofunderstanding others,

especially in the ethnographic endeavor, both as methodology and object of analysis.
The subjects of our research themselves create their own interface or opening to theworld through narrative practices. Such practices have the potential of completely
undoing existing categories and identities, or, conversely of fortifying them.
Furthermore, through narratives, we find multiple interfaces between the narrator, thenarrative and the audience. We as researchers must review how we ourselves create aninterface in our encounter with our subjects, involve ourselves in various forms ofrepresentation of/with the subjects, and create categories and identities by doing so.