cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The 1960s in South Korea. Modernisation, Nationalism and the Pursuit of Democratisation
Creators: name: Lee, Eun-Jeung
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In the 1960s, the South Korean authoritarian anti-communist system, which had been established immediately after the liberation of Korea in 1945, was transformed into an anti-communist developmental dictatorship. The student movement for democracy erupted in the spring of 1960 (April 19 Revolution) and brought down the authoritarian Rhee Syngman regime. But Park Chung Hee, a military general and former officer of the Japanese Imperial Army, seized power in a military coup on 16 May 1961. He was later elected to the presidency on an agenda of modernisation in a “nationalist democracy”. In 1965, despite strong student protests, he concluded a Treaty on Basic Relations with the country’s former colonial ruler, Japan, and took Korea to war in Vietnam, in the process setting the stage for a constitutional amendment that foreshadowed the transformation of the “developmental state” into the following decade’s “developmental dictatorship”. The focus of this paper is on the ideological structure of the transitional era in which the revolution for democracy led to the establishment of an anti-communist developmental dictatorship as a result of the combined effect of various conditions of South Korean politics and the international Cold War in the 1960s. Modernisation, anti-communism, nationalism and democracy were its essential ideological elements, and the regime changes of that decade depended on changes in the priorities and interrelations among them.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 3-4 (2021): The Long 1960s in Asia
การพัฒนาเทคนิค LAMP เพื่อตรวจหาเชื้อไวรัส โรค ลัมปี สกิน ในโค
Creators: name: ธีระยุทธ ชาวุฒิ
Publisher: name: คณะเทคโนโลยีการเกษตร มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏมหาสารคาม
Year: 2024
Subjects: โรคลัมปี สกิน
เทคนิคแลมป์
เทคนิคปฏิกิริยาลูกโซ่พอลิเมอเรส
ความจำเพาะ
ความไว

description: วารสารเกษตรพระวรุณ, 21, 2, 43-52
Accessing health services through the back door: a qualitative interview study investigating reasons why people participate in health research in Canada
Creators: name: Townsend, Anne F.
name: Cox, Susan M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Although there is extensive information about why people participate in clinical trials, studies are largely based on quantitative evidence and typically focus on single conditions. Over the last decade investigations into why people volunteer for health research have become increasingly prominent across diverse research settings, offering variable based explanations of participation patterns driven primarily by recruitment concerns. Therapeutic misconception and altruism have emerged as predominant themes in this literature on motivations to participate in health research. This paper contributes to more recent qualitative approaches to understanding how and why people come to participate in various types of health research. We focus on the experience of participating and the meanings research participation has for people within the context of their lives and their health and illness biographies. Methods: This is a qualitative exploratory study informed by grounded theory strategies. Thirty-nine participants recruited in British Columbia and Manitoba, Canada, who had taken part in a diverse range of health research studies participated in semi-structured interviews. Participants described their experiences of health research participation including motivations for volunteering. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using constant comparisons. Coding and data management was supported by Nvivo-7. Results: A predominant theme to emerge was 'participation in health research to access health services.’ Participants described research as ways of accessing: (1) Medications that offered (hope of) relief; (2) better care; (3) technologies for monitoring health or illness. Participants perceived standard medical care to be a “trial and error” process akin to research, which further blurred the boundaries between research and treatment. Conclusions: Our findings have implications for recruitment, informed consent, and the dichotomizing of medical/health procedures as either research or treatment. Those with low health status may be more vulnerable to potential coercion, suggesting the need for a more cautious approach to obtaining consent. Our findings also indicate the need for boundary work in order to better differentiate treatment and research. It is important however to acknowledge a categorical ambiguity; it is not always the case that people are misinformed about the possible benefits of research procedures (i.e., therapeutic misconception); our participants were aware that the primary purpose of research is to gain new knowledge yet they also identified a range of actual health benefits arising from their participation.
Study on the flexural behaviour of CFRP-grid reinforced concrete one-way slabs
Creators: name: Liu, Yue
name: Lenz, Tankred
name: Goldack, Arndt
name: Schlaich, Mike
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Because of many merits, such as high strength-to-weight ratio, fatigue resistance and especially anti-corrosion, the CFRP (Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer) becomes a good alternative to steel as the reinforcement in concrete components. This paper addresses the features and results of the FEM and experimental studies on the flexural behaviour of CFRP-grid reinforced concrete one-way slabs. For the FEM simulation analysis, series of CFRP-grid reinforced concrete one-way slabs with different beam depths and the steel counterparts were modelled in ABAQUS and their bending properties like load-displacement relationships, ultimate load capacities and crack behaviour were analysed and compared through numerical bending tests. For the verification experiment, the corresponding CFRP reinforced specimens were fabricated and the real bending tests were conducted on them. Both the FEM and experiment results show that the CFRP-grid reinforced concrete one-way slabs are superior in many aspects to their steel counterparts and their flexural performance can meet the requirement of the present construction industry.
The “Long 1960s” in South Korea: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Kab-Nyun Kim
Creators: name: Derichs, Claudia
name: Kim, Kab-Nyun
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In many accounts of the 1960s around the world, South Korea is a country and a case that escapes the gaze or is marginally recognised at best. This is surprising, since South Korea has witnessed quite a “rollercoaster” history in the decades following the Korean War (1950–1953). The 1960s were marked by the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of president Syngman Rhee (1960), a controversial treaty with Japan (1965) and the unfolding of president Park Chung Hee’s dictatorship (1961–1979). In the following interview, Kab-Nyun Kim emphasises the strong impact of the “4.19 Revolution”, the toppling of Rhee’s regime in April 1960, on the South Korean nation’s desire and struggle for democracy and the collective memory of a victory of the people – although this victory did not translate into democratisation in the immediate years that followed. It remains open to debate whether South Korea forms a special case or an exception in the imagination of a “global sixties”.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 3-4 (2021): The Long 1960s in Asia
The Long 1960s in Asia
Creators: name: Derichs, Claudia
name: Ali, Kamran Asdar
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: A number of studies, publications, conferences and anniversary events took place in 2018 to commemorate the 50th birthday of the legendary year 1968. These were accompanied by a raft of scholarly and popular assessments of the “long 1960s”, the “global sixties” and/or the “radical sixties”. The predominant empirical sites for analysis and retrospective were Western Europe and the United States of America. Other world regions were discussed to a clearly lesser extent. Apart from the crucial event of the Vietnam War, the (long) 1960s in Asia did not figure very prominently in the various publications on the topic. This issue of IQAS seeks to focus on the 1960s in Asia, covering East, Southeast and South Asia and discussing the decade from perspectives that have often escaped notice. It sheds a critical light on the notion of the “global sixties” and focuses on the local in order to grasp the spirit of the 1960s in selected Asian countries. It looks at individual nation-states but also transcends their borders, tracing transnational and transregional connectivities, mobilities and relations. It reminds us of radical junctures in countries’ histories that did not pave the way for freedom, peace and democracy – as conventional connotations of “1968” and “the sixties” predominantly suggest. The contributions to this issue thus cover the dark as well as the light side of the 1960s and share the conviction that research on this revolutionary decade’s ramifications in Asia is still a field with many blank spots.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 3-4 (2021): The Long 1960s in Asia
Gunnar Stange: Postsezessionismus: Politische Transformation und Identitätspolitik in Aceh, Indonesien, nach dem Friedensabkommen von Helsinki (2005–2012)
Creators: name: Paredes Grijalva, Daniela
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
James Scambary: Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000–2017
Creators: name: Myrttinen, Henri
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Neuroethics, confidentiality, and a cultural imperative in early onset Alzheimer disease: a case study with a First Nation population
Creators: name: Stevenson, Shaun
name: Beattie, B L
name: Vedan, Richard
name: Dwosh, Emily
name: Bruce, Lindsey
name: Illes, Judy
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: The meaningful consideration of cultural practices, values and beliefs is a necessary component in the effective translation of advancements in neuroscience to clinical practice and public discourse. Society’s immense investment in biomedical science and technology, in conjunction with an increasingly diverse socio-cultural landscape, necessitates the study of how potential discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease are perceived and utilized across cultures. Building on the work of neuroscientists, ethicists and philosophers, we argue that the growing field of neuroethics provides a pragmatic and constructive pathway to guide advancements in neuroscience in a manner that is culturally nuanced and relevant. Here we review a case study of one issue in culturally oriented neuroscience research where it is evident that traditional research ethics must be broadened and the values and needs of diverse populations considered for meaningful and relevant research practices. A global approach to neuroethics has the potential to furnish critical engagement with cultural considerations of advancements in neuroscience.
Helene Maria Kyed (ed.): Everyday Justice in Myanmar: Informal Resolutions and State Evasion in a Time of Contested Transition
Creators: name: Narayanan, Ganesan
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Richard Thwaites, Robert Fisher, Mohan Poudel (eds): Community Forestry in Nepal. Adapting to a Changing World
Creators: name: Schmidt-Vogt, Dietrich
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Jürgen Schaflechner, Christina Oesterheld, Ayesha Asif (eds): Pakistan: Alternative Imag(in)ings of the Nation State
Creators: name: Zaidi, S. Akbar
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
The RBA state-sponsored hack attack (or phishing for a story)
Creators: name: But, Jason
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: You'll have seen the fallout this week regarding a so-called 'spearphishing' attack on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in 2011. As with most media reports on cyber-attacks, this one appears to have been overhyped. So what really happened?
Democracy Taught: The State Islamic University of Jakarta and its Civic Education Course during Reformasi (1998–2004)
Creators: name: Tho Seeth, Amanda
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This article presents a qualitative content analysis of the instruction material used by the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta for its mandatory civic education course, which was introduced in the year 2000/2001 in collaboration with US-based The Asia Foundation. Kicked off during the Indonesian democratisation process, the so-called Reformasi (1998–2004), the course aimed at socialising Muslim students into the values and norms of democracy, human and civil rights, and critical thinking. By focusing on the content of the chapter on “Democracy” in the course’s original and revised textbook, it is shown that the Islamic academics involved in the creation of the course acted as cosmopolitan brokers between Islamic, Indonesian and Western culture, but in the course of time shifted to promote democracy from an increasingly Islamic and Indonesian perspective, thereby engaging in a practice of localisation. However, the textbooks also featured several biases, inconsistencies and contradictions that mitigated their pedagogic quality and that are critically assessed in this article. Despite these shortcomings, it is argued that due to the course’s overall strong pro-democratic commitment and its strategic institutionalisation on campus, the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, with its academic milieu, must be understood as a pro-democratic actor whose political agency during as well as after Reformasi deserves more scholarly attention.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Review of Pennsylvania State University (1998): The Computational Event Data System
Creators: name: Nathalie Rathkamp
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Demonstrations
Political Event Data
Protests
Rallies
Riots
Strikes
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Lithuania
Other
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
English

description: The Computational Event Data System (KEDS) compiles political event data using automated coding of English-language news reports. The project was originally founded by the University of Kansas under the name 'Kansas Event Data System (KEDS)', and then moved to the Department of Political Science of the Pennsylvania State University. The project covers the time-period from May 1989 to July 1999 focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa, while also offering datasets for other regions (1). This data review will focus on the Central Asia dataset.
Of the 38.000+ total entries in this dataset, there are 6.200+ events listed for the countries of Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central Asia covered by Discuss Data. As of summer 2024, the data collection seems to have concluded (3).
The data review contains a link leading to the official Computational Event Data System website from which both the dataset and additional information are available as a free download. However, please note that not all browsers are able to open the download link.
description: Published on Discuss Data, https://discuss-data.net/dataset/e77741ec-9bb8-4f86-81e4-5512c395454a/
description: Method(s) of data collection: Desk Research, Event Data, Keyword Search, Text Coding
(Re)reading Afghanistan through the Lens of Securitisation Theory
Creators: name: Stritzel, Holger
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This article explores practices of (de)securitisation in a setting where securitisation, violence and legitimacy interact in complex ways. It is argued that in such settings (de)securitisations need to be analysed in relation to the complexities of violence and security on the ground and to the way that these are tied to local modalities of legitimisation and delegitimisation. In the highly fragmented Afghan setting, processes of (de)securitisation appear in a context where existing patterns of authority are constantly (re)negotiated and political order is in a continuous process of violent transformation. Conceptually, this suggests the need for a distinctly non-linear and relational reading of securitisation dynamics that challenges the way securitisation theory has traditionally been understood.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
How to Treat Your Sworn Enemy: North Korea's Securitisation of the United States
Creators: name: Staar, Benedikt Christoph
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Despite the growing literature on the securitisation of North Korea, securitisation in the authoritarian state has been understudied thus far. Through analysing North Korean primary sources, this article presents the complexity of North Korean securitisation by examining how the United States is securitised in the North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun and by North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, looking at data from between 2017 and 2020. By expanding a framework that is centred in the illocutionary logic of securitising speech acts and by incorporating socio-political authority into its analysis, this article shows that securitisation in North Korea goes beyond the sole purpose of leader-legitimation. Instead, North Korea strategically (de)securitises by having certain governmental speakers utilise only speciﬁc strands of securitisation in such a way that potential contradictory changes in securitisation content do not substantially harm the credibility of the North Korean leadership. As a result, if there is a political, economic or other gain to be had, the North Korean government can change its depiction of the US with a negligible legitimacy loss and can comparatively easily resecuritise the US again when external conditions change.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Mechanical Properties of the Brain-Skull Interface
Creators: name: Mazumder, Mohammad Mynuddin Gani
name: Miller, Karol
name: Bunt, Stuart
name: Mostayed, Ahmed
name: Joldes, Grand
name: Day, Robert
name: Hart, Robin
name: Wittek, Adam
Publisher: name: Institute of Machine Design and Operation, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław
Year: 2013
Subjects: experimental method, mandibular distraction osteogenesis, transport force

description: Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics; 02/2013; ISSN 1509-409X
Governing, but not Producing Security? Internationalised Community Security Practices in Kyrgyzstan
Creators: name: Lottholz, Philipp
name: Sheranova, Arzuu
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: This article tackles the fraught relationship between security discourse, on the theoretical level, and security experience and practice on the ground. It argues that the efforts of the Kyrgyzstani authorities to reform and thus create sustainable and needs-based community security and law enforcement structures have so far largely been performative or even “virtual”, meaning that they have focused on governing, but not producing security. The argument is ﬁrst developed out of literature on state building, the security sector and police reform from a global perspective and in the context of Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan, more speciﬁcally. In a second step, we draw on insights from fieldwork, professional experience and grey literature to examine Local Crime Prevention Centres (LCPCs), which are communal-level public bodies where local administrations and residents potentially co-produce needs-based forms of security. However, we also show that the work of these bodies is still dependent on international support while lacking the conditions and facilitation that only executive actors can provide.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Securitisation in World Politics: The Conflict on the Self-Determination of East Timor at the United Nations
Creators: name: Bonacker, Thorsten
name: Distler, Werner
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: With the Indonesian invasion in late 1975, the self-determination conﬂict in East Timor gained international attention. Against all attempts on the part of Indonesia to silence international debate on its incorporation of East Timor, the Timorese resistance, with the support of selected states, continued to draw attention to its thwarted efforts at self-determination until the 1990s. Conflicts on self-determination are often analysed either as part of the larger picture of inter-national conﬂicts or as local territorial conﬂicts. Instead, we suggest a systems theoretical per-spective and understand conﬂict as a social system, which is based on repeated communication at various levels at the same time. Our analysis shows how the self-determination conﬂict in East Timor was successfully constructed as a matter of world politics by both the securitising and desecuritising speech acts of the conﬂict actors. These strategic speech acts from this early phase of the conﬂict in world politics, on the lack of self-determination of the Timorese people and the unlawful occupation, would prove to be important for the conﬂict system and renewed critical reaction to the Indonesian occupation in the early 1990s at the UN, ultimately leading to its resolution.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Developing a medication communication framework across continuums of care using the Circle of Care Modeling approach
Creators: name: Kitson, Nicole A
name: Price, Morgan
name: Lau, Francis Y
name: Showler, Grey
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background. Medication errors are a common type of preventable errors in health care causing unnecessary patient harm, hospitalization, and even fatality. Improving communication between providers and between providers and patients is a key aspect of decreasing medication errors and improving patient safety. Medication management requires extensive collaboration and communication across roles and care settings, which can reduce (or contribute to) medication-related errors. Medication management involves key recurrent activities (determine need, prescribe, dispense, administer, and monitor/evaluate) with information communicated within and between each. Despite its importance, there is a lack of conceptual models that explore medication communication specifically across roles and settings. This research seeks to address that gap. Methods The Circle of Care Modeling (CCM) approach was used to build a model of medication communication activities across the circle of care. CCM positions the patient in the centre of his or her own healthcare system; providers and other roles are then modeled around the patient as a web of relationships. Recurrent medication communication activities were mapped to the medication management framework. The research occurred in three iterations, to test and revise the model: Iteration 1 consisted of a literature review and internal team discussion, Iteration 2 consisted of interviews, observation, and a discussion group at a Community Health Centre, and Iteration 3 consisted of interviews and a discussion group in the larger community. Results Each iteration provided further detail to the Circle of Care medication communication model. Specific medication communication activities were mapped along each communication pathway between roles and to the medication management framework. We could not map all medication communication activities to the medication management framework; we added Coordinate as a separate and distinct recurrent activity. We saw many examples of coordination activities, for instance, Medical Office Assistants acting as a liaison between pharmacists and family physicians to clarify prescription details. Conclusions Through the use of CCM we were able to unearth tacitly held knowledge to expand our understanding of medication communication. Drawing out the coordination activities could be a missing piece for us to better understand how to streamline and improve multi-step communication processes with a goal of improving patient safety.
Experimental investigation on static flexural behavior of fatigue damaged SRC beams strengthened with CFRP sheets
Creators: name: Gong, Hailong
name: Tong, Lewei
name: Zhao, Xiao-Ling
name: Fu, Yuguang
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents an experimental investigation on CFRP strengthening of severely fatigue damaged SRC (steel-reinforced concrete) beams. Bending tests were carried out on three types of SRC beams: (1) SRC beams without any damage, (2) damaged SRC beams repaired by welding and (3) damaged SRC beams repaired by welding and CFRP. Failure modes of different types of SRC beams were compared. The effects of fatigue loading history and CFRP on static performance of SRC beams were studied. The experimental results showed that, for the fatigue damaged SRC beams, flexural bearing capacity can be restored if they were repaired by welding fractured beams and re-bars even without CFRP sheets, but the plastic strengthening of encased steel is weakened. CFRP sheets can effectively increase the ultimate flexural bearing capacity and overall stiffness of SRC beams. Meanwhile, it can delay crack propagation, reduce the width of surface cracks, and decrease the deflection under yield load and ultimate load. Finally, the strength of CFRP sheets will be fully utilized by using end anchorages.
Constituting the Indo-Pacific: Securitisation and the Processes of Region-Making
Creators: name: Chand, Bibek
name: Garcia, Zenel
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In recent years, securitisation discourses related to regional constructs in Asia have galvanised a shift from the Asia-Paciﬁc to the Indo-Paciﬁc. China’s rise, particularly the perceived asser-tiveness and counter-normative nature of its foreign policy, have promoted a growing discourse of enmity, unease and fear, thus facilitating its securitisation by key global and regional actors. Through their promotion of securitisation discourses, political and military leaders in the United States, Japan, India and Australia are demonstrating two interrelated dynamics that reveal the political process of region-making: (1) how securitisation discourse not only exposes the threat perception of individual states, but also the role they see for themselves and others in the manage-ment of these threats; and (2) how these securitisation discourses galvanise regional formation and transformation based on shared threat perceptions and modes of threat management. Con-sequently, the meta-geographical transformation of the Asia-Pacific into the Indo-Pacific is predicated on a political process underpinned by securitisation discourses centred on China. This process has signiﬁcant implications for regional order as well as security dynamics, particularly because the construction of the Indo-Paciﬁc region by these pivotal actors results in the remaking of the region that situates China and the South China Sea at its centre, thus framing it as the target of containment. Furthermore, the concept of the Indo-Paciﬁc merges the separate strategic spaces of the Paciﬁc and Indian Oceans as a cohesive strategic space, wherein India and smaller Southeast Asian states are also included in securitisation discourses related to China.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
Creators: name: Distler, Werner
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: The consequences of threat constructions and security-dominated politics in many Asian states and regions have been all too apparent recently. Whether the escalating language between China and the US over the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the violence against opposition movements in Hong Kong, the fate of minorities in Myanmar or the ongoing violence in Afghanistan – the invocation of “security” and the often violent practices of security agents constitute a powerful “key mode of governing”. Security drives international and domestic politics and, at the same time, shapes livelihoods of citizens and the fate of individuals in often worrisome ways. In offering various empirical studies guided by the pragmatic frameworks of securitisation and Critical Security Studies, this Special Issue aims at deconstructing security as a governing mode in the Asian context, with articles ranging from the local and national levels to international relations.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 1-2 (2021): The Governing of (In)Security. Politics and Securitisation in the Asian Context
The Other “Post-1968”: A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Resurgence of the Conservatives in Japan’s Long 1960s
Creators: name: Oguma, Eiji
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: Economic growth in the 1960s prompted a massive internal migration from provincial to metropolitan areas in Japan. This migration and urbanisation led to the rise of social movements and a decline in the percentage of votes for the ruling conservative LDP party. In response, the government introduced an industrial dispersal policy, shifting factories from metropolitan to provincial areas. Additionally, in 1971, the government started the “Model Community Project”, which strengthened local resident organisations that cooperated with local administrations and the conservative party. This reorganisation of the citizenry became the social background for the containment of social movements and the conservative resurgence of politics. This combination of industry dispersion and reorganisation of the citizenry, resulting in the conservative resurgence, characterised “the long 1960s” in Japan.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 3-4 (2021): The Long 1960s in Asia
The Long Shadow of the Cold War: The Cold War Policies of the United States towards Asia and their Impact on Indonesia
Creators: name: Wardaya, Baskara T.
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2021

description: In its Cold War policies toward Asia, the United States aimed at seeking economic recovery and geopolitical stability while controlling the process. Along with securing Southeast Asia as an important market and source of raw materials for itself and its allies, the intent was also to rehabilitate Japan and other Cold War allies. In Indonesia these policies resulted in US support for the massive anti-communist purge that began in Indonesia in 1965. This paper intends to show that in Indonesia, the US these policies were a success, as shown by the ouster of President Sukarno and the massive purging of the alleged members of the Indonesian communist party (PKI), as well as the installation of a new and pro-Western government. These successes, along with the benefits that accrued, left the United States reluctant to press the Indonesian government to deal with issues related to the purge. The refusal of the Indonesian government to deal with the 1965 anti-communist purge, in turn, has made it impossible for the purge’s victims and survivors to seek justice and reconciliation on the matter. As a result, decades after the end of the Cold War, they continue to suffer from its impact.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 52 Nr. 3-4 (2021): The Long 1960s in Asia
Implementation of hybrid composite beam (HCB) bridges in Missouri, USA
Creators: name: Abeol Seoud, M. A.
name: Myers, J. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This project involves the field evaluation of three Hybrid-Composite Girder Bridges in Missouri, USA. These hybrid composite beams (HCB)s are comprised of three main sub-components: a composite shell, compression reinforcement, and tension reinforcement. The shell is comprised of a fiber reinforced polymer box beam. The compression reinforcement consists of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) which is pumped into a profiled conduit within the shell. The tension reinforcement consists of galvanized steel tendons anchored at the compression reinforcement ends. Due to the novelty of the HCB and its unclear behaviour, an integrated study is under implementation to evaluate the recently constructed hybrid bridge superstructures. To achieve the goals of this study, a series of load tests was applied to the three bridges and the HCBs deflections were measured. HCB elements have been instrumented with various sensors and the induced strains were recorded at several stages and under the applied test loads. Finite element models (FEM)s were constructed via ANSYS and SAP2000 commercial softwares. Mathematical calculations were performed to predict the deflections and the strains using the existing design methodology. The study showed that the new HCB is a promising technique in the bridge applications. The HCB unique configuration optimizes its performance and leads to lightweight, cost-effective and durable member. The existing design procedure is simple and suites the bridge designers. However, it needs some refinements. This paper presents briefly the work achieved to date and highlights the concluded remarks. The fabrication and construction sequencing of the HCB is also presented.
Area Studies and the Decolonisation of Comparative Law: Insights from Alternative Southeast Asian Constitutional Modernities
Creators: name: Mérieau, Eugénie
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: Like “philosophy”, constitutional law is a disguised form of area studies that should more adequately be called “Western” or “Euroamerican” constitutional law. In this field, as in many others, the international division of academic labour reveals hierarchical power-knowledge relations: the theoretical West produces knowledge about the empirical Rest, understood as a “reservoir of raw data”. Here, area studies reveals its counterhegemonic potentialities. By offering a safe space for non-Western-centric discussion, it opens the possibility of theorising from the South. For constitutional law, this means theorising alternatives to Western liberal constitutionalism in their own, normative, terms, so as to apprehend Islamic, Buddhist, communitarian or transformative constitutionalisms as equally “valid” types of modern constitutional ordering. This paper calls for a deeper engagement between area studies and comparative law scholars seeking to reflect on alternative modernities. It first sketches a brief overview of the history of comparative law as a discipline, then looks at the contribution of area studies to the deconstruction of “legal orientalism” and finally suggests three areas in which Southeast Asian modes of constitutional ordering might well offer images of the possible futures of Western constitutionalism.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 51 Nr. 3-4 (2020): New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
Analysis of internal bonded fibre reinforced composite repair systems for corroded steel pipelines
Creators: name: Sirimanna, C. S.
name: Karunasena, W.
name: Manalo, A. C.
name: Banerjee, S.
name: McGarva, L.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Steel pipelines are widely used in the oil and gas industry. Over time, many pipelines experience internal metal loss, mainly due to corrosion, and some form of repair is required in order to reinstate the original operating capacity and maintain structural integrity. Fibre reinforced composites offer solutions with broad applicability and efficiency for internal repair of these pipelines. Analysing and understanding the behaviour of composites is important in order for them to be used effectively as an internal repair system for corroded steel pipelines. This paper presents the analyses of internal composite bonded repair systems for long steel pipes with an axisymmetric defect, based on Lame's equation. Optimum internal composite repair thicknesses using biaxial carbon and glass fibre composites were determined for different levels of corrosion, following the Von Mises yielding and Tsai-Hill failure criterion approaches. Design nomographs for internal composite repair systems have been developed.
Anne Grüne, Kai Hafez, Subekti Priyadharma, Sabrina Schmidt (eds): Media and Transformation in Germany and Indonesia: Asymmetrical Comparisons and Perspectives
Creators: name: Tho Seeth, Amanda
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 51 Nr. 3-4 (2020): New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
Proceedings of the 5th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2013, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 04-05 February 2013
Creators: name: Rhamdhani, Akbar
name: Brooks, Geoffrey
name: Khaliq, Abdul
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Proceedings of the 5th Annual High Temperature Processing Symposium 2013, held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 04 to 05 February 2013.
Future Artefact: A Network of Gestures
Creators: name: Dobbie, Xanthe
Publisher: name: RMIT University
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 360503
subject: Digital and electronic media art

description: 'Future Artefact: A Network of Gestures' engages with the preservation, reinterpretation, and contemporary exhibition of Australian media art from the 1990s, with a focus on cyberfeminist practices. The rapid obsolescence of the technologies on which such media artworks were created presents significant challenges for preserving and re-presenting these works, which should be considered part of Australia's digital cultural heritage. This practice-based research contributes to the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project Archiving Australian Media Art: Towards a Method and a National Collection (AAMA), a collaborative initiative aimed at documenting, stabilising, and making accessible key media artworks from the 1990s.

This research extends beyond conventional digital preservation methods, such as emulation (digital migration), to explore how experimental and practice-based approaches might facilitate the creative adaptation of heritage media art for contemporary contexts. Central to this exploration is the application of queer methodologies, specifically the concept of ‘queering’ as a subversive and disruptive approach to archival practices, which aims to challenge normative institutional frameworks of preservation and exhibition. Through a detailed analysis of cyberfeminist works from the 1990s, particularly those of the VNS Matrix collective and artist Linda Dement, this thesis examines the critical intersections of queer theory and media art practice.

By positioning these heritage works within a ‘network of gestures’, the research recontextualises them through contemporary queer practice, creating new forms of dialogue across temporalities. It argues for the significance of speculative and imaginative reinterpretations of media art, emphasising the need for non-traditional exhibition strategies that transcend the constraints of historical preservation. The project includes curatorial interventions, artistic collaborations, and interviews with pioneering cyberfeminist artists, which inform a series of experimental re-imaginings of heritage artworks, designed to re-engage diverse audiences.

This research contributes to the ongoing discourse surrounding digital cultural heritage, media archaeology, and queer practice by proposing alternative models for the future of media art preservation. By challenging institutionalised approaches to digital archiving and exhibition, this exegesis advocates for a flexible and fluid approach to media art preservation that honours the conceptual and material complexities of these works while opening up new possibilities for their interpretation and display in contemporary cultural contexts.
Australian Muslim leaders, normalisation and social integration
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Hadi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Functionalism has been the dominant framework for the explanation of social integration. Policies for the integration of migrants in the West have mainly centred on the improvement of migrants' socio-economic situation (employment, education and income). Nonetheless, for Muslim minorities in the West, including Australia, the functionalist conception of integration is inadequate. Although Muslim minorities are socio-economically disadvantaged, they are also subject to social exclusion based on their religion and culture. This is due to a longstanding historical ideological construction of Islam as stagnant, pre-modern, despotic, patriarchal and violent, in opposition to the progressive, modern, democratic, egalitarian and civilised West. This is to say that Muslims have been placed outside the space of 'normal' in western discourses. Muslims will not be able to fully integrate into Australian society unless their derogatory image changes. This study aims to explore the issue of social integration from the perspective of Australian Muslim leaders. It is argued that social integration can be defined as a process of normalisation. 'Integrationist' Muslim leaders struggle to normalise the image of Muslims and Islam in the Australian public sphere. Their efforts have both organisational and discursive aspects. This process of normalisation, however, is contested from both within and without. From within, there are Muslim 'radicals' and 'isolationists' who challenge the normalisation process. From without, the media's disproportionate focus on provocative and radical Muslim voices challenges the integrationist leaders' efforts. This thesis purports to reveal the dynamics and struggles within the Australian Muslim leadership field regarding the normalisation of Islam and Muslims' images in Australia. The evidence comes from 30 in-depth interviews conducted with Muslim leaders in Melbourne and Sydney.
Transcultural Lives of Myanmar Migrant Youths in Thailand: Language Acquisition, Self-perceived Integration, and Sense of Belonging
Creators: name: Stange, Gunnar
name: Sasiwongsaroj, Kwanchit
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: Globalisation and international mobility have led people to settle in vastly different cultural contexts. Transnationally situated migrant families are becoming a more regular feature of children’s and youths’ lives in today’s world. Thailand, one of four major economies in Southeast Asia, hosts over half of the region’s migrant workers. In 2018, there were three million migrants living in Thailand and an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 of those were children and youths. It has been noted that migration experiences constitute substantial interferences in children’s and youths’ development and well-being, given the environmental and cultural changes they are exposed to. However, despite this trend, very few studies focus on the children of migrant workers. Language and language acquisition are central issues in debates about transculturation, cultural identity in transnational migration, as well as integration in host countries. Based on qualitative research with Myanmar migrant workers’ children, aged between 12 and 18, in two Migrant Learning Centres (MLCs) in Ranong province in southern Thailand, this study contributes to current debates on transnational family migration by arguing for the centrality of language acquisition in the everyday lives of young migrants and their self-perceived integration into the host society.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 51 Nr. 3-4 (2020): New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
Breeding Roses and Chasing Unicorns: Reflections from Europe on the Changing Field of Southeast Asian Area Studies
Creators: name: Schäfer, Saskia
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: Drawing on classic articles on the field, approaches of New Area Studies and primary research on journals and study programmes, this article discusses the current state of Southeast Asian studies from a German perspective. Southeast Asian studies has transformed from a field informed by particular political interests into a container category subsuming various different scholarly programmes. Some of these are closely connected to various disciplines, others are trans- or interdisciplinary; some are in close contact with Southeast Asian policy-makers, for instance by educating their future bureaucrats and politicians, and others remain at a distance. Thirty years after the Cold War formally ended, Southeast Asian studies programmes differ vastly in their respective characteristics and outlooks. This article maps some of these and explores their similarities and differences as well as their relationships to the established disciplines.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 51 Nr. 3-4 (2020): New Area Studies and Southeast Asia
Decolonial-Feminist Approaches in Teaching and Research: Exploring Practices, Interactions and Challenges
Creators: name: Gerlach, Linda
name: Fleschenberg, Andrea
name: Knorr, Lina
name: Heil, Nadine
Publisher: name: International Quarterly for Asian Studies
Year: 2020

description: In international academic interactions we encounter inequalities of different kinds between the so-called Global North and the Global South. Many of these are the result of a general white male superiority that has existed for centuries as well as the physical and mental colonialisation of the Global South. This paper is a joint critical contemplation by four female researchers reflecting upon the status quo in academic practices. The paper describes surmountable and apparently insurmountable injustices using examples from everyday life in teaching and research. The authors furthermore describe some of their experiences in applying decolonial and feminist approaches and methodologies to achieve an academic togetherness with all partners on an equal footing and report on the challenges and drawbacks they have faced. The authors see this as a process in which they learn, revise and reflect upon their everyday academic lives.
description: International Quarterly for Asian Studies, Bd. 51 Nr. 3-4 (2020): New Area Studies and Southeast Asia