ASIEN – Nr. 138 Januar 2016 Development and Social Change across AsiaIssue Editor Günter Schucher
Editorial Team Raphael Susewind
Editorial Manager Deike Zimmann

• Nr. 138 (2016) Editorial 5–8 {:de}Starke Nachwuchsstimmen in der AsienforschungIslamische Bildung in Afghanistan, Frauenrechte in Indien, Transformation in China, Süd-Süd-Entwicklungsdiskurse, Diaspora-Nationalismus in Bangladesch, Staat und Privatwirtschaft auf den Philippinen – dieses Themenheft präsentiert einen bunten Querschnitt aktueller Forschung aus dem Umfeld der DGA-Nachwuchsgruppe. Zehn Jahre nach deren Gründung belegt es beispielhaft die Breite wie auch die hohe Qualität junger Forschung zu Asien im deutschsprachigen … von by Isabel Dettmer, Antje Heinrich, Elena Klorer und and Raphael Susewind
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 9–30 {:de}„Wir nennen uns nicht gerne Geber“ – Der staatliche Entwicklungsdiskurs des Neuen Gebers IndienSince the 1990s international development cooperation has witnessed immense shifts in its structural setup, ones that have been fueled specifically by the increasing activity of so-called “new donors” such as India, China, Brazil, South Africa, and Venezuela. Countries belonging to this heterogeneous group of new donors are all from the Global South, mostly former colonies … von by Nina Khan
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 31–51 {:en}Japanese Climate Related Aid to Southeast Asia: Furthering ‘Weak’ or ‘Strong’ Sustainability?In the last 20 years, Japan has emerged as a significant donor of climate-related aid to countries in South East Asia through a number of channels such as environmental Official Development Assistance (ODA), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Fast-Start Finance (FSF), and the now rapidly developing Joint Credit Mechanism/Bilateral Offsetting Mechanism (JCM/BCOM). While furthering “sustainable … von by Florentine Koppenborg
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 52–69 {:de}Die Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Privatwirtschaft auf den Philippinen: Annäherung an einen underdevelopmental state?In contrast to their Northeast Asian neighbors, most Southeast Asian countries have not been able to generate sustainable and equitable economic growth to date. Instead of successfully employing industrialization policies like the governments of, for example, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan have, countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand have rather been following … von by Nina Rodmann
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 70–88 {:de}An Ambivalent Civil Society in Democratic Consolidation — The Case of Local Chambers of Commerce and Industry in the Visayas and North MindanaoDemocratic consolidation in the Philippines is stagnating despite the country having a vibrant civil society. A comparative exploration of three local chambers of commerce in the Visayas and Mindanao reveals that it is the advantages of non-confrontational stances toward government that keeps the chambers from contributing to democratic consolidation. It is apparent that working within … von by Basanta E.P. Thapa
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 89–108 {:en}Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil — Islamic Education and Local Traditions in AfghanistanThis paper explores the role of higher education in the ongoing value discourse about local traditions and interpretations of Islamic orthodoxy in Eastern Afghanistan. It focuses on the educational trajectories of Afghan students, graduates and teachers of Islamic academic subjects, which often start across the border in Pakistan. Biographical data suggest that students attain a … von by Andreas Dürr
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 109–25 {:en}Women within Family Disputes in Rural Northern Karnataka, India: Making and Negotiating a Claim at a Nari AdalatThe focus of this paper is on one type of legal forum dealing with family disputes in rural India — the nari adalats, women’s courts. The nari adalats operate alongside both state and so-called “traditional” legal forums, but are at the same time entangled with those as well. Taking a perspective of legal pluralism, this … von by Sarah Potthoff
• Nr. 138 (2016) Artikel Article 126–48 {:en}Mobilization Chains under Communist Rule — Comparing Regime Transitions in China and PolandThis paper examines the impact of societal mobilization on regime transitions from Communism in China (between 1949 and 1989) and Poland (between 1945 and 1989) respectively. One of the main theoretical arguments put forward by this article is that of a dynamic model of dialectical interactions between a mobilizing society and a nondemocratic regime. I … von by Ewelina Karas
• Nr. 138 (2016) Neuere Literatur 179–85 {:de}Neuere Literatur über AsienDie Mitglieder der DGA sind herzlich aufgefordert, ihre neuesten Veröffentlichungen der Redaktion zu melden. von by Uwe Kotzel

Konferenzberichte

• Environmental Transformation, Ethnicity and Gender in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Passau, 10.–12. Juni 2015 (Katharina v. Braun, Kristina Großmann, Martina Padmanabhan)
• Food Safety and Consumer Advocacy in Japan and East Asia, jdzb Berlin, 18.–19. Mai 2015 (Jan Niggemeier)
• Nation, Nationalismus und nationales Gedächtnis, Konferenz der ostasiatischen DAAD-Zentren, Peking, 21.–23. Oktober 2015 (György Széll)
• Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria, International Conference, Wien, 22.–24. Oktober 2015 (Astrid Lipinsky, Martin Mandl)
• Trust and Risk in Changing Societies. 13th Meeting of the German–Japanese Society for Social Sciences (GJSSS), Tokio, 8.–10. Oktober 2015 (Laura Froehlich)
• Mongolian–German Dialogue on International Relations and Security in East and Central Asia, Ulaanbaatar, 21.–22. September 2015 (Alexandr Burilkov)

Rezensionen

• Bernhard Imhasly: Indien. Ein Länderporträt (Heinz Werner Wessler)
• Aline Demay: Tourism and Colonization in Indochina (1898–1939) (Kerstin Schiele)
• Anett Keller (Hg.): Indonesien 1965ff. Die Gegenwart eines Massenmordes. Ein politisches Lehrbuch (Rainer Werning)
• Thomas Weyrauch: Chinas demokratische Traditionen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in Taiwans Gegenwart (Thilo Diefenbach)
• Kar-Yue Chan: Ambivalence in Poetry. Zhu Shuzhen, a Classical Chinese Poetess (Monika Gänßbauer)
• Michel Hockx: Internet Literature in China (Elisabeth Schleep)
• Cora Jungbluth: Going Global. Die internationale Expansion chinesischer Unternehmen (Karin Sixl-Daniell)
• Anna L. Ahlers: Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China, New Socialist Countryside (Jochen Noth)
• Xuewu Gu: Die große Mauer in den Köpfen. China, der Westen und die Suche nach Verständigung (Katja Yang)
• Lea Shih: Chinas Industriepolitik von 1978–2013. Programme, Prozesse und Beschränkungen (Barbara Darimont)
• Yin Hongbiao: Footprints of the Missing. Thoughts of the Youth during the Cultural Revolution (Vol. 2) (Nora Sausmikat)
• Christian Heideck: Zwischen Ost-Westhandel und Opposition. Die Japanpolitik der DDR 1952–1973 (Albrecht Rothacher)

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