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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Transformative Spaces
DESCRIPTION:Special Guest Lecture:\nTransformative Spaces of 19th Century East Asia: \n A Japanese Merchant’s Experience of Treaty Port Yokohama\nTuesday\, February 2\, 2016\n5 pm (c.t.)\, VG 3.102\nProf. Simon C. Partner\nDuke University\, Department of History \nFollowing the experiences of one merchant\, a farmer from Kōshū province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) who left his village to open a trading venture in Yokohama in 1859\, the presentation will examine the merchant communities of Yokohama during roughly the first decade of its existence\, 1859-1873. Through this lens\, the role of the Yokohama treaty port in the political\, social\, and economic transformations of the 1860s and beyond will be explored. More broadly\, the presentation will consider the transformative agency of the East Asian treaty ports as new spaces of global exchange. \nImage: Evan Blaser\, 266\, CC BY 2.0. https://flic.kr/p/arSwzN
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-prof-simon-c-partner/
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Rethinking China’s Place  in Global History Comparatively
DESCRIPTION:Special Guest Lecture:\n Rethinking China’s Place in Global History Comparatively\nTuesday\, February 16\, 2016\n 5 p.m. (c.t.)\, KWZ 0.603\n Prof. Dr. Kent Deng\n The London School of Economics and Political Science\, Department of Economic History \nIn 1803\, Napoleon famously said in front of a world atlas where China was that ‘Here lies a sleeping giant (lion in other versions)\, let him sleep\, for when he wakes up\, he will shock the world’ (“Ici repose un géant endormi\, laissez le dormir\, car quand il s’éveillera\, il étonnera le monde”). \nNapoleon turned out to be right 200 years ago. China’s ‘miracle growth’ and development in the recent four decade has stunted the world. Most current observers have been very puzzled about where the energy and determination of such growth has come from. But if one takes a long-term and global view\, China’s current growth and development become rather logical\, if not entirely inevitable. \nThis talk will take the audience back to the very beginning of the formation of the Empire of China (which was at the same time the formation of one of the largest single economy in the world) and show what China managed to achieve in comparison with Europe historically. It argues that contemporary China merely reclaims its ‘rightful’ place in the world rather than invents a new one for itself. So\, the rest of the world will have to get used to it. \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-rethinking-chinas-place-in-global-history-comparatively/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14\, Göttingen
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SUMMARY:Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China
DESCRIPTION:Rural-Urban Dynamics and Emergent Forms of Labor in India and China\nFor the latest information and updates about the Workshop\, please click here. \nUniversity of Göttingen\, Germany\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies\, CeMIS – Centre for Modern Indian Studies \nIn recent decades\, economic reforms in India and China have changed the adaptability\, speed\, and direction through which capital flows in the global market economy. Accelerated growth in the two economies has been facilitated by increasing mobility and emergent forms of labor situated between agriculture\, industry and services. \n \nThese developments reveal the fluidity and dynamism of the division between rural and urban\, creating ambiguous interstitial spaces and networks through which new forms of labor arise. They are entangled with transformations in the regimes of production and land use\, as well as with changes in the organization of kinship relations. In turn\, they give rise to new subjectivities and aspirations. \nCities absorb large numbers of rural migrants aspiring to join the ranks of the urban middle classes. Illegal practices combine with legal forms of work\, while private corporations and land-holding entities blur the boundary between public and private domains. The informalization of work and flexible labor practices facilitates the world’s growing demand for low-wage labor at the cost of unmaking former working-class communities already facing the retrenchment of state-sponsored benefits and social services. The weakening of traditional labor unions and the limited integration of migrants into public service provision means that migrants have to rely on their capacity to secure support networks through kinship and bottom-up labor organizations. Precarious employment also pushes migrants to experiment with new entrepreneurial practices: individuals need to become competent self-starters with flexible skills and business acumen. \nThese processes not only transform the livelihoods of individual migrants but also the conditions of local communities in the wider sending and receiving areas. Emerging peri-urban areas take many shapes. In mega-cities\, former urban cores expand and shrink\, thereby cultivating dynamic spaces which serve as gateways for migrant workers in search of affordable housing and employment. Lower tier cities and so-called “urban villages” pop-up as quickly as urban cores disappear. \nIndeed\, perhaps the most prominent features of development in China and India today are the increasing levels of social\, economic and environmental violence in these interstitial zones\, which\, at the same time\, gives rise to individual and collective aspirations\, hopes\, and imaginations for a better life. \nProposals \nWe invite contributions from the fields of cultural studies\, labor studies\, geography\, political science\, urban planning\, sociology\, anthropology\, and related disciplines that address the entangled social and spatial aspects of these transformations. We encourage applicants to explore\, evaluate\, and debate the workshop themes by contributing empirical case studies and theoretical considerations within comparative Asian contexts. \nThe questions we are interested in addressing include: \n\nWhich new forms of labor and labor organization develop through these rural/urban dynamics?\nTo what extent are interstitial zones aspirational spaces?\nWhich factors facilitate\, allow\, and limit rural-urban migrants’ upward social mobility in these interstitial zones?\nHow do the experiences of migrants who float in and out of these zones challenge their gendered\, ethnic\, religious\, and class-based self-identifications?\nHow are developing transnational economic ties influencing and transforming existing institutional structures (i.e. of labor relations and production regimes)?\nHow can workers interests be represented in the expansion of second- and third-sector employment in China and India? What role do old and new forms of worker organization and labor unions play in the process?\nHow do rural-urban migrants and urbanites organize social security in the absence of effective\, state-organized social protection?\nHow do opportunities for education/skill-formation influence social mobility and employment relations? What roles do governments\, enterprises\, and labor unions play? Is the established state of labor market segregation along ethnicity\, gender\, and other lines challenged by new transnational economic ties and emerging peri-urban landscapes? How\, if at all\, are these transformations likely to impact on social mobility?\nHow are the costs and benefits of migration distributed between the urban and rural areas?\nHow do the boundary-making practices that take place within these interstitial zones articulate with national identifications\, state governance\, and cross-cultural encounters?\n\nSubmission of Proposals\nPaper proposals should include a title\, an abstract (250 words maximum) which states: \n\nThe objective and rationale of your project\nThe methods/sources used for writing the paper\nA brief personal biography of 150 words.\n\nDeadline for abstract submission is January 4\, 2016.\nPlease send all proposals to assist(at)cemeas.uni-goettingen.de. \nWe are applying for funding to finance travel and accommodation costs for workshop participants. For further information\, please contact Ms Katja Pessl via cemeas(at)uni-goettingen.de. \nAll applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application as soon as possible after the closing date. \nContact:\nKatja Pessl\nCoordinator\nCentre for Modern East Asian Studies\nUniversity of Göttingen\ncemeas(at)uni-goettingen.de\n+49-(0)551-39 21280 \nHome \n \nDr. Karin Klenke\nCoordinator\nCentre for Modern Indian Studies\nUniversity of Göttingen\nkarin.klenke(at)cemis.uni-goettingen.de\n+49-(0)551-39 19636\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/131257.html
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/rural-urban-dynamics-and-emergent-forms-of-labor-in-india-and-china/
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