Research Lines
The Shaping Asia initiative employs a transcultural methodology across three research lines: Public Cultures: Socio-spatial Transformations, Knowledge Production & Circulation, and Governance & Governmentality. These themes are sufficiently open for incorporating a broad range of topics while allowing for continuity in the quest to understand the dynamic unfolding of Asian societies and cultures. Grasping connectivities as well as engaging in comparisons and collaborations will be essential for furthering research in these topical lines.
Urban Futurities
Cultural practices both give shape and are shaped by spatial dimensions in everyday and ritual life-worlds. Various forms of cultural production (i.e. art, literature, and media) allow for the circulation of ideas and concepts. This theme line places such productions in the context of socio-political practices in the Asian context… Read More
Knowledge Production and Circulation
Knowledge production and circulation emerges from a complex web of interactions. Flows of knowledge bind intricately with notions of access/restriction, local/global, and translation, among others. The theme line examines the dynamics of knowledge in the sphere in which it takes shape… Read More
Governance and Governmentality
Governance encompasses the process that constitutes the dynamic between formal political structures and the societal forces that test their limits. Governmentality refers to those participatory governing practices that perpetuate or deny societal values and norms, simultaneously sculpting the terms of subjection. The theme line attempts to peel back the myriad layers of conflict and negotiations that underlie societal divisions, inclusions, and exclusions… Read More
Cooperation Partners
News
Two workshops at the National University of Singapore
Embodied and Sensorial Knowledge (18 and 19 February 2022)
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Kelvin Low
Alternative Discourses (17 and 18 February 2022)
Organizer: Noorman Abdullah
Situating Knowledge - Kathmandu Conference (Postponed to the beginning of February 2021)
An International Workshop within the
Knowledge Production and Circulation
Workshop organizers
: Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz
Knowledge on the Move: Connectivities, Frontiers, Translations – Tokyo Conference (Postponed to Janurary or February 2021)
An International Workshop within the
Knowledge Production and Circulation
Workshop organizers
: Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs Prof. Dr. Riho Isaka
Exchange program
The DAAD granted Prof. Christiane Brosius four years of funding (2020–2024) on the topic "Urban transformation and placemaking: Fostering Learning from South Asia and Germany"
New publications