[IIAS] The Newsletter | No. 93 | Autumn 2022

Environmental Governance amidst Climate Crisis

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, although the climate crisis is a shared world-wide experience, it produces differing pathways across spatial and geographic politics, perpetually linking the macro-political and the economic with climate governance. In this issue's Focus, guest editor Jewellord Nem Singh regroups articles thematically intertwined, expanding to China, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, even transcending and challenging national borders. Please find the links to the contributions and much more in the overview below. Hard copies can be ordered by sending an email to: thenewsletter@iias.nl 03 From the editor In this issue Paramita Paul   04 'Natasha': The Singapore Biennale 2022 Binna Choi 05 Ghostwork Nida Ghouse 06 Natasha in Nature June Yap   07 Natasha as Code, or Future Friends Passing through the Digital Gate Ala Younis 08 A Case of Eco-Public Art in Taiwan: The Meinung Yellow Butterfly Festival Meiqin Wang 10 Sri Lanka at the Crossroad of Its History John Smith 11 Quezon City: Asia's Lesser-Known Planned Capital City Ian Morley 12 Afrasia: An Emerging Macro-Region MINE Yoichi 14 Of Extremist Grandmothers: Recalling Banalata Sen and Bina Das, Revolutionaries in the Indian Struggle for Independence Sambarta Rakshit   16 Ambassadors of K-Culture: Korean Americans, Korea, and K-pop Jayson M. Chun and Eun Bin Suk 18 Social Control or Trust? A Journey through Tokyo's Railway Manner Posters Sandunika Hasangani 20 Revisiting the Battle of Macau in 1622: A Polyphonic Narrative Caspar Ka Yin Chan 22 Cultural Hijacking: Clash of Storyworlds Theang Teron   24 Pedagogies of Partition: Collective Memory and Counternarrative 75 Years On Monisha Bajaj   26 Visual Accounts of Complex Histories: The Pedagogical Value of Graphic Novels in Teaching Asian Migrations Violetta Ravagnoli   23 News from Southeast Asia Regional Editor: Su-Ann Oh   25 News from Northeast Asia Regional Editor: Ilhong Ko   36 Environmental Governance amidst the Climate Crisis and Energy Transition in the 21st Century Jewellord Nem Singh 38 China at UN COPs: COP26 recap and COP27 forecast Hao Zhang 40 Kazakhstan's Environmental Governance Conundrum: The Challenge of Clean Energy Transition for Extractivist States in Central Asia Nuerjiazi Akeerbieke   42 Governing Natural Resources and the Climate Crisis in Central Asia Erika Weinthal 44 Open Up to the Locals: Politics of Resource Control in Tonle Sap, Cambodia Jin Sato 46 Greening the Ungreenable: The Prospects for Deep-sea Mining Richard T. Griffiths   35 Call for Submissions ICAS Book Prize 2023 47 Print Journeys - Democracy: A Distant Vision in Myanmar? Tamas Wells 47 Latest publication -  Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia. Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization 48 Anne Sokolsky, Chair of Taiwan Studies, Spring 2022 Anne Sokolsky 48 IIAS signs Memorandum of Understanding to support the Taiwan Studies Programme at Leiden University 48 IIAS fellow in the spotlight: Pao-Yi Yang Pao-Yi Yang   49 Meet Laura Erber, our new IIAS Fellowship Programme Coordinator 50 The journal Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China celebrates its 25th Anniversary Harriet Zurndorfer 51 Book launch - 'River Cities in Asia. Waterways in Urban Development and History 51 Tenth Conference of Iranian Studies ECIS 10 51 Borderland Futures: Technologies, Zones, Co-existences Harriet Zurndorfer 52 IIAS Research, Networks, and Initiatives   54 Chinese Village Life Today Suvi Rautio 54 Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan Jason Danely   55 COVID-19 in Southeast Asia Lynette H. Ong 56 New Titles Available for Review   The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a research and exchange platform based in the university city of Leiden, the Netherlands. IIAS encourages the multidisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and promotes national and international co-operation. It acts as an interface between academic and non-academic partners including cultural, social and policy organisations. IIAS | P.O. Box 9500 | 2300 RA | Leiden | www.iias.asia | Contact Copyright © 2022 International Institute for Asian Studies, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to our mailing list at https://iias.asia Update preferences | Unsubscribe from this list | Forward this message Our mailing address is: International Institute for Asian Studies Rapenburg 59 Leiden, 2311 GJ Netherlands Add us to your address book