WRITING WORKSHOP ’Contemporary agrarian-environmental transformations across Southeast Asia’ (The 7th Japan-ASEAN Seminar)

Date: 10 July 2018
Time: 13:30 – 16:00
Venue: Inamori Building, Middle-Sized Meeting Room, 3rd Floor

Japan-ASEAN Platform for Transdisciplinary Studies
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Kyoto University

WRITING WORKSHOP
Contemporary agrarian-environmental transformations across Southeast Asia

Rural areas of Southeast Asia are marked by rapid and widespread agrarian and environmental change. Resource extraction, hydropower development, planting of monoculture crops, forest management policies, and migration are some of the many processes that have generated deforestation, land dispossession, soil degradation, loss of rural livelihoods, and social conflict across the region. In this event we aim to reflect on these transformations by engaging closely with the writing of graduate students, researchers, and faculty who are working on these issues. Unlike a conventional workshop, which is centered on oral presentations, this workshop is focused on the process of writing. The group dynamic of the workshop is used to achieve multiple purposes: 1) to advance the writing of the participating authors and 2) to learn from the writing of the authors via a process of engaged reading, and 3) to generate new insights into agrarian-environmental transformations across Southeast Asia through close engagements among the group with the papers read and presented and the ensuing discussion.

Participating authors are those who are developing a draft paper which they seek to publish in an international peer-reviewed journal or as part of an edited volume. The workshop will benefit their work by 1) encouraging them to complete an early draft prior to journal or book deadlines and 2) providing them with insightful comments and edits that will improve their work and help them to get it published. Participating authors must circulate a draft of their paper one week before the workshop. Participating readers will read at least one paper and provide written comments and edits. They will also share those comments at the workshop.

Presentations:
• “Mega-plantations in Southeast Asia: History, politics, and change”
　　– Dr Miles Kenney-Lazar (Assistant Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research & Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) and Dr Noboru Ishikawa (Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
• “How narcotic drug problems change rural livelihoods and land uses in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture at the China-Myanmar border”
　　– Mr Xiaobo Hua (Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Global Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
• “Abandonment of Mangrove Paddy Fields and their Impacts on Local Livelihoods: The view from a Mon village of Taninthayi Region, Myanmar”
　　- Mr Win Maung Aye, (Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
• “Contemporary agrarian-environmental transformations: A case study of inheritance problem of farmland”
　　– Mr Naoki Fukushima, (Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan)
Paper discussants
• Dr. Kimberly Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University & Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
• Dr. Satoru Kobayashi, Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
• Dr. Nathan Badenoch, Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
• Dr. Noboru Ishikawa, Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
• Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar, Assistant Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research & Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Program schedule
13:30 – 13:40: Introduction to the workshop
13:40 – 14:10: Paper #1
• Presentation by Dr. Noboru Ishikawa and Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar (15 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Kimberly Thomas (5 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Nathan Badenoch (5 minutes)
• Questions and comments from the audience (5 minutes)
14:10 – 14:40: Paper #2
• Presentation by Mr. Xiaobo Hua (15 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Miles Kenney-Lazar (5 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Satoru Kobayashi (5 minutes)
• Questions & comments from the audience (5 minutes)
14:40 – 14:50: Tea & coffee break
14:50 – 15:20: Paper #3
• Presentation by Mr. Win Maung Aye (15 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Kimberly Thomas (5 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Noboru Ishikawa (5 minutes)
• Questions and comments from the audience (5 minutes)
15:20 – 15:50: Paper #4
• Presentation by Mr. Naoki Fukushima (15 minutes
• Discussant comments from Dr. Nathan Badenoch (5 minutes)
• Discussant comments from Dr. Satoru Kobayashi (5 minutes)
• Questions & comments from the audience (5 minutes)
15:50 – 16:00: Closing remarks