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Subject: [Fifth Annual IIAS-TU Delft Seminar] Asian Cities: Colonial to
Global. Leiden, 31 January 2013
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:58:37 +0100
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Dear Sir/Madam, we are accepting paper proposals for a seminar, in which
we will investigate how networks laid down during the era of Western
colonial expansion in Asia have given certain cities a global edge.
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
*Deadline*
31 January 2013
*Date*
April 2013 (exact day TBA)
*Venue*
IIAS, Leiden, Netherlands
*Background*
'Asian Cities: Colonial to Global' is intended to be a
multi-disciplinary seminar. Contributions are welcome from the fields of
architecture, urbanism, geography, area studies, history, linguistics,
religious studies, social science, anthropology, etc., but please
remember that the point of departure will always be the built environment.
Note also that this seminar is not intended to be an investigation into
theoretical issues relating to the field of postcolonialism, rather it
seeks to investigate more practical issues relating to the more
literally 'post-colonial' (in the sense of the era following
independence from erstwhile colonial or imperial powers), and the
effects this has had on the built environment.
Contributions are invited that cover the regions of East, Southeast and
South Asia (including countries that were not colonized (such as Japan
or Thailand) or were only partially colonized (such as China).
*Topics*
Topics could include (but are not limited to) the following:
1. How colonial networks enabled certain cities to take the lead in
the second half of the twentieth century to become global cities.
2. Underlying factors that encouraged colonialism in the first place
(for example, geographical: Hong Kong's natural harbour,
Shanghai's location at the mouth of the Yangtze, or Singapore's
command of the tip of the Malay Peninsula; social: the Dutch use
of pre-existing Chinese networks in their colonization of
Indonesia; or others: religious, military, access to raw
materials, etc.).
3. The move from colonialism to imperialism in the Western empires,
and the differences between them.
4. Use of colonial networks or systems (e.g. Singapore's continued
use of its British civil-service apparatus since independence).
5. Architecture's role in colonial and/or global cities; how it can
create identity and ethos, whether this be the colonial-era
courthouse or grand hotel or the global era's skyscraper and
shopping centre.
6. Factors that consolidated the colonial hold: e.g. railways,
military barracks, law courts and prisons, banking systems, etc.
7. The role of infrastructure, both tangible (such as railways, port
facilities, etc.) and intangible (e.g. property rights, the rule
of law, use of the English language, or indeed other languages).
8. Use of pre-colonial networks in the region (e.g. Chinese and
Indian traders in Southeast Asia before the Dutch and British
arrived).
9. Other systems: e.g. religious proselytising (Spain in the
Philippines or American Protestant missionaries in China, etc.),
local networks (native guilds, etc.), unofficial or illegal
networks (triads, etc.).
10. Factors that enabled certain cities (and regions) to make the
successful segue from colonial node to global city (or city
region) after independence
11. Post-colonial networks.
*Requirements*
Abstracts should be submitted to Dr Gregory Bracken at the IIAS:
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Deadline: 31 January 2013
Abstracts should consist of:
* Title
* Subtitle (if required)
* Text of approximately 200 words
* Contributor's name
* Academic discipline
* Affiliation
*Please note *that neither the IIAS nor TU Delft will be in a position
to help fund contributors' trips to the seminar (if their abstract is
selected for full-paper presentation). We do, however, intend to gather
a selection of the papers into a book which will be a fully
peer-reviewed publication. This may act as encouragement for academic
administrators to allow their staff to make the trip. This seminar
series has a good track record at converting previous events into
peer-reviewed publications:
* Seminar number two (Delft 2010) resulted in /Aspects of
Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou/
<http://list.iias.asia/lists/lt.php?id=cE9SXAEFAF4EGg4ITwJUB1tX>,
published by the University of Amsterdam Press in spring 2012.
* Seminar number three (Shanghai 2011) is currently under peer
review and is scheduled to be published as a special issue of
Footprint journal in spring 2013.
*Information*
For enquiries about the seminar, please contact Dr Gregory Bracken:
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