Dear colleagues
After a week‘s pause, I would like to inform and invite you to our next event in the summer semester colloquium series at the Institute of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage. Taking place next week Tuesday (8 May) at **6pm** (c.t.), Professor Aihwa Ong (University of California, Berkeley) will give a public evening lecture entitled “Distributed Sovereignty: Better Inroads Into Southeast Asia”. In addition to the altered time, please also note that the talk will take place in room 408 at CARMAH.
More information: www.carmah.berlin
Best
Jonas
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH)
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Distributed Sovereignty: Better Inroads Into Southeast Asia
ABSTRACT
China's "One Belt, One Road" policy was introduced by invoking the ancient Silk Road and the 15th century Admiral Zheng He's voyages to Southeast Asia and Africa. My talk dives below the cloud of imagery that surrounds this 21st century Chinese opening to the world. I view the mega-infrastructure as a mode of ruling beyond the state that has de- and re-territorializing effects abroad. As an assemblage of technology, capital, and politics, the Maritime Silk Road intervenes into an existing landscape of fragmentation and instability in Southeast Asia. By engineering and financing roads, railways, ports and zones, the Silk Road enhances circulations of trade as well as the incorporation and shared administration of multiple sites and diverse subjects in multiple sites. Besides material interconnectivity, political exceptions and a graduated form of sovereignty at many points help configure an emerging topology. The Silk Road has been branded as an umbrella that shelters small countries under the "liberal global order," but it can also be analyzed as an octopus that exercises a form of distributed sovereignty.
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has dealt with the entanglements of politics, technology, and culture in rapidly changing situations on the Asia Pacific rim. More recently, she has focused on regimes of governing, technology, and culture that crystallise new meanings and practices of the human.
More information: http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/people/aihwa-ong
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