[IIAS] The Newsletter | No. 94 | Spring 2023

Indigenous Community-based Water Governance. Assam/Nagaland,  Karen, Papua, and Sabah

View this email in your browser Dear Mr Updtes, in the light of the climate crisis, water is defined in quantifiable terms, as a commodity meant to be controlled or dominated. Indigenous Peoples' knowledge about water underlines the non-materialistic and non-scientific understandings of waterbodies. This issue's Focus uniquely explores Indigenous accounts of water management, and is (co-)written by Indigenous authors.  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 director A New Fellowship Coordinator for a Revamped Programme Philippe Peycam   4 Dead Wet Girls versus Monstrous Mothers: The Female "Monster" in Japanese Horror Cinema Jennifer M. Yoo 6 Sea Changes in the Lives of Japanese Buddhist Women in Hawai'i Karma Lekshe Tsomo 8 Leave to Enter: Visas and Academic Mobility from the Global South Saba Sharma 10 The Composite Elephant: An Unseen History of Connected Asia and Beyond Pichayapat Naisupap 12 Xinjiang as Eurasia's Energy Hub: A Governance Perspective Susann Handke   14 Silk Road Treasures on Show at a New Exhibition at the Louvre Museum in Paris Elena Paskaleva 16 Representing Arthur Gunn: Popular Music, American Idol, and Imaginaries of Nepal Benjamin Linder & Premila van Ommen 18 A Journey to the West: What Could a Fragment of Porcelain Tell? Zixi (Peter) Zhang 20 The Tensions of Regional Revitalization in Japan Anthony Rausch   22 News from Southeast Asia Regional Editor: Terence Chong 24 China Connections Regional Editor: Shujing WANG   28 News from Northeast Asia Regional Editor: Ilhong Ko   31 Indigenous Community-based Water Governance; Assam/Nagaland, Karen, Papua, and Sabah Saw John Bright & Bram Steenhuisen 32 The Entangled Sphere of the Dimasas' Socio-Cultural Life and Its Implications for Water Governance Prithibi Pratibha Gogoi 34 Water and Fish Conservation by Karen Communities: An Indigenous Relational Approach Andrew Paul, Saw Sha Bwe Moo, & Robin Roth   36 Water Governance from the Perspective of Indigenous Peoples in Papua Elisabeth Veronika Wambrauw 38 "Use and Protect": How Indigenous Community Watershed Management in Sabah Sustains Micro-Hydro Systems Adrian Lasimbang   40 Connecting the Musical Dots of Cold War Korea: Ely Haimowitz and Kim Sunnam Yoon Joo Hwang   42 Contemporary Chinese Master of the Traditional Papercut Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky   44 ICAS Book Prize 2023 Martina van den Haak & Wai Cheung 47 The Geopolitical Economy of Energy Transition: Comparing China's Belt and Road Initiative and the European Union (2000 – 2023) Mehdi P. Amineh 47 Launch of the River Cities Network: Engaging with Waterways in the Anthropocene Paul Rabé 48 Textile and Dyes as Transnational, Global Knowledge Francesco Montuori & Meera Curam (Graduate School participants) 49 Craft as METHOD Aarti Kawlra (HAB Academic Director)   49 The Unknown University: notes on 'Collaboration as Method' Laura Erber (IIAS Fellowship Programme Coordinator) 50 What we talk about when we talk about being a fellow at IIAS Laura Erber 51 A Cityscape below the Winds Pierpaolo De Giosa 51 Latest publication - River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History 52 IIAS Research, Networks, and Initiatives 52 The Adspace   54 Teaching the Craft of Writing. An Interview with Tom Robertson Benjamin Linder   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 © 2023 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