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Research programmesThe collaborative thematic research programmes set up by the IIAS are to be developed and executed by promising research fellows in co-operation with a programme director and, if necessary, with the support of senior visiting fellows and/or coaching, i.e. by a supervision committee.
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ProjectsABIA South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology IndexThe Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA) project is a global network of scholars co-operating on an annotated bibliographic database for publications covering South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology. Asia DesignIIAS has started a few initial activities to set up a research programme that will consist of a number of individual projects related to design in Asia. Energy Programme AsiaThe objective of the EPA-research programme are twofold: 1. Energy supply security and geopolitics 2. Energy efficiency, alternative energy resources and sustainable development. Gender, migration and family in East and Southeast AsiaDeveloped from an earlier research project (see annual report 2006) on Intermediated Cross-border Marriages, this project is a comparative study on intra-regional flows of migration in East and Southeast Asia with a focus on gender and family. It aims at studying the linkage between the immigration regimes, transnational families and migrants' experiences. Genomics in Asia: Socio-Genetic MarginalizationThis research programme studies the socio-political implications and practices of the development and application of the new biomedical and genetic technologies in Asian religious and secular cultures. IIAS Centre for Regulation and GovernanceThe IIAS Centre for Regulation and Governance is the first European research centre devoted to the study of regulation and governance in Asia. The Centre engages in innovative and comparative research on the theories and practices of regulation and governance. Focusing on emerging markets of Asia such as China, India, South Korea, and Indonesia, the Centre serves as a focal point of collaborative research between European and Asian scholars. It emphasises multidisciplinarity in its research undertakings which combine approaches from political economy, law, public administration, criminology, and sociology in the comparative analysis of regulatory issues in Asia and in developing theories of governance pertinent to Asian realities. Illegal but Licit: Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities in AsiaThis research programme analyses particular forms of globalisation-from-below: transnational practices that are considered acceptable (licit) by participants but are often illegal in a formal sense. The programme focuses on flows of poor people and goods across international borders in Asia - movements that are not allowed by states but are not ‘organised crime' either.
Islam in Indonesia: The Dissemination of Religious Authority in the 20th and Early 21st CenturiesThis research programme addresses the forms and transformations of religious authority among the Indonesian Muslim community. The term authority relates both to persons and to books as well as various other forms of written and non-written references.
Jatropha Research and Knowledge network (JARAK)IIAS has become partner in a new network called JARAK, the Jatropha Research and Knowledge network on claims and facts concerning socially sustainable jatropha production in Indonesia. Jatropha is crop that seems very promising: it can be used as a clean non-fossil diesel fuel and it can provide new income sources in marginal areas that will grow the crop.
Science and History in AsiaIIAS, the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University, the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge and the Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS) in Paris have started a scholarly network of researchers who address topics of the history of science in Asia. Searching for sustainability in Eastern Indonesian watersThe threat of biodiversity depletion calls for the establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), especially in rich natural environments like the marine space of eastern Indonesia. Most approaches to the establishment of MPAs, however, are science-based. Several interconnected developments demand a constructive analysis of the societal impacts of a predominantly technical and science oriented approach to the establishment of MPAs around the world. The Postcolonial Global CityThis research examines the postcolonial cities of South and East Asia, and how some of them have made the successful segue from nodes in formerly colonial networks to global cities in their own right. This is intended to be an inter-disciplinary approach bringing together architects and urbanists, geographers, sociologists and political scientists, as well as historians, linguists and anyone else involved in the field of Asian studies. The area under investigation consists of South, East and South-East Asia, and includes India, China, Japan, the Koreas, Indochina, Australasia and Micronesia, and concentrates on cities that have successfully made the transition from colonial to postcolonial nodes in the global network (e.g. places like Hong Kong, Singapore or Shanghai). The Syntax of the languages of Southern ChinaA joint NWO/Leiden University The project The Syntax of the Languages of Southern China aims at a descriptive analytical aspect and a theoretical aspect. On the descriptive analytical side, its purpose is to achieve a detailed description and in depth analysis of a limited number of syntactic phenomena in six languages, both Sinitic and non-Sinitic, spoken in the area south of the Yangtze River. |