[南アジアセンター共催] 東京大学文化人類学セミナー/ 東文研セミナー(UTokyo Cultural Anthropology Seminar/ Tobunken Seminar)
日時：2023年3月15日（水曜日）14:00-17:30
場所：オンライン/ 東京大学本郷キャンパス・東洋文化研究所大会議室（ハイフレックス）
報告者：
Dr. Mark Turin (The University of British Columbia)
“The Place for Indigenous Languages in Universities: Getting Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements”Dr. Sara Shneiderman (The University of British Columbia)
“Restructuring Life: Conflict, Disaster, and Transformation in Nepal”
要旨：
Dr. Mark Turin (The University of British Columbia)
“The Place for Indigenous Languages in Universities: Getting Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements”
In this talk, Dr. Turin offers a visually striking examination of several sites of colonial contestation and visible Indigeneity on the UBC campus in Vancouver, Canada, and explores the relevance of such interventions for universities more generally. The presenter outlines the historical context of language oppression and revitalization, and reflects on the ongoing relevance of Indigenous languages in negotiating the relationship between First Nations and the various levels of Canadian government. Dr. Turin asks what it means to unsettle the university and create more equitable, inclusive and welcoming spaces for Indigenous voices, languages and cultures on a college campus.Dr. Sara Shneiderman (The University of British Columbia)
“Restructuring Life: Conflict, Disaster, and Transformation in Nepal”
Ten years of Maoist-state civil conflict. Seven new provinces within a restructured secular federal democratic republic. Two devastating earthquakes with over 400 aftershocks. A new constitution. Countless humanitarian and development initiatives. Citizens of Nepal have experienced all of this and more over the last quarter century. How do people actively construct and reconstruct life in the face of such radical, multidimensional change? In times of transition, how do we imagine and build the ideal structures—material, social, and political—that we aspire to live in? Drawing upon more than two decades of ethnographic engagement in Dolakha, Nepal, this presentation explores how people navigate such transformations by taking the audience on a photographic journey through elements of the built environment that have been visibly reshaped over the last two decades, such as houses, temples, and roads.
使用言語：英語
共催:
東京大学南アジア研究センター
NIHUプロジェクト「環インド洋地域研究」京都大学拠点（KINDOWS）
科学研究費 基盤研究A「復興の比較研究─南アジアの事例から」（課題番号：19H00558）
南アジア研究センター・セミナー：Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London) ‘Singing beyond the (South Asian) nation-state: Unspeakable Attachments and their Narrative Forms’
日時:2023年1月19日（木）18:00-19:30
場所：東京外国語大学府中キャンパス 研究講義棟114教室/オンライン（ハイフレックス）
報告：Prof. Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London ) ‘Singing beyond the (South Asian) nation-state: Unspeakable Attachments and their Narrative Forms’
要旨：If in Homi Bhabha’s succinct formulation, nation is tied to narration, who, asked Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak in a memorable dialogue, sings the nation-state? What both sets of approaches share is a reliance on the nation-state as aspirational framework. Dialoguing with these now-standard paradigms, my talk explores how narrative space is made for what I call unspeakable attachments: unspeakable because they run against the grain of a certain ‘standard model’ of postcolonial collective belonging in South Asia. Family histories of mobility constantly interrupt the teleologies, cartographies, and pedagogies through which the State coaxes our hearts and minds to love the nation. How are standard protocols of the novel form rewritten to accommodate the conflicting range of emotions produced thereby? In formulating the question and proposing some answers, I turn to my work on Partition’s affective impact on intellectuals as postcolonial nation-builders, on embodied joy and performative memory as forms of resistance, as well as my new investigations into ‘Creole Indias’. In the process, I also draw some lines of continuity between my past and present research interests.
司会：丹羽京子（東京外国語大学）
使用言語：英語
東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター/東京大学南アジア研究センター(CSAS) / 環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト・大阪大学拠点 (HINDOWS) / 科研・基盤研究（B）「『感情』の視角から南アジア研究を再考する」（代表：粟屋利江）/ AA研共同利用・共同研究課題「南アジアの社会変動・運動における情動的契機」共催
日時:2022年11月11日（金) 18:00-19:30
場所：オンライン（ZOOM）
報告：
Dr. Farhana Rahman (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge), ‘Conducting Feminist Ethnographic Research: Notes from a Refugee Camp’
Dr. Nafay Choudhury (British Academy Fellow, University of Oxford), ‘Fragile Fieldwork: Strategizing Research in Unstable Settings’ディスカッサント: 中村沙絵（東京大学)
司会：井坂理穂（東京大学）
使用言語：英語
東京大学南アジア研究センター(CSAS) / 環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト (TINDOWS)/ 「人間の安全保障」プログラム（HSP）/東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター共催
南アジア研究センター・セミナー Dr. Jon Keune, ‘Hindu Devotionalism and the Question of Social Equality in Western India’
日時:2022年11月6日(日）16:00－18:00
場所:東京大学駒場キャンパス14号館6階605号室（対面形式）
報告: Jon Keune (Associate Professor, Michigan State University), ‘Hindu Devotionalism and the Question of Social Equality in Western India’
要旨
For more than a millennium, Hindu bhakti (devotional) traditions have stood out in South Asian social history because of their inclusion of women and people regarded as low-caste and Untouchable, who sometimes became highly revered saints within the traditions. Because of this, some modern scholars and social reformers have said that bhakti traditions promoted social equality. Other people, including the Dalit leader Bhimrao Ambedkar disagreed and argued bhakti traditions promoted only spiritual equality while maintaining the social hierarchy of caste. In his book Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India (Oxford, 2021), Dr. Jon Keune focused on a large and influential tradition in Marathi-speaking western India to explain the origins of this debate and why it is difficult to resolve. Drawing on Marathi manuscripts, popular printed texts, theatrical plays, and films, Keune shows how the relation between bhakti and caste was understood in several different perspectives that changed over centuries, as Indians adapted western political theories for their own use. Ways of managing food and eating together help to reveal these changes in this Indian case but also in cultures around the world and throughout history.
司会：小川道大（東京大学）
使用言語：英語
東京大学南アジア研究センター（CSAS）、マハーラーシュトラ研究会共催
南アジア研究センター・セミナー Dr. Rochana Bajpai, ‘Liberal ideas in India’
日時:2022年9月20日（火）17:00-18:30
場所：オンライン（ZOOM）
報告：Dr. Rochana Bajpai (SOAS): ‘Liberal ideas in India’
要旨
Liberal ideas in India remain understudied as liberalism, having been subsumed within Indian nationalism. Revisiting my earlier sketches of liberal ideas in India (Bajpai 2012, 2019), I distinguish three strands that were influential in nineteenth and twentieth-century India: colonial, nationalist, and radical. All shared a strong belief in the state as the principal agent of liberal reform and an acceptance of group-differentiated rights, reflected in the Indian Constitution. Even though liberal ideas have had a significant presence, strong liberalism has rarely been articulated – the need for limiting state power and protecting individual freedoms has rarely been elaborated, a key concern today. Liberalism is often located within Western colonialism in current debates in political theory. However, the decolonizing agenda also requires us to attend to the novel forms and emancipatory potential of liberal ideas and practices in non-Western contexts.
司会：井坂理穂（東京大学）
使用言語：英語
東京大学・南アジア研究センター/環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト、 東京外国語大学・南アジア研究センター共催
【南アジア研究センター共催】東文研セミナー Lecture by Dr. Jeevan R. Sharma, ‘Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal’
日時：2022年7月26日(火）15:00-17:00
場所：ハイフレックス（Zoom / 東洋文化研究所 303）
報告：Dr. Jeevan R. Sharma, “Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal”
要旨
Nepal has been undergoing tumultuous socio-political and economic changes since the 1950s. At the macro-level, politically, Nepal has leapfrogged from a feudal, hierarchical monarchy to a republican order that has attempted to engrain ideas of human rights, equality and inclusive citizenship. Economically, there has been a gradual shift in the political economy of rural livelihoods with the commodification of land and labour, the widespread flows of cash and financialisation and extensive out-migration, with the countryside deeply penetrated by the ideas as well as the material aspects of development, market and modernity. What does it mean to talk about change, transformation and transition in Nepal beyond its stereotypical image of fatalism and immobility? How are powerful historical processes experienced and negotiated in Nepal? How might we assess the paradoxical effects of these transformations in people’s lives and livelihoods, both in terms of expanding ideas of rights and freedom while also producing vulnerabilities and precarity?Drawing on insights from field research carried out in Nepal since 2004, this talk engages with these questions and considers whether and how Nepal’s political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal’s modern history and its location in the global economic system. First, this talk assembles and builds on the scholarship on Nepal from a multi-disciplinary and synoptic perspective. In doing so, there is an attempt to go beyond the sedentary, immobile, fatalist and romanticised narrative of Nepal that has remained dominant in orientalist scholarship on the country. Second, focusing on local discourses, experiences and expectations of transformations, this paper draws our attention to how powerful historical processes are experienced and negotiated in Nepal and assess how these may, at the same time, produce ideas of equality, human rights and citizenship, while also generating new forms of precarity.
*Jeevan R. Sharma is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in South Asia and International Development at Department of Social Anthropology, the University of Edinburgh.共催：東京大学東洋文化研究所班研究「南アジア北部における人類学的研究の再検討」/ 東京大学南アジア研究センター(CSAS)
南アジア研究センター・セミナー Dr. Nafay Choudhury, ‘Order in the Bazaar: Law, Norms, and Market Governance in Afghanistan’s Money Exchanger Market’
日時：2022年7月8日（金）18:00-19:30
場所：オンライン（ZOOM）
報告：Dr. Nafay Choudhury (PhD King’s College London/Jeremy Haworth Research Fellow, University of Cambridge/Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo）: ‘Order in the Bazaar: Law, Norms, and Market Governance in Afghanistan’s Money Exchanger Market’
要旨
This presentation examines the micro-dynamics of legal order in Afghanistan’s central money exchange bazaar, Sarai Shahzada, a market of some 400 stores in the heart of Kabul where millions of dollars exchange hands each day. The money bazaar is unique not only because of its ability to operate based on its own community norms, but particularly because the scale of its activities is so extensive that it permeates virtually every aspect of the country’s economy. The money exchangers who work in the bazaar are responsible for currency exchanging, money transfers (hawala), deposit safekeeping, trade financing, informal credit, holding funds in escrow, and controlling the money supply. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Kabul, Afghanistan (from 2017-2018), the presentation explores the interdependence of state and non-state legal systems in the production of legal order in the bazaar. For most of its history, the bazaar has been governed by informal legal norms. New state-building measures after 2001 led to increased efforts by the state to regulate the bazaar, causing money exchangers to initiate internal transformations to protect their autonomy. The research shows the centrality of the state in consolidating the bazaar legal system. Exchangers have cast their non-state legal system in the image of the state by formalizing new operating rules that have introduced a management structure and dispute resolution forum. New state licenses have also helped to safeguard the boundaries of the bazaar. This research contributes to private governance and legal pluralism scholarship by revealing that a private community, even in a fragile state, may be capable of maintaining an autonomous non-state legal system not in spite of, but rather by depending on, the state.
モデレーター：萬宮健策（東京外国語大学）、井坂理穂（東京大学）
コメンテーター：登利谷正人（東京外国語大学）
使用言語：英語
東京大学大学院「人間の安全保障」プログラム（HSP）/ 南アジア研究センター / 環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト / 持続的平和研究センター / 持続的開発研究センター、東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター共催
【南アジア研究センター共催】HSPセミナー Dr. Farhana Rahman, ‘”I Had No Will to Live”: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity Among Rohingya Refugee Women’
日時：2022年6月17日（金）18:00-19:30
場所：オンライン（ZOOM）
報告：Dr. Farhana Rahman（東京大学持続的平和研究センター 研究協力員）”I Had No Will to Live”: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity Among Rohingya Refugee Women
要旨
Until recently, Rohingyas making the perilous trek by boat and foot across the border into Bangladesh were predominantly male, as they were not only denied citizenship and legal rights in Myanmar but they also lacked economic opportunities within the country to support their families and communities. The 2017 attacks in Rakhine state, however, resulted in a drastic increase of women and girls undertaking these dangerous journeys to escape intense violence – including mass sexual violence – targeted against the Rohingya minority. The migration journeys of these women entailed not only violence and hardship, but also regular incidents of exploitation, including trafficking, rape, and forced marriage. Based on 14 months of feminist ethnographic research, this paper traces Rohingya women’s lived experiences of violence and conflict during and after forced migration on their everyday lives and subjectivities in the squalid camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It shines a nuanced lens on the gendered impacts of forced migration, and the ways in which Rohingya women learn to negotiate and navigate within and against this precarious environment by employing strategies of survival. Rohingya refugee women’s narratives thus reveal the construction of new gendered identities in displacement, and evidence women’s incredible resilience in spite of profound trauma and suffering.
モデレーター：キハラハント愛（東京大学持続的平和研究センター センター長）
コメンテーター：Dr. Lisette Robles（国際協力機構 緒方貞子平和開発研究所 研究員）
使用言語：英語
東京大学大学院「人間の安全保障」プログラム（HSP）/ 南アジア研究センター / 環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト / 持続的平和研究センター / 持続的開発研究センター、東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター共催
