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Newsletter No. 11 | February 2014

“Spaces of Conflict in Everyday Life: Figurations and Methodology”

The upcoming 3rd Crossroads Asia conference will take place at LMU Munich, October 2-3, 2014. The conference won’t focus so much on the contents of conflicts but rather on the how of conflicts: the ways and modes of action as well as mobilization, the imaginaries and narratives, the structures and linkages created through conflicts. As research itself becomes often part of conflicts we are also focusing on methodological issues and the politics of research on conflicts. Contributions that focus on actors perspectives on their everyday contexts are of special interest to the conference - the deadline for submission of abstracts is March 31, 2014. For more information you can download the call for papers or contact crossroads@LMU.de.

Crossroads Asia FellowsA warm welcome to our new fellows: » Arne Harms will join M. Sökefeld’s team at

LMU Munich beginning February for a 4-month-fellowship on “Nodal fringes: unstable places and unsettled biographies in Bengal and beyond” and on “Environmental displacement and fragile citizenship”.

» Kamoludin Abdullaev, hosted by I. Baldauf’s team at HU Berlin will start his 3-month- fellowship in the beginning of March on “Conflict and Migration in 20th Century Central Asia”.

» Asadullah Ahmadi will also join I. Baldauf at HU Berlin and start his 4-month-fellowship in early March to pursue research on “Land and Conflict: Land- grabbing and Land -ownership in Kabul today”.

New Crossroads Asia Publications » Issue No. 15: “Crossroads Studies: From Spatial

Containers to Interactions in Differentiated Spatialities. ‘Area Studies’-Discussion paper of the Research Network Crossroads Asia” by K. Mielke & A.-K. Hornidge.

» Issue No. 14: “Investment and Translocality. Recontextualizing the Baloch in Islamic and Global History” by B. Spooner.

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ContentsHighlights 1

Activities in the Network 2Crossroads Asia Lectures 2Crossroads Asia Workshops 2Recent Publications 2Lectures and Presentations 4Shaping (Science) Policy 5 Interviews 5News from the field 5“Cross”-blogging 6

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Activities in the NetworkCrossroads Asia Lectures - UpcomingSteenberg, R.: “Network or community. The utility of

two models of social relations on the case of urban Uyghur Kashgar, Xinjiang, China”, ZEF Bonn, February 19, 2014 at 11 am.

Mielke, K., Hornidge, A.-K. & Schetter, C.: Presentation on “Crossroads Studies” at the workshop ‘Space and Ordering in the Area Studies’, jointly organized by the DFG-SPP1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa”, University of Bonn and the Research Network Crossroads Asia, February 17, 2014.

Crossroads Asia Lectures - PastHill, J.: “ZEF ethics policy, and ethical clearance

procedure”, Crossroads Asia lecture, ZEF Bonn, January 15, 2014.

Marung, S.: “Area Studies”, Crossroads Asia lecture series, ZEF Bonn, December 11, 2013.

Call for PapersConference “Crossroads Studies:

mobilities, immobilities and the issue of positionality for rethinking Area

The conference on ‘Crossroads Studies’ (November 27-28, 2014 at ZEF Bonn) aims to bring together the empirical research conducted by the network members with empirical, conceptual and methodological debates on the rethinking of Area Studies. Submissions related to the rethinking of Area Studies from any disciplinary or Area Studies perspective as well as of empirical or conceptual nature are welcome. The deadline for the submission of papers is April 30, 2014. Please download entire Call for Papers here. For more information please visit our website or contact crossroads@uni-bonn.de.

Crossroads Asia Workshop - upcoming

“After the Field“: The next internal Crossroads Asia workshop will take place on Monday, February 3, 2014 at ZELF, FU Berlin (Campus Lankwitz, room G 110). Central topics will be the presentation of the post-scripts of the working groups, the discussion of the recently published Crossroads Studies working paper and the 2nd phase proposal draft. A Transregional Workshop will be organized on March 21, 2014 at ZMO Berlin. Contact: Crossroads Asia head office.Details: February 3, 10 am, ZELF, FU Berlin

“Transregional Crossroads of Social Interaction: The Shifting Meaning of Regional Belonging in South and Central Asia”: This Workshop proposes to read the transregional interaction here in terms of social, economic, cultural and religious interaction. It will held March 21, 2014 at ZMO, Berlin. Contact: Antia Mato Bouzas. Details: March 21, 2014, ZMO, Berlin.

Crossroads Asia Workshop - Past

Joint Workshop on ”Crossroads Studies”: The central topic of the second meeting of the competence networks Latin America and Crossroads Asia was the discussion about the recently published ‘Crossroads Studies’-Discussion Paper. Besides this, the workshop focused amongst others on the comparison of area studies and the systematic disciplines and the economization of the distribution of subjects at universities. The workshop took place at ZEF Bonn, December 13, 2013.

Recent PublicationsFeuer, H., Hornidge, A.-K. & Schetter, C. (2013):

Rebuilding Knowledge – Opportunities and Risks for Higher Education in Post-Conflict Regions. ZEF Working Paper Series Vol. 121. Bonn: Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung.

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Hill, J. (2013): Farmer managed irrigation systems in the Alai (Kyrgyzstan) and Pamir (Tajikistan) mountains. GWF Discussion Paper 1343, Canberra: Global Water Forum.

Van Assche, K, Hornidge, A.-K.& Shtaltovna, A. (2013): Visible and invisible informalities and institutional transformation. Lessons from transition countries: Georgia, Romania, Uzbekistan. In: Hayoz, N. & Giordano, C. (eds.): Informality in Eastern Europe. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 89-118.

Kreutzmann, H. (ed.) (2013): Preservation of built environment and its impact on community development in Gilgit-Baltistan. Berlin Geographical Papers 42. FU Berlin: Center for Development Studies (ZELF).

Kreutzmann, H. (2013): Preservation of Gilgit-Baltistan’s cultural heritage as a key to development. In: Kreutzmann, H. (ed.): Preservation of built environment and its impact on community development in Gilgit-Baltistan. Berlin Geographical Papers 42, 1-40.

Kreutzmann, H. (2013): Epilogue: An inevitable disaster or another paradise lost? In: Kreutzmann, H. (ed.): Preservation of built environment and its impact on community development in Gilgit-Baltistan. Berlin Geographical Papers 42, 51-55.

Kreutzmann, H. (2013): Sustainability in changing environments. Keynote lecture: Adaptation to changing environments in the Himalayas. In: Mizushima, K. (ed.): International Symposium ‘Mountain environments and man: sustainability in changing environments’, Hokkaido University, 13-21.

Mielke, K. (2013): Badachschan. Peripherie, Durchgangsraum und Zentrum polit-ökonomischer Interessen vor den Wahlen. In: Afghanistan Info, 73, 9-11.

Mielke, K. & Wilde, A. (2013): Order, Stability, and Change in Afghanistan: from Top-Down to Bottom-up State-Making. In: Central Asian Survey 32:3, 353-370.

Rzehak, L. (2013): Recalling the Past to Assert Ethnic Rights in the Present: The Case of the Gawars in Afghanistan. In: ASIEN 129, 22-37 .

Schmidt, M. (2013): Mensch und Umwelt in Kirgistan. Politische Ökologie im postkolonialen und postsozialistischen Kontext. Erdkundliches Wissen 153. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

Smolarz, E. (2013): Bookreview on Géza Dávid & Pál Foder: Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman Borders. Early Fifteenth - Early Eighteenth Centuries. In: sehepunkte 13:11.

Wenzel, C. (2013): Getting by after Internal Migration. Scenes from the Life of a Day Laborer Family in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. In: ASIEN 129, 38-50.

Wilde, A. (2013): Underestimated and Ignored: Iran’s Current Afghanistan Policy between Soft Power and Hard Measures. In: Snetkov, A. (ed.): The Regional Dimensions to Security. Other Sides of Afghanistan. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 100-119.

Book LaunchBuchholz, Benjamin (2013): “Loya Jirga. Afghanischer

Mythos, Ratsversammlung und Verfassungsorgan”

On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 at ZEF Bonn, Benjamin Buchholz will present his study on the Loya Jirga, the Afghan assembly of tribal elders and notables. The Loya Jirga appears as a traditional tribal parliament with a broad political influence, but the study reveals how it has been used until nowadays by changing Afghan governments to spread their power from Kabul to the provinces. The book launch will be introduced by A.-K. Hornidge (ZEF) and C. Schetter (BICC) and followed by a reception. For more information you can download the programme on our website or contact A.-K. Hornidge

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Lectures and Presentations - Upcoming

Boedeker, J.: “Figurations of Social Space: Examples of Baloch Social Practices at the Political Boundaries of States”, presentation at workshop “Living in Asian borderlands: an appreciation of resources” at Universität Tübingen, February 7-8, 2014.

Hornidge, A.-K.: “Agricultural Knowledge Systems and Innovation Research: From Interdisciplinary Research into Agricultural Epistemic Cultures to a Transdisciplinary Approach to Innovation Development”, presentation as part of the series “Transformative Science“, University of Bozen, Bozen, Italy, March 05, 2014.

Mielke, K.: Public presentation on “Conflict in Pakistan”, organized by Bonner Politik-Forum, February 25, 2014.

Wilde, A.: “Moving beyond the Khyber and the Arabian Sea: The Horse Trade between India, Central Asia, Iran and the Arabian Peninsula”, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, February 26, 2014.

Lectures and Presentations - PastHill, J.: “Farmer-managed irrigation systems in the

Karakorum (Skardu district) and trans-Himalaya (Kargil district): How sustainable are present-day irrigation development interventions?”, International Conference on Sustainable Development Chandigarh Judicial Academy, Punjab, December 5, 2013.

Hill, J.: “Small places, large issues: Farmer-managed irrigation in the Karakorum (Baltistan) and trans-Himalaya (Ladakh)”, ZEF colloquium series, ZEF Bonn, January 9, 2014.

Hornidge, A.-K.: Presentation “Wassermanagement als Grenzmanagement in Usbekistan“, as part of the Ringvorlesung “Entwicklungspolitik XXIII, Schwerpunktthema Wasserkonflikte und Wasserkooperationen“, TU Berlin, 16 January 2014.

Ismailbekova, A.: “Kinship and Marriage as Coping Strategies in the Aftermath of Osh Conflict, Kyrgyzstan”, at conference “The Visible and the Invisible. Institutions and identities in contemporary Central Asia”, University of Zurich, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, December 20-22, 2013.

Save the Date“Transdisciplinary Sustainability

Research and Development Cooperation”

On February 25, 2014 ZEF organizes in cooperation with Unesco, Brot für die Welt and Plattform Forschungswende a conference on “Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research and Development Cooperation”, chaired by A.-K. Hornidge. The conference is held in German and is intended for scientists related to development research and practioners in the field of development cooperation. For more information please download the programme. The deadline for applications is February 10, 2014.

Call for PapersSTS Italia Conference “A Matter of De-sign. Making Society through Science and Technology”

The conference will be held in Milan, June 12-14, 2014, and is an opportunity to present empirical and theoretical works from a variety of disciplines and fields (sociology, anthropology, law, philosophy, design, psychology, semiotics, history, economics, etc.). It focuses on diverse aspects of the social study of innovation processes, technology, science and design. The theme of the 5th STS Italia Conference is design processes. The Deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2014. For further information you can download the call for abstracts or contact conferences@stsitalia.org

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Kreutzmann, H.: Presentation on “Kashmir – Borders and contested spaces”, at seminar “The Jammu and Kashmir Dispute: Hurdle to peace and prosperity in South Asia”, Gesellschaft für Erdkunde Berlin, November 27, 2013.

Kreutzmann, H.: “Potential macro-economic approaches for mountain development”, International Conference on addressing poverty and vulnerability in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas, ICIMOD Kathmandu, December 2, 2013.

Kreutzmann, H.: “Central Asian oases - from trading towns to centres of modernization”, Colloque “Les oasis dans la mondialisation: ruptures et continuités“, Universités Paris 13-Nord et Paris-Diderot, December 17, 2013.

Kreutzmann, H.: “Tibet in China - Mythos und Alltag auf dem Dach der Welt“, Geographische Gesellschaft, Passau, January 13, 2014.

Nadjmabadi, S.: “Approaching Iran. A series of anthropological debates aboutand with a country and its people (in Persian language)”, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (AOI), Universität Tübingen, January 28, 2014.

Rzehak, L.: Introductionary lesson on ethnic and linguistic dynamics in modern Afghanistan, conference “Wokół Hindukuszu – Around the Hindukush”, Cracow University, October 29-30, 2013.

Rzehak, L.: Presentation on “From Afghanistan to Iran and back: Linguistic behaviour of Afghan migrants”, at “Mobilität und Sprache” (conference held as part of Österreichischer Linguistentag), November 24, 2013.

Shaping (Science) Policy

Hornidge, K. & Mielke, K.: Participation in international Workshop «Immigration policies, immigrant rights and social inclusion. Western experiences and Asian Challenges», jointly organized by National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University Singapore and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), November 11-12, 2013.

Reetz, D.: Participation in Global Agenda Council for Pakistan of the World Economic Forum in Abu Dhabi, November 18-20, 2013.

Interviews

Mielke, K.: Guest-interviewee as co-author of “Pakistan. Land der Extreme” in live radio broadcast „Fragen an den Autor» of Saarländischer Rundfunk (channel SR2), Saarbrücken, December 8, 2013.

News from the field

Grieser, A.: Field research in Pakistan, January 22- end of April, 2014.

Mielke, K.: Field research, project “Sub-urban movements: Social inequality and dynamics of micro-mobilization”, field research in Lahore/Pakistan from November 15 - December 4, 2013.

Reetz, D.: Field research in Pakistan, October 3-24, 2013.

Call for Papers“Pakistan beyond Tremors and Terror: Critical Engagements With Political,

Economic And Cultural Change”

The conference takes place in Toronto, May 29-30 2014, and will challenge general public views on Pakistan and will bring together scholars whose research moves beyond prevailing ways to a more complex understanding of Pakistan and its people. In addition to contesting popular discourses around Islamic fundamentalism and the ‘War on Terror’, this conference also intends to give attention to other topics scarcely covered in the mainstream debate. Deadline for submissions is February 16, 2014. You can find more information and the list of submission topics online.

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“Cross“-bloggingLutz Rzehak went to a conference on social and political development in and around Afghanistan that featured some problems quite close to the core ideas of the Crossroads Asia project at Cracow University. Here is an extract of his blog- entry: “Interregional relations between Afghanistan and its neighbors were discussed by Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś in her paper “Afghans in South Asia – history of contacts”, by Jakub Gajda in a paper titled “Afghanistan as a global area of rivalry - the role of regional powers”, and by Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari in her paper “Afghanistan from the Iranian point of view”. The latter presentation had a special focus on the situation of Afghan migrants as well as on stereotypes and on the role of propaganda for creating and supporting these stereotypes in modern Iran. (...) Cracow has been an important center for Afghanistan studies for a very long time and the conference made clear that this tradition is still alive.” For the whole blog- entry please visit our website.

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Responsible Editor: Dr. Anna-Katharina Hornidge, hornidge@uni-bonn.deLayout: Catherine Reynolds and Helena Cermeno MediavillaCrossroads Asia Newsletter is a quarterly publication, free of charge.Crossroads Asia competence network is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Crossroads Asia - Background Information

The competence network Crossroads Asia derives its name from the geographical area extending from eastern Iran to western China and from the Aral Sea to northern India. The scholars collaborating in the competence network pursue a novel, ‘post-area studies’ approach, making thematic figurations and mobility the overarching perspectives of their research in Crossroads Asia. The concept of figuration implies that changes, minor or major, within one element of a constellation always affect the constellation as a whole; the network will test the value of this concept for understanding the complex structures framed by the cultural, political and socio-economic contexts in Crossroads Asia. Mobility, the other key concept for studying Crossroads Asia, has always been a space of entangled interaction and communication, with human beings, ideas and commodities on the move across and beyond cultural, social and political borders. Figurations and mobility thus form the analytical frame of all three main thematic foci of our research: conflict, migration, and development.Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Crossroads Asia competence network was established in spring of 2011. It aims to mediate between the academic study of Crossroads Asia and efforts to meet the high demand for information on this area in politics and the public. Findings of the project will feed into academic teaching, research outside the limits of the competence network, and public relations efforts. Further information on Crossroads Asia is available at www.crossroads-asia.de.

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HighlightsActivities in the Network“Cross“-blogging