Browsing Asia Colloquia Papers by Title
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Denouncing Party Politics: Indignation and Domestic Confinement in Karachi
(01-01-2013)Delivering her lecture as part of the 2012 York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Urban Asia Series, Dr. Tania Ahmad examines the events surrounding the 12 May 2007 Karachi riots, the discourse of self-described “ordinary ... -
Failing State or Fragmented Hegemony: The Political Economy of Change in Pakistan
(01-01-2016)The relationship between the Pakistani state and society is a complex and evolving one. It continues to be shaped by class, national oppression, patriarchy, caste-ism and the myriad legacies of colonialism. In his talk, ... -
Floating Points: From Diasporic Spaces to Multicultural Places
(09-01-2011)In the study of Asian immigrant communities and culture in North America, particularly in arts and literature, two intellectual approaches have emerged: the transnational which focuses on country and culture of origin ... -
Methodological Approaches to Unpacking Testimonies made to Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
(01-01-2015)In this paper, I analyze Tamil women’s testimonies that were made to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in 2010-2011, an inquiry commission set up by the Sri Lankan government to investigate the final ... -
“Other Diplomacies” and the Making of Canada-Asian Relations: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
(08-01-2012)How have societal interactions constituted Canada-Asia relations historically and up to the present? What understandings of Canada-Asia relations emerge if we focus on the diverse connections between Asian and Canadian ... -
Poverty and the Imagination of a Future: The Story of Urban Slums in Delhi, India
(04-01-2012)How do the poor see themselves? In their daily struggles, how do they use creative imaginings to withstand various stresses and their seemingly never- ending effort at subsistence? In this paper, Veena Das explores the ... -
Producing the Islamist Subject: Liberalism and the Postcolonial State
(01-01-2015)This paper examines how Islamist publications represent the history of Pakistan as a story of betrayal by the country’s leaders. These publications emphasize that the very ideology which forms the basis of Pakistan has ... -
Should the Chinese Language be Taught in Putonghua? Contested Identities in Post-1997 Hong Kong
(2017-12-30)This talk by Po King Choi was the inaugural Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture organized by the York Centre for Asian Research on 27 April 2017. Bernard H. K. Luk (1946-2016) was a Professor of History at York University, ... -
Taiwan and Changing Global Order: Perspectives from the 2012 Young Leaders Delegation
This special issue of the Asia Colloquia Papers examines some of the diverse issues that confront Taiwan in the context of changing global and Asia-Pacific regional order. The papers, written by senior students who ... -
The Intermediary Trap: International Labour Recruitment, Transnational Governance and State-Citizen Relations in China
(01-01-2013)Delivering the 2012 York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Asia Lecture on the occasion of YCAR’s 10th anniversary, Dr. XIANG Biao explores the high cost of legal transnational labour migration for unskilled Chinese labourers. ... -
The Naxalite Movement and the Indian State, 1967-1969
(01-01-2015)Despite the recent characterizations of the Naxalite movement as India’s “bloody class war” in the New York Times or as the country’s “greatest internal security threat,” the history of the struggle defies simple categorization. ... -
Vietnam, the Philippines, Guam and California: Connecting the Dots of U.S. Military Empire
(01-01-2016)In the 2015 Asia Lecture at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), Dr. Yen Le Espiritu views the Vietnamese refugee flight— from Vietnam to the Philippines to Guam and then to California, all of which routed the refugees ... -
Waste Matters: Informal Economies and Commodity Detritus in Delhi, India
(01-01-2014)In the 2013 Asia Lecture, Vinay Gidwani examined through stories, images and both conceptual and empirical analysis the spatial histories and evolving political economy of waste in Delhi, India. Dr. Gidwani focused ... -
What does the Ethnic Costume Represent?
(09-01-2011)Clothes are inseparably related to our daily life. They not only protect the body, but also enable expression of one’s identity through design, color, and so on. In particular, an ethnic costume is a strong statement of ...