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12. Between the Sky and the Earth: Contemporary Art from the UAE
- Author:
- Afra Aldhaheri and Asma Belhamar
- Publication Date:
- 02-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Abstract:
- Afra Aldhaheri and Asma Belhamar, two featured artists in the MEI Art Gallery’s latest exhibition, Between the Sky and the Earth: Contemporary Art from the UAE, join MEI’s Lyne Sneige to discuss the inspirations and artistic processes behind their pieces in the show.
- Topic:
- Development, Arts, and Culture
- Political Geography:
- Middle East, United Arab Emirates, and Gulf Nations
13. Energy in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Author:
- Karen E. Young, Emily Stromquist, and Colby Connelly
- Publication Date:
- 05-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Abstract:
- Karen Young, director of MEI's Program on Economics and Energy, is joined by Emily Stromquist and Colby Connelly for a discussion on gas and energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean.
- Topic:
- Development, Gas, Investment, and Energy
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Middle East, Israel, Algeria, Egypt, and Eastern Mediterranean
14. From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia
- Author:
- Dan Slater and Daniel M. Smith
- Publication Date:
- 09-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular record of development that has turned one of the world’s poorest regions into one of its richest. Yet Asia’s record of democratization has been much more uneven, despite the global correlation between development and democracy. Why have some Asian countries become more democratic as they have grown richer, while others—most notably China—haven’t? Slater and Wong demonstrate that Asia defies the conventional expectation that authoritarian regimes concede democratization only as a last resort, during times of weakness. Instead, Asian dictators have pursued democratic reforms as a proactive strategy to revitalize their power from a position of strength. Of central importance is whether authoritarians are confident of victory and stability. In Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan these factors fostered democracy through strength, while democratic experiments in Indonesia, Thailand, and Myanmar were less successful and more reversible. At the same time, resistance to democratic reforms has proven intractable in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Reconsidering China’s 1989 crackdown, Slater and Wong argue that it was the action of a regime too weak to concede, not too strong to fail, and they explain why China can allow democracy without inviting instability. The result is a comprehensive regional history that offers important new insights about when and how democratic transitions happen—and what the future of Asia might be.
- Topic:
- Development, Authoritarianism, Democracy, Economic Growth, and Industrialization
- Political Geography:
- Asia
15. The Urbanization of People- The Politics of Development in the Chinese City
- Author:
- Eli Friedman and Yao Lu
- Publication Date:
- 12-2022
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- The Urbanization of People (May 2022, Columbia University Press) reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. Using the school as a lens on urban life, Eli Friedman investigates how the state manages flows of people into the city. He demonstrates that urban governments are providing quality public education to those who need it least: school admissions for nonlocals heavily favor families with high levels of economic and cultural capital. Those deemed not useful are left to enroll their children in precarious resource-starved private schools that sometimes are subjected to forced demolition. Over time, these populations are shunted away to smaller locales with inferior public services. Based on extensive ethnographic research and hundreds of in-depth interviews, this interdisciplinary book details the policy framework that produces unequal outcomes as well as providing a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.
- Topic:
- Development, Politics, Urbanization, and Cities
- Political Geography:
- China and Asia
16. Japan, Parasitology, and Framing Developmental Ambitions
- Author:
- Alex Bay, Aya Homei, John P. DiMoia, Simon Toner, and Paul Kreitman
- Publication Date:
- 09-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- This panel considers the central and formative role of parasitology in Modern Japan (1868-present); and, moreover, explores how Japanese parasitology affected the home islands and the region, not just during the imperial period (Meiji, Taisho, early Showa), but also during post-1945 Showa, suggesting some form of reconfiguration in the post-colonial era. The three papers span specific parasitic diseases and micro- / local Japanese history (Bay), to next considering larger questions of Japan’s public health and ODA (overseas development assistance) structure (Homei), as well as how these ambitions ultimately affected regional partners and neighbors such as South Korea and Vietnam (DiMoia). Simon Toner is the panel discussant, and Paul Kreitman will moderate. If the panel brings together a specific field and a nation-state at its beginning, the aim ultimately is to move forward, looking at how this field influences environments at the micro, regional, and global levels. In sum, the ambition of this panel is to examine parasitology not only as field of practice within Japan / Japanese empire, but also to look at (1) its colonial / imperial implications, and (2) its post-colonial / developmental ambitions. In this sense, the panel seeks to join and contribute to a newer, emerging literature for Japan looking at pre / post-1945 continuities, as well as looking at the effects of Japan’s ODA (overseas development aid) efforts within broader East Asia and Southeast Asia.
- Topic:
- Development, History, Public Health, and Parasitology
- Political Geography:
- Japan and East Asia
17. MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Future Governmen
- Publication Date:
- 05-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The eleventh webinar in an eleven-part series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa.
- Topic:
- Development, Governance, State Building, and Sustainability
- Political Geography:
- Africa
18. MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Agricultural Reinvention with Sara Menker
- Publication Date:
- 05-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The tenth webinar in an eleven-part series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Development, Innovation, Sustainability, and Farming
- Political Geography:
- Africa
19. MIT X TAU Series: Africa’s Innovation in Education
- Publication Date:
- 04-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- MIT Center for International Studies
- Abstract:
- The ninth webinar in an eleven-part series focused on various aspects of sustainable development in Africa.
- Topic:
- Development, Governance, Innovation, and Sustainability
- Political Geography:
- Africa
20. Commemorating 50 Years of 'Outcast London'
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Video
- Institution:
- Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London
- Abstract:
- This event from the Mile End Institute, Raphael Samuel History Centre, and Modern British History Seminar will commemorate fifty years since the publication of Gareth Stedman Jones’ Outcast London. The webinar celebrates the book and featured a panel of experts whose research interests speak to the book’s themes, methods and politics.
- Topic:
- Development, Labor Issues, Urban, and Industrialization
- Political Geography:
- United Kingdom, Europe, and London