https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/issue/feed 2018-03-16T15:36:50+00:00 Redaktion Internationales Asienforum abifr@abi.uni-freiburg.de Open Journal Systems <p>Welcome to the online archive of the Internationales Asienforum! The journal has ceased publication in 2016, it is succeeded by the International Quarterly for Asian Studies. On these sites you will find all issues of the journal published during its existence from 1970 to 2016.</p> <p>The Internationales Asienforum was founded in 1970 as an interdisciplinary academic journal for Asian Studies in Germany. Its aim was to report on current and historical themes that contribute to the understanding of politics, economics and society of nowadays Asia. The results of social science research should be made known to a broader audience beyond the smaller circle of regional experts, and were intended to form a solid information basis for public discourse on Asia. Due to its focus on a mainly German public, a major part of the articles were published in German language. IQAS basically continues the core mission of the Internationales Asienforum, but has opened itself up to a more international readership and on-eye-level cooperation with scholars from Asia.</p> <p>The retro-digitization of the Internationales Asienforum could be realized only through the generous support of the library of the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Library and the FID Asia.</p> https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3679 2018-03-16T15:36:35+00:00 Markus Keck marcel.kuon@gmx.de Carsten Butsch marcel.kuon@gmx.de Mareike Kroll marcel.kuon@gmx.de

Since the 1990s, “space”, “place”, “spatiality” and “geographies” have become key categories in social sciences. While disciplines like sociology, economics, social anthropology, history or political science have ignored such categories for a long time, the multiple globalization processes and their implications for societies worldwide after the fall of the Iron Curtain have led to a vigorous debate on spatial notions and their manifold meanings across disciplines. This re-discovery has been apostrophized as the “spatial turn” of social sciences and the humanities. For geography, this shift in perspective had at least two implications: First, it led to a much more pronounced discussion among geographers on what is actually meant by the notion of space. While geography has always understood itself as chorological science, there was surprisingly little controversy about the meaning of the key term of the discipline until the end of World War II.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Markus Keck, Carsten Butsch, Mareike Kroll https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3680 2018-03-16T15:36:36+00:00 Lisa-Michèle Bott marcel.kuon@gmx.de

In many countries of the Global South, climate-induced migration is still stigmatised as a failure to adapt. However, comprehensive adaptation requires open approaches that include migration as part of the solution. Stakeholders from governments and NGOs play a central role in shaping actions for adaptation. Using Pakistan as a case study, this paper analyses how stakeholders perceive the nexus between environmental risks and migration, and how these perceptions influence adaptation outcomes. Pakistan is expected to be strongly affected by future climate change. Repeated natural hazards are threatening the highly vulnerable population. Results from qualitative expert and stakeholder interviews reveal that climate change has a low priority in Pakistan. Other problems such as violent conflicts and hunger are perceived as more urgent. Internal migration is generally perceived as negative. An open approach that recognises how migration holds both challenges and opportunities in dealing with climate change is largely unknown. These perceptions are reflected in national policies. Both climate change and migration are still addressed separately, and comprehensive plans are lacking. Thus, the results show that negative views about migration hamper regional climate adaptation processes.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Lisa-Michèle Bott https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3681 2018-03-16T15:36:36+00:00 Carsten Butsch marcel.kuon@gmx.de

The number of non-resident Indians and People of Indian Origin living in Germany has doubled in the last 15 years. Against this background, the paper looks at the multiple cross-border linkages maintained by Indian migrants in Germany. The paper first portrays the development of Indo-German migration since 1950. The main section then describes what linkages are developed by Indian migrants living in Germany between their places of residence and their places of origin. Applying a transnational perspective, the paper portrays how Indian migrants are embedded in different transnational networks. Based on in-depth interviews typical practices are described and changes of these practices during the life course are discussed. Differences in the transnational practices of the first and of the second generation are also addressed. The findings show that all respondents actively link the places where they live with their places of origin and induce changes both “here” and “there”.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Carsten Butsch https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3682 2018-03-16T15:36:37+00:00 Katharina Molitor marcel.kuon@gmx.de Boris Braun marcel.kuon@gmx.de

Small-scale producers of agricultural goods are becoming more and more involved in global commodity chains. Increasing and more volatile food prices are major challenges for smallholders who play a key role in achieving food security in many countries of the Global South but at the same time suffer from food insecurity themselves. Paradoxically, small-scale producers cannot fully benefit from increasing food prices as the global food price crisis 2007/08 showed. This paper aims to provide some initial insights into smallholder households’ decision-making in their dual role as consumers and producers of food in the light of food price changes and changing market conditions. It presents the empirical results of twelve Focus Group Discussions with smallholder farmers in four villages around Rajshahi City in North-Western Bangladesh, and the findings of additional expert interviews.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Katharina Molitor, Boris Braun https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3683 2018-03-16T15:36:38+00:00 Katja Mielke marcel.kuon@gmx.de

This article explores the positionalities of two traditionally mobile groups of people in Afghanistan, former pastoralists and peripatetics, who are currently living in several urban camps in Kabul. Starting from the assumption of their immobilization inbetween places, the research shows their current self-positioning in the process of seeking belonging can be traced in locality-generating practices. At the same time, both groups are subject to context-producing effects through external events and forces linked not only to government (non-)policies but also to the global war on terror and exposure to neoliberal capitalism. The incapacity of the state to meet camp dwellers’ expectations to provide shelter and income opportunities exacerbates their social immobility, which is both a cause for and effect of forced spatial immobilization. In light of the tension between efforts to belong and the increasing cementation of the status quo, the locality-generating practices of camp residents in Kabul reveal ambivalence.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Katja Mielke https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3684 2018-03-16T15:36:38+00:00 Harald Sterly marcel.kuon@gmx.de Daniel Gerads marcel.kuon@gmx.de

In Bangladesh, as in many other national and cultural settings, intimate relations and intimacy between married and especially non-married couples are restricted by strong socio-cultural norms. These restrictions vary across different places, and thus distinct topographies of intimacy can be discerned. Mobile communication is currently challenging such topographies by enabling interaction and “virtual intimacy” across physical barriers and over spatial distances, or by helping to conceal relationships and interactions. This study examines these spatial shifts with three examples. First, the maintenance of long-distance relationships for rural-to-urban labour migrants; second, the establishing and conducting of relationships through phone calls, sometimes with random partners and over arbitrary distances; and third, the way in which students make use of the mobile phone in order to circumvent the strict gender separation between dormitories.

2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Harald Sterly, Daniel Gerads https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/2178 2018-02-27T09:00:10+00:00 Die Redaktion olalde@ub.uni-heidelberg.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Internationales Asienforum https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3698 2018-03-16T15:36:48+00:00 André Weißenfels marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 André Weißenfels https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3699 2018-03-16T15:36:49+00:00 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam marcel.kuon@gmx.de Rüdiger Korff marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Rüdiger Korff https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3700 2018-03-16T15:36:50+00:00 Aurelia Hoffmann marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Aurelia Hoffmann https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3685 2018-03-16T15:36:39+00:00 Stefan Schütte marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Stefan Schütte https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3686 2018-03-16T15:36:40+00:00 Alexander Follmann marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Alexander Follmann https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3687 2018-03-16T15:36:41+00:00 Christian Wagner marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Christian Wagner https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3688 2018-03-16T15:36:41+00:00 Johanna Hahn marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Johanna Hahn https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3689 2018-03-16T15:36:42+00:00 Heinz Werner Wessler marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Heinz Werner Wessler https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3690 2018-03-16T15:36:43+00:00 Georg Noack marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Georg Noack https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3691 2018-03-16T15:36:43+00:00 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3692 2018-03-16T15:36:44+00:00 Wolfram Schaffar marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Wolfram Schaffar https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3693 2018-03-16T15:36:45+00:00 Mandy Fox marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Mandy Fox https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3694 2018-03-16T15:36:45+00:00 Stefan Messmann marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Stefan Messmann https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3695 2018-03-16T15:36:46+00:00 Niklas Reese marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Niklas Reese https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3696 2018-03-16T15:36:47+00:00 Guy Cumes marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Guy Cumes https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3697 2018-03-16T15:36:48+00:00 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam marcel.kuon@gmx.de 2018-03-05T00:00:00+00:00 Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam