https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf <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> Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung en-US Internationales Asienforum 0020-9449 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3679 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. Markus Keck Carsten Butsch Mareike Kroll Copyright (c) 2016 Markus Keck, Carsten Butsch, Mareike Kroll 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 171 178 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3679 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3680 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. Lisa-Michèle Bott Copyright (c) 2016 Lisa-Michèle Bott 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 179 201 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3680 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3681 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”. Carsten Butsch Copyright (c) 2016 Carsten Butsch 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 203 225 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3681 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3682 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. Katharina Molitor Boris Braun Copyright (c) 2016 Katharina Molitor, Boris Braun 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 227 243 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3682 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3683 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. Katja Mielke Copyright (c) 2016 Katja Mielke 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 245 271 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3683 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3684 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. Harald Sterly Daniel Gerads Copyright (c) 2016 Harald Sterly, Daniel Gerads 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 273 296 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3684 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/2178 Die Redaktion Copyright (c) 2016 Internationales Asienforum 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3698 André Weißenfels Copyright (c) 2016 André Weißenfels 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 329 331 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3698 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3699 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam Rüdiger Korff Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, Rüdiger Korff 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 332 336 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3699 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3700 Aurelia Hoffmann Copyright (c) 2016 Aurelia Hoffmann 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 337 340 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3700 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3685 Stefan Schütte Copyright (c) 2016 Stefan Schütte 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 297 299 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3685 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3686 Alexander Follmann Copyright (c) 2016 Alexander Follmann 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 299 301 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3686 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3687 Christian Wagner Copyright (c) 2016 Christian Wagner 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 301 302 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3687 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3688 Johanna Hahn Copyright (c) 2016 Johanna Hahn 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 303 305 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3688 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3689 Heinz Werner Wessler Copyright (c) 2016 Heinz Werner Wessler 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 305 308 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3689 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3690 Georg Noack Copyright (c) 2016 Georg Noack 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 308 311 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3690 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3691 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 311 313 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3691 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3692 Wolfram Schaffar Copyright (c) 2016 Wolfram Schaffar 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 314 315 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3692 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3693 Mandy Fox Copyright (c) 2016 Mandy Fox 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 316 318 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3693 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3694 Stefan Messmann Copyright (c) 2016 Stefan Messmann 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 319 321 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3694 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3695 Niklas Reese Copyright (c) 2016 Niklas Reese 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 321 323 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3695 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3696 Guy Cumes Copyright (c) 2016 Guy Cumes 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 324 326 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3696 https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/iaf/article/view/3697 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam Copyright (c) 2016 Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam 2018-03-05 2018-03-05 47 3-4 326 327 10.11588/iaf.2016.47.3697