BULLETIN OF ASIAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume Issue
The Bulletin of Asian Geography is published twice a year at the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, 53818.
H. Todd Stradford, Editor Phone 608.342.1674, Fax 608.342.1088, email: stradfot@uwplatt.edu
Inside this issue:
Chairs Report
Business Meeting 2016 Agenda
AAG Undergraduate Affinity Group
113th AAG Annual Meeting
Mobile Session App
AGSG Sessions
RSA Student Research Awards
Other Sessions on Asia
China Specialty Group Keynote
March for Science
2016 Asian Symposium Recap
Member Notes
Historical Glimpses
AGSG Publications
Where in Asian World?
Call for Papers
Officer Contact List
Spring, 2017
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Note from the Chairs
Hello fellow geographers,
Greetings from AGSG chairs. Hope this
1 finds you all in good health.
2
If you sit back and think, you will find
2
Geography in almost everything. Be it
3 health and wealth, migration and refu-
Chandana Mitra & Xinyue Ye
4
gees, presidential election, blue and Co-Chairs of the AGSG
red states, Russia and its policies, cli-
5
mate variability, inflation, economics covering aspects of migration, hazards,
22 and trade. Can you name anything urban landscape, climate, geopolitics
which is not either political geography and spatial analysis. We congratulate
23
or economic geography or spatial ge- the organizers of the sessions who
24
ography or human geography? We have put in an effort to make AGSG
31 sometimes tend to overlook the fact presence felt at AAG.
32 that geography is such a rich and To further your involvement with AGSG
33
deep discipline. So to celebrate geog- crowd, please come to our Business
raphy as a discipline we invite you to Meeting on Saturday, 4/8/2017, from
34
Boston to present and discuss re- 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM in Room 108,
35
search and share fun facts with fellow Hynes, Plaza Level. Your presence will
39 geoscientists. encourage the AGSG 2017 award win-
40
The geographies of Asia has always ners and also help augment a more
44
captured a lot of attention at AAG, just enriching AGSG involvement in AAG in
not because of the hugeness of the the years to come.
continent but the variety of social, See you all in Boston.
physical and cultural dimensions with-
in the continent. This AAG again, Asia Cheers,
will bring forth many interesting ses-
sions spreading across its sub-regions, Chandana and Xinyue.
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2017 AGSG Business Meeting Agenda Saturday. April 8, 2017. 11:50-1:10

4341 Asian Geography Specialty Group 4. New Business:

Business Meeting a. Election Results
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM in i. Asia Director
Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level ii. Asia Director
iii.
b. Awards:
Tentative Agenda: i. AGSG Distinguished Service Award
1. Call to order ii. AGSG Best Graduate Student Paper Compe-
2. Approval of minutes from 2015 AGSG ABM, Chicago, tition
IL iii. AK Chakravarti Award for best student pa-
3. Continuing Business: per on South Asia (co-sponsored with Re-
a. Briefing from SG Chairs Meeting gional Development & Planning SG)
b. Secretary Treasurers report iv. AGSG Student Travel Awards with thanks to
c. State of the group and activities: Area Directors
i. Membership and listserv membership 5. Other business
ii. Number of sessions organized 6. Adjournment
d. Website issues: Volunteers required
e. Regional Reports (news from the regions from Please attend if you are near Room 108, Hynes, Pla-
Area Directors and/or other members) za Level on Saturday from 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM.
f. Efforts towards international attendance and col-
laboration, including IRSEC work

Undergraduate Student Affinity Group at the 2017 AAG Meeting

The 2017 AAG Annual Meeting in Boston will be the first since a.m. and Friday, April 7th at 3:20 p.m.
the establishment of the new Undergraduate Student Affinity
Scavenger Hunt for Undergrads: Tackle our Pho-
Group (USAG) and over 400 undergraduates have already reg-
to Scavenger Hunt designed for undergraduate attendees to
istered to attend the meeting. To celebrate and engage this
help discover different aspects of the meeting. View and
important part of the AAG community, there will be events,
download the Undergrad Photo Scavenger Hunt PDF under
activities, and resources geared for undergraduate students to
Essentials in the AAG Mobile app. The first two undergradu-
network with their peers and colleagues, expand their involve-
ate students to show their completed photos and checklist to
ment in and understanding of our discipline, and learn skills to
AAG Staff at the AAG Booth will get $20 credit to spend.
build their careers.
Undergrad Meetup Area at the International Re-
Undergraduate students attending the upcoming Annual Meet-
ception: Music, refreshments, and catching up with colleagues
ing in Boston should be sure to check out the following:
new and old are all features of the International Reception.
Newcomers Guide to the Meeting: First time
Undergraduate Student Affinity Group Business
attending an Annual Meeting? Check out this guide for tips
Meeting Want to help steer the direction of the new Under-
and tricks to navigating the largest geography conference in
graduate Student Affinity Group? The USAG Business Meeting
the world.
is on Thursday, April 6th, from 8:10 to 9:10pm in the Vineyard
http://www.aag.org/galleries/conference-files/
Room on the 4th Floor of the Marriott.
Newcomers_guide_handout_version_2017.pdf
AAG Jobs & Careers Center and the AAG Careers
Suggested Itinerary for Students: Overwhelmed
in Geography Fair & workshops at the Jobs & Careers Center
by the thousands of presentations and unsure where to start
found on the 2nd Level of the Hynes Convention Center, in
planning your day? Get started with the suggested itinerary
and around Rooms 203, 204, and 205.
for students, available under Essentials in the AAG Mobile
app. Consider also using #AAGUndergrads to interact
with other undergraduates in attendance and to build your
AAG Snapshot Talk on Student Membership: As
peer and professional network via social media.
part of the new AAG Snapshots series at the Annual Meeting,
AAG staff will be giving brief informational talks in the AAG
Communications Center, including the topic Make the Most of
your Student Membership, presented on Wed., April 5th at 10
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113th AAG Annual Meeting, 5 April 9 April 2017

Boston
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

Travel Restriction Legal Assistance

Resources

MIRA, the Massachusetts Immigrant and Ref-

ugee Advocacy Coalition, has provided a list
of resources for any international travelers
that may encounter difficulties upon arrival at
Boston Logan International Airport. These
resources include:
https://www.miracoalition.org/travel-ban

Airport Lawyer, volunteer lawyers protect-

ing refugees and travelers
https://www.airportlawyer.org/

International Refugee Assistance Pro-

ject, organized assistance from law students
and lawyers https://refugeerights.org/

Appleseed Network, helping vulnerable immigrants and refugees

http://www.appleseednetwork.org/immigrationcollaborative/

ACLUM, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, also provides legal assistance related to civil
liberties violations and issues of unfair treatment by the government.
https://aclum.org/resources/seek-legal-assistance/

The preliminary program can be queried for sessions by using the page at:
http://meridian.aag.org/callforpapers/program/index.cfm?mtgID=63
There is also an app download for your Apple, Android, Blackberry, or Laptop. Download links can be
found at the following AAG page:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/program
search sessions by day, group or type or just browse the abstracts and participants listings
create your own schedule of events by adding your favorite sessions to your calendar
receive updated changes to sessions and events from organizers
browse exhibitor listings
take notes during sessions and send as emails and also rate the sessions
view the list of local places to experience during your visit, including restaurants, landmarks and muse-
ums
locate various sessions by tapping on areas of each floor plan within the maps icon

The tip sheet for the app is on the following page.

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AGSG Sponsored
& Cosponsored Sessions
4307 Asian Geography Specialty Group
Business Meeting
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM in
Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level
Wednesday
Panel Session:
1158 Author Meets Critics: Gautam Bhan's In
the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship,
and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Gardner B, Sheraton, Third Floor
Session Description: This Author-Meets-Critics panel brings
together a range of urbanists to discuss Gautam Bhan's
newest book, In the Public's Interest: Evictions, Citizenship
and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi, published in 2016 by
the University of Georgia Press's Geographies of Social Jus-
tice and Transformation Series. The book examines the
legacy of mass evictions of some of the city's poorest
neighborhoods, called bastis, as a way to understand how
the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public
interest" and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts
meant to empower and protect them. Studying bastis,
Bhan argues, provokes six lines of inquiry applicable to
critical urbanism: 1) how informality shapes conceptions of
the production of space, 2) how "good governance" has
retooled patterns of growth in contexts of urban redevelop-
ment, 3) new openings for exercising substantive citizen-
ship rights in the face of the narrowing of previous entitle-
ments to the poor, 4) how subaltern subjects use these
rights to leverage new claims to the city, 5) the role of the
judiciary in opening and foreclosing possibilities for a just
city, and 6) changing relations between inequality and de-
mocracy in the wake of speculative urbanism. Bhan uses
these concerns to explain evictions and prompts panelists
to further reflect on what they tell us about "the city that is
as well as the city that can be."
Sponsorships:
Urban Geography Specialty Group
Development Geographies Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
D. Asher Ghertner - Rutgers University
Chairs:
D. Asher Ghertner - Rutgers University
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Introduction:
D. Asher Ghertner - Rutgers University
Panelists:
Sai Balakrishnan
Jennifer Robinson - University College London
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Gautam Bhan - Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Discussant:
AbdouMaliq Simone
1162 Emerging Urban Landscape in Global
South 1
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Kent, Sheraton, Third Floor
Session Description: Urban areas of all kinds and shapes
are undergoing immense structural and social changes in
the Global South owing to the emergence of new World
Order. Individual and institutional responses to such
changes are keys to resilience at individual level and re-
newal at the institutional level. Researching the social and
economic processes that shape urban landscape of the
global south is a consistent tradition within Geography and
other disciplines dealing urban since the seminal work of T.
McGee. Systematic withdrawal of state as a service provid-
er and sudden non-functioning of urban local bodies
brought on horizons the scores of multinational, regional
and local corporate and entrepreneurs in land and housing
market. With new regimes of finance capital and percolat-
ing ideals of 'utopian dreams,' the real estate sector is the
prime avenue of 'hyper accumulation.' Entrepreneurial gov-
ernments are producing spaces for the development of
knowledge parks and high-tech enclaves for smart busi-
nesses by providing premium infrastructures, often at the
cost of dispossessing the non-valued. Understanding the
factors operating at different scale and their varied out-
come in various cities across Global South is an important
task for policymakers and stakeholders concerned. The
proposed session aims to bring together papers from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives and spatial scales that
would help further our understanding of the social, political
and economic processes restructuring urban landscape of
the Global South.
We welcome papers that may include, but are not limited
to:
The role of governance and government in shaping
urban landscape in the Global South
Utopia-dystopia of urban citizens in the Global South
Accounts of resistance and/or resilience in Global
South cities
Changing Urban Landscape and Social Movements -
persistent and upcoming
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Growing urban land market and informality
Social and political structures contributing 'hyper ac-
cumulation.'
Smart cities and emerging issues of accumulation and
dispossession
Methodological approaches to urban informalities and
hyperization
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Urban Geography Specialty Group
Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Organizers:
Diganta Das - Nanyang Technological University
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary - Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-
sity
Chair:
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary - Jawaharlal Nehru Univer-
sity
Papers:
8:00 AM Jennifer Y. Pomeroy - York College of Pennsylva-
nia
A Woman's Place? Examining Urban Social Space in
India
8:20 AM Sayoni Bose - Governors State University
From Land Reforms to Land Grabbing in India: Chang-
ing Class Relations and Contingent Alliances in Singur
8:40 AM Daniel Fischelli - University of North Texas
Identity, Othering, and Displacement: How Imagined
Geographies Are Complicit in the Production of Reli-
gious Violence in Jakarta, Indonesia
9:00 AM Matt Wade - UC Berkeley
Academics in the Finance Capital: The Role of Situated
Expertise in Making Jakarta "Mega"
9:20 AM Mehebub Rahaman - Jawaharlal Nehru Universi-
ty, New Delhi
Peripheralization of Slums? A Study on Emerging Spa-
tial Concentration of Slums in Indian Cities
In the English-speaking world, "Eurasia" has largely be-
come a collective term for some, many, or all of the post-
Soviet states, and sometimes Mongolia.
Russian nationalist and geopolitical notions associated with
"Eurasia" remain controversial and quite powerful in histor-
ical-cultural, academic, political and ideological debates.
Other claims suggest that the amalgam "Eurasia" helps
blur an imagined division between the European and Asian
"continents," a long alleged ethno-nationalist partition that
has been a cornerstone of the Euro-American worldview.
In multiple ways, it may seem implausible that any spatial
label could be reasonably inclusive and flexibly definitive to
resolve the naming of a specialty group that includes mem-
bers with research interests spanning the breadth of geo-
graphic sub-themes and extending from the Pacific to the
Atlantic (but often including neither).
Marking more than ten years of specialty group member
debates, an official name change, and three millennia of
history, this call for panelistswhich dovetails with the pa-
per session "New Eurasianisms: Liminal Geographies Be-
tween Europe and Asia," is an open invitation for partici-
pants who would like to discuss the multiple imaginaries,
contestations, and opportunities associated with the label
"Eurasia."
Sponsorships:
Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty
Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Political Geography Specialty Group
Organizer:
Jeremy Tasch - Towson University
Chair:
Jeremy Tasch - Towson University
1262 Emerging Urban Landscape in Global
South 2
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM
in Kent, Sheraton, Third Floor

Panel Session: Session Description: Urban areas of all kinds and shapes
1191 RCEEE and its Pivot to Eurasia are undergoing immense structural and social changes in
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in the Global South owing to the emergence of new World
Nantucket, Marriott, Fourth Floor Order. Individual and institutional responses to such
changes are keys to resilience at individual level and re-
Session Description: After more than a decade of intermit- newal at the institutional level. Researching the social and
tent discussions on whether to retain RCEEE as a specialty economic processes that shape urban landscape of the
group name, specialty group members voted for a name global south is a consistent tradition within Geography and
change at the 2016 AAG in Chicago. Although specialty other disciplines dealing urban since the seminal work of T.
group members expressing an opinion agree that "Eurasia" McGee. Systematic withdrawal of state as a service provid-
as a group name is an improvement over the more awk- er and sudden non-functioning of urban local bodies
ward "RCEEE," the term can be contentious, and there is brought on horizons the scores of multinational, regional
neither consensus nor agreement among its meanings, and local corporate and entrepreneurs in land and housing
implications, and ramifications. market. With new regimes of finance capital and percolat-

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(Continued from page 6) Agencies in the Reproduction of Rural Migrants Daily

ing ideals of 'utopian dreams,' the real estate sector is the Consumption Spaces
prime avenue of 'hyper accumulation.' Entrepreneurial gov- 11:00 AM Ramachandraiah Chigurupati - Centre for Eco-
ernments are producing spaces for the development of nomic & Social Studies, Hyderabad, India
knowledge parks and high-tech enclaves for smart busi- Inter-referencing as a coercive power -Singapore's role
nesses by providing premium infrastructures, often at the and business plan in Amaravati greenfield city (India)
cost of dispossessing the non-valued. Understanding the 11:20 AM Chang-Yu Hong - Portland State University
factors operating at different scale and their varied out- Evaluating Changes of Citizens' Values on Identification
come in various cities across Global South is an important of Hydrological Vulnerability between the Past and Pre-
task for policymakers and stakeholders concerned. The sent for Sustainable Watershed Planning in the Future
proposed session aims to bring together papers from a
variety of disciplinary perspectives and spatial scales that 1406 Geographies of South Asian Migration
would help further our understanding of the social, political and Diasporas
and economic processes restructuring urban landscape of Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 12:40 PM - 2:20 PM in
the Global South. Room 107, Hynes, Plaza Level

We welcome papers that may include, but are not limited Session Description: Geographical research on South Asian
to: diasporas today encompass a fertile field. Comprised of
The role of governance and government in shaping migrants and diasporic subjects with ties to India, Sri
urban landscape in the Global South Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal, the diversity of
Utopia-dystopia of urban citizens in the Global SouthSouth Asian migrants pose fundamental questions on both
Accounts of resistance and/or resilience in Global the shared and divergent features of some of the world's
South cities most populous migrants and diasporas. On the one hand,
Changing Urban Landscape and Social Movements - South Asian migrants and diasporic subjects have been
persistent and upcoming examined through their particular contexts of settlement
Growing urban land market and informality and the distinct contacts that are maintained across multi-
Social and political structures contributing 'hyper ac-
ple sites. On the other, research has also stressed the ne-
cumulation.' cessity of tracing connections across the linguistic, region-
Smart cities and emerging issues of accumulation and al, religious, and national distinctions that comprise the
dispossession South Asian diaspora. In this paper session, we bring to-
Methodological approaches to urban informalities and gether works that will examine the South Asian diasporas
hyperization in all its complexity.
Sponsorships: We are looking for contributions on a wide range of sub-
Asian Geography Specialty Group jects related to the South Asian diaspora including those
Urban Geography Specialty Group that address, but are not limited to:
Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group patterns of settlement
Organizers: political organizing and activism
Diganta Das - Nanyang Technological University tensions between national and regional identities
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary - Jawaharlal Nehru Univer- comparative assessment of the experiences of South
sity Asian immigrant groups
Chair: Sponsorships:
Diganta Das - Nanyang Technological University Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Papers: Asian Geography Specialty Group
10:00 AM Bikramaditya K. Choudhary - Jawaharlal Nehru Organizers:
University Christabel Devadoss - West Virginia University
Spaces of Contested identity and Hindutva Politics in Ishan Ashutosh - Indiana University
Banaras Chair:
10:20 AM Dipendra Nath Das - Jawaharlal Nehru Universi- Ishan Ashutosh - Indiana University
ty, New Delhi, India Papers:
Sweta Bhusan - Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Del- 12:40 PM Christabel Devadoss - West Virginia University
hi, India The Indian Tamil diaspora: Soundscapes and scalar
Growth Dynamics in Urban Agglomerates: A Study On identity
Kolkata Urban Agglomeration, India
10:40 AM Min Zhang -
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1:00 PM Ishan Ashutosh - Indiana University
South Asian Diasporas and the 1965 Immigration and
Nationality Act
1:20 PM Zhixi Zhuang - School of Urban & Regional Plan-
ning, Ryerson University, Canada
South Asian Place-making in Suburban Toronto
1:40 PM Kavitha Ramsamy - Rutgers
Migration, Racialization and Urban Conflict: the Case of
Jersey City
2:00 PM Melissa Erica Holmes - University of Tennessee
Community Forming Practices of Burmese Refugees in the
United States
1438 Inequality in urbanisation of Global
South: segregation, gentrification and inac-
cessibility
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 12:40 PM - 2:20 PM in
Independence East, Sheraton, Second Floor
Session Description: Many countries have been experienc-
ing rapid urbanisation such as China and India. The urbani-
sation level (proportion of urban population) in China is
estimated to reach 75% by 2050. Such rapid urbanisation
has resulted in large-scale urban growth (e.g. Cheng and
Masser, 2003; Wu et al., forthcoming), urban sprawl and
urban regeneration, which is a prevalent phenomenon in
not only developing but also developed countries such as
USA and Europe. There have been massive studies in the
published literature on economic and environmental im-
pacts of urban growth such as air, water and soil pollution,
energy consumption and ecological safety. However, there
is little study on social impacts of urban growth (Nguyen,
2010), which may include segregation (e.g. Wu et al.,
2014), Jiaoyufication (Wu et al., 2015), inaccessibility to
services (Jin et al., 2014) and data (Cheng et al., 2016),
health risk perceptions, and other social justice issues,
which have demonstrated a certain level of social and spa-
tial inequality and inequity. Sustainable development prin-
ciple has been incorporated into national and local develop-
ment strategies in these countries. This will be a challenge
for urban planning and urban governance, which should
consider these social issues into process of their planning
practice.
This session seeks to expand the current thinking of ine-
quality in urbanisation across the global south by inviting
papers that examine social and spatial inequality through
theoretical, methodological and empirical insights into the
social impacts of urbanisation. We would like to explore
together how these issues are reasonably conceptualised,
measured, modelled and interpreted in a variety of politi-
cal, social, economic and cultural contexts.
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We invite participation from colleagues that are working
across disciplinary domains, in either quantitative or quali-
tative. Themes could include (but are not limited to):
Residential segregation in inner city
Transport-induced segregation (e.g. high-speed bullet
train station, metro stations)
Jiaoyufication (an extended category of education-led
gentrification)
Studentification
Inaccessibility to services (e.g. public transport,
healthcare, and digital data)
Perceptions of environmental pollution, health risks,
flooding and crime
Methods of data collection, analysis, and modelling
(e.g. big data)
Patterns, processes and dynamics in the inequalities
Policy implications of the examined inequality for
planning and governance practices.
Comparative case studies
Sponsorships:
China Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Development Geographies Specialty Group
Organizers:
Jianquan Cheng - Manchester Metropolitan University
Qiyan Wu - East China Normal University
Zhenshan Yang - Institute of Geographical Sciences at
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chair:
Jianquan Cheng - Manchester Metropolitan University
Papers:
12:40 PM Discussant: Qiyan Wu - East China Normal Uni-
versity
12:50 PM Chunhui Liu - Geographic and Oceanographic
Sciences, Nanjing University
Shenjing He - Department of Urban Planning and De-
sign, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
Qiyan Wu - The Center for Modern Chinese City Stud-
ies & School of Urban and Regional Science, East China
Normal University
Chen Zhou - Swette Center for Environmental Biotech-
nology, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
Emerging New White-collar Workers in China and Their
Restricted Social Mobility in the Post-Crisis Era
1:05 PM Tao Song - Institute of Geographic Sciences and
Natural Resources Research, CAS
Chinese Pairing Aid pollicy for regional balanced devel-
opment
1:20 PM Dai Teqi - Beijing Normal University
Liao Cong -
Optimizing school allocating from effective accessibility
towards equal access - a case study on Shijingshan,
Beijing
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(Continued from page 8) Rural-Urban Migration and Circularity in China: Analysis

1:35 PM Jianquan Cheng - Manchester Metropolitan Uni- of Longitudinal Surveys in Anhui, 1980-2009
versity 3:20 PM Cindy Fan - UCLA
Inequities in the perceived environmental health risks Tianjiao Li - Peking University
and interventions in a fast developing country - China Familization of China's Floating Population
1:50 PM Introduction: Jianquan Cheng - Manchester Met- 3:40 PM Xiaoman Liu - Department of Geography and
ropolitan University Resource Management, The Chinese University of
1:55 PM Qiyan Wu - The Center for Modern Chinese City Hong Kong
studies & school of urban and Regional science, East Jianfa Shen - Department of Geography and Resource
China Normal University Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Displacement and Middle Class Remake: the Produc- Non-local working experiences of China's rural return
tion of Jiaoyufication Space in Urban Nanjing, China migration
2:10 PM Discussant: Zhenshan Yang - Institute of Geo- 4:00 PM Wenfei Winnie Wang - University of Bristol
graphical Sciences at Chinese Academy of Sciences Social impact of return migration on women return
migrants
1538 Migration, Circularity, and Return Migra-
tion in China Thursday
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 2:40 PM - 4:20 PM in
Independence East, Sheraton, Second Floor Panel Session:
2211 Area Development and Policy
Session Description: Migration is one of the most pressing
Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
questions in China not only because of its magnitude but
Room 200, Hynes, Second Level
because it is central to understanding China's economic
and social changes. The floating population, a common
Session Description: Area Development and Policy Plenary
indicator of internal migration in China, amounted to about
Session: Regional development in an era of slow global
300 million or about 22% of China's population in 2015.
economic growth
Internal migration in China is hardly a unidirectional or one
-off activity. Far from it, the phenomena of circularity, fam-
Regional Studies Association, China Geography Specialty
ily migration as well as return migration are increasingly
Group (CGSG) and Asian Geography Specialty Group
notable. The five papers in this session examine one or
(AGSG) are pleased to announce a plenary session on re-
more aspects of these changes, using rich data drawn from
gional development for publicizing a new journal Area De-
recent and longitudinal sources including censuses, sur-
velopment and Policy (ADP). ADP was launched in 2016 by
veys, and interviews during the period from the 1980s to
Regional Studies Association (RSA) in collaboration with
as recently as 2016. Such data are rigorously analyzed,
the Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Re-
revealing cutting-edge findings and new trajectories of
sources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it is
population movements in China.
published by Taylor and Francis. ADP is developed against
Sponsorships:
such a background that emerging economies are playing a
China Specialty Group
more and more important role in the world economic de-
Asian Geography Specialty Group
velopment while they are facing challenges that are often
Population Specialty Group
quite different from the ones faced by developed econo-
Organizers:
mies. These issues are however often not reflected in the
Cindy Fan - UCLA
existing academic literature. ADP is aimed to open up
Wenfei Winnie Wang - University of Bristol
these new fields of enquiry, to stimulate and encourage
Chair:
research into them and to publish the results.
Xiaobo Su - University of Oregon
Papers:
To address the challenges faced by regions, this plenary
2:40 PM Xingna Nina Zhang - School of geographical
session will invite Prof. Gordon Clark from Oxford Universi-
Sciences, University of Bristol
ty to deliver a themed talk on regional development in an
Multilevel Gravity Model of Migration: the Role of Re- era of slow global economic growth. The global financial
gional Income Divides-a Case Study of China's Inter- crisis, the Euro crisis, BREXIT and slowing Asian economic
provincial Migration in 2010 growth all have significant impacts on region development
3:00 PM Chen Chen - Asian Demographic Research Insti-
all over the world. Prof. Clark will try to explain how and
tute, Shanghai University
why nation-states have run out of fiscal capacity and mon-
Cindy C Fan - Geography, UCLA
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etary policy, and face extraordinary pressures to rein-in
credit and borrowing. His questions include: how are re-
gions to cope with these forces? Will global integration via
networks of exchange make-up the difference or might
those networks also be drawn into the orbit of their nation-
states (for some regions, but not all regions)? Are there
two paths to the future - one a race to the top, the other a
race to the bottom? How can we facilitate the race to the
top wherein regions take-over as the engines of global eco-
nomic growth bypassing the paralysis evident in nation-
states and trading blocs?
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
China Specialty Group
Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Organizers:
Xinyue Ye - Kent State University
Weidong Liu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chairs:
Weidong Liu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Introduction:
Weidong Liu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Panelists:
Gordon L. Clark - Smith School of Enterprise and the
Environment
Discussants:
Eric S. Sheppard - UCLA
George C.S. Lin - University of Hong Kong
Organizing Committee:
Weidong Liu, Co-Chair (liuwd@igsnrr.ac.cn, Chinese
Academy of Sciences and Regional Studies Association)
Xinyue Ye, Co-Chair (xye5@kent.edu)
Michael Dunford, Co-Chair (m.f.dunford@sussex.ac.uk)
Sally Hardy, CEO of RSA,
(sally.hardy@regionalstudies.org)
Yuko Aoyama, Clark University (yaoyama@clarku.edu)
2253 Managing the Periphery and Marginaliz-
ing the Center
Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
Dalton A, Sheraton, Third Floor
Session Description: Eurasia's "cultures of the periphery"
continue to be marked by "contestations over legitimacy."
Typically obligated to accept certain categorizations from
their Centers, "peripheries" have a long history of finding
themselves involved in, responding to, and influenced by
changing ideological-cultural policies, which can leave
space for cultural, ethnic, and symbolic particularisms. This
session draws together several cases from diverse Eurasian
peripheries, where particularism encounters the interven-
tion of the Center or replies to it. Acknowledging consider-
ations of political and economic re-territorizations (e.g..,
the European Union, Brexit, the Eurasian Economic Union,
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etc.), this session examines how local political/cultural
elites adjust to certain "universalisms," on one hand, while
other peripheral actors negotiate particularisms (personal
connections, local symbols, legal pluralism, etc.) on the
other. What are the tensions; what are the limits of con-
trol, and what are the limits of particularism? How do the
works of local actors reflect tensions between Centers and
Peripheries?
Sponsorships:
Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty
Group
Political Geography Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Jeremy Tasch - Towson University
Chair:
Jeremy Tasch - Towson University
Papers:
10:00 AM Meagan Todd - University of Colorado
Morality Politics of Mosque Construction in Russia: The
Re-opening of Moscow's Cathedral Mosque
10:20 AM gnes Eross - Geographical Institute RCAES
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Patrik Ttrai - Geographical Institute RCAES Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
Katalin Kovly - Geographical Institute RCAES Hungari-
an Academy of Sciences
Effects of Ukraine crisis in Transcarpathia: snapshots
from the periphery
10:40 AM Jarmo Kortelainen - University Of Eastern Fin-
land
Pertti Rannikko - University of Eastern Finland
Place and mobility in Russian forest peripheries
11:00 AM Gerard Toal - Virginia Tech
"Occupied Territories": A Geopolitical Frame in Post-
Soviet Space
11:20 AM Discussant: Jeremy Tasch - Towson University
Panel Session:
2491 Land Politics in Asia: Frontiers, Borderlands,
Histories
Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in
Nantucket, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Session Description: In an age characterized by migration
to cities, global land grabs, and the industrial-scale produc-
tion of agricultural "boom" crops, it is hard to imagine that
frontiers might still exist. And yet, throughout Asia and
much of the world, new frontiers seem always to be open-
ing up, even as existing ones seem never to be fully
tamed. This panel session features scholars working on
frontiers, borderlands, and other sensitive spaces across
Asia to examine spatial imaginaries at the ground level,
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where the social relations of place and land are contested
and worked outoften in unexpected ways.
In light of ongoing research, the session presents cutting-
edge scholarship on the use, access, and ownership of land
in order to examine the societies in which land is emplaced
and to explore the environments that are produced. From
land reform in 1950s Vietnam and urban displacement in
1980s Cambodia to ongoing disputes on the India-
Bangladesh border, Chinese development in Tibet, and
land grabs in Laos and Indonesia, land has long figured at
the center of political and economic life in Asia. Grounded
in ethnographic and historical approaches, panelists draw
on research experience in the region to offer a comparative
perspective that speaks to the diversity of sites in Asia and
beyond. The panel forms part of an ongoing collaborative
project among an interdisciplinary network of American
and international scholars brought together by their shared
concern with land politics in Asia.
Sponsorships:
Political Geography Specialty Group
Geographies of Food and Agriculture Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Christian C. Lentz - UNC Department of Geography
Reece Jones - University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jonathan Padwe - University of Hawaii - Manoa
Chair:
Erin Collins - American University
Panelists:
Christian C. Lentz - UNC Department of Geography
Emily Yeh - University of Colorado
Jonathan Padwe - University of Hawaii - Manoa
Michael B. Dwyer - University of Berne, Switzerland
Geographisches Institute
2595 Hazards, Disasters, and Human Dimen-
sions in the Context of South Asia
Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in
Falmouth, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Session Description: This session welcomes papers/studies
that address issues related to natural hazards and man-
made disasters, risks perceptions, and vulnerabilities in
South Asia. However, we are open to all different perspec-
tives and paradigms related to human-environmental stud-
ies and application of geospatial techniques addressing
socio-economic, environment, and health related issues in
the context of South Asia.
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Munshi Rahman - Saint Louis University
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Bimal Kanti Paul - Kansas State University
Thomas Crawford - Saint Louis University
Chair:
Munshi Rahman - Saint Louis University
Papers:
3:20 PM Bimal Kanti Paul - Kansas State University
Bidhan Acharya - Central Department of Population
Studies, Tribhuvan University
Kabita Ghimire - Kansas State University
Effectiveness of earthquakes relief efforts in Nepal:
Opinions of the survivors
3:40 PM Prajjwal Panday - Nichols College
Climatic hazards in the Himalayan region
4:00 PM Sierra Ross Gladfelter - University of Colorado
Boulder
Training Rivers, Training People: Interrogating the
making of resilient riparian communities in the face of
global climate change
4:20 PM Shouraseni Sen Roy - University of Miami
Spatial Patterns of Long Term Trends in Daily Temper-
atures across the Indian Subcontinent
4:40 PM Brian W. Okey - Indiana University of Pennsylva-
nia
Subrata Chattopadhyay - Indian Institute of Technolo-
gy, Kharagpur
Haimanti Banerji - Indian Institute of Technology, Kha-
ragpur
Sudeshna Ghosh - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Student Field Studies in India I: Rajarghat Slum, Kolka-
ta.
Friday
3119 Transnational Migration and Discursive
Practices in the Host Society
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Room
210, Hynes, Second Level
Session Description: This Session intends to present empir-
ical papers on contemporary human migration and immi-
grants' discursive practices at multiple places.
Sponsorships:
Ethnic Geography Specialty Group
Cultural Geography Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Su-Jeong Kim - Ewha Womans University
Chair:
Jiyeon Shin - The University of Tokyo
Papers:
8:00 AM Jiyeon Shin - The University of Tokyo
Youngmin Lee - Ewha Womans University
Transformation of Ethnic Enclave by Negotiations of
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Trans-migrants' Ethnic Groups in Flushing Koreatown,
New York City
8:20 AM Su-Jeong Kim, Ph.D Candidate - Ewha Womans - How can China be studied more than a subject, but as an
University
Ethnic Diversity, Competition and Negotiations in the
Garment Industry, Los Angeles
8:40 AM Hyunseo (Helene) Park - Ewha W. Univ.
Muslim Ethnicity and 'Doing Halal' in Korea: Discursive - What kind of implications can be drawn from studies in/
Practices of Halal Food Globalization
3149 China as Methods I
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Bea-
con E, Sheraton, Third Floor
Session Description: In 1989, Mizoguchi Yuzo published
China as Method and called for reversing Eurocentric theo-
ry and epistemological framework (Mizoguchi 2011
[1989]). For Mizoguchi, the end of conceiving China
"should be the 'study of China' that transcends China" (cf.
Chen 2010, 252). In other words, China is a method when
understanding the world is the purpose - and in this multi-
plied "world", as Chen Kuan-Hsing reminds us (ibid., 253), 8:00 AM Julie Ren - London School of Economics
both China and Europe are elements. It is here that we can
see some affinities between Mizoguchi's position and re-
cently rising comparative urbanism to study the world of
cities (Robinson, 2006).
Mizoguchi's proposition has methodological significances
for it helps replace the vertical principle of history (which is
teleological and dominated by Eurocentric theories) by a
horizontal view of space-time where different elements are
juxtaposed. Seeing in this way, claims of universalisation
should be questioned, and investigations on the dynamic
space-time are urgently needed. Some endeavours can be
witnessed in the literature, such as Wang Hui's (2011) dis- 9:00 AM Xiaoran Hu - Queen Mary University of London
cussion on "trans-systemic society" and "trans-societal sys-
tem," yet more efforts are required to rethink how and to
what extent China can be a method to understand the
world. This critical reflection on seeing China as a method-
ology approach can be potentially productive in geograph-
ical inquiries on/in/related to China.
In this session, we aim at continuing the proposition put
forward by Mizoguchi almost three decades ago and focus
on how the "study of China" may yield methodological and/
or epistemological implications for not only studying China
but also geographical inquiries in general. "China" is more
than a field site, especially in the contemporary world
where "the spectre of global China" (Lee, 2014) can be
seen everywhere. Hence, we invite theoretical and empiri-
cal contributions that concern methodological and episte-
mological implications of the "study of China," with "China"
being broadly defined as the starting point and hopefully
transcended at the end.
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Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- What do China and the study of China mean in nowadays
geographical research?
entity, relation, process, nexus?
- What and how are theories used in and/or built from the
study of China? What are the theoretical potentials and
challenges in the study of China?
on China for broader concerns in fieldwork methods?
- Where and how to locate China in comparative studies?
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
China Specialty Group
Urban Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Yimin Zhao - London School of Economics
Yueming Zhang - University of Birmingham
Yang Yang - University of Colorado At Boulder
Chairs:
Yueming Zhang - University of Birmingham
Papers:
Murray Mckenzie -
(Extra)ordinary Beijing: On urban ontologies and artis-
tic practice
8:20 AM Yimin Zhao - London School of Economics and
Political Science
Space as Method: Field Sites and Encounters in Bei-
jing's Green Belts
8:40 AM Junxi Qian - Department of Geography, The Uni-
versity of Hong Kong
Provincialising the West, de-parochialising China: some
reflections from China's urban centres and ethnic pe-
ripheries
China in the African Imaginary and the Problems of
Solidarity
9:20 AM Discussant: Jennifer Robinson - University Col-
lege London
3169 Transnational Cultural and Natural Herit-
age in Asia: Contours of Boundary-
Transgressing Memoryscapes (I)
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Regis, Marriott, Third Floor
Session Description: Our session intends to bring together
the two highly complex fields 'heritage' and 'culture' on the
one hand, and a clear regional focus on Asia, on the other
hand, though with the inclusion of outreach to other re-
gions over time.
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(Continued from page 12) ology approach can be potentially productive in geograph-
Sponsorships: ical inquiries on/in/related to China.
Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group In this session, we aim at continuing the proposition put
Asian Geography Specialty Group forward by Mizoguchi almost three decades ago and focus
China Specialty Group on how the "study of China" may yield methodological and/
Organizers: or epistemological implications for not only studying China
Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado but also geographical inquiries in general. "China" is more
Chair: than a field site, especially in the contemporary world
Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado where "the spectre of global China" (Lee, 2014) can be
Papers: seen everywhere. Hence, we invite theoretical and empiri-
8:00 AM LeiLei Li - Shenzhen university cal contributions that concern methodological and episte-
China's modern industrialization and industrial heritage mological implications of the "study of China," with "China"
preservation: a critical review from a transnational and being broadly defined as the starting point and hopefully
dark heritage perspective transcended at the end.
8:20 AM Yong Tang - Chengdu University of Technology
Contested Narrative at Hanwang Earthquake Memorial Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Park: Travel Motivations, Sought Experiences and Per- - What do China and the study of China mean in nowadays
ceived Values geographical research?
8:40 AM Shengrong Chen - - How can China be studied more than a subject, but as an
The globalization of commemoration: Changing Natural entity, relation, process, nexus?
Disaster Memorial Landscapes in China - What and how are theories used in and/or built from the
9:00 AM Discussant: Mary Mostafanezhad - University of study of China? What are the theoretical potentials and
Hawai'i at Manoa challenges in the study of China?
- What kind of implications can be drawn from studies in/
on China for broader concerns in fieldwork methods?
3249 China as Methods II - Where and how to locate China in comparative studies?
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Sponsorships:
Beacon E, Sheraton, Third Floor Asian Geography Specialty Group
China Specialty Group
Session Description: In 1989, Mizoguchi Yuzo published Cultural Geography Specialty Group
China as Method and called for reversing Eurocentric theo- Organizers:
ry and epistemological framework (Mizoguchi 2011 Yimin Zhao - London School of Economics
[1989]). For Mizoguchi, the end of conceiving China Yueming Zhang - University of Birmingham
"should be the 'study of China' that transcends China" (cf. Yang Yang - University of Colorado At Boulder
Chen 2010, 252). In other words, China is a method when Chairs:
understanding the world is the purpose - and in this multi- Yimin Zhao - London School of Economics
plied "world", as Chen Kuan-Hsing reminds us (ibid., 253), Papers:
both China and Europe are elements. It is here that we can 10:00 AM Ding Fei - University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
see some affinities between Mizoguchi's position and re- From Xinjiang to Addis Ababa: Encountering China at
cently rising comparative urbanism to study the world of its "periphery" and "frontier"
cities (Robinson, 2006). 10:20 AM Yang Yang - University of Colorado At Boulder
Displaying Connections between Chinese and Global
Mizoguchi's proposition has methodological significances Muslim Communities through Fashions in Transnational
for it helps replace the vertical principle of history (which is Urban Space in the Hui Quarter in Xi'an
teleological and dominated by Eurocentric theories) by a 10:40 AM Jing Luo - Tsinghua University
horizontal view of space-time where different elements are Of "Other" People: The Exotic Landscape of Chinese
juxtaposed. Seeing in this way, claims of universalisation Diasporas (and Its Rejection) in Boston
should be questioned, and investigations on the dynamic 11:00 AM Wing-shing Tang - Hong Kong Baptist U
space-time are urgently needed. Some endeavours can be Not 'China as Methods' but 'Chinese "dialectics" as a
witnessed in the literature, such as Wang Hui's (2011) dis- Methodology: The Tongbian Approach
cussion on "trans-systemic society" and "trans-societal sys- 11:20 AM Discussant: Max D. Woodworth - The Ohio
tem," yet more efforts are required to rethink how and to State University
what extent China can be a method to understand the
world. This critical reflection on seeing China as a method-
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3269 Transnational Cultural and Natural Herit- sions, dynamics, sources, and polices of spatial inequality
from multiple perspectives.
age in Asia: Contours of Boundary-
Transgressing Memoryscapes (II)
Research Questions on spatial inequality typically include
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
the following:
Regis, Marriott, Third Floor
What are the nature, pattern and structure of spatial
inequality?
Session Description: Our session intends to bring together
How is spatial inequality displayed in terms of conver-
the two highly complex fields 'heritage' and 'culture' on the
gence/divergence, dimension (e.g., economic/income,
one hand, and a clear focus on Asia, on the other hand,
health and quality of life), scale (e.g., urban, regional and
though with the inclusion of outreach to other regions over
global) and time?
time
What are the underlying mechanisms of spatial ine-
Sponsorships:
quality and what are the roles of institutions, geography,
Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group
and globalization?
Asian Geography Specialty Group
What are the effects and consequences of spatial ine-
China Specialty Group
quality?
Organizers:
How are spatial inequality linked to poverty and social
Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
justice?
Chair:
How can developments in GIS and big data be used
Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
to advance our knowledge?
Papers:
What are theoretical and policy implications of re-
10:00 AM Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
search?
Memorial Sites of the Pacific War 1937 - 1945 in China,
How polices can be advanced to promote a more eq-
in Japan and in the U.S.: A case for transnationalizing
uitable and sustainable society?
divergent commemoration practices?
10:20 AM Xiaolin Zang - Utrecht University
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the
Bouke van Gorp - Utrecht University
following:
Hans Renes - Utrecht University
Outcomes: income, social, health, education, digital,
The Interpretation of Colonial Heritage in Four Chinese
innovation, environmental inequalities, etc., and their inter-
Cities ? Identity and Professional Perspectives
active effects
10:40 AM Neda Moayerian - Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Trajectory/Dynamics: Timing, effects of intergenera-
& State University
tional inequality, levels of development
Local Non-Governmental Organizations' Role in Glocali-
Scale: From global to local and everyday life, with an
zation Process in Developing Countries
emphasis on the regional scale
11:00 AM Discussant: Velvet Nelson - Sam Houston State
Space/Place/Network: Spatial association/
University
agglomeration/clustering, core-periphery relations, uneven
nature of inequality, space/place as agents etc.
3450 Spatial Inequality, Justice and Policy II: Processes/Mechanisms: Globalization, liberalization,
China and India marketization, institutional change, decentralization, urban-
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Bea- ization, geography
con F, Sheraton, Third Floor Procedures/Policies/Justice: Role of institutions, policy
effects and options, justice, planning
Session Description: Inequality has been intensified in Methodology: Spatiotemporal modeling, big data, so-
many countries, and has once again become a hotly debat- cial media etc.
ed topic, engaging top world leaders. Equity has even be- Sponsorships:
come a top sustainable development goal of the UN's post- China Specialty Group
2015 development agenda, and the focus of the war on Asian Geography Specialty Group
poverty has been shifted towards the war on inequality. Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Spatial inequality is an important dimension of inequality Organizers:
and has also drawn renewed scholarly interest. Recent de- Yehua Dennis Wei - University of Utah
velopments in geographic information system (GIS) has Chair:
empowered geographers to provide more nuanced analysis Javier Revilla Diez - University of Cologne
of spatial inequality. However, the existing knowledge is
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fragmented and partial. This session intends to attract
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Papers:
1:20 PM Yehua Dennis Wei - University of Utah
Spatial Inequality in China and Asia
1:40 PM Felix Haifeng Liao - University of Idaho
Yehua Wei - University of Utah
Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Scales and Mech- - As one of the featured themes of AAG2017, current as-
anisms
2:00 PM Yanning Wei - Grand Valley State University
Spatial Inequality as State Development Strategy and with research uncertainties for spatio-temporal contexts;
Poverty Reduction in China
2:20 PM Sudhir K. Thakur - California State University
Sacramento
The Economic Geography of Public Debt in India: A
Spatial Analytic Approach
2:40 PM Corey Johnson -
Purva Sharma - University of North Carolina, Greensbo- Sponsorships:
ro
A Study on Spatial Variation in the Urbanization of In-
dia
3484 Special Session on urban climatology in
Asia
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Fair-
field, Marriott, Third Floor
Session Description: An important aspect of this "Asian
Century" is the rapid urbanisation currently taking place
throughout the continent; for instance, the United Nations
projected that ten out of the largest 15 (including the top
seven) urban agglomerations on the planet will be located
in Asia by 2030. The development of these megacities, and
all urban areas of different spatial extents, leads to inad-
vertent modifications towards weather and climate across
multiple geographical scales. These alterations include the
urban heat island (i.e. increased urban warmth relative to
the city's surroundings), and air pollution due to emissions
arising from anthropogenic activities. Academic research -
mainly through the field of urban climatology into the
physical mechanisms, biophysical impacts of, and suggest-
ed adaptation towards these phenomena is relatively well-
developed; however, there is still a predominant bias of
such studies either being based at or originating from,
North American or European cities. A concern about this
spatial disparity in studies is that such research findings
may not be as successfully applied in Asian cities, where
there may be substantial differences in climate, demo-
graphic and socio-economic contexts.
With this geographical disparity in mind, the primary objec- 2:20 PM Yanxu Liu - Peking university
tive of this session is to highlight current urban weather
and climate research taking place in Asia. We aim to pro-
vide a forum for geoscientists to share their scientific and
social scientific knowledge, exchange ideas for policies to-
wards urban resilience arising from applications of re-
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search, and ultimately develop a network of individuals or
groups focusing on Asian urban climates for potential fu-
ture collaborations.
We welcome papers that address (but need not be limited
to) the following themes:
sessment or novel developments in methodological tech-
niques within urban meteorology and climatology dealing
- Case studies into urban climate phenomena that apply
observational, remote sensing, or modelling methodologies
across a spectrum of geographical scales;
Communication and incorporation of geographical re-
search into planning, policy-making and urban stake-
holder undertakings in Asian cities.
Climate Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
Organizers:
Winston T. Chow - National University of Singapore
Chandana Mitra - Auburn University
Chair:
Winston T. Chow - National University of Singapore
Papers:
1:20 PM Jennifer K. Vanos - UC San Diego
Robert Brown - Texas A & M University
Eichi Kosaka - University of Tokyo
Akiko Iida - University of Tokyo
Makoto Yokohari - University of Tokyo
Microclimatic Design of the 2020 Olympic Marathon
Route: Establishing a Baseline for Thermal Comfort
1:40 PM Amir A. Aliabadi - University of Guelph
E. Scott Krayenhoff - Arizona State University
Negin Nazarian - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research
& Technology Centre, Singapore
Lup Wai Chew - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter R. Armstrong - Masdar Institute of Science and
Technology
Afshin Afshari - Masdar Institute of Science and Tech-
nology
Leslie K. Norford - Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy
Effects of Roof Edge Roughness on Air Temperature
and Pollutant Concentration in Urban Canyons
2:00 PM Iain Douglas Stewart - University of Toronto
Metabolic Heat Production by Human and Animal Popu-
lations in Asian Megacities
Jian Peng - College of Urban and Environmental Sci-
ences, Peking University
Influence of landscape pattern on land surface temper-
ature in Shenzhen City, China
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(Continued from page 15) Scale: From global to local and everyday life, with an
2:40 PM Winston T. Chow - National University of Singa- emphasis on the regional scale
pore Space/Place/Network: Spatial association/
Geographies of Asian urban climates: past, present, agglomeration/clustering, core-periphery relations, uneven
future? nature of inequality, space/place as agents etc.
Processes/Mechanisms: Globalization, liberalization,
3550 Spatial Inequality, Justice and Policy III: marketization, institutional change, decentralization, urban-
China ization, geography
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in Bea- Procedures/Policies/Justice: Role of institutions, policy
con F, Sheraton, Third Floor effects and options, justice, planning
Methodology: Spatiotemporal modeling, big data, so-
Session Description: Inequality has been intensified in cial media etc.
many countries, and has once again become a hotly debat- Sponsorships:
ed topic, engaging top world leaders. Equity has even be- China Specialty Group
come a top sustainable development goal of the UN's post- Asian Geography Specialty Group
2015 development agenda, and the focus of the war on Economic Geography Specialty Group
poverty has been shifted towards the war on inequality. Organizer:
Spatial inequality is an important dimension of inequality Yehua Dennis Wei - University of Utah
and has also drawn renewed scholarly interest. Recent de- Chair:
velopments in geographic information system (GIS) has Felix Haifeng Liao - University of Idaho
empowered geographers to provide more nuanced analysis Papers:
of spatial inequality. However, the existing knowledge is 3:20 PM Wen Chen - Nanjing Institute of Geography and
fragmented and partial. This session intends to attract Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
scholars with varied backgrounds to examine the dimen- Regional integration in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD):
sions, dynamics, sources, and polices of spatial inequality a path towards fragmentation or confederation?
from multiple perspectives. 3:40 PM Weiye Xiao -
Research Questions on spatial inequality typically Spatial mismatch between floating population and job
include the following: opportunities in Shanghai
What are the nature, pattern and structure of spatial 4:00 PM Li Huang - University of Idaho
inequality? Haifeng Felix Liao - University of Idaho
How is spatial inequality displayed in terms of conver- Understanding regional development mechanisms in
gence/divergence, dimension (e.g., economic/income, Zhejiang, China from 1981 to 2013: spMorph and geo-
health and quality of life), scale (e.g., urban, regional and graphical and temporal weighted regression approach-
global) and time? es
What are the underlying mechanisms of spatial ine- 4:20 PM Beibei Ma -
quality and what are the roles of institutions, geography, Dongqian Xue -
and globalization? Jing Huang -
What are the effects and consequences of spatial ine- Spatial Distribution Characteristics Of Income And Pov-
quality? erty In Xi'an Based On Micro-regional Perspective
How are spatial inequality linked to poverty and social 4:40 PM Hao Huang - Illinois Institute of Tecchnology
justice? Yehua Wei - University of Utah
How can developments in GIS and big data be used The Spatial-Temporal Hierarchy of Inequality in Urban
to advance our knowledge? China
What are theoretical and policy implications of re-
search? Panel Session:
How polices can be advanced to promote a more eq- 3616 Publishing books with top university presses
uitable and sustainable society? and commercial publishers
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Room
following: 205, Hynes, Second Level
Outcomes: income, social, health, education, digital,
innovation, environmental inequalities, etc., and their inter- Session Description: From an international set of perspec-
active effects tives, the future of research monographs was critically dis-
Trajectory/Dynamics: Timing, effects of intergenera- cussed in the 2009 issue of Progress in Human Geography
tional inequality, levels of development (Ward et al. 2009: 101-26). Based on their earlier panel
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discussion at the 2007 RGS-IBG conference, all contribu-
tors collectively agreed that "for the future of geography,
research monographs are important. Whatever the national
context, they remain barometers of an intellectually vibrant
discipline" (p.103). The specificities of publishing research
monographs, however, remain relatively underdeveloped
and less understood. This session brings together senior
editors at two top university presses (Harvard and MIT)
and several leading human geographers who have success-
fully published their recent monographs with top university
presses (Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Oxford, Princeton,
Stanford, etc) and commercial publishers (Routledge,
Sage, Wiley-Blackwell, etc). The panel's aim is to examine
critically (1) why publishing with these presses is so im-
portant; (2) how to go about getting them interested in
and publishing our work; and (3) what pitfalls to avoid
when preparing the proposals for and negotiating the con-
tractual terms with these publishers. Like Ward et al.
(2009), we firmly believe publishing scholarly monographs
should remain a key objective, if not the objective, in dis-
seminating significant geographical research work, particu-
larly to scholars in all other social sciences. This panel thus
hopes to draw upon the collective experience and wisdom
of these established geographers and to encourage early
career geographers to think optimistically about publishing
their work as monographs with leading presses and pub-
lishers.
Sponsorships:
China Specialty Group
Development Geographies Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Economic Geography Specialty Group
AAG Careers and Professional Development Theme
Organizers:
Henry Wai-chung Yeung - National University of Singa-
pore
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen - SUNY-Buffalo
Chair:
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen - SUNY-Buffalo
Introduction:
Henry Wai-chung Yeung - National University of Singa-
pore
Panelists:
Rob Kitchin - National University Of Ireland Maynooth
Michael Storper - UCLA
Emily Yeh - University of Colorado
Beth Clevenger - MIT Press
Jeff Dean - Harvard University Press
3686 China's New Silk Road
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Salon
I, Marriott, Fourth Floor
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Session Description: Since 2013, China has been talking
about a new Silk Road. The slogan has become, One Belt
One Road referring to the Silk Road Economic Belt (by
land) and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (by sea). Offi-
cials in the People's Republic of China have articulated a
mode of economic and geopolitical ties across the Asian
sphere. In September 2013, President Xi while in Kazakh-
stan proposed a Silk Road Economic Belt linking China,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and on to Iran, Rus-
sia, Turkey and Europe (Xinhua 9/7/2013). In October
2013, President Xi while at an ASEAN Forum in Indonesia
proposed a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road linking China
and ASEAN (Wu, 2013). The two announcements set up
China's linkages with neighbors across Asia and into Eu-
rope for trade connections as well as infrastructure linkag-
es.
This session examines geopolitical and international trade
relationships concerning China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakh-
stan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka,
Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and
Philippines among others.
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
China Specialty Group
Russian, Central Eurasian, and East European Specialty
Group
Organizers:
Stanley Toops - Miami University
Chairs:
Stanley Toops - Miami University
Papers:
5:20 PM Zhouying Song - Institute of Geographic Scienc-
es and Natural Resources Research, CAS
Piping Gong - Institute of Geographic Sciences and
Natural Resources Research
Weidong Liu - Institute of Geographic Sciences and
Natural Resources Research
Foreign Trade Between China and "OBOR" Countries
and Its Economic Impacts
5:40 PM Alexander C. Diener - University of Kansas
Mongolian Mobilities as a Microcosm of Eurasia's New
Silk Roads
6:00 PM Lili Wei - Lanzhou University
Lijuan Si -
Jing Zhang -
Regional Differences in Urbanization: A Case Study of
Urban Agglomerations in Northwestern China
6:20 PM Nicholas James Cosmas - US Military Academy
Imaginary Conflict: the 21st Century Maritime Silk
Road and the "Rebalance to the Pacific"
6:40 PM Stanley Toops - Miami University Xinjiang and
China's Belt and Road Initiative
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Saturday
4125 Human-environment interactions and adapta- overlaps public and private interests, this book explores
tion to climate change in the context of Bangladesh how corporations, states, and civil society organizations
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Room 305, Hynes, Third Level
Session Description: We invite theoretical and empirical
contributions exploring human-environment interactions
and adaptation to climate change in the context of Bangla- the 21st century.
desh.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
adaptation to climate change
environmental degradation
human impacts on the environments
coastal environments
impacts of climate change on agriculture
riverbank erosions
climate migrants
tropical cyclones, floods, earthquakes, lightening
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group
Organizers:
Munshi Rahman - Saint Louis University
Bimal Kanti Paul - Kansas State University
Thomas Crawford - Saint Louis University
Chair:
Munshi Rahman - Saint Louis University
Papers:
8:00 AM Munshi Rahman - Saint Louis University
Thomas Crawford - Saint Louis University
Space time patterns of recent natural and man-made
disasters in Bangladesh
8:20 AM Bidita Jawher Tithi - University of California, Da-
vis
'We are People of Sea-Water': Exploring Environmen-
tal Vulnerabilities and Human Rights of a Displaced
Fishing Community in South-Eastern Bangladesh
8:40 AM Lauryn Bragg - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Emma Walcott-Wilson - University of Tennessee
Eric Axley - Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Occupancy Reporting for Manufacturing in Bangladesh
9:00 AM SUBARNA CHATTERJEE - Kansas State University
Lightning related casualties in Bangladesh in 2016
Panel Session:
4163 Authors Meet Critics: Aoyama with Parthasa-
rathy's "The Rise of the Hybrid Domain"
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Commonwealth, Sheraton, Third Floor
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Session Description: This authors-meet-critics session dis-
cusses Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy's new book
"The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance
for Social Innovation" (Edward Elgar). Conceptualising the
rise of the hybrid domain as an emerging domain that
develop common agendas, despite the differences in their
primary objectives. Using evidence from India, it examines
various cases of innovation with social impacts in educa-
tion, energy, health and finance, as a means to deliver so-
lutions for some of the most pressing social challenges of
Sponsorships:
Economic Geography Specialty Group
Development Geographies Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Rory Horner - University of Manchester
Chairs:
Rory Horner - University of Manchester
Introduction:
Rory Horner - University of Manchester
Michael Storper - UCLA
Panelists:
Erica Schoenberger - Johns Hopkins University
Bish Sanyal - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuko Aoyama - Clark University
Balaji Parthasarathy - International Institute of Infor-
mation Technology
4293 Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on
the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima
Meltdown
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
Orleans, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Session Description: Extreme events in nature attract spe-
cial interest because of their dramatic violence and the hu-
man suffering they often inflict. The Japanese live in one of
earth's vulnerable seismic zones and have developed towns
and villages on the coast. They have sited factories and
industries next to the coast. Then, with a clap, a boom,
and a roar, the earth shakes, followed by a platoon of gi-
ant waves so loaded with energy it has its own tsunami.
The water cuts a swath along the coast of Tohoku. So it
went on March 11, 2011 (3/11 the Japanese use that label
the way Americans talk of 9/11), another extraordinary
chapter of living dangerously in Japan's seismic zone.
March 28, 2011).
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
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(Continued from page 18) domestic investors seek certainty and guidance and the
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group population demand urgent attention to improvements to
Energy and Environment Specialty Group their daily lives. Some foreign governments also press their
Organizers: case for stalled projects and agreement to new initiatives.
Unryu Suganuma - J. F. Oberlin Univesity This proposed session welcomes papers from diverse per-
Chair: spectives on the spatial, environmental, social, economic
Pradyumna P. Karan - University Of Kentucky and political aspects of the transition evolving in Myanmar.
Papers: Our aims for this panel are: first to enhance our knowledge
10:00 AM Introduction: Pradyumna P. Karan - University and understanding of the changes that are taking place,
Of Kentucky their likely consequences and their impacts on the diverse
10:05 AM Yukio Yotsumoto - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Uni- groups within Myanmar; second, to stimulate exchanges
versity amongst researchers with an interest in Myanmar and
Shunichi Takekawa - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific Universi-third, to continue to develop a research network of individ-
ty uals with a focus on Myanmar in order to facilitate poten-
The Social Aspects of Fukushima Residents' Sufferings tial research collaborations.
after the 3.11 Nuclear Disaster We welcome papers with focus on any of the following, but
10:25 AM Kenji Yamazaki - Iwate University by no means exclusive, topics:
Process of forming the disaster culture - Propagation Borderland governance, development and economic
and formation of a phrase "Tsunami-ten-den-ko (Run dynamics;
away immediately to a hill to stay alive)" Environmental issues of resource sector projects;
10:45 AM Tomoko Yamazaki - Iwate University Mega projects and regional development;
School and Disaster Culture in Sanriku Coast, Japan Rural to urban migration, welfare and resettlement;
11:05 AM Unryu Suganuma - J. F. Oberlin Univesity Tourism and its impacts on communities;
Nuclear Energy Politics of Fukushima in Japan Trade, foreign investment and aid;
11:25 AM Discussant: Pradyumna P. Karan - University Of Urbanization and urban development
Kentucky Sponsorship:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
4307 Asian Geography Specialty Group Chung-Tong Wu - Western Sydney University
Business Meeting Xiaobo Su - University of Oregon
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 11:50 AM - 1:10 PM in Marion Sabrie - Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level Chair:
Marion Sabrie - Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Papers:
1:20 PM Jacob Shell - Temple University
4415 Myanmar in Transition: Democracy, De- Three Possible Futures for Myanmar's Unique Popula-
velopment and Social Change I tion of Trained Elephants
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in 1:40 PM Hunter Marston - Brookings Institution
Room 204, Hynes, Second Level Myanmar's National Union (and Reconciliation) Will
Take Decades
Session Description: In April 2016, a democratically elected 2:00 PM Xiaobo Su - University of Oregon
government, led by the NLD, took office in Myanmar mark- Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship: Female Burmese
ing a new beginning for the country. The new government workers in Chinese border cities
has the challenge and burden of heightened expectations. 2:20 PM Jasnea Sarma - National University Of Singapore
It is obvious transition to democracy and what it means for 'Home' is from Kachinland to Assam - Oral histories
development and social change will take time to unfold. and Emotional Geographies of Border Transgressions
While the new government takes the necessary steps to and Connected Ethno-Nationalisms in India and Myan-
formulate policies for the challenges of the past decades, mar.
for example, ethnic armed groups and sectarian conflict, 2:40 PM Discussant: Marion Sabrie - Center for Southeast
economic challenges, resource management, environmen- Asian Studies
tal issues and social transformations await attention. Steps
to tackle issues such as peace with ethnic armed groups,
sectarian conflicts, burgeoning squatter settlements, illegal
buildings and development and land ownership illustrate
the complexity of these issues. However, international and (Continued on page 20)
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4515 Myanmar in Transition: Democracy, Develop-
ment and Social Change II
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in
Room 204, Hynes, Second Level
Session Description: In April 2016, a democratically elected
government, led by the NLD, took office in Myanmar mark-
ing a new beginning for the country. The new government
has the challenge and burden of heightened expectations.
It is obvious transition to democracy and what it means for
development and social change will take time to unfold.
While the new government takes the necessary steps to
formulate policies for the challenges of the past decades,
for example, ethnic armed groups and sectarian conflict,
economic challenges, resource management, environmen-
tal issues and social transformations await attention. Steps
to tackle issues such as peace with ethnic armed groups,
sectarian conflicts, burgeoning squatter settlements, illegal
buildings and development and land ownership illustrate
the complexity of these issues. However, international and
domestic investors seek certainty and guidance and the
population demand urgent attention to improvements to
their daily lives. Some foreign governments also press their
case for stalled projects and agreement to new initiatives.
This proposed session welcomes papers from diverse per-
spectives on the spatial, environmental, social, economic
and political aspects of the transition evolving in Myanmar.
Our aims for this panel are: first to enhance our knowledge
and understanding of the changes that are taking place,
their likely consequences and their impacts on the diverse
groups within Myanmar; second, to stimulate exchanges
amongst researchers with an interest in Myanmar and
third, to continue to develop a research network of individ-
uals with a focus on Myanmar in order to facilitate poten-
tial research collaborations.
We welcome papers with focus on any of the following, but
by no means exclusive, topics:
Borderland governance, development and economic
dynamics;
Environmental issues of resource sector projects;
Mega projects and regional development;
Rural to urban migration, welfare and resettlement;
Tourism and its impacts on communities;
Trade, foreign investment and aid;
Urbanization and urban development
Sponsorships:
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Organizers:
Chung-Tong Wu - Western Sydney University
Xiaobo Su - University of Oregon
Marion Sabrie - Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Chair:
Xiaobo Su - University of Oregon
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Papers:
3:20 PM Chung-Tong Wu, Western Sydney University
Development, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction:
Lessons for Myanmar
3:40 PM Soe Win Myint - Arizona State University
Chuyuan Wang - Arizona State University
An Examination of the impacts of Urbanization on the
Environment: Experiences from current and former
capitals of Myanmar
4:00 PM Scott Jennings Melbourne - University of Hong
Kong
Quantifying the green spaces absorbing urban growth
in Yangon, Myanmar
4:20 PM Marion Sabrie - Paris 13 University
Yangon City metamorphoses since 2010: toward a pos-
sible sustainable development?
4:40 PM Peilei Fan - Michigan State University
Jiquan Chen - Michigan State University
Zaw Naing - Mandalay Technology, Myanmar
Zutao Yang - Michigan State University
Khaing Moe Nyunt - Yangon City Development Com-
mittee
Zin Nwe Myint - Yangon University
Jiaguo Qi - Michigan State University
Soe Myint - Arizona State University
Extreme climate events, globalization, and capital relo-
cation: Urbanization and sustainability in Yangon, My-
anmar
4650 Contemporary Issues in Rural China
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in
Beacon F, Sheraton, Third Floor
Session Description: Change in rural China represents a
major driver for virtually all major issues facing contempo-
rary China. Of course, these include agricultural issues
such as food safety, food security, and commodity produc-
tion and trade. More broadly, however, concerns regarding
social inequality, environmental degradation, culture
change, and the growth of the rural economy are all rooted
in the fast-changing social relations between urban and
rural places in China. The great changes occurring in rural
China are also important in their own rightgiven the siza-
ble share of the nation's citizens that continue to live and
work in these places. This session surveys some of the
most important contemporary rural issues including rural
urbanization, methods of farm land valuation and redistri-
bution, and environmental degradation and restoration in
pastoral regions.
Sponsorships:
China Specialty Group
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Rural Geography Specialty Group
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Organizers:
Gregory Veeck - Western Michigan University
Chairs:
Gregory Veeck - Western Michigan University
Papers:
5:20 PM Wenjing Jiang - Clark University
Marketization of Agricultural Land Use Rights and Rural
Restructuring in China
5:40 PM Yue Wang - Beijing Normal University
Xuemin LIU - Beijing Normal University
Ruiyin DOU - Beijing Normal University
Yu ZHANG - Beijing Normal University
The Study of Resource Value Accounting of the Farm-
land in North China Plain
6:00 PM Zhendong Luo - Nanjing University
New urbanization from below in China: The character-
istic, mechanism and trend of rural urbanization driven
by E-commerce
6:20 PM Gregory Veeck - Western Michigan University
Charles Emerson - Western Michigan University
Zhou Li - Rural Development Institute, Chinese Acade-
my of Social Sciences
Fawen Yu - Rural Development Institute, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences
EVI Assessment of Grassland Change under Post-2000
Policy Interventions: A Case Study of Eight Pastoral
Counties in West China, 2000 -2015
6:40 PM Discussant: Clifton W. Pannell - University of
Georgia
Sunday
5142 Formal and informal dynamics of afforda-
ble housing development
Sunday, 4/9/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Back Bay Ballroom A, Sheraton, Second Floor
Session Description: As an important redistributive means
to improve the well-being of marginal groups, affordable
housing has long been the focal point of academic research
and policy making worldwide. The 2008 global financial
crisis centralized on housing economy once again brought
housing affordability into the limelight of social economic
research. The importance of affordable housing concerning
homelessness, quality of life, social mix has been widely
recognized. In developed countries, affordable housing has
been used as a governing and planning tool to address the
problems of residential segregation and sociospatial ine-
quality. Nonetheless, after the collapse of the welfare state
and the rise of neoliberal policies in advanced capitalist
economies, affordable housing development has been sub-
ordinated to the imperative of economic growth, and has
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lagged far behind the pressing needs of the low-income
groups.
In the Chinese context, rocketing housing price in large
cities and limited provision of affordable housing have
pushed many into despair. Adding to this problem is the
urban-rural dichotomy that institutionalizes and perpetual-
izes the inferiority of rural migrants in the city, who have
amounted to more than 270 million in recent years. Central
to the housing affordability problem haunting many Chi-
nese cities is the predominant land revenue-driven urban
growth model, or the "land-centred urban transformation"
termed by Lin (2007). Against this backdrop, different
strategies have been developed both from top-down and
bottom-up. On the one hand, the central government has
announced an unprecedentedly large-scale affordable
housing development plan to construct 36 million units of
affordable housing during the12th five year plan (2011-
2015). On the other, informal housing strategies are thriv-
ing on the collective land owned by villagers whose farm-
land has been encroached by the waves of urban expan-
sion in the past three decades. Urban villages have shel-
tered millions of rural migrants. Meanwhile, a distinctive
mode of semi-illegal housing development, namely small
property right housing has quietly taken up a considerably
large proportion of existing housing stock.
Seemingly, these two mechanisms of affordable hous-
ing development led by the state and the village collective
respectively are targeting different social groups and
evolve along parallel paths independent of each other. Ex-
isting studies also rarely link these two dynamics together
to examine affordable housing development. However,
both mechanisms closely hinge upon the dual land system
and land provision issues and can actually complement and
learn from each other in many ways. We therefore call for
papers looking at both the formal and informal dynamics of
affordable housing development. We welcome papers ad-
dressing (but not limited to) the following issues:
1) To examine the dynamics of formal and informal afford-
able housing development from both production side and
consumption side, i.e. the mechanism of land and housing
supply and the different patterns of formal and informal
affordable housing consumption;
2) To assess the advantages and problems associated with
formal and informal affordable housing development from
the perspectives of property rights and transaction cost;
3) To analyze the inter-relationship between the two
modes of affordable housing development;
4) To investigate the financing strategies of formal and
informal affordable housing provision;
5) To evaluate different impacts of formal and informal
affordable housing on residents and communities.
Sponsorships:
Urban Geography Specialty Group
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(Continued from page 21) regional contrasts in 'North versus South' and 'East versus
China Specialty Group West', 'rural versus urban divide' and the dichotomy of
Asian Geography Specialty Group 'coastal versus hinterland development'. This session
Organizers: brings together contrasting themes which addresses the
Shenjing He - The University of Hong Kong overarching question of urban development in India, mid-
Youqin Huang - SUNY - Albany dle class women in a burgeoning urban space of Delhi,
Chair: multi- cultural experience in the urban landscapes in Cal-
Shenjing He - The University of Hong Kong cutta which has been inhabited by ethno burbs/ethnic en-
Papers: claves of Chinese descent in Kolkata and Indian and Filipi-
8:00 AM Shenjing He - The University of Hong Kong no descent in New Jersey. Further, this session discusses
Bridging formal and informal dynamics of affordable the French architect Le Corbusier, planned and post inde-
housing development in urban China pendent modern city of Chandigarh, and will also discuss
8:20 AM Youqin Huang - SUNY - Albany trends of urbanization in North-eastern region of India.
Informal Housing and Housing Mobility in Chinese Cit- Sponsorships:
ies Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group
8:40 AM Linda Shi - Massachusetts Institute of Technolo- Asian Geography Specialty Group
gy Organizers:
Xi Qiu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rajrani Kalra - California State University - San Bernar-
Zachary Beaird Lamb - Massachusetts Institute of dino
Technology Sudhir K. Thakur - California State University Sacra-
Lawrance Vale - Massachusetts Institute of Technology mento
Hongru Cai - MIT Chair:
Tenure Security and Urban Resilience: The Power of Jayasree Borah - GNRC Hospital
Collective Title in China's Urban Villages Papers:
9:00 AM Daniel You-Ren Yang - Department of Sociology, 8:00 AM Rajinder S. Jutla - Missouri State University
Tunghai University Chandigarh, the Modernistic City: Its Success & Failure
The property-led relocation, institutionalized rent gap 8:20 AM John Ponstingel - Binghamton University
and housing stratification in Shanghai Filipino and Asian Indian Experiences in Jersey City,
New Jersey: The Role of Institutions
5156 Exploring the India and Indian urban 8:40 AM Sudeshna Ghosh - Indiana University Of Pennsyl-
landscapes vania
Sunday, 4/9/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Haimanti Banerji - Indian Institute of Technology, Kha-
Hampton B, Sheraton, Third Floor ragpur
Subrata Chattopadhyay - Indian Institute of Technolo-
Session Description: Urban geography is a field of changing gy, Kharagpur
contours. With the forces of intermingling, assimilation, Brian Okey - Indiana University Of Pennsylvania
migration the urban landscape in both the Western and Student Field Studies in India II: Chinatown, Kolkata.
developing world are changing. India is a nation character- 9:00 AM Jayasree Borah - GNRC Hospital
ized by 'prosperity amidst poverty', 'unity and diversity', Pattern of Urbanization in North-east India

Regional Studies Association Student Research Awards

The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is committed to support students and
early career researchers and following below are some of the many initiatives
that we oer to help grow students and early career researchers careers, influ
ence and research.

With best wishes,

Daniela Carl

Research funding, support and awards (next page)

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RSA Early career research grant schemes
Application deadline: 31st May 2017
This award is open to single applicants in their early career (five years between the date shown on the PhD certificate
and the application deadline). The award is provided to support a discrete piece of regional studies and/or regional sci-
ence research. The value of the award is up to 10,000 and has a maximum time span of 18 months.
For more details see http://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/page/early-career-grant-scheme

RSA Travel grant

Application deadlines: 31st May 2017, 31st August 2017, 30th November 2017
We offer members up to 500 towards travel costs when attending a non-RSA event. Recipients of the Travel Grant
must be members of the Association at the time of the application, at the time of travel and claim.
For more details see http://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/page/rsa-travel-grant

RSA Awards
Application deadline: 31st May 2017
Nominations (both self-nominations and third party nominations) are being sought for the RSA:
Nathaniel Lichfield/ Recent Master Student Award: Applicants need to have graduated with a master`s de-
gree in regional studies and related fields in 2016.
PhD Student Award: Applicants need to be registered PhD students who have not yet received their PhD certifi-
cate.
Routledge Early Career Award: Applicants need to be early career researchers within five years of the date on
their PhD certificate or equivalent.
The Awards ceremony will take place at the Presidents Event on 16th November 2017 in London, UK. The prize for
each of these Award is:
A cheque for 500;
A certificate;
Up to 200 discretionary fund toward attending the 2016 RSA President's Event (transport costs).
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Selected papers on Asia that are not in AGSG Sponsored Sessions

There are many papers that could have been placed in one of the AGSG sessions but were not. Please use the search
function on your mobile app or on the AAG website to find more of the like. These are just a selected few.

3189 All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Con-
text: Geographical Perspectives - 1
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in Vine-
yard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
3289 All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Con-
text: Geographical Perspectives - 2
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
Vineyard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
3489 All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Con-
text: Geographical Perspectives - 3
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Vine-
yard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
3589 All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Con-
text: Geographical Perspectives - 4
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 3:20 PM - 5:00 PM in Vine-
yard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
3689 All Things Nuclear in a Post-Fukushima Con-
text: Geographical Perspectives - Panel Discussion
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in Vine-
yard, Marriott, Fourth Floor
Session Description: The nuclear disaster in Fukushima,
Japan in 2011 and the subsequent radioactive contamina-
tion in the region has impacted the ways in which we view
and deal with nuclear power, radioactivity in the environ-
ment, and the complex assemblage of actors in the energy
industry and communities. Five years after the incident, the
concerns about the effects of the disaster persist and the
new issues and challenges related to nuclear power and
radioactivity continue to arise. This multiple-session series
aims to provide an opportunity to share knowledge, experi-
ences, and questions among researchers who have been
engaging in a wide range of issues related to radioactivity,
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(Continued from page 23) 4:05 PM Yumiko Yamamoto - Colgate University

nuclear energy, nuclear accident/disaster, nuclear prolifera- Daisaku Yamamoto - Colgate University
tion, and other relevant events and phenomena. Our paper Women Cultivating Diverse Economies in a Nuclear
sessions and panel discussion will address the following Host Community: A Case Study of Kashiwazaki, Japan
nuclear-energy related topics, not limited to the Fukushima
region: isotope techniques in geography; environmental Poster #005: Japanese Enka Music and the Five
impacts; geographies of health, radiation, contamination Themes of Cultural Geography is part of the Poster
and decontamination; social and community impacts and Session: Human Geography Poster Session II
responses; social and economic impacts of power plant
Friday, 4/7/2017 at 8:00 AM.
decommissioning; knowledge, expertise and information;
sustainability and progress; demographics and migration;
gender and diverse economies; reconstruction and govern- Dennis J. Edgell - University of North Carolina at Pembroke
ance; use of geospatial techniques; urban-centric challeng- This presentation will examine geographic aspects of Japa-
es. nese "Enka" music. Enka is style of Japanese traditional
Sponsorship(s): music and folk songs. It has increased in popularity in re-
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group cent years, and has made its way into popular culture.
Energy and Environment Specialty Group This research grew out of assignments used in a college
Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group Cultural Geography course. The purpose is to appreciate
Papers: and understand this unique cultural phenomenon. Second-
8:30 AM Carolynne Hultquist - Pennsylvania State Univer- ly, to explore the five-themes framework as conceived by
sity Jordan-Bychkov -- as a classroom teaching method, and as
Radiation from Fukushima: Policy, Information, and a vehicle for independent student research.
Technology
9:00 AM Hiroyuki Kaneko - Rikkyo University The five themes framework are: Region, Diffusion, Ecolo-
Why People Continue to Consume Local Food?: Radio- gy, Interaction, and Landscape. The region theme maps
active contamination and the use of resources. the location and distribution of the musical genre, including
10:00 AM Takehito Noda - Ritsumeikan University any regional variations. The diffusion theme includes the
Why did farmers who desired early restart farming re- contagious, relocation and stimulus diffusion of the genre
ject the policy to decontaminate nuclear polluted farm- within Japan, and internationally. The cultural ecology
land? A case study of Kawauchi Village, Fukushima theme frequently appears in environmental references in
10:15 AM Bien Xuan Do - Department of Geography, Hi- song. The interaction theme clarifies Japanese how Enka is
roshima University, Japan causally related to other aspects of Japanese culture and
Factors that Influence Migration Location Choices in economy. The landscape theme will explore Enka's unique
the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Displacement iconography and imagery in song and the tangible land-
10:45 AM David W. Edgington - University Of British Co- scape.
lumbia 1121 Food, water, and change over time
The Road Back: Arrangements for Recovery of Popula-
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
tion and Jobs in the Futaba District of Fukushima Pre-
Room 301, Hynes, Third Level
fecture
11:00 AM Mitsuo Yamakawa - Faculty of Economics,
9:00 AM Su Guandong - Hiroshima University
Teikyo University
Great East Japan earthquake/ nuclear disaster and Fu- Spatial Mapping and Analysis of Farmland Abandon-
kushima urban area master plan ment and Its Determinants at National and Regional
1:20 PM Noritsugu Fujimoto- Toyo University/Visiting Pro-
Levels in Japan
fessor - Fukushima University Abstract:
Regional economic boom after the nuclear disaster: In the recent years, Japan has experienced a rapid in-
Political economy, governance and reconstruction poli- crease of farmland abandonment rate. However, there are
cy in Fukushima few researches focusing on national level analysis and the
1:35 PM Masayuki Seto - Fukushima University determinants of farmland abandonment in Japan are not
Akira Takagi - Kumamoto Gakuen University completely clear. Abandoned farmland in Japan can be de-
International transferring of disaster management fined as land that has not been cultivated for more than
knowledge one year and there is no indication that it will be cultivated
1:50 PM Makoto Takahashi - University of Cambridge over the next few years.
Enacting Nuclear Expertise: a performative analysis of
post-Fukushima workshops and exercises (Continued on page 26)
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(Continued from page 25) where movement for biodiversity conservation and ongoing
This paper analyzed the farmland abandonment condition U.S. military expansion coexist, I argue that everyday tour-
from a national scale using agricultural administrative units ism encounters serve as a space where various discourses
as the data samples. From ArcGIS 10.2.2, the spatial pat- of the human-nature relationship are articulated and prac-
terns of agriculture farmland abandonment in different re- ticed. Examining the local ecotourism practices and how
gions of Japan are clearly displayed. As for the reasons and national policies are actualized and understood, this
determinants, based on the national agricultural census presentation challenges the widely-used framework of eco-
data in 2010 we employed multiple linear regression model tourism as a binary economic-ecological management tool
and geographically weighted regression model to conduct and calls for examining a broader political, economic, and
the analysis by dividing the determinants into environmen- ecological context to discuss how discursively and material-
tal, economic and social aspects. ly tourism development may shape the place.
We have found that, farmland abandonment in Japan has
displayed significant spatial characteristics and autocorrela-
2157 Knowledge mobility and co-production in the
tions, high farmland abandonment rate regions mainly con-
making of eco-cities in the global South
centrated in Chubu, Chugoku/Shikoku and Kanto compared
to other regions which have a good agriculture condition. Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
In addition, among our selected variables, the "arable land Gardner A, Sheraton, Third Floor
rate of self-subsistence household" has the strongest effect
on farmland abandonment, and its explanation ability in- 8:00 AM Zack Lee
creased from central regions to north and south. Lastly, Sofia Shwayri - Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Uni-
the explanation ability of variables is different from region versity of California - Berkeley
to region while farmers' labor condition is more prone to When Vision Meets Reality: The mobility of Songdo as
cause the farmland abandonment. an eco-city model
Abstract:
1649 Staging the Nation: Tourism and the Geopolit- Many eco-city projects are experimental sites where visions
ical Gaze of technologically advanced, environmentally friendly cities
are brought to bear. Policymakers see these places as
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 4:40 PM - 6:20 PM in models that need to be both shared and sought after due
Beacon E, Sheraton, Third Floor to the immediate challenges of rapid urbanization, environ-
mental degradation, and disaster resiliency. Yet, the mobil-
4:40 PM Sayaka Sakuma - University of Hawaii at Manoa ity of policies rest on the assumption that the model has
Rise of Ecotourism Development in Okinawa, Japan been deemed successful. Most eco-city projects though are
Abstract: in different stages of development. None have been com-
The role of tourism in Japan has been fluid while encom- pleted, while assessing their impacts will be further in the
passing a wide range of national interests from inserting an future.
image of 'economic superpower' in the industrialized global This situation has not deterred policymakers from the Phil-
community (Leheny 2003), balancing trade surplus be- ippines in adopting South Korea's Songdo International
tween other countries (Carlile 2003), and to fueling mas- Business District as the model for the country's first eco-
sive investment in domestic construction industry (Rimmer city project called Clark Green City. From a series of in-
1992, McCormack 1991) while serving for advancement of depth interviews and archival analysis, this paper intends
the country. With the rising concerns of ecological conser- to describe a process by which an incomplete eco-city pro-
vation, the discourse of ecotourism, often contested yet ject has been adopted and translated into another context.
powerfully perpetuated in the global tourism sector, Personal relationships and policy tours are vital to the pro-
emerged in Japan as a strategic tool to navigate the coun- cess as well as the desire to build a "modern" city in a con-
try's ever-growing hospitality industry. text where the planning context has been historically weak.
I will introduce how ecotourism policies in Japan reflect The initial enthusiasm though was tempered by the reali-
global and national political-economic interests by examin- ties of actually building the project. Policymakers' own local
ing policies, advertisements and newspaper articles. I will experience and the development of key performance indi-
further focus on Okinawa, the Japan's 'troubling' prefecture cators enabled the project to become more grounded in
with the history of Battle of Okinawa and long-lasting infa- the Philippine context. There was a pivot away from Song-
mous call as 'the poorest prefecture.' Yet Okinawa is also do but traces of it is embedded in Clark Green City's mas-
known as one of the most well-known tourism prefectures. terplan.
Drawing on ethnographic work at the rural forest villages (Continued on page 27)
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(Continued from page 26) Abstract:

Home gardens are exclusively and ubiquitously subsist-
2168 The Futures of Atlases - Papers ence-based component across different landscape con-
Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in St. texts, and thus considered relatively independent of identi-
Botolph, Marriott, Second Floor ty and transformations of its landscape "matrix". However,
studies have revealed intertwined coexistence between
8:18 AM Gregory H. Chu - U Wisconsin-La Crosse commercial and subsistence agriculture in rural land that is
Jongnam Choi - Western Illinois University more complex than cross-canceling. (Zimmmerer 2014,
Chul Sue Hwang - Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Turner 2016, Mwavu, 2016). This study takes a historical
Nation Building and the Structure of The National Atlas investigation of cash crop introduction on home garden
of Korea subsistence agrobiodiversity(1970-2015), drawing on PI's
Abstract: fieldwork data from Jeju, Korea in 2015. This study investi-
Collections of maps or an atlas can be structured subtly to gates the relationship between (successful and farmer-led)
convey a particular theme. This paper examines the struc- citrus introduction to the region and subsistence farming
turing of The National Atlas of Korea as a striking effort to on and off home gardens. Geographic literature guides the
cartographically express South Korea's nation-building pro- study by providing perspectives to understand livelihood,
cess from a war-torn state to the world's 11th largest agricultural modernization, and also place-based under-
economy in only six decades. The Atlas is structured into standing of agrobiodiversity. Findings reveal that, although
five chapters: Territories; Government and local autonomy; nowadays traditional subsistence agrobiodiversity is mostly
Transformation and development of the land; Korea in the lost and/or spatially "shrunk" into home gardens, home
world; and Maps of Korea (topographic). The first chapter garden boundary could be blurry and farmers take ad-
vantage of unexpected lands as home gardens: such as
sets its territorial history and current territorial extent. The
second chapter summarizes its government and democratic unused floor of citrus scrubland. Ironically, this practice is
process. The third chapter highlights its massive decades- only expected to increase as citrus farms are being thinned
long "Spatial Planning" process and achievements on eco- out(for quality control) and becoming greenhoused due to
nomic developments, infrastructures-building, and high price pressure from economic liberalization. Home gardens,
tech advancements that are expertly and systematically along with diversified temporary livelihoods and never-
expressed cartographically. The Atlas uses many sequential obsolete practices of wild gathering of plants and animal
maps and data portrayal techniques to display spatial ele- foods, show how smallholders have dynamically combined
ments such as site-selection for government office disper- non-citrus strategies to ensure livelihood security. Also, the
sions; infrastructures for rapid transportation, housing dis- study also reveals role of citrus' "accidental"
persion, energy diversifications; population re-distribution traits(shrubbiness), and the role of colonial family network
with goals of achieving optimal quality of life; heavy and and village network in technology transfer of agrobiodiver-
light industrial plant sitings; conservations of its environ- sity and associated land change.
ments and cultural heritages while new cultural trends are
being developed. The fourth chapter places Korea as an
4614 Maps and Mapping as Historical Method
important global actor. The Atlas also includes physical
settings of the entire Korean Peninsula plus limited demo- Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in
graphic, urban, migration, and economic maps of North Room 203, Hynes, Second Level
Korea while downplaying political conflicts with its northern 6:00 PM Sangmyeoung Moon - University of Southern Cali-
nuclear sibling. Collectively, the cartographic contents be- fornia Korean Heritage Library
come coherent and clear expressions of nation-building Description of Korea in Western old maps - Through
and the overall Korean national pride regardless of politics. the Western Old Maps of the USC Korean Heritage Li-
brary
4427 Food system transitions 3: Gardening and ur- Abstract:
ban agriculture Old maps reflect the information and awareness of the lo-
cal people of that time. they were nevertheless a very im-
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in
portant source for the subjective awareness of them.
Room 307, Hynes, Third Level
Korea in the the 17th century Western maps appeared ad-
1:20 PM Yooinn Hong - Penn State University
jacent to China as peculiar spindle or rectangular shapes,
How farmers "make it work": home garden plant diver- indicating the lack information about Korea of that time. As
sity reveals smallholder adaptation to stresses of his- Korea's shape gets more accurate in the 18th century
torical commercial citrus introduction in Jeju, Korea (Continued on page 28)
(1970-2015)
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(Continued from page 27) However, today's India is radically different from the India
Western maps, Liuzaobian appears. It was rows of willow of 1950s. Sustained economic growth, for example, has
trees planted in Northeast China for the purpose of creat- transformed the country's economic base from agriculture
ing boundaries for the Manchus' territory. However, Liu- to services making India the fifth largest economy of the
zaobian in early western maps show as if they were the world in the last two decades. Our preliminary analysis of
national borders between China and Korea, another indica- the database of ITPI of registered planners reveals several
tion that the cartographer did not know much about Man- interesting trends. For instance, nearly half of the planners
churia and Korea. are now based in ten metropolitan cities even as there are
Maps made in the Choson dynasty show different charac- only 4,650 registered planners for 7,935 towns and cities
teristics from those made in China in a few ways. This with over 38 million urban population.
paper will focus on two of those characteristics: Ningguta
and the size of Korea relative to China. Ningguta was the
4406 Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change
name of the place that controlled the Northeast area of the
Qing Dynasty. Curiously, this obscure place name com- Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in
monly appears prominently in Choson's maps in contrast to Room 107, Hynes, Plaza Level
the Chinese maps that rarely showed it. In Puckeji-do, a 1:40 PM Keith Bosak - The University of Montana
series of maps of the North territory of Korea made in Cho- Sarah Halvorson - the University of Montana
son, the Korean peninsula is depicted much bigger than it Impacts of Climate Change and socio-economic change
is in the maps made in China. on indigenous people in the Indian Himalaya
These distinguishing characteristics of Choson maps are Abstract:
reflected in western. These suggest a new possibility that This paper presents results from research conducted in the
the late Choson maps directly influenced the western map- Indian Himalaya in 2013 and 2016, with the purpose of
makers. understanding how local indigenous people are being af-
fected by climate change, how socio-economic conditions
are changing and finally, how climate change and socio-
4699 Regional Development and Urban Planning economic change might be driving changes in the socio-
Series V ecological systems of the region. Rapid development is
Saturday, 4/8/2017, from 5:20 PM - 7:00 PM in beginning to occur in many Himalayan countries as climate
Vermont, Marriott, Fifth Floor change impacts are beginning to become widespread. In
6:40 PM Ashok Kumar - School of Planning and Architec- the Indian Himalaya, mountain environments are particu-
ture, New Delhi larly susceptible to climate-induced environmental change;
Sanjeev Vidyarthi - University of Illinois At Chicago changes that are affecting the productivity and reliability of
Mapping the Planners of Urban India traditional subsistence practices, threatening existing
household livelihood strategies, and increasing vulnerability
Abstract: to water-related hazards among resource-dependent popu-
This presentation will map and enumerate India's profes- lations. At the same time, rapid socioeconomic changes are
sional planning fraternity. In contrast with much of the re- occurring. One major and observable shift is in livelihoods.
cent scholarship devoted to the many informal aspects of Specifically, people are shifting toward commercialized ag-
urban India, we know very little about the formal side of riculture and away from subsistence agriculture in order to
country's contemporary planning practice. By illustrating gain income to participate in a modern lifestyle. In addi-
the spatial distribution and select characteristics such as tion, economic development projects such as roads and
age, gender, and education, etc. of the planning fraternity, dam building reduce access to valley bottoms and conser-
working across the country's diverse regions and rapidly vation initiatives restrict access to forests and alpine re-
growing urban centers, our aim is to highlight the changing gions; traditional ecological knowledge and practices dwin-
nature of India's formal planning practices. dle and people are left with no alternative but to earn in-
As is well documented, eight middle aged men met in Oc- comes using the limited natural resources available. Linking
tober 1949 (two years after independence) to initiate the changing local conditions with broader socio-economic
Indian Board of Town Planners, precursor to the Indian changes provides a contextual approach to understanding
Town Planning Institute (ITPI). Obtaining state support, the increasing marginalization of mountain people and en-
the ITPI soon became the apex national body overseeing vironments with the ultimate goal of developing strategies
the planning profession in post-colonial India and helped to foster resilience in the face of rapid changes.
set up the first planning School at New Delhi in the 1950s.

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(Continued from page 28) Poster #056: Perceptions and experiences of environ-
mental change in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India
1107 A Changing Rural Asia
Abstract:
Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
Global climate change has important implications for mem-
Room 108, Hynes, Plaza Level
bers of Himalayan communities, where a majority of resi-
9:20 AM Barney Warf - University of Kansas dents maintain livelihoods that are based on subsistence or
Combatting Rural Poverty in India with Telecenters small-scale agriculture, seasonal pastoral migration, and/or
Abstract: localized natural resource extraction. This study asks about
India's national and state-level governments have become how climate-related change is playing out 'on the ground' -
the world's leaders in attempting to reduce rural poverty specifically in terms of perceived levels of household vul-
through the use of information technology. To mitigate its nerability, adaptive capacity, and sources of resilience to
digital divide, both the national state and local administra- rapid environmental change over different sectors. To ex-
tions have erected a series of programs that put into place amine these issues, we conducted a questionnaire-based
internetworked telecenters in small villages, through which study near the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary. In-depth
farmers can check crop prices, apply for social insurance household questionnaire interviews were conducted over a
programs, and obtain deeds to land. Rural incomes have 5-month period in 2015 with a random sample of 250 re-
risen and opportunities for graft and bribery have declined spondents from 16 area villages in an effort to record their
as a result. Karnataka has been especially innovative in this demographic characteristics, observations of environmental
regard. This paper examines the origins of India's tele- change over the past 20 years (weather and precipitation
centers initiatives, their differential usage by gender, and patterns, changes to agroecological systems, forest ecolo-
the factors that contribute to their successes or occasional gy, and wildlife sightings), concerns about environmental
failures. conditions, sources of information about the environment,
and perceived barriers to/opportunities for adaptation.
This poster presents our initial results, showing that "very
5156 Exploring the India and Indian urban land- high" levels of concern (modal response) are reported
scapes across all of these categories. Emergence of new agricul-
tural diseases and pests was also reported by over 90% of
Sunday, 4/9/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in respondents as a related problem of concern; increase in
Hampton B, Sheraton, Third Floor field- or village-based wildlife sightings was reported by
9:00 AM Jayasree Borah - GNRC Hospital over 70%, while a decrease in wildlife sightings was also
Pattern of Urbanization in North-east India reported (approximately 60%). The low level of confidence
reported regarding perceived ability of the Forest Depart-
Abstract:
ment to help respondents cope with adaptation was offset
North-east India, the study area is one of the least urban-
by faith in effectiveness of local (panchayat-level) and
ized parts of India with its poor infrastructure, agrarian
state-level government.
background of economy and low rate of industrialization.
There is also a wide spatial disparity observed in the pro-
cess of growth and development of different orders of ur- 2293 Emerging geographical thoughts in China
ban centers. In the present work an attempt has been
made to study the pattern of urbanization and the chal- Thursday, 4/6/2017, from 10:00 AM - 11:40 AM in
lenges and strategies for the planning of both the urban Orleans, Marriott, Fourth Floor
agglomerations and the small towns for the balanced re- 10:20 AM Collin Livingston Chambers - Syracuse University
gional development of this isolated part of the country cov- China, Geography, and the Global Class War
ered by hills, mountains and plateaus and diverse socio-
cultural groups of people. Abstract:
The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) contains almost 20%
of the world's population. It is talked about in the popular
3120,3220 Human Geography Poster Session II press on almost a daily basis, and is constantly going
through dynamic and radical societal changes. Thus, a
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 8:00 AM - 11:40 AM in Hall thorough and scientific understanding of its political econo-
C, Hynes, Second Floor my and society is of utmost importance. Though geograph-
8:00 AM Monica V. Ogra* - Gettysburg College ic work on China has been on the rise, there is much truth
Upma Manral - Wildlife Institute of India to what Cressey (1934) said over 80 years ago, that "so
Ruchi Badola - Wildlife Institute of India little is actually known about [China]that it will be many
Lincoln M. Butcher* - Gettysburg College (Continued on page 30)
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(Continued from page 29) technologies. While rural farmers adopt green revolution
years before an adequate treatment of it will be possible" technologies and weigh economic benefit of grain subsidies
(p. vii). His statement is true not in the sense that we do I assert that greenhouses will become commonplace, a
not have enough rich empirical studies that are filled with result of Chinese governmentality.
concrete economic and political realities in China, but in
the sense that we are lacking in theoretical frameworks,
that exist on the global scale, to explain what shapes and 1190 Wine I: Old and New World Wines and Viticul-
changes the internal and external political economy of Chi- ture
na. In this essay I argue that human and economic geog- Wednesday, 4/5/2017, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM in
raphers in general, and the geographers who study China Yarmouth, Marriott, Fourth Floor
in particular can benefit from employing a global class war
theoretical framework to better understand the PRC's posi- 8:40 AM Do Yeon Lim - Seoul National University
tion in global economic and political space, and how it af- Knowledge Transfer and Regional Evolution: A case
fects their political economy. A global class war theoretical study of the wine industry in the Eastern Foot of Helan
framework can better understand the dialectical relation- Mountain region, Ningxia, China
ship between the global capitalist system (i.e., imperialism)Abstract:
and the inner political-economic workings of the PRC. Despite its relatively long history, only recently has the Chi-
nese wine industry started to gain popular attention global-
ly. Notably, the Eastern Foot of Helan Mountain region in
3429 Compass Rose Session | Student Illustrated Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is a rapidly developing
Paper Competition wine producing region which had more or less 10 wineries
Friday, 4/7/2017, from 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM in Room until 2010, but now, in 2016, has more than 100 wineries.
309, Hynes, Third Level The purpose of this research is to examine intra- and inter-
regional knowledge transfer in the wine industry cluster
1:30 PM Lucas Ysidro Reyes - California State University and to analyze the influence of knowledge transfer on re-
Long Beach gional co-evolution using building blocks from evolutionary
Degradation of Rural Tibetan Livelihoods Through economic geography such as lock-in, de-locking, and the
Green Revolution Technologies evolution of networks. Data were acquired from in-depth,
Abstract: semi-structured interviews conducted in July-August, 2016.
This abductive field study explores changing agricultural Results indicate that while most intra-regional communica-
conditions and practices on the Tibetan Plateau. Chinese tion has been helpful for the production and sales of indi-
government policies encourage citizens to "Develop the vidual wineries, inter-regional communication impacts have
West" and China faces problems feeding their expanding varied depending on the regions between which the firms
population. Land in these sparsely populated areas is have interacted and the relevance of, and accessibility to,
harsh, traditionally inhabited by Tibetan and Uygur minori- knowledge from foreign wine regions. Moreover, institu-
ties; nearly 70% of the total land area is suitable range- tional co-evolution is shown to be a factor impacting indus-
land, degrading from poor grazing practices and less than trial and regional development.
1% is arable. As Ethnic Han migrate to Tibet how the rug-
ged landscape, historically hidden by the great Himalayas
and Kunlun Mountains, will support this migration material-
izes. How will the rural Tibetan landscape sustain migrating
Chinese? Through textual discourse that is supported by
field research, agricultural practices are assessed. Follow-
ing Robbins' degradation and marginalization thesis and
the Boserup hypothesis, I explore the works of Goldstein,
Paltridge, Yeh et. al and argue that the Chinese govern-
ment addresses this nourishment problem through policy,
an intricate display of governmentality. The rural Tibetan
livelihood is marginalized and degraded through these Chi-
nese government policies noted by Goldstein designed to
bring the greater Tibetan population into a market driven
economy. Visiting five sites and conducting four interviews
I document how rural Tibetans are encouraged to grow
more grains through subsidies, to abandon the use of yak
as a beast of burden and to adopt more green revolution
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2016 Asia Symposium at the AAGRecap

The Asia Symposium: Showcasing Asian Geographies featured 16 paper and panel sessions with over 60 speak-
ers, plus a keynote lecture featuring Professor Henry Wai-Chung Yeung of the National University of Singapore. The five
topics:
Analytical Methods linking Economic, Climate, Hydrology & Policy Research
Vulnerability, Security and Environmental Risk
Chinas Silk Road Project
Development and Sustainability in Asia
Keynote Lecture by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung: Rethinking Asia in the New Global Economy
The Asian Geography Specialty Group convened a special Asia Symposium
as part of the 2016 AAG meeting in San Francisco. The symposium high-
lighted Asias importance in the 21st century, inter-regional connections
within and outside Asia, and national and international cross-disciplinary
approaches to understanding the region. The well-attended symposium in-
cluded 16 paper sessions and 65 individual research presentations repre-
senting geographic research from across Asia. The Symposium also included a keynote lecture by Professor
Henry Yeung from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Yeungs presentation featured material from his
latest book, Strategic Coupling: East Asian Industrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Uni-
versity Press). The Asian Geography Specialty Group co-chairs thank everyone who made the Asia Symposi-
um such a success.
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Notes from members

Ian Rowen, PhD na Geography Specialty Group at the AAG.
This summer, I will start as Assistant Professor and Nice to see that there are a bunch of young folk com-
founding faculty member of the new Geography Pro- ing up in the AGSG ranks.
gramme at Nanyang Technological University in Sin- I doubt if my position at the University of British Co-
gapore. I have worked on the Committee for The lumbia will be replaced though; my department
Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a contested state seems to be heading in a different direction, with 2
at the International Journal of Transitional Justice. new hires in native indigenous Indian studies.
I have also been a
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Insti- Xinyue Ye (Kent State) served as Co-Chair of the 8th
tute of Ethnology International Symposium of Spatially Integrated So-
Associate researcher, French Centre for Research on cial Science and Humanities in Nanjing, as the Pro-
Contemporary China (CEFC) gram Chair & Proceeding Publication Co-Chair (EI) for
the 25rd International Conference on Geoinformatics
in Buffalo, and the Co-Chair of the International Con-
ference on Geo-informatics in Sustainable Ecosystems
David Edgington and Society in Wuhan.
Field Work: Lately Ive been working in Yokohama He also is starting a Visiting Professorship at the Cen-
and Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. ter for Geographical Analysis in the Institute for
I'm retiring next year, so my appearance at the Bos- Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University,
ton AAG will be my last. working with Robert J. Sampson, a Henry Ford II Pro-
fessor and Director of the Social Sciences Program at
I have also successfully handed over the reigns to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
successors of the Japan Studies Association of Cana-
da (JSAC), the Canadian Association of Geographers
Geographies of Asia Study Group (CAG), and the Chi-

Contact
George Pomeroy, Ph.D., AICP
Shippensburg University
Email: gmpome@ship.edu
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Historical Glimpses, the AGSG Bulletin - Fall 1989

Correction: In the last issue, Fall 2016, Historical Glimpses should have read Spring 1989.
Bheru L. Sukhwal editor, again has received very little material.
The AGSG, along with the Historical Geography and China Specialty Groups co-sponsored a guest
lecture by William Skinner at the 1990 Toronto AAG annual meeting.
Geography in America volume, edited by Gary Gaile and Cort Wilmott was published in the sum-
mer of 1989. The chapter on Asian Geography was led by Professor P.P. Karan and helped by
Shakibal-Khameri, James Hafner, Kenji Oshiro, Nanda Shrestha, and David Dickason. It was also
guided by previous officers of the AGSG, William Noble and Ashok Dutt.
The Bylaws of the AGSG are reprinted in this issue.
The 3rd International Asian Urbanization Conference will be held in January 1991 in New Delhi.
Travel grant funding by the AGSG to attend this meeting is proposed by Chair David Dickason.
Officers of the AGSG:
Chair: David Dickason, Western Michigan University
Secretary-Treasurer: James L. Cobban, Ohio University
Regional Directors:
East Asia: Gil Latz
Southeast Asia: Thomas R. Leinbach
South Asia: Richard P. Palmieri, Mary Washington College
Southwest Asia: Frank J. Costa, University of Akron
Honors Committee: P.P. Karan, University of Kentucky
Clifton W. Pannell, University of Georgia
Editor: Bheru L. Sukhwal, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Platteville
Himanshu R. Betal from the University of Calcutta was a Visiting Professor at the University of
South Carolina, Columbia.
Chris Drake was in China and Japan on a Faculty Development Grant.
Gopal S. Kulkarni, Indiana University, was part of a six-member US team to take part in the first
U.S.-Swedish Seminar on Development of Marginal Areas in Developed Countries held at the
University of Karlstad, Sweden.
Gopal S. Kulkarni has also been invited to deliver a keynote address at the IGU regional symposi-
um on Limits to Rural Land Use in developed Countries in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Bheru Sukhwal visited the Rajasthan canal region during the Summer of 1989 to collect material
for a research paper.
The University of Kentucky Department of Geography is offering a Summer Field Program in the
Himalaya for 6 weeks in 1990 to be held in Simla, India. The entire cost per person is $2500.
Martin Glassner, Southern Connecticut State University, requests information or complete cita-
tions of any materials concerning the international transport arrangements of any land-locked
country or countries.
The I.G.U. Regional Conference on Asian Pacific countries will be held in Beijing, in August, 1990.
Frank J. Costa, Ashok K. Dutt, Laurence J.C. Ma, and Allen G. Noble published Urbanization in
Asia: Spatial Dimensions and Policy Issues through University of Hawaii Press.
Paying dues for the AGSG was still part of the functions of the specialty group but a member had
to indicate which groups he belonged on the AAG Form. The dues year for both was now the
same.
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Recent AGSG Member Publications & Presentations:

Brickell, K. and Springer, Simon. 2016. `3.11' disaster", Paper presented at the Associa-
'Introduction to contemporary tion of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual
Cambodia'. The Handbook of meeting, Portland OR, November.
Contemporary Cambodia. Eds. Li, X., Mitra, Chandana., Dong, L., Yang, Q. 2017.
Brickell, K and Springer, S. Lon- Understanding land use change impacts on mi-
don: Routledge. croclimate using Weather Research and Forecast-
Brickell, K. and Springer, Simon. ing (WRF) Model, Physics and Chemistry of the
Eds. 2016. The Handbook of Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2017.01.017
Contemporary Cambodia. Lon- Rowen, Ian & Rowan, Jamie. 2017. Taiwan's
don: Routledge. Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopol-
Chang, I-Chun Catherine, Helga Leitner and Eric itics of Transitional Justice in a contested state.
Sheppard. 2016. A Green Leap Forward? Eco- International Journal of Transitional Justice.
State Restructuring and the Tianjin-Binhai Eco- https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijx001
city Model Regional Studies, Rowen, Ian. 2017. Touring in heterotopia: Travel,
DOI:10.1080/00343404.2015.1108519 sovereignty, and exceptional spaces in Taiwan
Chen, J., J. Gao, F. Yuan and Y.Dennis Wei 2016. and China. Asian Anthropology, 16(1), 20-34.
Spatial determinants of urban land expansion in Shen, J. and Y.Dennis Wei (2017). The impact of
globalizing Nanjing, China. Sustainability 8, 868. environmental regulations on the location of Pol-
DOI:10.3390/su8090868. lution-intensive industries in China. Journal of
Chen, Sulan and Juha I. Uitto. 2016. Cleaner Production 148: 785-794.
Accountability Delegation: Empowering Local Springer, Simon. 2016. Apocalypse then, apoca-
Communities for Environmental Protection in Chi- lypse now: the exile and arbitrary detention of
na. Development. DOI:10.1057/s41301-016- Cambodias homeless. Policy Forum. http://
0025-1. www.policyforum.net/apocalypse-apocalypse-
Choi, W., S. Kang, J. Choi, J.J. Larsen, C. Oh, and now/
Y. Na. 2016. Characteristics of Deforestation in Springer, Simon. 2016. Homelessness in Cambo-
the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North dia: the terror of gentrification. The Handbook
Korea) between the 1980s and 2000s, Regional of Contemporary Cambodia. Eds. Brickell, K. and
Environmental Change, DOI: 10.1007/s10113- Springer, S. London: Routledge.
016-1022-3 (http://link.springer.com/
article/10.1007/s10113-016-1022-3) Springer, Simon. 2017. Klepto-neoliberalism: au-
thoritarianism and patronage in Cambodia.
Edgington, David W. 2016. How Safe is Safe States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Enough? The Politics of Decon- and the Crises of Capitalism. Ed., Tansel, C. B.
tamination in Fukushima, in M. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Yamakawa and D. Yamamoto
(Eds.) Unravelling the Fukushi- Springer, Simon. 2017. Neoliberalism in South-
ma Disaster, London, east Asia. Routledge Handbook of Southeast
Routledge, 80-106. Asian Development. Eds. McGregor, A., Law, L.
and Miller, F. London: Routledge.
Edgington, David W. "`Building
back better along the Sanriku
coast of Tohoku, Japan: five years after the
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(Continued from page 35) Tyner, James A., Sokvisal

Tyner, James A. 2017.
Memory, Landscape, and
Post-Violence in Cambodia
(London: Rowman & Little-
field International).
Tyner, James A., Xinyue Ye,
Sokvisal Kimsroy, Zheye
Wang, and Chenjian Fu,
Emerging data sources and
the study of genocide: a pre-
liminary analysis of prison data
from S-21 security-center,
Cambodia, GeoJournal 81, no.
6 (2016): 907-918.
Kimsroy, Chenjian Fu, Zheye
Wang, and Xinyue Ye, An Em-
pirical Analysis of Arrests and
Executions at S-21 Security-
Center during the Cambodian
Genocide, Genocide Studies
International 10, no. 2 (2016):
268-286.
Uitto, Juha I. 2016. The Envi-
ronment-Poverty Nexus in Eval-
uation: Implications for the
Sustainable Development
Goals. Global Policy 7 (3): 441
-447.

Urban Landuse Study of Chinese Cities Underway

Gregory Veeck and Charles Emerson (Geography,
Western Michigan University) wish to report a new
project surveying agricultural land use over time in
large cities in China. The first step is a case study of
Nanjing that will, hopefully, serve as
a pilot project for a later multi-
national effort.
This case study will create a GIS
(geographic information system) for
the years from 1911 to 2016 so as
to definitively test an important
component of the Ginsburg-McGee
desakota hypothesis. These schol-
ars working in the late 1980s pre-
dicted that Asian metropolitan re-
gions, unlike similar places in West-
ern nations and traditions, will consistently allocate
and maintain agricultural land and labor resources
within metropolitan boundaries.
Working with faculty in the School of Architecture and the Milton and Ruth Scherer Fund of Western Michi-
Urban Planning of Nanjing University, the study will
quantitatively assess change in time-series agricultur-
al and green space land cover/land use (LC/LU) data
for the entire metro region spanning the 100+years
from the Republican Era (1911-1949) to the present.
Early assessments will be made us-
ing the historical map series for
Nanjing, map layers generated from
a set of already-acquired aerial pho-
tographs from 1929, and other his-
torical maps of the city archived at
Nanjing University. Post-1975 LC/LU
maps will be derived from a variety
of satellite imagery including Hyperi-
on, ASTER, Landsat 1-5, 7 and 8
(including TM and MSS), Operational
Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal In-
frared Sensor (TIRS) using endmember partial pixel
analysis.
Funding for the pilot study has been acquired from
gan University.
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Understanding Contemporary China, 5th edition

Robert E. Gamer and Stanley W. Toops, editors.
2017. Understanding Contemporary China, 5th edi-
tion. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 978-1-62637-653-3
https://www.rienner.com/title/
Understanding_Contemporary_China_5th_edition
China today bears little resem-
blance to the country introduced
in the first edition of Under-
standing Contemporary China,
published nearly two decades
ago.
Even in just the past five years,
dramatic changes have occurred
under the leadership of Presi-
dent Xi Jingping. This new edi-
tion of the book reflects those
changes, exploring the impact of
new domestic policies; Chinas role as a behemoth in
the world economy; its rapidly modernizing infrastruc-
ture; its expanding military presence in the region;
the environmental challenges it confronts; and much
more. The result is an accessible, well-grounded look
at the most crucial issues affecting China today.
CONTENTS
IntroductionR.E. Gamer.
China: A Geographic PrefaceS.W. Toops.
The Historical ContextR. Murphey.
Chinese PoliticsR.E. Gamer.
Chinas EconomyS. Tong and J. Wong.
China Beyond the HeartlandL.T. White and R.E.
Gamer.
International RelationsR.E. Gamer.
Population Growth and UrbanizationR. Ma.
Chinas Environmental ProblemsR.L. Edmonds.
Family, Kinship, Marriage, and SexualityW. Jan-
kowiak and X. Zang.
Women and DevelopmentL. Bossen.
ReligionH. Chan and A.Y.C. King.
Literature and Popular CultureC.A. Laughlin.
Trends and ProspectsR.E. Gamer and L.T.
White.
Forthcoming, Summer 2017

International Studies: An Interdisciplinary approach to global issues.

S. Anderson, M. Peterson, and Stanley Toops. 2017. Change; and The Globalization of
International Studies: An Interdisciplinary approach to Modern Sports.
global issues. 4th ed. Boulder : Westview. Sheldon Anderson is professor
9780813350493 of history at Miami University. He
https://westviewpress.com/books/international-studies- is the author of five books: The
july-2017/ Politics and Culture of Modern
This core text is the first to provide a much-needed inter- Sports , Condemned to Repeat It,
disciplinary approach to international studies. Emphasizing A Cold War in the Soviet Bloc, A
the interconnected nature of history, geography, anthropol- Dollar to Poland Is a Dollar to Rus-
ogy, economics, and political science, International Studies sia, and the forthcoming The For-
details the methodologies and subject matter of each disci- gotten Legacy of Stella Walsh.
pline then applies these discipline lenses to seven regions: Mark Allen Peterson is profes-
Europe; East Asia and the Pacific; South and Central Asia; sor of anthropology and interna-
sub-Saharan Africa; the Middle East and North Africa; Latin tional studies at Miami University. He is the author of Con-
America; and North America. This disciplinary and regional nected in Cairo and Anthropology and Mass Communica-
combination provides an indispensable, cohesive frame- tions.
work for understanding global issues. Stanley W. Toops is associate professor of geography
The fully updated fourth edition includes four new global and international studies at Miami University. He is coau-
issues chapters: The Refugee Crisis in Europe; The Syrian thor of The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs and
Civil War and the Rise of the Islamic State; Global Climate co-editor of Understanding Contemporary China.
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Book: Fair Trade and Organic Initiatives in Asian Agriculture: The Hidden Realities

Rie Makita & Tadasu Tsuruta Asian, reveal the realities

ISBN: 978-1138653146 of applying Fair Trade
Date: 17 March 2017 and organic certification
https://www.routledge.com/Fair-Trade-and-Organic- systems within Asian ag-
Initiatives-in-Asian-Agriculture-The-Hidden- riculture. In doing so,
Realities/Makita-Tsuruta/p/book/9781138653146 they challenge the fact
that most Fair Trade
In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry studies have been under-
within the social sciences, agricultural certification, taken by Western schol-
and particularly its Fair Trade and organic compo- ars who have tended to
nents, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting focus on Latin American
rural development in the global South. This book is and African producers.
unique for two reasons. First, in contrast to existing Drawing on a wealth of
studies that have tended to examine Fair Trade and grounded case studies
organic certification as independent systems, the conducted in India, Thai-
studies presented in this book reveal their joint appli- land, and the Philippines,
cation within actual production settings, demonstrat- this pioneering study on double certification makes a
ing the greater complexity entailed in these double significant contribution to studies on Fair Trade and
certification systems through the generation of con- organic agriculture beyond Asia.
tradictions and tensions compared with single certifi-
cation systems. Second, the authors, who are both

Book: Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

Uitto, Juha I., Jyotsna Puri and Rob D. van bilateral aid agencies,
den Berg, eds. 2017. Evaluating Climate Change Ac- and academia. The au-
tion for Sustainable Development. Springer. thors share methodolo-
gies or approaches used
This authoritative book presents the ever pro- to better understand
gressing state of the art in evaluating climate change problems and assess
strategies and action. It includes perspectives from interventions, strategies
independent evaluations of the major international and policies. They also
organizations supporting climate action in developing share challenges en-
countries, such as the Global Environment Facility. countered, what was
The first section of the book sets the stage and pro- done to solve these and
vides an overview of independent evaluations, carried lessons learned from
out by multilateral development banks and develop- evaluations. Collectively,
ment organizations. Important topics include how pol- the authors illustrate the
icies and organizations aim to achieve impact and importance of evaluation in providing evidence to
how this is measured, whether climate change is guide policy change to informed decision-making.
mainstreamed into other development programs, and
whether operations are meeting the urgency of cli- The open source ebook and the hard copy are
mate change challenges. The following sections focus available on the Springer website at
on evaluation of climate change projects and policies http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437019
as they link to development, from the perspective of
international organizations, NGOs, multilateral and
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Journal of Global Resources (JGR)
We cordially invite you to submit a paper in the Journal of Global Resources (JGR), (ISSN: 2395-3160 Print, ISSN: 2455-
2445 Online). JGR is a biannual international journal, which aims to provide and encourage the scholars and academi-
cians globally to share their professional and academic knowledge in the fields of natural resources, land, water, energy,
forest, human resources, environment, biodiversity etc.
For detail guidelines please go to http://www.isdesr.org. Manuscripts may be submitted as an e-mail attachment in
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JGR is an international academic journal that publishes papers of the high quality in natural resources, environmental
science, GIS etc. Manuscripts come from different parts of the world. Authors please use the following guidelines:
1. Submission of original paper in MS word format in the font size of 11 Arial on A-4 size sheets clearly indicating Title, Subtitle, Abstract, Key words, Introduction,
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5. Table should be numbered consecutively, titled and keyed in the text.
6. References should be arranged in alphabetical and chronological order of author's surname, initials, year of publication, Title of
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8. There is no publication fee but after acceptance of paper subscription of journal is mandatory before publication.

Where in the Asian World?

Last Issue: Tashich-

hoedzong ( ) is a
Buddhist monastery and
fortress on the northern
edge of the city of Thim-
phu in Bhutan. A building
has stood here since 1216,
but fires, earthquakes, and
rebuilds have evolved the
structure into this 1968
form.
Photo by Todd Stradford

Hint: The Shout of Victory bridge on the river is a drawbridge that hasnt lifted since 1970.
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3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD 2017)

Given your interests and contributions to research and academia, we invite you/your research students to
submit a paper to 3rd Annual International Conference on Urban Planning and Property Development (UPPD
2017) which will be held on 9th - 10th October 2017 in Singapore.
UPPD provided a forum and opportunity for delegates from more than 30 individual Universities from about
20 countries to share their research, practice and educational initiatives with an international audience. You
may visit the following link for UPPD prior years accepted and published papers
http://www.urban-ppd.org/PriorYearsPaper.html

The full paper submission deadline is on 31st May 2017. Hope that provides adequate time
for you to complete the paper submission.

If you need more time or have questions, please email us at secretariat@urban-ppd.org. For more infor-
mation, please visit the UPPD 2017 website: http://www.urban-ppd.org/index.html.

Workshop on Okinawa: Identity, History and Culture

June 9 to 18, 2017

Sponsored by:

Japan Studies Association

The University of Hawaii Na-
tional Resource Center-East
Asia (NRCEA) and
The University of Hawaii Center for Japa-
and cultural sites.
nese Studies
with the cooperation of The Center for Okina- We are offering several travel awards ranging
wan Studies between $700 and $1000. We encourage earlier
applications to facilitate travel plans and to help
Workshop Content
JSA trip leaders make final arrangements for
lodging in Okinawa.
The workshop anticipates interest primarily from
faculty form the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Application deadline: 31 March 2017
so the broad themes below would largely re-
spond to their professional needs. These themes For more information, check out the website at:
would be explored through expert talks and
presentations, and through participants engage- http://www.japanstudies.org/workshop-on-okinawa-june-
ment with museum collections, historic places 2017.html
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Call for Papers - Journal of Geography and Earth Sciences

ISSN: 2334-2447 (Print) 2334-2455 (Online)

Journal of Geography and Earth Sciences is an international natural science journal that seeks to publish arti-
cles related to physical process and spatial patterns at the earth's surface, physio-geographical elements and
their interaction, global change and its regional response, characters and management of natural resources,
landscape ecology and environmental construction, remote sensing, geographic information system and their
applications in geographical research. The journal strives to strengthen connections between research and
practice, so enhancing professional development and improving practice within the field of geography and
earth sciences. The journal follows double-blind peer review process.
The journal is published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development that serves as a focal
point for academicians, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing
research throughout the world.
The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor
via e-mail at editor@aripd.org. Please indicate the name of the journal (Journal of Geography and Earth Sci-
ences) in the cover letter or simply put Journal of Geography and Earth Sciences in the subject box during
submission via e-mail.
The journal is Abstracted/Indexed in CrossRef, CrossCheck, Cabell's, Ulrich's, Griffith Research Online, Google
Scholar, Education.edu, Informatics, Universe Digital Library, Standard Periodical Directory, Gale, Open J-
Gate, EBSCO, Journal Seek, DRJI, ProQuest, BASE, InfoBase Index, OCLC, IBSS, Academic Journal Data-
bases, Scientific Index.
E-Publication FirstTM
E-Publication FirstTM is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts
that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed jour-
nal. Readers can freely access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published online within one week
after the completion of all necessary publishing steps.
DOI number
Each paper published in Journal of Geography and Earth Sciences is assigned a DOI number, which ap-
pears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper.
JGES is inviting papers for Vol. 5, No. 1. The online publication date is June 30, 2017. Submission Deadline:
March 31, 2017.
For any additional information, please contact with the executive editor at editor@aripd.org
Website: http://www.jgesnet.com

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Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Tenth and Eleventh
Global Studies Conferences. We invite proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions,
posters/exhibits, colloquia, virtual posters, or virtual lightning talks.

Founded in 2008, the conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for its
particular place in the dynamics of globalization. Intellectually, the conference takes three steps: the first is a
"this-worldly" step, mapping the details and extrapolating to big picture analyses in order to interpret what is
at times challenging, dangerous, and excitingly positive about the "New Globalization." The second step is to
set this New Globalization in the context of earlier globalizationswhat are the continuities, and what is gen-
uinely new? The third step is to re-examine and redefine the very concept of globalizationin theoretical,
anthropological, and philosophical terms. The conference works between the most fastidiously empirical and
profoundly generalizing modes of engagement with one of the central phenomena of our contemporary exist-
ence. The conference features research addressing the annual themes.

For more information regarding the conferences, use the links below to explore our conference websites.
________________________________________
2017 Conference - Singapore
The Tenth Global Studies Conference will be held 89 June
2017 at the National University of Singapore in Singapore.
Submit your proposal to the 2017 conference by 8 March 2017.
http://onglobalization.com/2017-conference

2018 Conference - Granada, Spain

The Eleventh Global Studies Conference will be held 2930 July
2018 at the University of Granada in Granada, Spain.
Submit your proposal to the 2018 conference by 29 March
2018.
http://onglobalization.com/2018-conference

South Asia Conference

46th Annual Conference
October 26-29, 2017
Contact Information
The Center for South Asia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1155 Observatory Drive
203 Ingraham Hall
Madison, WI 53706

http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/
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Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Twelfth
and Thirteenth International Conferences on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. We invite proposals for paper
presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, colloquia, virtual posters, or virtual lightning
talks.
Founded in 2006, the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences examines the nature of
disciplinary practices in the study of society and the interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of
"real world" applications of social research and theory. The conference also investigates what constitutes
"science" in a social context and the connections between the social and other sciences. The focus of papers
ranges from the finely grained and empirical (research practices and results exemplifying one or more disci-
plines) to wide-ranging multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives on knowledge and method. The
conference features research addressing the annual themes.
2017 Conference - Hiroshima, Japan
The Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Scienc- es
will be held 2628 July 2017 at the International Conference Center in
Hiroshima, Japan.
Submit your proposal to the 2017 conference by 26 March 2017.
http://thesocialsciences.com/2017-conference

2018 Conference - Granada, Spain

The Thirteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sci-
ences will be held 2527 July 2018 at the University of Granada in Gra-
nada, Spain.
Submit your proposal to the 2018 conference by 25 March 2017.

2017 NCRGE Transformative Research in Geography Education program

The National Center for Research in Geography Education cluded in a proposed thematic research group.
invites proposals to develop new collaborative and interdis- Priority Areas: Proposals are welcome on any ge-
ciplinary research networks addressing major ques- ography education research topic that directly sup-
tions and challenges in geography education. ports the Road Map Project research agenda. Of
Through this program, NCRGE aspires to strength- special interest this year are proposals to establish
en geography education research processes and new research groups in the areas of assessment,
promote the growth of sustainable, and potentially informal geography education, and teacher educa-
transformative, lines of research. tion and training (pre-service or in-service), includ-
ing work related to GeoCapabilities
Synopsis: This program will establish thematic research (www.geocapabilities.org).
groups to support the implementation of the Road Map
Project research agenda. Funds may be requested to cata- Application deadline: May 15, 2017 at 5:00 pm local pro-
lyze group research planning and networking through re- posers time.
search fellowships, research meetings, and research clear-
inghouse activities. Funding: NCRGE anticipates the availability of $60,000 to
support projects under the 2017 Transformative Research
program. Proposals may request a maximum of $20,000 for
Eligibility: The lead Principal Investigator must be a U.S.- projects lasting up to 12 months.
based researcher affiliated with a university or organization Visit http://www.ncrge.org/funding/ for the full program
currently in the NCRGE research coordination network. In- description and application guidelines
ternational collaborators are encouraged and may be in-
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AREA DIRECTORS:
AGSG OFFICERS
Southeast Asia: Michael Glass
Co-CHAIRS: Urban Studies Program Southwest Asia: Pengyu Zhu
University of Pittsburgh Department of Geography
Chandana Mitra 3500 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Hong Kong University
Department of Geology & Geography 230 S. Bouquet Street Email: pengyuzhu2002@yahoo.com
Auburn University, Suite 2046J, Haley Center Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Auburn, Alabama 36849 Tel: 412.648.7459
Phone: 334.844.4229 Email: glass@pitt.edu Central Asia: Stanley Toops
Email: chandana@auburn.edu Department of Geography
Miami University
Xinyue Ye
Department of Geography
East Asia: Jamie Doucette 110 Shideler Hall
Arthur Lewis Building-1.045 Phone: 513.529.5558
Kent State University, 413 McGilvrey Hall
School of Environment, Education and Develop- Email: toopssw@miamioh.edu
325 S. Lincoln Street
ment
Kent, OH 44242-0001
The University of Manchester
Phone: 330.672.7939
Manchester M13 9PL
Email: xye5@kent.edu
Tel: +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Student Rep: Aparna Parikh
Email: jamie.doucette@manchester.ac.uk Department of Geography
SECRETARY/TREASURER: Penn State University
336 Walker Building
South Asia: Daniel Esser
Jennifer Pomeroy School of International Service
University Park, PA 16802
Department of History and Political Science Tel: 814-865-3433
SIS - 221
York College of Pennsylvania Email: aparna@psu.edu
American University
Humanities Center, Room 105
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
York, PA 17403-3651
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 717.815.1529
Tel: 202.885.1892
Email: jpomeroy@ycp.edu
Email: esser@american.edu

Upcoming AAG Meetings

5 April - 9 April 2017 Middle States Division Southwest Division
AAG 113th Annual Meeting http://msaag.org http://www.sw-aag.org
Boston, MA James Kernan Jason Julian
Email: kernan@geneseo.edu Email: jason.julian@txstate.edu
Fall Meeting: 25-28 October 2017
AAG Division web sites/chairs: Huntsville, TX
New England/St. Lawrence Valley Divi-
East Lakes Division sion
http://eldaag.wildapricot.org/ http://aagnestval.wpengine.com/ West Lakes Division
Mandy Munro-Stasiuk Christopher Cusack http://community.aag.org/westlakes/
Email: mmunrost@kent.edu Email: ccusack@keene.edu Susy Svatek Ziegler
Fall Meeting: 12-13 October 2017 Email: suziegle@nmu.edu
Pacific Coast Division
Great Plains/Rocky Mountains Division http://apcgweb.org
April 10-14, 2018
http://clas2.ucdenver.edu/rmgpaag/ Dennis Dingemans
AAG 114th Annual Meeting
Brandon Vogt Email: rddd@dcn.org
New Orleans, LA
Email: bvogt@uccs.edu Fall Meeting: 25-28 October 2017
Chico, California
Middle Atlantic Division Southeast Division
http://sites.google.com/site/aagmad/ http://www.sedaag.org
Tracy Edwards Ron Kalafsky
Email: tedwards@frostburg.edu Email: kalafsky@utk.edu

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ASIAN GEOGRAPHY Email: stradfot@uwplatt.edu 262 Gardner Hall
Fax: 608.342.1088
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Platteville, WI 53818