BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2019//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2019 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T063000 UID:worlding-sites-globalized-visions-and-material-constructions-of-future-southeast-asia-1 SUMMARY:“Worlding Sites”: Globalized Visions and Material Constructions of Future Southeast Asia (1) LOCATION:Room 1.401 DESCRIPTION:We see the worlding city as a milieu of intervention, a source of ambitious visions, and of speculative experiments that have different po ssibilities of success and failure [...] Such experiments cannot be concept ually reduced to instantiations of universal logics of capitalism or postco lonialism. They must be understood as worlding practices, those that pursue world recognition in the midst of inter-city rivalry and globalized contin gency. (Roy, A., Ong, A., 2011: xv)\n\nIn this panel, we would like to exte nd Aihwa Ong’s idea of “worlding cities” to a larger acceptation of “worldi ng sites,” land- and seascapes modified in line with massive, modern transf ormation in Southeast Asia. Some of these sites are seminal projects repres enting best practice, not only in terms of commercial profit but also innov ation. Such original, experimental, yet contested places are often engineer ed according to a specific vision that bespeaks aesthetic, economic, moral and political ideas of a good future. Land reclamation sites modifying the sea/land border, real estate mega projects and Special Economic Zones where global capital is emplaced and shown off are of particular interest here. We focus on the experience of transformation and the responses to such site s, the compliance, indifference and resistance to them. We also include vis ions, standpoints and the control of them. Another interesting field is the dichotomy between the seen and the unseen. What is made to be seen and wha t needs to stay unseen when a wording site is planned and constructed?\n\nW e suggest a few hints: pollution (sea pollution, for example), impacts on t he ecosystem (decrease in fish population, seabed destruction, erosion), ha zards (climate change and natural hazards), work (workers’ lodging in urban peripheries, in building sites, on the sea itself), cross-border mobility, signs of poverty or backwardness (dormitories, slums, food stalls, wandere rs, beggars), immorality (prostitution, drinking, drugs), and wild exploita tion (massive sand displacement, gas exhaustion...).\n\nWe invite contribut ors to explore the powerful visions which are brought into play and emplace d in worlding sites, addressing modern industrialization, development and p rogress, nation, citizenship, emplacement of global capital and entitlement and rights. Beyond visions, we are also interested in soundscapes. How do they shape sites and vice versa? In order to explore these visions in their concrete and embodied forms, we invite contributors to ask questions such as:\n\n- Are all the sites of transformation in SEA inspired by similar mod els? Are all the land reclamations alike, the SEZ alike, the new cities ali ke?\n- How are these sites produced and reconstructed in the face of the ch allenges of exploitation and political aspirations?\n- To what extent are h umans part of the visions? Who is supposed to work, live and stroll in the worlding sites, and who actually does? Who is not supposed to be there?\n- What happens if large-scale projects are constructed but there are hardly a ny people inhabiting them?\n- What is the interplay of governmental schemes , local interests and other, immaterial values when it comes to uprooting h omes, modifying the coastline or filling “empty” spaces with buildings? How does this show in concrete objects and bodies?\n- How is memory inserted i nto global visions (for example as “tradition”)? Who remembers? Is memory c onnected to sites or does memory ‘travel’?\n- Is there a common temporality in similar sites?\n- What is the gender bias in a worlding site?\n\nThis i s an interdisciplinary subject but to keep the dialogue alive we invite con tributors to privilege the human factor over the technical analysis. URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/worlding-sites-globalized-visions-and-material-constructions-of-future-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T103000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T063000 UID:worlding-sites-globalized-visions-and-material-constructions-of-future-southeast-asia-2 SUMMARY:“Worlding Sites”: Globalized Visions and Material Constructions of Future Southeast Asia (2) LOCATION:Room 1.401 DESCRIPTION:We see the worlding city as a milieu of intervention, a source of ambitious visions, and of speculative experiments that have different po ssibilities of success and failure [...] Such experiments cannot be concept ually reduced to instantiations of universal logics of capitalism or postco lonialism. They must be understood as worlding practices, those that pursue world recognition in the midst of inter-city rivalry and globalized contin gency. (Roy, A., Ong, A., 2011: xv)\n\nIn this panel, we would like to exte nd Aihwa Ong’s idea of “worlding cities” to a larger acceptation of “worldi ng sites,” land- and seascapes modified in line with massive, modern transf ormation in Southeast Asia. Some of these sites are seminal projects repres enting best practice, not only in terms of commercial profit but also innov ation. Such original, experimental, yet contested places are often engineer ed according to a specific vision that bespeaks aesthetic, economic, moral and political ideas of a good future. Land reclamation sites modifying the sea/land border, real estate mega projects and Special Economic Zones where global capital is emplaced and shown off are of particular interest here. We focus on the experience of transformation and the responses to such site s, the compliance, indifference and resistance to them. We also include vis ions, standpoints and the control of them. Another interesting field is the dichotomy between the seen and the unseen. What is made to be seen and wha t needs to stay unseen when a wording site is planned and constructed?\n\nW e suggest a few hints: pollution (sea pollution, for example), impacts on t he ecosystem (decrease in fish population, seabed destruction, erosion), ha zards (climate change and natural hazards), work (workers’ lodging in urban peripheries, in building sites, on the sea itself), cross-border mobility, signs of poverty or backwardness (dormitories, slums, food stalls, wandere rs, beggars), immorality (prostitution, drinking, drugs), and wild exploita tion (massive sand displacement, gas exhaustion...).\n\nWe invite contribut ors to explore the powerful visions which are brought into play and emplace d in worlding sites, addressing modern industrialization, development and p rogress, nation, citizenship, emplacement of global capital and entitlement and rights. Beyond visions, we are also interested in soundscapes. How do they shape sites and vice versa? In order to explore these visions in their concrete and embodied forms, we invite contributors to ask questions such as:\n\n- Are all the sites of transformation in SEA inspired by similar mod els? Are all the land reclamations alike, the SEZ alike, the new cities ali ke?\n- How are these sites produced and reconstructed in the face of the ch allenges of exploitation and political aspirations?\n- To what extent are h umans part of the visions? Who is supposed to work, live and stroll in the worlding sites, and who actually does? Who is not supposed to be there?\n- What happens if large-scale projects are constructed but there are hardly a ny people inhabiting them?\n- What is the interplay of governmental schemes , local interests and other, immaterial values when it comes to uprooting h omes, modifying the coastline or filling “empty” spaces with buildings? How does this show in concrete objects and bodies?\n- How is memory inserted i nto global visions (for example as “tradition”)? Who remembers? Is memory c onnected to sites or does memory ‘travel’?\n- Is there a common temporality in similar sites?\n- What is the gender bias in a worlding site?\n\nThis i s an interdisciplinary subject but to keep the dialogue alive we invite con tributors to privilege the human factor over the technical analysis. URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/worlding-sites-globalized-visions-and-material-constructions-of-future-southeast-asia DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190912T123000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR