About InterAsia
Transcending conventional geopolitical labelsInterAsia as a concept, paradigm and empirical framework, works to re-envision the vast Asian expanse as an interconnected geographical formation that transcends conventional academic and geopolitical labels and divisions.
the interasia concept
InterAsia as a concept, paradigm and empirical framework, works to re-envision the vast Asian expanse as an interconnected geographical formation that transcends conventional academic and geopolitical labels and divisions into East, West, Central, Eurasia, Northeast, South and Southeast. It seeks to highlight connections and continuities, as well as divergences and differences, while remaining grounded in robust knowledge of contexts and spaces that overlap, merge, converge and disconnect as outcomes of historical and contemporary processes and forces. These contexts and spaces also include complex infrastructures and landscapes that transcend universities and include formal and informal practices that produce knowledge and shape local, regional and global realities.
Why InterAsia?
The ambition of transregional and transdisciplinary knowledge production emphasizes the study of issues and geographies that do not fit neatly into existing divisions of academia or the world. It encourages the production of scholarship that addresses world regions and peoples neglected or marginalized by the standard divisions of the world and long histories that have been ignored because they do not fit prevailing “regional optics” or civilizational chronologies. It recognizes terrains that are not spatially compact, such as trade routes, waterways, and communities of co-religionists, but that may have strong territorial characteristics. Finally, while decentering the unit of analysis from both “regions” and “nation-states”, it is attentive to ongoing processes of regionalization and re-regionalization as well as various ways in which the nation-state may be asserting itself locally and globally.
Fellows
Partner Institutions
Network Members
Years
Conferences
Continents
our history
Evolution
In 2007 the Social Science Research Council (New York) began developing what became the InterAsia Program and the InterAsia Partnership (IAP). The IAP evolved into a network of institutions collaborating to support individual fellows, network researchers through workshops, summer schools and academies and organize the InterAsian Connections international conference series.
Governance
As of April 2021, Secretariat duties for the IAP moved to the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS), based in Beirut, Lebanon, presenting a new set of opportunities for the partnership as it is also forced to contend with an evolving set of global challenges. Critically, basing the Secretariat at the ACSS will ensure more South-South collaborations and will work to embed InterAsia activities into larger conversations and intellectual endeavors in the Global South.
Partners
in the InterAsia Coalition
Arab Council for the Social Sciences
(Secretariat)
interasian legalities cluster
Partnership between The Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS/ based at Melbourne Law School), and WSU School of Law
Asian | Pacific Studies Institute
Duke University
National University of Singapore
Asia Center (SNUAC)
Seoul National University
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Global and Transregional Studies Platform
University of Goettingen
Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South (IASNUQ)
Northwestern University in Qatar
Questions About Partnership?
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