Shaping Asia: Knowledge Production and Circulation

这个项目定位于后殖民研究，同时果断地努力超越后殖民的视角。它试图理解，在亚洲，对过去和现在的全神贯注如何产生与挑战知识制度相关的知识，这些知识制度被认为是“外来的”，此外还产生了“替代选择”。拟议中的德国和亚洲不同地区学者之间的合作旨在汇聚专业知识，促进跨国家和跨学科的研究。它致力于制定和提出面向未来的亚洲学术知识生产议程，因为它结合了对亚洲参与者认为相关的知识语料库、形式和地点的关注；这些知识被视为在后殖民坐标内传播的“世界文化”的替代或重要回应。该项目寻求探讨一组共同的问题，同时努力(a.)为揭示知识生产和流通方面的异同，(B)比较这些做法和(C)观察连通性以及相互观察和交流如何塑造亚洲不同地区及其与世界其他地区的联系。这种方法是多标量的，考虑到区域、国家和地方辩论，并优先考虑需要对语言、文化和宗教有密切了解的微观进程和星座。为此，该项目将受益于人文科学、社会学、人类学和政治学的专业知识。该项目围绕三个学术领域展开：第一个领域在后殖民主义和新自由主义批判的框架下提出批判性问题，反映知识生产和流通的情境特征；第二个领域致力于追踪和理解亚洲知识产生和关于知识产生的替代话语；知识传播的替代实践，特别是在学习和学校教育中，以及亚洲视角下具体化、情感和感官知识的形式。第三个领域追溯了亚洲和其他地区通过知识生产和流通而产生的联系等相互纠缠--知识如何塑造相互联系，以及它在传播过程中如何变化。根据“塑造亚洲网络计划”的总体方案设计，该项目汇集了知识生产和流通领域的顶尖学者的专业知识。为此目的，至关重要的是规划相关领域，确定和加强共同点，并进一步鼓励创新和协作研究。该小组将开展不同形式的交流(利用互联网平台、联合写作会议和出版物以及其他传播活动)，同时利用一系列研讨会持续讨论其调查结果、方法、办法和分析。

This project situates itself within postcolonial studies while decisively striving to look beyond the postcolonial lens. It seeks to understand how preoccupation in Asia with its past and present produces knowledge relevant to challenging knowledge regimes considered to be ‘alien’ in addition to the production of ‘alternatives’. The proposed collaboration between scholars in Germany and in different parts of Asia aims to bring together expertise and stimulate research across countries and academic disciplines. It is dedicated to the elaboration and proposal of a future-oriented agenda for academic knowledge production in and about Asia as it combines attention to corpuses, forms, and sites of knowledge that actors in Asia consider relevant; those seen as either alternatives or important responses to the ‘world culture’ spreading within postcolonial coordinates. The project seeks to enquire into a common set of issues while striving (a.) to uncover differences and similarities in knowledge production and circulation, (b.) to compare these practices and (c.) to observe how connectivities as well as mutual observation and exchange shape different regions in Asia and its connections to the other parts of the world. The approach is multi-scalar, taking regional, national and local debates into consideration and privileging micro-processes and constellations that require intimate knowledge of languages, cultures and religions. For this purpose, the project will benefit from the expertise brought together by the humanities, sociology, anthropology, and political science. The project revolves around three areas of scholarship: the first area addresses critical questioning in the frameworks of postcolonial and neoliberal critique, reflecting upon the situated character of knowledge production and circulation; the second area is dedicated to tracing and understanding alternative discourses in and about the generation of knowledge in Asia; to alternative practices of knowledge dissemination, especially in learning and schooling, and forms of embodied, emotional, and sensorial knowledge in Asian perspectives. The third area traces entanglements such as connectivities made through knowledge production and circulation in Asia and beyond – how knowledge shapes interconnections and how it is changed as it travels. Following the overall program design of the Shaping Asia networking Initiative, the project pools the expertise of leading scholars in the fields of knowledge production and circulation. For this purpose, it is essential to map out the relevant fields, identify and strengthen commonalities, and further stimulate innovative, collaborative research. The team will engage in different forms of exchange (use of internet platforms, joint writing sessions and publications as well as in other activities of dissemination) while using a series of workshops for discussing their findings, methodologies, approaches, and analyses on a continuous basis.