Challenges of Physical and Psychological Spaces Faced by Three Generations of Writers in the 20th and 21st Century in the Sub-Continent, South Asia, and in Pakistan

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-78
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Three Generations

Highways and Hierarchies

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Road Development ◽  
Road Planning

This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.

Reframing Islamic Art for the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Bier
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Metropolitan Museum ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art

<p>The celebrated Islamic galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York reopened in 2011 as “Galleries for the Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.” Other major collections of Islamic art have been reorganized and reinstalled in Berlin, Cairo, Cleveland, Copenhagen, Detroit, Kuwait, London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Singapore, and new museums of Islamic art have been established in Doha, Qatar; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Sharjah, U.A.E. In addition, the first museum in North America dedicated to Islamic art recently opened in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This article explores this global phenomenon, identifying it as both a literal and conceptual “reframing of Islamic art for the 21st century,” setting the world stage for new developments in cultural understanding.</p><p><em><strong>Keywords:</strong></em> Islamic art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Art of Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia”</p>

scholarly journals Indian and Oriental studies in a Euro-Indian perspective for the 21st century

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Maria Krzysztof Byrski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Oriental Studies ◽  
Indian Perspective ◽  
Structural Aspects

Collegium Civitas; University of WarsawThe basic presumption is the need in Oriental studies to go much further than mere description of different civilisations. They should be compared with our own, and the question of whether the concepts evolved by those civilisations can help us better understand the reality in which we actually happen to live should be asked. For the adoption of this approach to the study of South Asia, it is suggested that European and Indian civilisations are ‘twins-unlike’. The paradox is intended since certain—so to say—general structural aspects of both civilisations are similar (geographical magnitude, variety of climate, size of population, and its anthropological, ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity), but as far as content is concerned they are of course very much unlike each other. The conclusion of our comparison is that Indian traditional civilisation is that of sustenance and containment while the European one is that of progress, development and expansion. Proper synergy of the two tendencies is postulated for sustainable development to be achieved.

scholarly journals South Asia in the 21st Century Global Order: Problems, Promises and Positioning

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munim Kumar Barai
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
World Order ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Global Order ◽  
The World ◽  
The Usa ◽  
It Knowledge

The world is passing through a crossroad as the multipolarity in the world order is now a distinctive possibility in the 21st Century. In that emergence, the center of global economic gravity is seemingly moving toward the Asia Pacific zone. The USA, the sole superpower in the present order, is increasingly facing challenges from China, Russia and other rising powers like India and Brazil. The success of the EU as an economic and political experiment will determine its role in the future context. This paper tries to assess a place for South Asia as a unit in the 21 century global order and finds a number of persisting problems like poverty, population, corruption, poor quality of education, disruptive political discourse, weak democratic governance, indiscipline, religious and ethnic tensions that impede their future progress. At the same time, the paper sees immense future potentials for South with their growing economies, demographics, diversity, diasporas, IT knowledge, and dynamism. However, the Indo-centric geographic identity of South Asia is both a problem as well as a promise. This paper argues that to reap the benefits of commonality, they need to approach their future collectively and cohesively.

scholarly journals South Asia in the 21st Century: “Catching-Up” yet Overheating

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Catching Up

Economist Stern (2016) asks now why so little is concretely done against global warming. But consider the huge countries in South Asia and their mighty neighbours. South Asia is poised to become the next set of Asian economic miracles. Yet they face a terrible threat from the environment, as global warming picks up speed together with more and more environmental degradation. Can these more than 2 billion people work and find food and water, if temperature rises more than 2-3 degrees? Can peasants work and survive? And how to generate enough electricity for housing, given increasing water shortages? Without massive financial assistance, there will occur widespread reneging on the COP21 objectives (Goal I-III). The system of UNFCCC with yearly big meetings does not offer an organization that is up to the coordination tasks involved in halting climate change—too much transaction costs. South Asia needs the promised Super Fund badly that Stern anticipated 2007.

Highways and Hierarchies

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Politics ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Road Development ◽  
Road Planning

This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.

scholarly journals Pakistan’s Role In Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Andrew Korybko ◽  
Vladimir Morozov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Other ◽  
Member States ◽  
Eurasian Economic Union ◽  
Silk Road Economic Belt ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
Beneficial Outcome

Connectivity is one of the key trends of the 21st century, which Russia is fully embracing with its Greater Eurasian Partnership (GEP) in order to counteract the chaotic processes unleashed throughout the course of the ongoing systemic transition from unipolarity to multipolarity. This outlook sets forth the grand strategic task of integrating with some of the former countries of the erstwhile Soviet Union through the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and then further afield with the other regions of Eurasia in order to benefit from the growing cross-supercontinental trade between Europe and Asia. President Putin declared during the second Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in April 2019 that this Chinese-led project “rimes with Russia’s idea to establish a Greater Eurasian Partnership” and that “The five EAEU member states have unanimously supported the idea of pairing the EAEU development and the Chinese Silk Road Economic Belt project”. It naturally follows that the pairing of the EAEU with BRI would involve Russia improving its connectivity with the latter’s flagship project of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in South Asia, thereby endowing Pakistan with an important role in the GEP. The rapidly improving relations between Moscow and Islamabad, as well as the peacemaking efforts undertaken by those two states and other stakeholders in Afghanistan across 2019, raise the prospect of a future trade corridor traversing through the countries between them and thus creating a new axis of Eurasian integration that would complete the first envisaged step of bringing the EAEU and BRI closer together. In pursuit of this multilaterally beneficial outcome, it’s important to explain the policymaking and academic bases behind it so as to prove the viability of this proposal.

Zheng He and Ming China’s Voyages in the Early 15th Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Wade
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asia ◽  
21St Century ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Military Violence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Naval Fleets

Over the first three decades of the 15th century, Ming China dispatched a succession of naval fleets through the Southeast Asian seas and across the Indian Ocean, reaching South Asia, the Middle East, and even the east coast of Africa. These were the largest and best-armed naval fleets in the world at that time, comprising more than 100 ships and tens of thousands of troops. Like similar overland military missions sent to Đại Việt and Yunnan in the same period; these missions were initially intended to awe foreign powers and create legitimacy for the usurping emperor, Yongle. The maritime missions were generally led by eunuch officials, the most famous of whom was Zheng He. In the 21st century the Chinese state depicts these missions as “voyages of peace and friendship” and utilizes this trope in its contemporary diplomacy. However, the Ming sources reveal that military violence was an integral aspect of the successive voyages, whilst the fact that many rulers from Southeast Asian polities were taken to China by the eunuch-led missions also suggests that some degree of coercion was employed. The missions were ended by the court in the mid-1430s over concerns about the costs and the need for such missions.

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