Proceedings of the XV East Asia Net Research Workshop
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, May 14-15, 2015
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abstract
Papers contained in this volume were prepared for the XV East Asia Net (EAN) Research Workshop, held at University Ca’ Foscari of Venice in Spring 2015. The workshop addressed two themes: the nature-culture-society nexus and cultural diplomacy. Works featured in this book draw from a variety of disciplinary and methodological approaches, representative of the the current trends in multidisciplinary research in the field of Asian Studies.
Science • Renewable energies • Folk religion • Landscape phenomenology • Feed-in-Tariff • Japan • Technology • China • Web-based charm offensive • Confucius Institutes • Soft power • Chinese ecological discourse, ecological Marxism, • Modernity • Environmental anthropology • Small and micro-scale hydropower • Vietnam • Hanban • Water management and regulation • Seawater • Postcolonial • Globalization • Spectacular society • Development cooperation • Hanoi • PRC • Japanese fishing communities • Seascape • Cultural policy • Cultural diplomacy