{"id":40477,"date":"2024-02-28T17:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/?page_id=40477"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:36:34","slug":"dij-ari-asian-infrastructures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/dij-ari-asian-infrastructures\/","title":{"rendered":"DIJ-ARI Asian Infrastructures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tDIJ-ARI Asian Infrastructures Research Partnership\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<p><strong>Steering Group Coordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/James-Sidaway.jpg\" alt=\"Professor James D. Sidaway\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\" title=\"James Sidaway\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" \/>\n\t\tProfessor James D. Sidaway\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nus.edu.sg\/alagilarabiaasia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/csm_chuttersnap-eZHkmf010M8-unsplash_32cda614fe.jpg\" alt=\"csm_chuttersnap-eZHkmf010M8-unsplash_32cda614fe\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"380\" width=\"1140\" title=\"csm_chuttersnap-eZHkmf010M8-unsplash_32cda614fe\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<h3>Research Foci<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>In July 2022, ARI established a “Research Partnership on Asian Infrastructures” with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org\/\">The Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Japanstudien<\/a> (DIJ) which is one of the institutes of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxweberstiftung.de\/en\/about-us.html\">Max Weber Foundation<\/a> (MWS). The Partnership is interested in infrastructures in a broad sense, including (but not only) knowledge networks, health infrastructures, migration infrastructures, port and other transport infrastructures, digital and financial infrastructure networks and nodes and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The Research Partnership capitalizes on and replaced the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/max-weber-foundation-research-group-on-borders-mobility-and-new-infrastructures\/\">Max Weber Foundation Research Group on Borders, Mobility and New Infrastructures<\/a> established in the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in June 2017. At ARI, coordination of the Research Partnership is overseen by Professors <a href=\"https:\/\/profile.nus.edu.sg\/fass\/geojds\/\">James D Sidaway<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/tim-bunnell\/\">Tim Bunnell<\/a>\u00a0and at the DIJ by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org\/people\/franz-waldenberger\/?affiliation=directorate\"><u>Professor Franz Waldenberger.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<h3>Research Activities<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>In August 2023, two of the Singapore-based members of the partnership, together with other colleagues, co-organized a panel on “Explanation, critique and critics of geoeconomics” at the Annual International Conference of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgs.org\/research\/annual-international-conference\">RGS-IBG<\/a> in London. The proceedings were published in a special section of <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/0308518X241280007\"><em>Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nIn February 2024, the partnership participated in a two-day event on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/events\/carbon-territories\/\"><u>Asia’s Carbon Territories: Infrastructure, Environment, and Society from the Age of Imperialism to the Climate Crisis<\/u><\/a> held at ARI and the Singapore Art Museum.\nIn May 2024, the partnership participated in a two-day event on <u><a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/events\/causeway\/\">The Johor-Singapore Causeway: Celebrating and Conceptualising its Centenary<\/a><\/u> held at ARI.\n<p>In October 2024, the partnership organized a workshop at ARI on “The Indo-Pacific: In What Sense a Region?” to examine the (geo)political construct of the Indo-Pacific concept from historical, transregional and multidisciplinary perspectives. Moderated by Han Cheng (ARI), the panel included David M Malitz (DIJ), Priya Chacko (Adelaide), Yang Yang (NUS), and Fathun Karib (ARI). An edited transcript from the workshop will appear in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/dhg\"><em>Dialogues in Human Geography<\/em><\/a>as a Conversations Forum.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent events linked to the partnership, included a workshop on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/events\/decarbonizing-asia\/\">(De)Carbonizing Asia: Histories and Futures of Energy, Space, and Infrastructure<\/a>\u00a0in November 2024 the second\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/events\/geopolitics-and-geoeconomics-of-finance\/\">Global Financial Geography Conference<\/a><\/u>\u00a0(on the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Finance) in February 2025.<\/p>\n\t\t<h3>Current Members<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/profile.nus.edu.sg\/fass\/geojds\/\">Professor James D SIDAWAY<\/a>, Steering Group Coordinator of ARI-DIJ Asian Infrastructures, Department of Geography, NUS<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org\/people\/franz-waldenberger\/?affiliation=directorate\">Professor Franz WALDENBERGER<\/a>, Steering Group Coordinator of ARI-DIJ Asian Infrastructures and Director, DIJ<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/tim-bunnell\/\">Professor Tim BUNNELL<\/a>, Steering Group Member, Department of Geography, NUS & Director, ARI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/tim-winter\/\">Professor Tim WINTER<\/a>, Research Leader of the Inter-Asia Engagements Cluster, ARI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org\/people\/david-m-malitz\/?affiliation=senior_research_fellows\">Dr David M MALITZ<\/a>, Senior Research Fellow, DIJ<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dijtokyo.org\/people\/dolf-alexander-neuhaus\/?affiliation=senior_research_fellows\">Dr Dolf-Alexander NEUHAUS,<\/a> Senior Research Fellow, DIJ<br \/>\n<u><a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/han-cheng\/\">Dr Han CHENG<\/a>,<\/u> Max Weber Foundation Research Fellow, ARI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/dr-stefan-huebner\/\"><u>Dr Stefan HUEBNER (H<\/u>\u00dcBNER<u>)<\/u><\/a>, Senior Research Fellow, ARI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/karib-fathun\/\"><u>Dr Fathun KARIB<\/u><\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow, ARI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/people\/singh-rani\/\">Dr Rani SINGH<\/a>, Postdoctoral Fellow, ARI\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Untitled-design-7.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIJ-ARI Asian Infrastructures Research Partnership Steering Group Coordinator Professor James D. Sidaway Research Foci In July 2022, ARI established a “Research Partnership on Asian Infrastructures” with\u00a0The Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Japanstudien (DIJ) which is one of the institutes of the\u00a0Max Weber Foundation (MWS). The Partnership is interested in infrastructures in a broad sense, including (but not …<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/dij-ari-asian-infrastructures\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DIJ-ARI Asian Infrastructures<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44568,"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40477\/revisions\/44568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ari.nus.edu.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}