GSC 1037:  Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
• Term: from 2012 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 194523036

• Final Report Year: 2020

Final Report Abstract

Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) builds on existing strengths in East Asian and area studies as well as the excellent language training in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean at Freie Universität Berlin. The research program of GEAS is based on the systematic and comparative study of East Asia in its wider global context. GEAS focuses on institutions: rules, norms, and practices, including those that are globally general and regionally specific. The research program aims at developing a theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of the origins, effects, and interdependence of institutions in East Asia, both contemporary and historical. The research approach combines regional expertise with a strong social academic focus in a relevant discipline. GEAS brings together Principal Investigators (PIs) from East Asian Studies with scholars from the social sciences, business and economics, law, the humanities, history and anthropology, as well as experts from non-university partner institutions. The research program is organized in relation to three interconnected lenses: the origins and change of institutions in East Asia, the effects of institutions and the consequences of institutional diversity, and the interdependence of East Asia in the broader regional and global context. The Graduate School’s research program explores institutions in relation to key internal and external challenges, as well as the ways in which these institutions influence the responses of East Asian countries to contemporary issues with regional and/or global implications. GEAS builds on the large body of research on European and North American settings in order to carry out a coherent, cohesive project that examines East Asia in the context of several varieties of institutional theory, with the additional aim of contributing to theoretical innovation with empirical data from East Asia. GEAS resources are augmented by well-established graduate programs at Freie Universität Berlin and graduate training programs at its partner institutions. GEAS can build upon an extensive network of active cooperative relationships with the leading universities in East Asia and the core East Asia-related research institutions worldwide as well as with German and East Asian governments and organizations. GEAS combines area studies research on East Asia with thorough methodological training and strong language and cultural competence. Its training program is interdisciplinary with special emphasis on historically and culturally informed social science approach. GEAS focuses on East Asia as a region. Doctoral candidates receive their degrees in the department of their discipline under the supervision of a team of three advisors and a faculty mentor in East Asia. Our training encourages doctoral candidates to look beyond their country of specialization – China, Japan, or Korea and to view East Asia-related research from a comparative regional and global perspective.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1699276722

Publications

• (2012): Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa: Transnational Health and Healing. Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  Dilger, Hansjörg; Kane, Abdoulaye; Langwick, Stacey (eds.)
  
• (2012): “Orchestrating a Low-Carbon Energy Revolution Without Nuclear: Germany’s Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis”. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 14(1), 83-104
  Schreurs, Miranda
  
• (2012): „Gestaltungsmacht China – Mit Kooperation statt Konfrontation zur Ko-Evolution“. Internationale Politik 2/2012, 44-51
  Sandschneider, Eberhard
  
• (2013): Special Issue “Ein neues Japan? Politischer und sozialer Wandel seit den 1990er Jahren (A New Japan? Political and Social Change in Japan since the 1990s)”. Asiatische Studien/Études Asiatiques LXVII, 2/2013
  Blechinger-Talcott, Verena; Brumann, Christoph and Chiavacci, David (eds.)
  
• (2013): Völkerrechtsdenken und Außenpolitik in Japan, 1919-1960. Baden-Baden: Nomos
  Zachmann, Urs Matthias
  
• (2014): Lokale Identität und ländliche Revitalisiering. Die japanische Keramikstadt Arita und die Grenzen der Globalisierung. Bielefeld: transcript
  Reiher, Cornelia
  
• (2014): “The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Germany’s Energy Politics after Fukushima”. The Journal of Social Science, 9-29
  Schreurs, Miranda
  
• (2014): “When migrants became denizens: understanding Japan as a reactive immigration country”. Contemporary Japan 26(2), 197-222
  Komine, Ayako
  
• (2015): Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China: Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries. London: Routledge
  Meyer-Clement, Elena
  
• (2015): Umkämpftes Essen – Produktion, Handel und Konsum von Lebensmitteln in globalen Kontexten., Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  Reiher, Cornelia and Sippel, Sarah Ruth (eds.)
  
• (2015): “Coping with Crises: Variations of Financial Crisis Management at the Regional Level”. Special Issue of Contemporary Politics 21(2)
  Fritz, Barbara and Krampf, Arie (eds.)
  
• (2015): “Sustaining livelihoods in urban villages: health risks and health strategies among rural-to-urban migrants in China – the case of Guangzhou”. in Heather Xiaoquan Zhang (ed), Rural Livelihoods in China. Political Economy in Transition, London: Routledge, 74-92
  Gransow, Bettina
  
• (2015): „Internationales Drogenregime in der Bewährung. Herausforderungen durch die drogenpolitische Reformdebatte in Lateinamerika“. Vereinte Nationen, Nr. 2/2015, 72-76
  Maihold, Günther
  
• (2016): Corporate Responsibility in Different Varieties of Capitalism: Exploring the Role of National Institutions. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation
  Jackson, Gregory and Bartosch, Julia
  
• (2016): Dynamics of Knowledge Circulation – Cases from Korea. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang
  Lee, Eun-Jeung and Eggert, Marion (eds.)
  
• (2016): Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Han, Oul
  
• (2016): Sŏwŏn – Konfuzianische Privatakademien in Korea. Wissensinstitutionen der Vormoderne. Research on Korea Vol. 4, Peter Lang Verlag
  Lee, Eun-Jeung
  
• (2016): What is Global History? Princeton: Princeton University Press
  Conrad, Sebastian
  
• (2016): “Command without control: The case of China’s environmental target System”. Regulation & Governance 10, 58-74
  Kostka, Genia
  
• (2016): “Forum: Knowledge Transfer as Intercultural Translation. The German Reunification as a ‘Lesson’ for Korea?”. HSR 4 (3)
  Lee, Eun-Jeung and Holtmann, Everhard (eds.)
  
• (2016): “Legitimizing the apprenticeship practice in a distant environment: institutional entrepreneurship through interorganizational networks”. Journal of World Business 51 (6): 895-909
  Jackson, Gregory and Fortwengel, Johann
  
• (2016): “The Great Urban Leap? On the local political economy of rural urbanisation in China”. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (1/16)
  Meyer-Clement, Elena
  
• (2016): “War is peace: the rearticulation of “peace” in Japan’s China discourse”. Review of International Studies 42 (2): 266-286
  Hagström, Linus and Hanssen, Ulv
  
• (2017). “The Contested Emerging International Norm and Practice of a Responsibility to Protect: Where Are Regional Organizations?” North Carolina Journal of International Law 42 (1): 115-89
  Kingah, Stephen, and Eva Seiwert
  
• (2017): Asia after Versailles: Asian Perspectives on the Paris Peace Conference and the Interwar Order, 1919-1933, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (East Asian Studies Series)
  Zachmann, Urs Matthias (ed.)
  
• (2017): Die Volksrepublik China. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter
  Mühlhahn, Klaus
  
• (2017): Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations. Ideas Do Not Float Freely. London/New York: Routledge
  Risse, Thomas
  
• (2017): Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy: Mechanisms of Party Elite Recruitment in Korea and Germany. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Woo, Eun Hee
  
• (2017): Reforming nuclear safety administration in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident: A critical juncture in regulatory practices. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Koppenborg, Florentine
  
• (2017): Special Issue “Food, Agriculture and Risk in Contemporary Japan”. Contemporary Japan 29 (1)
  Reiher, Cornelia and Yamaguchi, Tomiko (eds.)
  
• (2017): The Organisational Transformation of Media Groups in China. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Meier, Silvan
  
• (2017): “Between Global Models and Local Resources: Building Private Art Museums in the Shanghai West Bund”. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 4(1), 61-81
  Zennaro, Giulia
  
• (2017): “Decoding the 'Free Democratic Basic Order' for the Unification of Korea”. Korea Journal 57(2), 5-34
  Mosler, Hannes B.
  
• (2017): “Embodying Values and Socio-Religious Difference: New Markets of Moral Learning in Christian and Muslim Schools in Urban Tanzania”. Africa – Journal of the International African Institute 87 (3): 513-36
  Dilger, Hansjörg
  
• (2017): “Techniques and Concepts for Shaping the Future: Assessment of Current Planning Thought Through a Content Analysis of Town Planning Textbooks”. In: China Perspectives 1/2017, 7-14
  Melcher, Lisa
  
• (2017): “The Evolution of Chinese Film Policy: How to adapt an instrument for hegemonic rule to commercialisation”. International Journal of Cultural Policy 23(4), 415-432
  Meyer-Clement, Elena
  
• (2017): “The Institution of Presidential Impeachment in South Korea, 1992-2017”. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, Heft 2, 111-134
  Mosler, Hannes B.
  
• (2017): “The Use of “Comrade” as a Political Instrument in the Chinese Communist Party, from Mao to Xi”. The China Journal 77(1), 72-92
  Kohlenberg, Paul Joscha
  
• (2017): “What is Central Asia for China? A Chinese Perspective. Yearbook on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe”. OSCE Report 2016. Nomos: Baden-Baden, 315-326
  Bayok, Anastasiya
  
• (2017): „Ausstieg oder Wiedereinstieg?: Abes widersprüchliche Atompolitik“. In: Vogt, Gabriele; Heinrich, Steffen (Ed.): Abes Politik und Politik unter Abe, Iudicium Verlag
  Koppenborg, Florentine
  
• (2018). „China: Zwischen Schlüsselrolle und Marginalisierung“. SWP-Studie 2018/S 18, Facetten des Nordkorea-Konflikts, 30-34
  Boc, Anny, and Gudrun Wacker
  
• (2018): Affect in Relation. Families, Places, Technologies. London, New York: Routledge Studies in Affective Societies, Vol. 1
  Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt and Slaby, Jan (eds.)
  
• (2018): European Integration Theory. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press
  Börzel, Tanja; Risse, Thomas and Wiener, Antje
  
• (2018): Institutional Logics in an Authoritarian State. Why The Chinese Communist Party’s Command Mechanisms Have Remained Unaffected by Legal Reforms. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Kohlenberg, Paul Joscha
  
• (2018): Japan's multi-level water governance in Southeast Asia. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Namba, Kei
  
• (2018): Japanese responses to internationalization of higher education: actors at universities and their involvement in the contemporary reform. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Liias, Eva
  
• (2018): Special Issue “Beauty in East Asia”. ASIEN 147 (April 2018)
  Dippner, Anett and Lee, Eun-Jeung (eds.)
  
• (2018): Special Issue “Fieldwork in Japan: New Trends and Challenges”. ASIEN 149 (October 2018)
  Reiher, Cornelia (ed.)
  
• (2018): The institutionalization of the Korean higher education system with regard to lifelong learning and the support system for working adults in Korea. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Han, Ji Hye
  
• (2018): The Quality of Democracy in Korea. Three Decades after Democratization. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  Mosler, Hannes B., Lee, Eun-Jeung and Kim, Hak.Jae (eds.)
  
• (2018): Trust, commitment and the incomplete agreement - a comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Zhang, Ganyi
  
• (2018): “A Cultural History of Global Transformation”. In: Conrad, Sebastian and Osterhammel, Jürgen (eds.): An Emerging Modern World, 1750-1870 (A History of the World, vol. 4). Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 411-659
  Conrad, Sebastian
  
• (2018): “Climate Research Priorities for Policy-Makers, Practitioners, and Scientists in Georgia, USA”. Environmental Management 62(2), 190-209
  Teebken, Julia
  
• (2018): “Environmentalist Protection: Feminist Methodology and Participant Risk for Research with Chinese NGOs”. Contemporary Social Science 13(3-4), 354-371
  Leggett, Angela
  
• (2018): “From the euro to the Schengen crises: European integration theories, politicization, and identity politics”. Journal for European Public Policy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 83-108
  Risse, Thomas and Börzel, Tanja
  
• (2018): “Global currency hierarchy and national policy space: a framework for peripheral economies”. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention 15(2), 208-218
  Fritz, Barbara et al.
  
• (2018): “Introduction: Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in Medical Globalization: How global is Global Health?”. Global Public Health 13 (3): 265-75
  Dilger, Hansjörg and Mattes, Dominik
  
• (2018): “Leaving (Northeast) Asia? Japan’s southern strategy“. International Affairs 94(4), 883-904
  Wallace, Corey
  
• (2018): “The Image of the Beautiful Woman: Beauty Ideals in Modern Urban China”. ASIEN 147, 92-104
  Lotti, Valeria
  
• (2018): “The Online-Offline Nexus: Social Media and Ethnographic Fieldwork in Post-3.11 Northeast Japan”. ASIEN 149, 14-31
  Gerster, Julia
  
• (2018): “Tightening the Grip: Environmental Governance under Xi Jinping” (Introduction for Symposium). Environmental Politics 27 (5), 769-781
  Kostka, Genia and Zhang, C.
  
• (2018): “We Planted All These Trees Decades Ago: Elder Activism against Devaluing Women’s Labor”. In G. Wu, Y. Feng and H. Lansdowne (eds.): Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China. London: Routledge, 69-86
  Zhou, Shuxuan
  
• (2018): “What Makes for Good and Bad Neighbours? An Emerging Research Agenda in the Study of Chinese Environmental Politics”, Environmental Politics 27 (5), 782-803
  Eaton, Sarah and Kostka, Genia
  
• (2018): „Brasilianische Migranten in Hamamatsu: Zugang zu einem multikulturellen Feld“. Asien : The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 149, 47-64
  Timmerarens, Chaline
  
• (2018): „Regionalwahlen in Südkorea 2018“. ASIEN 148 (July), 51-67
  Mosler, Hannes B.
  
• Special Issue “Japan’s pivot in Asia”. International Affairs 94(4) (July 2018)
  Samuels, Richard J. and Wallace, Corey (eds.)
  
• (2019) “Rural urbanization under Xi Jinping: From rapid community building to steady urbanization?”. China Information, 1-21
  Meyer-Clement, Elena
  
• (2019): 100,000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts Among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Network. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Byun, You-kyung
  
• (2019): Corporate monitoring by chinese environmental NGOs and firm responses : a comparative case study across three industry fields. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation. 236 S.
  Leggett, Angela
  
• (2019): Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation
  Gerster, Julia
  
• (2019): Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping. Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  Mühlhahn, Klaus
  
• (2019): Projektmanagement und temporäres Organisieren. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart
  Braun, Timo and Sydow, Jörg
  
• (2019): Special Duty - A History of Japan’s Intelligence Community. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press
  Samuels, Richard J.
  
• (2019): Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances. Commit Yourself! London: Routledge
  Kolesch, Doris; Schütz, Theresa and Nikoleit, Sophie (eds.)
  
• (2019): Temporal Identities and Security Policy in Postwar Japan. London: Routledge
  Hanssen, Ulv
  
• (2019): The Emergence of Private Art Museums in China: Legitimizing a New Organizational Form in the Shanghai West Bund Cultural Corridor. Freie Universität Berlin, Dissertation. xiii, 225 S.
  Zennaro, Giulia
  
• (2019): The Nanyang Revolution: the Comintern and Chinese Networks in Southeast Asia, 1890-1957. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  Belogurova, Anna
  
• (2019): “China’s Social Credit Systems and Public Opinion: Explaining High Levels of Approval”. New Media & Society 21(7), 1565 -1593
  Kostka, Genia
  
• (2019): “Comparative Regionalism and Rising Powers”. Special Issue of Rising Powers Quarterly 3 (1)
  Börzel, Tanja
  
• (2019): “Fostering Model Citizenship: Behavioral Responses to China’s Emerging Social Credit Systems”. Policy & Internet
  Kostka, Genia and Antoine, Lukas
  
• (2019): “Japan’s Strategic Contrast: Continuing Influence despite Relative Power Decline in Southeast Asia”. The Pacific Review 32(5), 863-897
  Wallace, Corey
  
• (2019): “More Individual Choice? Students’ Share in Decision-Making at the Transition to High School in Japan (1995-2009)”. Asia Pacific Journal of Education May, 1-19
  Entrich, Steve
  
• (2019): “Narrating visualized feelings: photovoice as a tool for researching affects and emotions among school students”. In: A. Kahl (ed.): Analyzing Affective Societies. Methods and Methodologies. London, New York: Routledge Studies in Affective Societies, 78-97
  Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt et al.
  
• (2019): “Protect agriculture and food safety! Transnational protest movement(s) against preferential trade agreements in Asia“, in: Leong-Salobir, Cecilia (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Food in Asia, Abingdon: Routledge, S. 265-278
  Reiher, Cornelia
  
• (2019): “Regional Financial Arrangements in the Global Financial Safety Net: The Arab and the Eurasian Fund”. Development & Change 50(1), 96-121
  Fritz, Barbara and Mühlich, Laurissa
  
• (2019): “Translating constitutional norms and ideas: Genesis and change of the German 'Free Democratic Basic Order' in Korea”. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee 2, 195-223
  Mosler, Hannes B.
  
• Special Issue “Dimensions of Sino-Japanese Rivalry in a Global Context”. The Pacific Review 32(5) (January 2019)
  Schulze, Kai and Blechinger-Talcott, Verena (eds.)
  
• (2019): Immigration Governance in East Asia: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship, London: Routledge. 340 S.
  Bayok, Anastasiya; Plümmer, Franziska and Schubert, Gunter (eds.)
  
• (2020): Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. 311 S.
  Dilger, Hansjörg et al. (eds.)
  
• (2020): Global city competition and new hierarchies of urban citizenship in China’s migration regime. In: Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer, Anastasiya Bayok, Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer und Anastasiya Bayok (Hg.): Immigration Governance in East A
  Meyer-Clement, Elena and Wang, Xiang
  
• (2020): Managing Inter-organizational Collaborations – Process Views. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 64. Emerald. Bingley, UK
  Sydow, Jörg and Berends, Hans (eds.)
  
• (2020): “The People's Republic of China”. In: Klaus Larres and Ruth Wittlinger (eds.), Understanding Global Politics. Actors and Themes in International Affairs, London/New York, 2020, 91-107
  Wacker, Gudrun