Date:May 26(Wed.) , 2010 10:30- 12:00
Venue:Room No. 331, Inamori Memorial Building, CSEAS. Kyoto University
Speaker: Kim D. Reimann, Georgia State University
Title: “Regional Environmental Governance and NGOs: Field Notes from Cases from Southeast Asia"
Abstract:
As an Abe Fellow in 2008-2009, Reimann conducted field research in Japan and Southeast Asia related to regional environmental governance and NGOs in Southeast Asia. This research project analyzes the multiple and various roles that NGOs now play in the region as advocates, critics, partners, agenda-setters, consensus-builders and major players in the area of the environment. Her talk at CSEAS will present her3 case studies (NGOs and the Asian Development Bank, the Sulu-Sulawesi Seas Marine Eco-Region, the Mekong Biodiversity Conservation Corridor Initiative) and some of her initial findings in the field. Kim DoHyang Reimann is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University (GSU) and she is also currently the Director of the Asian Studies Center at GSU. Her publications include her recent book The Rise of Japanese NGOs, Activism from Above (Routledge 2009) as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. Her research examines NGOs/the nonprofit sector, global activism, transnational social movements, and environmental governance, with a particular regional focus on Japan and greater East Asia.(http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwpol/2768.html)