下記の要領で講演会を開催いたしますので、奮ってご参加下さい（主催 京都大学東南アジア研究所「自然と非自然の境界生成に関する学際的研究」研究会、京都大学グローバルCOE 生存基盤持続型の発展を目指す地域研究拠点 イニシアティブ1と共催）。
日 時：2010年1月29日（金）16：00～18:00
場 所：京都大学 稲盛財団記念館 3F 小会議室II
報告者：Paul Kratoska（シンガポール国立大学）
コメント: Anthony Reid (京都大学東南アジア研究所客員研究員）
発表論題：Rice in Southeast Asia - From Empires to Nations (1920s-1950s)
The Pacific War is often seen as a watershed moment in Southeast Asia, marking the end of colonial rule and the inauguration of policies created by and for sovereign nation-states. For the Southeast Asian rice
economy, this periodization is extremely misleading. The critical events shaping food policy took place in the 1920s and 1930s, when crop failures, depression and the threat of war led colonial administrations
to abandon regional and imperial economic models. The presentation will discuss how the physical characteristics of rice and the way rice was grown and distributed shaped the regional rice economy, and how that economy changed during the period between the 1920s and 1950s.
