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Dr. Viola Lasmana is an Emerging Voices Fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and a South and Southeast Asian American Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she is also affiliated with Global Asias and Asian Languages and Cultures.

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  Contact jesse.rodenbiker@rutgers.edu. Abstract Ecological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. Although Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. Through extensive fieldwork with scientists, urban planners, and everyday citizens in southwestern China, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality.

Dr. Eri Kitada (PhD, History) has just successfully defended her Dissertation, “Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956” at the SAS Department of History. [Committee Members: Chie Ikeya and Jennifer Mittelstadt (co-chairs), Kornel Chang, and Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania)]

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Last year’s highly successful zoom film discussion and screening of the documentary “Abandoned: Japanese War Orphans in the Philippines and China was heralded in the newsletter of the Philippine Nikkeijin Legal Support Center, a Tokyo- and Manila-based non-profit organization. The event was organized by Eri Kitada (PhD Candidate in History) and the Cold War Asias Graduate Working Group and co-sponsored by Rutgers Global Asias, Rutgers Association of Philippine Students, and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.

Historic addition to curriculum reflects ongoing racial reckoning Written by John Chadwick | SAS Senior Writer Asians make up about 23 percent of the Rutgers student population. The students above participate in a Living Learning Community to enhance students’ knowledge of the diverse lived experiences of Asian Americans. Jillian Cuzzolino knew the time was right to push for change at Rutgers University.

The Global Asias Grants Committee is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Global Asias Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Grant for Spring 2022. The recipients and their advisors come from all three Rutgers campuses, across fields from Childhood Studies and Geography to History and Education with projects ranging from a podcast on Dotbusters to Global Indigeneity and Youth Movements in South Asia. Congratulations to Kiran, Smruthi, Eri and Rashmi!

Briefings: Emerging Research from the Global Asias Working Groups Monday | Dec 13, 2021 | 11:00a-12:15p Join us for research briefings on works-in-progress from the Global Asias Working Groups across disciplines and Asia regions. Register here.

New center will work to advance research on cardiometabolic disease and mental health of Asian adults Asians are the fastest growing yet most understudied US minority group at 23 million people, having grown 26 percent from 2010-2019. Yet less than one percent of research funding from the National Institutes for Health in the last 10 years was focused on U.S. Asian populations. Currently, there are significant disparities in the Asian community’s relationship to heart health and mental health. The Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity intends to focus on cardiometabolic disease and mental health research to inform both practice and policy at community, regional, and national levels.