Conferences

The First International Conference of ARSA was held in Kasetsart University in Thailand on January 29-31, 1999.  Its main theme was “Globalization and Rural Social Change” with sub themes on globalization and rural socio-cultural change, economic crises and rural strategies, agricultural resource and environment, role of rural sociology and rural studies and rural social movements and governance.  Thirty three papers were presented during the said conference.  These were subsequently published in Asian Rural Sociology Vol I.  This first international conference was spearhead by Prof. Surichai Wun “Gaeo of Chulalangkorn University and attended by about 200 participants from 11 countries.

The Second International Conference of ARSA was held in University of Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia on March 26-29, 2004 with a theme “Prospects of Asian Rural Society for the 21st Century”.  Its sub themes were role of agriculture in the rural economy and culture, peasant differentiation and occupational diversification, local autonomy policy and political change, sustainability and transformation of family and community, persistency and function of culture to rural change, sustainable development of Lombok Island, and development of rural studies in Asia.  Thirty six papers were presented during this Second International Conference which were subsequently published in Asian Rural Sociology Vol II.  This second international conference was headed by Prof. Rosiady Husaenie Sayuti of the University of Mataram and attended by 80 participants from 12 countries.

This conference was graced by Dr. Mansur Ma’shum (Rector of University of Mataram, Indonesia, Prof. Haruo Kuroyanagi (General Secretary of ARSA, Japan), the Governor of West Nusa Tenggara Province as represented by executive secretary, Ir. Nanang Samodra KA and keynoted by Prof. Frank Vanclay (President of IRSA, Australia).

Among the papers presentors during this conference were the following:

    * Prof. Sediono P. Tjondronegro (President of Indonesian Rural Sociology, Indonesia)

    * Prof. Dr. Soekartawi (President of SEAMOLEC, Indonesia)

    * Prof. Sunyoto Usman (Dean of Fisipol of University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

    * Dr. Rosiady H. Sayuti (Vice Rector of University of Mataram, Indonesia)

    * Prof. Frank Vanclay (President of IRSA, Australia)

    * Prof. Atsushi Kitahara (President of IRSA, Japan)

    * Prof. Lutgarda L. Tolentino (Associate Prof. of Rural Sociology and Chair Department of Agricultural Education and Rural Studies University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines)

    * Prof. Joseph F. Donnermeyer (Department of Human and Community Resource Development of the Ohio State University, USA)

    * Prof. Kanda Paranakian (Faculty of Social Science of Kasetsart University, Thailand)

    * Prof. Li Guoquing (Institute of Sociology of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China)

    * Prof. Anoja Wickramasinghe (Department of Geography of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

The Third International Conference of ARSA was held in Sanhe, China on August 8-10, 2007 with a theme “Competitiveness and Human Insecurity in Rural Asia”.  Among its sub themes were environmental threats and human insecurity, rural economic policy, rural economy, rural family, rural livelihoods, migration, alternative development paradigms, development conflicts and local challenges and cross border issues. This conference was headed by Dr. Li Guoqing of Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China and attended by 200 participants from 19 countries.

This conference was attended by by Prof. Li Peilin (Director of Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Executive Vice-President of Chinese Sociology Association) who gave the opening speech, Gao Quanli (Vice-President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Lu Xueyi (Local Organizing Committee, Director of Department of Urban Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Among the papers presented during the conference were the following:

    * Lu Xueyi (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), The Changing in Agriculture, the Countryside and Farmers in China

    * Li Peilin (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China) and Li Wei (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), The Economical Status and Social Attitudes of Migrant Workers in China

    * Niu Gengrui (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), The Bright Future of China’s Rural Areas, Agriculture and Farmers’ Problems Depend on Urbanization

    * Atsushi Kitahara (Ryukoku Univ., Japan), Asian Rural Society and Studies in this Half Century

    * Yoshio Kawamura (Ryukoku Univ., Japan), Envisioning Prosperous Rural Future in Globalizing World

    * Midori Aoyagi-Usui (National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan) A Comparison of Public Attitudes and Actions toward Environmental Issues in China and Japan

    * Hiroyuki Torigoe (Waseda Univ., Japan), Potential of Partnership Development in A Lake District – Case Study from the Kasumigaura Lake District in Eastern Japan

    * Pracha Janthasarsophon (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand), Social Change and Environmental Pressure: A Case Study in Hualaem Fisher Community, Bangpakong District, Chachoengsao Province

    * Pakorn Lertsatienchai (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand), Shaping Certain Etiology of Lead Poisoning Symptoms: Klity Creek as A Contaminated Place

    * Hitomi Nakamichi (Ehime Univ., Japan) and Akira Ohno (Nagano Univ., Japan) Japanese Policy on Less Favored Areas and Residents’ Action

    * Jin Zhan (Minami Kyushu Junior College, Japan), Typology in Local Characteristics and Proposals to Economics Policies in Country Level Areas of China

    * Sajin Prachason (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand), Falling into a Spaghetti Bowl: A Review of the Impact of FTAs on Thailand

    * Koichi Ikegami (Kinki Univ., Japan), Challenges of Alternative Trade of Agricultural Products and Social Responsible Buying in Japan

    * Takashi Okae (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan), Microfinance and Rural Community in Vietnam

    * Haruo Kuroyanagi (Sugiyama Jogakuen Univ., Japan), Changes in Indonesian Agriculture and Rural Life under the Suharto Regime – Diversification in Agricultural Output and Sources of Income of Rural Inhabitants of Java during the Early 1990s

    * Tolga Ozen (Kumamoto Univ., Japan) and Sadao Tokuno (Kumamoto Univ., Japan) The Elderly Population in Japan’s Rural Society: The Social Role and Position of the Elderly Population in A Super-aged Rural Society

    * Yukiko Otomo (Jumonji Univ., Japan), Generational Continuity and Succession of Farming Families Executing Family Management Agreement in Japan

    * Gong Jihong (Huazhong Agriculture Univ., China) and Fei Yingying (Huazhong Agriculture Univ., China), Study on Rural Woman’s Status in Family – A Case Study on S. Village, Zhanghe Country, Hingmen City of Hubei Province

    * Junichi Ikemoto (Osaka Univ., Japan), The Creation and the Development of Wushu (Kung Fu) in Villages – from the Perspective of the Violence Management, Social Functions and Social Network of Wushu

    * Akiyoshi Takahasi (Emiritus Prof. of Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), The Comparative Study of Rural Communities: Japan and China

    * Ruenkaew Pattranupravat (Univ. of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Thailand), Globalization and the Change of Chinese Shrines in Samutsongkhram Province

    * Natedao Taotawin (Chiang Mai Univ., Thailand), Irrigation Project and Changing Livelihood Strategies in Response to Vulnerability and Disarter in the Pak Panang River Basin in Southern Thailand

    * Yohanes Bosco Widodo (Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Indonesia), Urban-rural  Disparities and the Regeneration of Rural Livelihoods-Case Study: Java-Indonesia

    * Sayamol Charoenratana (Chulalongkorn Univ., Thailand), From Forests to Urban: Rural Communities Dependencies towards Sustainable Ways to Survive

    * Saowalak Chaytaweep (Maejo Univ., Thailand), Women Outworkers: Reflections of Flexibe Specializaton in the Depopulated Areas in Japan

    * Taketsugu Okawa (Emiritus Prof. of Yamagata Univ., Japan) The Stragegic Policy for Regional Revitalization in the Depopulated Areas in Japan

    * Yin Yuanfu (Ryukoku Univ., Japan) Statistical Analysis of Contributing Factors to the Standard of Living in Jilin Province, China

    * Zhu Qizhen (COHD, Cau, China), The Los of Rural Labor and the Construction of New Socialist Countryside

    * Qian Yishou (Jiangsu administration institute, China), Analysis on Migrant Workers’ Sense of Psychological Identity for Urban Society: the Wujiang’s Case

    * Patcharin Sirasoonthorn (Naresuan Univ., Thailand), Rethinking of Urban Development Policy: the Best Practice of Applied Sociology for the Integrated Development of Municipality in Thailand

    * Astia Dendi (GTZ-Good Local Governance Project Correspondence, Indonesia) and Ahmad Zaini (Univ. of Mataram, Indonesia), Role of Multi-stakeholder Forum in Reducing Vulnerability of Poverty: Perspective and Lessons from Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

    * Rosiady Husaenie Sayuti (Univ, of Mataram, Indonesia), The Impact of Cash and Direct Subsidy for the Poor in West Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

    * Shan Jingjing (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China), Social Network and Social Capital of Chinese Migrant Workers

    * Satomi Higashi (Hitotsubashi Univ., Japan), Impact of Quantification of Life: A Study of the Land Forest Allocation and Community-based Forest Management in Northern Laos

    * Aurasri Ngamwittayaphong (Thammasat Univ., Thailand), A Paradigm for Rural Poverty Eradication: 40 Years from the Wealth Oriented Paradigm to the Stable System of Relationship Paradigm, A Case of Thai State

    * Yuka Kiguchi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)  Is the Social Impact of A Dam Project Measurable? Pak Mun Dam in Thailand as A Case Study

    * Ir. H.L. Gafar Ismai (District Planning Board of East Lombok, Indonesia), Proverty Alleviation Program in East Lombok and Role of the “Zakat” Program

    * Toshiyuki Hokimoto (Yamagata Univ., Japan), An Investigation of the Changing Situation of the Local Economy from the Viewpoint of Increasing Foreign Labor on the Rural Area: A Case Study of the Shonai Area, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

    * Maniemai Thongyou (Khon Kaen Univ., Thailand) and Dusadee Ayuwat (Khon Kaen Univ., Thailand), Coping with Cross Border Migration Insecurity: Social Networks of Lao Migrant Workers in Thailand

    * Lutgarda L. Tolentino (University of the Philippines Los Baños), Beyond Modernity: What is Next?