Jon Fernquest
Jon Fernquest entered the computer engineering PhD program at Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai, Thailand in 2021. He has worked as a journalist for a decade at the Bangkok Post newspaper co-authoring the online Learning section. He has published several papers on premodern Burmese history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and has taught at several universities and schools in Thailand, Burma and Korea.
Supervisors: Professor Nirvikar Singh, University of California at Santa Cruz, Distinguished Professor and Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
Supervisors: Professor Nirvikar Singh, University of California at Santa Cruz, Distinguished Professor and Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
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avoided dealing directly with aesthetics, the ways in which music penetrates and influences social reality at the private level, focusing instead on the power relations that shape the distribution and reception of music in society at the public level. For instance, the sociological approach of Bourdieu’s Distinction (1984) treats musical events such as listening, concert-going or even music creation as strategic positionings in social space in relation to class or group norms. Tia DeNora has brought
aesthetics back into the sociology of music and shown that the “affordances” of a musical event, what is made possible by the musical event, are as important as the power relations conditioning the musical
event before it occurs. Whereas power relations behind music range from valorizing and prioritizing elite tastes in music to the cultural hegemony of certain professional musical practices such as the concert or virtuoso performance, possible affordances of music range from putting a baby to sleep with a lullaby, to marching music guiding an army to war, to background music in a store, to creating a private personal space in everyday life. The Qin’s long history of music philosophy integrated with
practice makes it a model instrument for the neglected category of “solitary amateur music-making” and the accompanying affordance of “subjective well-being” under a new aesthetics-driven sociology of music.
avoided dealing directly with aesthetics, the ways in which music penetrates and influences social reality at the private level, focusing instead on the power relations that shape the distribution and reception of music in society at the public level. For instance, the sociological approach of Bourdieu’s Distinction (1984) treats musical events such as listening, concert-going or even music creation as strategic positionings in social space in relation to class or group norms. Tia DeNora has brought
aesthetics back into the sociology of music and shown that the “affordances” of a musical event, what is made possible by the musical event, are as important as the power relations conditioning the musical
event before it occurs. Whereas power relations behind music range from valorizing and prioritizing elite tastes in music to the cultural hegemony of certain professional musical practices such as the concert or virtuoso performance, possible affordances of music range from putting a baby to sleep with a lullaby, to marching music guiding an army to war, to background music in a store, to creating a private personal space in everyday life. The Qin’s long history of music philosophy integrated with
practice makes it a model instrument for the neglected category of “solitary amateur music-making” and the accompanying affordance of “subjective well-being” under a new aesthetics-driven sociology of music.
a politics that is a continuation of war my other means, and also intellectuals of the global south as put forward by Boaventura de Sousa Santosa in the more recent Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide (2015).
A set of tools is needed to transform chronicle manuscripts into a scholarly translation in a timely and accurate fashion. In addition to software and databases to aid the translator, workflows are also proposed.
Although the focus will be on U Kala’s Burmese historical chronicle, the approach will not be regionally limited to Burma as previous work on Burmese history has been. In its essence the thesis work will be cross-culturally comparative emphasizing the empirical diversity of manuscript cultures (Burmese, Tai, Lanna, Pali) that exist in mainland Southeast Asia.
A special emphasis will be placed on historical geography and the production of maps to visualize this dimension of manuscripts. Towards this goal the development of tools to analyze this dimension of manuscripts is essential, namely historical Geographical Information System (GIS) tools to be elaborated on in great length below.
Ming state these political formations were termed pre-state ‘tusi’ or ‘chieftainships’. The papers in this volume provide evidence for such loosely organized ‘chieftainships’ with continually shifting boundaries and centers, rather than well-ordered states or ’kingdoms’ with stable, well-structured bureaucracies and state institutions.