Alterities in Asia

Reflections on Identity and Regionalism
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-58750-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and at different points in time. Although coming from different perspectives like literary criticism, film studies, geography, cultural history, and political science, the contributors collectively argue that Asian otherness is more than the dialectical interplay between the Western self and one of its many others, and more than just the Orientalist discourse writ large. Rather, they demonstrate the existence of multiple levels of inter-Asian and intercultural contact and consciousness that both subvert as much as they consolidate the dominant ‘Western Core-Asian periphery’ framework that structures what the mainstream assumes to be knowledge of Asia.

With chapters covering a wealth of topics from Korea and its Cold War history, to Australia's Asian identity crisis, this book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in critical Asian studies, Asian ethnicity, postcolonialism and Asia cultural studies.

Leong Yew is an Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Disjunctive Empire of International Relations (2003).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yew, Leong

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Asian as Other, Leong Yew 2. The Transformation of Asian Regionalism and the Construction of Anticommunist Identity: The Discourse of ‘Asia’ in Early Cold War South Korea, Kim Ye-rim 3. Constructing an Alternative Regional Identity: Panchsheel and India–China Diplomacy at the Asian–African Conference 1955, Sally Percival Wood 4. Naming and locating Asia: Australian dilemmas in its regional identity, David Walker 5. Singapore, Southeast Asia and the Place of Orientalism, Leong Yew 6. Boutique Alterity: Southeast Asia’s Exotics Abroad and At Home, Tamara S. Wagner 7. Misreading Asia: A Survey of What Filipinos Read of Asia, Karina Bolasco 8. Inquiring into a Parallel Other: A Filipino Gazing Back at Thailand, Antonio P. Contreras 9. The Construction of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in Cambodia, Ian G. Baird 10. Asian Hauntings: Horror Cinema, Global Capitalism and the Reconciliation of Alterity? Christopher SelvaRaj

Über Autor(innen)

Leong Yew is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore.