Arif Dirlik

What Is in a Rim?

Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Revealing the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. The book shifts our focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities to the human interactions that the contributors agree constitute the region, rather than any physical boundaries. This revised and updated edition brings in additional essays focusing on conceptualizations of the Pacific, considers more fully interactions among countries, and strongly emphasizes peoples inhabiting the region, who are so often overlooked in most discussions of the 'Rim.'

Produktdetails

• Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780847684694
• ISBN-10: 0847684695
• Artikelnr.: 22243685

Autorenporträt

Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Setting the scene: introducing the Pacific, Arif Dirlik; the Asia
Pacific idea as a mobilization myth, Alexander Woodside; Rimspeak, or the discourse of the Pacific Rim, Bruce Cumings. Part 2 Constructing a region
the political economy of the Asia Pacific: global sourcing and regional divisions of labour in the Pacific Rim, Gary Gereffi; restructuring manufacturing
Mexican maquiladoras and East Asian EPZs in the presence of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Victor M. Castillo and Ramon de Jesus Ramirez Acosta; China's growing integration with the Asia
Pacific economy, Xiangming Chen; adjusting to the Rim
Japanese corporate social responsibility in the United States, Tomoji Ishi; market dependency in US
East Asian relations, Meredith Woo
Cumings. Part 3 Down and out in the realm of miracles
class and gender perspective on the Asia
Pacific: on the outs on the Rim
an ethnographic grounding of the Asia
Pacific imagery, Donald M. Nonini; sexual economies in the Asia
Pacific community, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar; minorities in a homogeneous state
the case of Japan, Edward Fowler; Pacific
island responses to US and French hegemony, Glenn Alcalay; Latin America in Asia
Pacific perspective, Evelyn Hu
DeHart. Part 4 Cultural formations in the Asia
Pacific: blue Hawaii
Bamboo Ridge as critical regionalism, Rob Wilson; the Asia
Pacific region in Asian
American perspective, A. Dirlik.