Arif Dirlik

What Is in a Rim?

Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

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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.'

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Produktdetails

• Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780847684694
• ISBN-10: 0847684695
• Artikelnr.: 22243685

Autorenporträt

Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction: Pacific as Concept and Fantasy Chapter 2 Pacific
Contradictions Chapter 3 The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation
in the Invention of a Regional Structure Chapter 4 The Asia-Pacific Idea as
a Mobilization Myth Chapter 5 Rimspeak, or, The Discourse of the "Pacific
Rim" Chapter 6 On the Outs on the Rim: An Ethnographic Grounding of the
"Asia-Pacific" Imaginary Part 7 The Political Economy of the Pacific
Chapter 8 The Northeast Asian Political Economy Chapter 9 Global Sourcing
and Regional Divisions of Labor in the Pacific Rim Chapter 10 Market
Dependency in U.S.-East Asian Relations Chapter 11 China's Growing
Integration with the Asia-Pacific Economy Chapter 12 Sexual Economies in
the Asia-Pacific Community Part 13 Pacific Social and Cultural Formations
Chapter 14 Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Chapter 15 The
Asia-Pacific in Asian-American Perspective Chapter 16 Pacific Island
Responses to U.S. and French Hegemony Chapter 17 Blue Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge
as Critical Regionalism Chapter 18 There Is More in the Rim than Meets the
Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea"