What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives) - Softcover

Dirlik, Arif

 
9780847684694: What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0847684695 ISBN 13: 9780847684694
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as 'Asia Pacific' and 'Pacific Rim.' Clarifying the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions_including the human costs and consequences_that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. In evaluating the idea of 'Asia Pacific,' the book shifts our focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities to the human interactions that have played a formative part in the region's constitution. The contributors agree that it is these interactions that constitute the region, rather than the physical boundaries of the Pacific. 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 within the Pacific, who are routinely ignored in most discussions of the 'Rim.'

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Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.

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Verlag
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0847684695
ISBN 13 
9780847684694
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
396
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