Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans (eBook, PDF)

Self and Subject in Motion
Redaktion: Robinson, K.

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Produktbeschreibung

This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively questioning the novelty of the 'global age' in this region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230592049
• Artikelnr.: 38162841

Autorenporträt

MELANI BUDIANTA is an Indonesian activist and cultural studies scholar from the University of Indonesia. TONY DAY is Visiting Fellow, National Humanities Centre, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Senior Associate, Carolina Asia Center of the UNC- Chapel Hill, USA ALISON DUNDON is Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University, Australia RICHARD EVES is Australian Research Council QEII Fellow, Gender Relations Centre, Australian National University, Australia KENNETH M. GEORGE is Professor of Anthropology and a specialist on Indonesia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA DEIRDRE MCKAY is Research Fellow, Department of Human Geography, Australian National University, Australia KIRIN NARAYAN is Professor of Anthropology and Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA NICHOLAS TAPP is Professor of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia CAROLINE TURNER is an Art Historian and Curator, and Deputy Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia. PNINA WERBNER is Professor of Anthropology, Keele University, UK and co-editor of the Postcolonial Encounters Series

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion K.Robinson PART 1: REPRESENTATION, SELF-RECOGNITION AND SELF-DISCOVERY 'Self' and 'Subject' in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age; T.Day Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere; K.M.George Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction; K.Narayan Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto; C.Turner PART 2: RELIGION, COSMOPOLITANISM AND SUBJECTIFICATION Billy Graham in the South Seas; R.Eves A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea; A.Dundon Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis; P.Werbner PART 3: IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia; M.Budianta Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration; D.Mckay Transporting Culture Across Borders - The Hmong; N.Tapp Index