What is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region IdeaArif Dirlik Rowman & Littlefield, 1998 - 384 pages 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. |
Table des matières
Introduction Pacific Contradictions | 3 |
The AsiaPacific Idea Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure | 15 |
The AsiaPacific Idea as a Mobilization Myth | 37 |
Rimspeak or The Discourse of the Pacific Rim | 53 |
On the Outs on the Rim An Ethnographic Grounding of the AsiaPacific Imaginary | 73 |
The Political Economy of the Pacific | 97 |
The Northeast Asian Political Economy | 99 |
Global Sourcing and Regional Divisions of Labor in the Pacific Rim | 143 |
Pacific Social and Cultural Formations | 249 |
Latin America in AsiaPacific Perspective | 251 |
The AsiaPacific in AsianAmerican Perspective | 283 |
Pacific Island Responses to US and French Hegemony | 309 |
Blue Hawaii Bamboo Ridge as Critical Regionalism | 325 |
There Is More in the Rim Than Meets the Eye Thoughts on the Pacific Idea | 351 |
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About the Book and the Editor | 381 |
Market Dependency in USEast Asian Relations | 163 |
Chinas Growing Integration with the Asia Pacific Economy | 187 |
Sexual Economies in the AsiaPacific Community | 219 |
About the Contributors | 383 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
What is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea Arif Dirlik Affichage d'extraits - 1998 |
What is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea Arif Dirlik Affichage d'extraits - 1998 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
Arif Dirlik ASEAN Asia-Pacific Asia-Pacific region Asian Americans Bamboo Ridge billion California capital capitalist century China Chinese cities colonial contradictions coolies countries Cuba cultural Dalian discourse division of labor dominant East Asian Economic Zone emergence ethnic EuroAmerican European export factories Filipino foreign Frank Chin Fujian global growth Guangdong Hawaii hegemonic Hong Kong immigrants important indigenous industrial integration investment Japan Japanese Jingji Korea and Taiwan land Latin America mainland Malaysia manufacturing maquiladora Mexican Mexico migration military modern nations nese NICs nomic North Northeast Pacific community Pacific islands Pacific region Pacific Rim percent perspective Peru Philippines plantation political economy production provinces recent regional formation relations relationship role Singapore social societies South Korea South Pacific Southeast Asia Soviet spatial structure subregional Taiwan Third World tion trade transnational U.S. market United University Press Vietnam West Western women workers world economy world system York