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What Is in a Rim?
Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea
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1998
Summary
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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Copyright year
1998
ISBN-Print
978-0-8476-8469-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4693-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
385
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1. Introduction: Pacific Contradictions Arif Dirlik No access
2. The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure Arif Dirlik No access
3. The Asia-Pacific Idea as a Mobilization Myth Alexander Woodside No access
4. Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the "Pacific Rim" Bruce Cumings No access
5. On the Outs on the Rim: An Ethnographic Grounding of the" Asia-Pacific" Imaginary Donald M. Nonini No access
6. The Northeast Asian Political Economy Bruce Cumings No access
7. Global Sourcing and Regional Divisions of Labor in the Pacific Rim Gary Gereffi No access
8. Market Dependency in U.S.-East Asian Relations Meredith Woo-Cumings No access
9. China's Growing Integration with the Asia-Pacific Economy Xiangming Chen No access
10. Sexual Economies in the Asia-Pacific Community Neferti Xina M. Tadiar No access
11. Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective Evelyn Hu-DeHart No access
12. The Asia-Pacific in Asian-American Perspective Arif Dirlik No access
13. Pacific Island Responses to U.S. and French Hegemony Glenn Alcalay No access
14. Blue Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism" Rob Wilson No access
15. There Is More in the Rim Than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea" Arif Dirlik No access
Index No access Pages 371 - 380
About the Book and the Editor No access Pages 381 - 382
