Cosmopolitan Asia

Author : Sharmani Patricia Gabriel,Fernando Rosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317372158

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Cosmopolitan Asia by Sharmani Patricia Gabriel,Fernando Rosa Pdf

One key concept in the large body of scholarship concerned with theorizing social relations is the idea of 'cosmopolitanism'. This book unpacks the idea of cosmopolitanism through the linked knowledges of the Global South. It brings into dialogue an inter-disciplinary team of local and transnational scholars who examine various temporal, cultural, spatial and political contexts in countries as different, yet connected, as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The book also considers a wide range of subjects – present and historical, real, as represented in literature and in theatre, and as theorized in philosophy – across these diverse contexts, but always focusing on regions and places where inter-Asian intermingling has taken place. The conclusions arrived at are varied and considerably enrich social theorizing. The book reveals a cosmopolitanism that is much more specifically Asian than the cosmopolitanism usually associated with the West, demonstrates how concepts of 'nation', 'local' and 'globalization' play out in practice in Asian settings, and re-examines concepts such as migration, diaspora, and the construction of identities. The book has much to offer scholars engaged in history, literary studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Sree Kumar,Sharon Siddique
Publisher : Select Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : 9789814022385

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Southeast Asia by Sree Kumar,Sharon Siddique Pdf

Author : Jennifer Dubrow
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824876692

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Cosmopolitan Dreams by Jennifer Dubrow Pdf

In late nineteenth-century South Asia, the arrival of print fostered a dynamic and interactive literary culture. There, within the pages of Urdu-language periodicals and newspapers, readers found a public sphere that not only catered to their interests but encouraged their reactions to featured content. Cosmopolitan Dreams brings this culture to light, showing how literature became a site in which modern daily life could be portrayed and satirized, the protocols of modernity challenged, and new futures imagined. Drawing on never-before-translated Urdu fiction and prose and focusing on the novel and satire, Jennifer Dubrow shows that modern Urdu literature was defined by its practice of self-critique and parody. Urdu writers resisted the cultural models offered by colonialism, creating instead a global community of imagination in which literary models could freely circulate and be readapted, mixed, and drawn upon to develop alternative lines of thinking. Highlighting the participation of readers and writers from diverse social and religious backgrounds, the book reveals an Urdu cosmopolis where lively debates thrived in newspapers, literary journals, and letters to the editor, shedding fresh light on the role of readers in shaping vernacular literary culture. Arguing against current understandings of Urdu as an exclusively Muslim language, Dubrow demonstrates that in the late nineteenth century, Urdu was a cosmopolitan language spoken by a transregional, transnational community that eschewed identities of religion, caste, and class. The Urdu cosmopolis pictured here was soon fractured by the forces of nationalism and communalism. Even so, Dubrow is able to establish the persistence of Urdu cosmopolitanism into the present and shows that Urdu’s strong tradition as a language of secular, critical modernity did not end in the late nineteenth century but continues to flourish in film, television, and on line. In lucid prose, Dubrow makes the dynamic world of colonial Urdu print culture come to life in a way that will interest scholars of modern Asian literatures, South Asian literature and history, cosmopolitanism, and the history of print culture.

Author : John T. Sidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cosmopolitanism
ISBN : 1501755617

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Republicanism, Communism, Islam by John T. Sidel Pdf

"This book provides a denationalized historical contextualization and comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions. It emphasizes and evidences the importance of international circumstances and transoceanic and transcontinental cosmopolitan communities and connections-whether republican, Communist, Islamic, or otherwise- in enabling and impelling these three instances of revolutionary mobilization in Southeast Asia and in shaping their varying trajectories and outcomes"--

Author : Buntika A. Butcher,Donald L. J. Quicke
Publisher : CABI
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781800620599

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Parasitoid Wasps of South East Asia by Buntika A. Butcher,Donald L. J. Quicke Pdf

Parasitoid wasps are cosmopolitan, numerous and enormously diverse with probably one million or more species worldwide, most of which occur in the moist tropics. Their ecological importance is enormous although perhaps most evident in their major roles in the control of insect pest populations. In natural ecosystems they are integral in regulating populations of a vast number of insects, and therefore are key players in terrestrial food webs. Knowledge of their biology is still very poor because the current state of taxonomy is still in its infancy in most parts of the world.In this book, we provide an overview of the more than 30 families of parasitoid wasps that occur in the 11 countries in South East Asia. Particular emphasis is given to those most commonly encountered and reared, as well as to those used in biological control programmes. Outlines of the morphology, biology, ecology and behaviour of each family, as well as of various important subfamilies are presented. The current state of taxonomy in the region is summarised. Other chapters cover basic biology, behaviour, morphological terminology, phylogeny and methods of specimen collecting, preparation and rearing with particular relevance to the tropics. Modern molecular approaches to speeding taxonomic description of hyperdiverse taxa are considered in depth. All groups are illustrated with colour photographs. This book will be of value to professional entomologists, academics, entomology students and the growing body of amateur entomologists and insect photographers.

Author : S. Bose,K. Manjapra
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0230243371

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Cosmopolitan Thought Zones by S. Bose,K. Manjapra Pdf

Examines forms of cosmopolitanism in the high period of South Asian anti-colonialism, 1890-1947. Essays argue that anti-colonial action stemmed not only from a teleological rush to realize the form of nation-states, but from the speculative aspiration to critique and transcend notions of universalism and the ultimate good brought by British rule.

Author : Janet Steele
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295742977

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Mediating Islam by Janet Steele Pdf

Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their ability at dakwah, or Islamic propagation. At Tempo, a news magazine banned during the Soeharto regime and considered progressive, many see their work as a manifestation of worship, but the publication itself is not considered Islamic. At Harakah, reporters support an Islamic political party, while at Republika they practice a “journalism of the Prophet” and see Islam as a market niche. Other news organizations, too, such as Malaysiakini, employ Muslim journalists. Steele, a longtime scholar of the region, explores how these publications observe universal principles of journalism through an Islamic idiom.

Author : Allen Chun,Ned Rossiter,Brian Shoesmith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135791513

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Refashioning Pop Music in Asia by Allen Chun,Ned Rossiter,Brian Shoesmith Pdf

This collection of thirteen essays examines cultural, political, economic, technological and institutional aspects of popular music across Asia, from India to Japan.

Author : K.C. Ho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136394782

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Interconnected Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia by K.C. Ho Pdf

Examines the political discourse behind tourism, presenting some questions regarding the tensions associated with the interconnections. This title focuses on deterritorialisation and the development of fresh regionalisms, paying specific attention to collaborative efforts in tourism development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004529441

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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文 by Anonim Pdf

Sheldon Pollock’s work on the history of literary cultures in the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis’ broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume. Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136868436

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Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies by Gerard Delanty Pdf

Over the past two decades there has been great interest in cosmopolitanism across the human and social sciences. This is the first comprehensive survey in one volume of the interdisciplinary field of cosmopolitan studies. With over forty chapters written by leading scholars of cosmopolitanism, this book reflects the broad reception of cosmopolitan thought in a wide variety of disciplines and across international borders. The Handbook is a major work in defining the emerging field of cosmopolitanism studies.

Author : Allan Patience
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319693477

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Australian Foreign Policy in Asia by Allan Patience Pdf

This book sets out to discuss what kind of ‘middle power’ Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and examines Australia’s relationships with China, Japan and Indonesia as a focus. It argues that Australia is an ‘awkward partner’ in its relations with Asia due to both its historical colonial and discriminatory past, as well its current dependence upon the United States for a security alliance. It argues this should be changed by adopting a new middle power concept in Australian foreign policy.

Author : Vinay Dharwadker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317958550

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Cosmopolitan Geographies by Vinay Dharwadker Pdf

This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139483278

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The Cosmopolitan Imagination by Gerard Delanty Pdf

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism, he proposes, is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. Delanty's argument for a critical, sociologically oriented cosmopolitanism aims to avoid, on the one hand, purely normative conceptions of cosmopolitanism and, on the other, approaches that reduce cosmopolitanism to the empirical expression of diversity. He attempts to take cosmopolitan theory beyond the largely Western context with which it has generally been associated, claiming that cosmopolitan analysis must now take into account non-Western expressions of cosmopolitanism.

Author : Gary G. Hamilton
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295741031

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Cosmopolitan Capitalists by Gary G. Hamilton Pdf

At midnight on June 30, 1997, Hong Kong became part of the People’s Republic of China. The transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from Great Britain to China was an extraordinary historical event, signifying the end of the West’s colonial presence in Asia and the rise of China’s hegemony. In 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong changed from a barely inhabitable colonial entrepôt to one of the world’s leading financial and industrial centers. Faced with a new social and economic order under Chinese law, many Hong Kongers moved to a new country; others decided to stay; but many chose to maintain their lives and livelihoods in Hong Kong, while spreading their assets and their family members around the world. They bought apartments in London and condos in Vancouver, invested in firms in Guangzhou and Thailand, and sent their children to schools in Europe and Australia. These new up-market migrants have transformed a cosmopolitan outlook into a global presence. Cosmopolitan Capitalists focuses on the people of Hong Kong and how they are defining themselves under altered circumstances. It is a broad multi-disciplinary view of Hong Kong’s transformation, written for a general audience by some of the world’s foremost scholars on the region.