Imagining The Pacific

Author : Bernard Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300050534

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Imagining the Pacific by Bernard Smith Pdf

Smith's scrutiny of the pictorial and documentary evidence results in some surprising findings. He argues that the obligation science placed on art to provide information was a factor in the triumph of Impressionism during the late nineteenth century. He points out, for example, that William Hodges, Cook's official artist on his second voyage to the Pacific, was one of the first artists to adopt plein-air methods of painting. Describing the impact of the Pacific world on burgeoning English Romanticism, Smith tells of the crucial influence of Cook's astronomer, William Wales, on S.T. Coleridge's imaginative development. He describes how John Webber's apparently documentary art was fashioned to suit political concerns. He examines critically the relevance of Edward Said's Orientalism for our understanding of European perceptions of the Pacific

Author : Nivi Manchanda
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108491235

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Imagining Afghanistan by Nivi Manchanda Pdf

An innovative exploration of how colonial interventions in Afghanistan have been made possible through representations of the country as 'backward'.

Author : Rob Wilson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822325233

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Reimagining the American Pacific by Rob Wilson Pdf

Discusses the makings of the "American Pacific" locality/location/identity as space and ground of cultural production, and the way this region can be linked to "Asia" and "Pacific" as well as to "American mainland"

Author : Peter Beilharz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521524342

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Imagining the Antipodes by Peter Beilharz Pdf

Bernard Smith is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading intellectuals. Yet the recognition of his work has been partial, focused on art history and anthropology. Peter Beilharz argues that Smith's work also contains a social theory, or a way of thinking about Australian culture and identity in the world system. Smith enables us to think matters of place and cultural imperialism through the image of being not Australian so much as antipodean. Australian identities are constructed by the relationship between core and periphery, making them both European and Other at the same time. This 1997 work is a book-length analysis of Bernard Smith's work and is the result of careful and systematic research into Smith's published works and his private papers. It is both an introduction to Smith's thinking and an important interpretive argument about imperialism and the antipodes.

Author : Naoki Sakai,Hyon Joo Yoo
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814324137

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The Trans-Pacific Imagination by Naoki Sakai,Hyon Joo Yoo Pdf

Introduction: the trans-Pacific imagination - Rethinking boundary, culture and society / Naoki Sakai and Hyon Joo Yoo -- Towards a transnational history of victimhood nationalism: on the trans-Pacific space / Jie-Hyun Lim -- The trans-Pacific migrant and area studies / Lisa Lowe -- Imprinting the Empire: Western artists and the persistence of colonialism in East Asia / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- The political formation of the homoerotics and the Cold War: the battle of gazes at and from Okinawa / Ikuo Shinjou -- Securing Okinawa for miscegenation: gender and trans-Pacific Empire of the United States and Japan / Annmaria Shimabuku -- The politics of postcoloniality and the literature of "Being-in-Japan" (Zainichi) / Hyoduk Lee -- The incurable feminine: women without a country in East Asian cinema / Hyon Joo Yoo -- Inter-Asia comparative framework: postcolonial film historiography in Taiwan and South Korea / Soyoung Kim -- Postcolonial Hiroshima, mon amour: Franco-Japanese collaboration in the American shadow / Yuko Shibata -- Reconceptualizing "East Asia" in the post-Cold War era / Sun Ge -- Trans-Pacific studies and the US-Japan complicity / Naoki Sakai

Author : Regis Tove Stella
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824825751

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Imagining the Other by Regis Tove Stella Pdf

Much has been written about Papua New Guinea over the last century and too often in ways that legitimated or served colonial interests through highly pejorative and racist descriptions of Papua New Guineans. Paying special attention to early travel literature, works of fiction, and colonial reports, laws, and legislation, Regis Tove Stella reveals the complex and persistent network of discursive strategies deployed to subjugate the land and its people.

Author : Lydia Butler,Janine Bruce,Laura Dunham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN : 0986467014

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Imaging and Imagining the Pacific by Lydia Butler,Janine Bruce,Laura Dunham Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Cubitt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : England
ISBN : 0719054605

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Imagining Nations by Geoffrey Cubitt Pdf

Revisiting divisions of labour is a reflection on the making of a modern sociological classic text and its enduring influence on the discipline and beyond. Ray Pahl's 1984 book is distinctive in the sustained impact it has had on how sociologists think about, research and report on the changing nature of work and domestic life. In this timely revisiting of a landmark project, excerpts from the original are interspersed with contributions from leading researchers reflecting on the book and its effects in the ensuing three decades. The book will be of interest to researchers, students and lecturers in sociology and related disciplines.

Author : Paula Savage,City Gallery Wellington,Museum of New Zealand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art, New Zealand
ISBN : OCLC:781481532

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Oceania by Paula Savage,City Gallery Wellington,Museum of New Zealand Pdf

Author : Paul Morris,Naoko Shimazu,Edward Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134684977

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Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia by Paul Morris,Naoko Shimazu,Edward Vickers Pdf

In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images of the Japanese ‘Other’ have vied for predominance – in ways that remain poorly understood, not least within Japan itself. Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia analyses the portrayal of Japan in the societies of East and Southeast Asia, and asks how and why this has changed in recent decades, and what these changing images of Japan reveal about the ways in which these societies construct their own identities. It examines the role played by an imagined ‘Japan’ in the construction of national selves across the East Asian region, as mediated through a broad range of media ranging from school curricula and textbooks to film, television, literature and comics. Commencing with an extensive thematic and comparative overview chapter, the volume also includes contributions focusing specifically on Chinese societies (the mainland PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. These studies show how changes in the representation of Japan have been related to political, social and cultural shifts within the societies of East Asia – and in particular to the ways in which these societies have imagined or constructed their own identities. Bringing together contributors working in the fields of education, anthropology, history, sociology, political science and media studies, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to all students and scholars concerned with issues of identity, politics and culture in the societies of East Asia, and to those seeking a deeper understanding of Japan’s fraught relations with its regional neighbours.

Author : Rebecca Kiddle,Moana Jackson,Bianca Elkington,Ocean Ripeka Mercier,Michael Ross,Jennie Smeaton,Amanda Thomas
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781988545752

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Imagining Decolonisation by Rebecca Kiddle,Moana Jackson,Bianca Elkington,Ocean Ripeka Mercier,Michael Ross,Jennie Smeaton,Amanda Thomas Pdf

Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and often bewildering concept for many New Zealanders. This book seeks to demystify decolonisation using illuminating, real-life examples. By exploring the impact of colonisation on Māori and non-Māori alike, Imagining Decolonisation presents a transformative vision of a country that is fairer for all.

Author : John Coy
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541595545

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If We Were Gone by John Coy Pdf

Water, air, sunlight, plants . . . we need these elements to live in this world. But does the world need us? And what would happen to the world if humans were gone? This is the premise of a thought-provoking picture book from John Coy. His insightful text explores how nature would reclaim the planet, accompanied by Natalie Capannelli's gorgeous watercolor illustrations. Back matter gives further context and discusses what kids (and all of us) can do to truly help our planet.

Author : Warwick Anderson,Miranda Johnson,Barbara Brookes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824884307

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Pacific Futures by Warwick Anderson,Miranda Johnson,Barbara Brookes Pdf

How, when, and why has the Pacific been a locus for imagining different futures by those living there as well as passing through? What does that tell us about the distinctiveness or otherwise of this “sea of islands”? Foregrounding the work of leading and emerging scholars of Oceania, Pacific Futures brings together a diverse set of approaches to, and examples of, how futures are being conceived in the region and have been imagined in the past. Individual chapters engage the various and sometimes contested futures yearned for, unrealized, and even lost or forgotten, that are particular to the Pacific as a region, ocean, island network, destination, and home. Contributors recuperate the futures hoped for and dreamed up by a vast array of islanders and outlanders—from Indigenous federalists to Lutheran improvers to Cantonese small business owners—making these histories of the future visible. In so doing, the collection intervenes in debates about globalization in the Pacific—and how the region is acted on by outside forces—and postcolonial debates that emphasize the agency and resistance of Pacific peoples in the context of centuries of colonial endeavor. With a view to the effects of the “slow violence” of climate change, the volume also challenges scholars to think about the conditions of possibility for future-thinking at all in the midst of a global crisis that promises cataclysmic effects for the region. Pacific Futures highlights futures conceived in the context of a modernity coproduced by diverse Pacific peoples, taking resistance to categorization as a starting point rather than a conclusion. With its hospitable approach to thinking about history making and future thinking, one that is open to a wide range of methodological, epistemological, and political interests and commitments, the volume will encourage the writing of new histories of the Pacific and new ways of talking about history in this field, the region, and beyond.

Author : Leslie Robertson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0774810939

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Imagining Difference by Leslie Robertson Pdf

Imagining Difference is an ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC -- a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort. Focusing on diverse experiences of people from the European diaspora, Robertson analyzes expressions of difference from the multiple locations of age, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. Her starting point is a popular local legend about an indigenous curse cast on the valley and its residents in the nineteenth century. Successive interpretations of the story reveal a complicated landscape of memory and silence, mapping out official and contested histories, social and scientific theories as well as the edicts of political discourse. Cursing becomes a metaphor for discursive power resonating in political, popular, and cultural contexts, transmitting ideas of difference across generations and geographies. Stories are powerful imaginative resources in the contexts of colonialism, war, immigration, labour strife, natural disaster, treaty-making, and globalization.This study suggests that while criteria may shift, ideas of "race" and "foreignness," expressions of regionalism, and class and religious identity remain fixed in the social imagination. The author draws from folklore, media imagery, historical records, and interviews; field notes and verbatim accounts provide readers with a sense of the ethnographic process. While situated historically and socially in Fernie, BC, this work will appeal to those in anthropology, women’s studies, Native studies, and history, as well as to regional readers and anyone interested in life in resource towns in North America.

Author : Jeffrey A. Geiger
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824830663

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Facing the Pacific by Jeffrey A. Geiger Pdf

The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focusing on a group of writers and filmmakers whose mutual fascination with the South Pacific drew them together—and would eventually drive some of them apart. Key figures discussed in this volume are Frederick O’Brien, author of the bestseller White Shadows in the South Seas; filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, who collaborated on Moana; director W. S. Van Dyke, who worked with Robert Flaherty on MGM’s adaptation of White Shadows; and Expressionist director F. W. Murnau, whose last film, Tabu, was co-directed with Flaherty.