Transnational Asia Pacific

Author : Shirley Lim,Larry E. Smith,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252068092

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Transnational Asia Pacific by Shirley Lim,Larry E. Smith,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

From fiddle tunes to folk ballads, from banjos to blues, traditional music thrives in the remote mountains and hollers of West Virginia. For a quarter century, Goldenseal magazine has given its readers intimate access to the lives and music of folk artists from across this pivotal state. Now the best of Goldenseal is gathered for the first time in this richly illustrated volume. Some of the country's finest folklorists take us through the backwoods and into the homes of such artists as fiddlers Clark Kessinger and U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, recording stars Lynn Davis and Molly O'Day, dulcimer master Russell Fluharty, National Heritage Fellowship recipient Melvin Wine, bluesman Nat Reese, and banjoist Sylvia O'Brien. The most complete survey to date of the vibrant strands of this music and its colorful practitioners, Mountains of Music delineates a unique culture where music and music making are part of an ancient and treasured heritage. The sly humor, strong faith, clear regional identity, and musical convictions of these performers draw the reader into families and communities bound by music from one generation to another. For devotees as well as newcomers to this infectiously joyous and heartfelt music, Mountains of Music captures the strength of tradition and the spontaneous power of living artistry.

Author : Catherine Gomes
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783085941

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The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility by Catherine Gomes Pdf

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. How do we begin to gauge the impact of mobility and multiculturalism on individuals and groups in this diverse region today? The authors of The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility turn to social media as a tool of inquiry to map how mobile subjects and minorities articulate their sense of community and identity. The authors see social media as a platform that allows users to document and express their individual and collective identities, sometimes in restrictive communication environments, while providing a sense of belonging and agency. They present original empirical work that attempts to help readers understand how mobile subjects who circulate in the Asia Pacific create a sense of community for themselves and articulate their ethnic, ideological and national identities.

Author : Katie Willis,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134414086

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State/Nation/Transnation by Katie Willis,Brenda S. A. Yeoh Pdf

This edited volume examines the relationship between the nation and the transnation, focusing on transnational communities in the Asia-Pacific region. Setting the book within a theoretical framework, the authors explore a range of themes such as migration, identity and citizenship in chapters on China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore and Cambodia.

Author : Catherine Gomes,Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786605542

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Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific by Catherine Gomes,Brenda S. A. Yeoh Pdf

This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper (transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration experience. The authors in this collection– who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and communication research – present cutting edge cross and trans disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border mobilities.

Author : Jeb Sprague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317482871

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Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania by Jeb Sprague Pdf

News headlines warn of rivalries and competing nations across Asia and the Pacific, even as powerful new cross-border relations form as never before. This book looks behind the Asia-Pacific curtain: at the new forms of social, economic, and political integration taking place through a global capitalism that is rife with contradictions, inequality, and crisis. We are moved beyond traditional conceptualizations of the inter-state system with its nation-state competition as the core organizing principle of world capitalism and the principal institutional framework that shapes the makeup of global social forces. These important studies examine and debate over how there is a growing transnationality of material (economic) relations in the global era, as well as an emerging transnationality of many social and class relations. How does transnational capitalist class fractions, new middle strata, and labor undergird globalization in Asia and Oceania? How have states and institutions become entwined with such processes? This book provides insight into a field of dynamic change.

Author : Alan Dupont
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521010152

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East Asia Imperilled by Alan Dupont Pdf

Security issues have traditionally been defined in military terms, yet the post-Cold War security landscape contains numerous non-military challenges to security. In this 2001 analysis, Alan Dupont argues that an emerging new class of non-military threats has the potential to destabilize East Asia and reverse decades of hard-won economic and social development. He shows that these transnational shifts must be grasped and dealt with by governments and non-government organizations both regionally, and internationally, if conflict is to be avoided. Transnational threats stem from overpopulation, deforestation and pollution, global warming, unregulated population movements, transnational crime, virulent new strains of infectious diseases and other issues not previously associated with international security. Collectively they represent a new agenda and pose novel challenges for foreign and defence policy. This highly informative, compelling and authoritative book is essential reading for East Asia specialists and makes a significant contribution to international security debates.

Author : Rob Wilson,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822381990

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Global/Local by Rob Wilson,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays examine the dynamic between the movement of capital, images, and technologies without regard to national borders and the tendency toward fragmentation of the world into increasingly contentious enclaves of difference, ethnicity, and resistance. Ranging across issues involving film, literature, and theory, as well as history, politics, economics, sociology, and anthropology, these deeply interdisciplinary essays explore the interwoven forces of globalism and localism in a variety of cultural settings, with a particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region. Powerful readings of the new image culture, transnational film genre, and the politics of spectacle are offered as is a critique of globalization as the latest guise of colonization. Articles that unravel the complex links between the global and local in terms of the unfolding narrative of capital are joined by work that illuminates phenomena as diverse as "yellow cab" interracial sex in Japan, machinic desire in Robocop movies, and the Pacific Rim city. An interview with Fredric Jameson by Paik Nak-Chung on globalization and Pacific Rim responses is also featured, as is a critical afterword by Paul Bové. Positioned at the crossroads of an altered global terrain, this volume, the first of its kind, analyzes the evolving transnational imaginary—the full scope of contemporary cultural production by which national identities of political allegiance and economic regulation are being undone, and in which imagined communities are being reshaped at both the global and local levels of everyday existence.

Author : Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 1571812563

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Globalization in Southeast Asia by Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades Pdf

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Author : Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571812555

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Globalization in Southeast Asia by Shinji Yamashita,Jeremy Seymour Eades Pdf

The rapid postwar economic growth in the Southeast Asia region has led to a transformation of many of the societies there, together with the development of new types of anthropological research in the region. Local societies with originally quite different cultures have been incorporated into multi-ethnic states with their own projects of nation-building based on the creation of "national cultures" using these indigenous elements. At the same time, the expansion of international capitalism has led to increasing flows of money, people, languages and cultures across national boundaries, resulting in new hybrid social structures and cultural forms. This book examines the nature of these processes in contemporary Southeast Asia with detailed case studies drawn from countries across the region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. At the macro-level these include studies of nation-building and the incorporation of minorities. At the micro-level they range from studies of popular cultural forms, such as music and textiles to the impact of new sects and the world religions on local religious practice. Moving between the global and the local are the various streams of migrants within the region, including labor migrants responding to the changing distribution of economic opportunities and ethnic minorities moving in response to natural disaster.

Author : Mitchell Bernard,Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies
Publisher : North York, Ont. : University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 189529617X

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The Pattern and Implications of Transnational Production in Eastern Asia by Mitchell Bernard,Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies Pdf

Author : Shahla F. Ali
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789907179

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Forming Transnational Dispute Settlement Norms by Shahla F. Ali Pdf

This thought-provoking book examines whether regional centres associated with global legal institutions facilitate expanded citizen engagement in global soft law making. Through an analysis of empirical research into the role of decentralized soft law making in the East Asian region, it investigates the influence of such regional centres in overcoming representational deficits in the design of cross-border dispute settlement norms.

Author : David Fu-Keung Ip,Raymond Hibbins,Wing Hong Chui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066750863

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Experiences of Transnational Chinese Migrants in the Asia-Pacific by David Fu-Keung Ip,Raymond Hibbins,Wing Hong Chui Pdf

This title provides a much needed theoretical account of socio-cultural and identity issues surrounding middle-class Chinese migration in the changing context of migration policies and issues in Australia and other places. It also offers insights to students studying the current changing face of Chinese migration and provides relevant data to policy-makers, managers and practitioners in the field of immigration and multicultural affairs. This is a cutting edge volume that advances theories, methodologies and policy issues relating to contemporary middle-class Chinese migrants. It reports and discusses multidisciplinary research undertaken in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The book will not only serve as an introductory textbook for students of migration studies, social sciences and China studies, but also as a reference source for those who are interested in learning about recent Chinese migration in Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814470193

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Global Movements in the Asia Pacific by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philippa Gates,Lisa Funnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136591556

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Transnational Asian Identities in Pan-Pacific Cinemas by Philippa Gates,Lisa Funnell Pdf

This collection examines the exchange of Asian identities taking place at the levels of both film production and film reception amongst pan-Pacific cinemas. The authors consider, on the one hand, texts that exhibit what Mette Hjort refers to as, "marked transnationality," and on the other, the polysemic nature of transnational film texts by examining the release and reception of these films. The topics explored in this collection include the innovation of Hollywood generic formulas into 1950's and 1960's Hong Kong and Japanese films; the examination of Thai and Japanese raced and gendered identity in Asian and American films; the reception of Hollywood films in pre-1949 China and millennial Japan; the production and performance of Asian adoptee identity and subjectivity; the political implications and interpretations of migrating Chinese female stars; and the production and reception of pan-Pacific co-productions. .

Author : Oliver Pye,Jayati Bhattacharya
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814311441

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The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia by Oliver Pye,Jayati Bhattacharya Pdf

"This book is a compilation of papers first presented at the workshop "The palm oil controversy in transnational perspective" that took place in Singapore, 2-4 March 2009. The workshop was jointly organized by the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit'at, Bonn and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. It was funded by Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)"--Preface.