PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS

PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS
Author: Michael R. Auslin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674060806

Beginning with the first Japanese and Americans to make contact in the early 1800s, Michael Auslin traces a unique cultural relationship. He focuses on organizations devoted to cultural exchange, such as the American Friends’ Association in Tokyo and the Japan Society of New York, as well as key individuals who promoted mutual understanding.

Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans

Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans
Author: K. Robinson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2007-11-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 023059204X

This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively questioning the novelty of the 'global age' in this region.

Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies

Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies
Author: Gerard Delanty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415600812

This book reflects the broad reception of cosmopolitan thought in a variety of disciplines and across international borders.

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism
Author: Pnina Werbner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000181421

Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism inaugurates a new, situated, cosmopolitan anthropology. It examines the rise of postcolonial movements responsive to global rights movements, which espouse a politics of dignity, cultural difference, democracy, dissent and tolerance. The book starts from the premise that cosmopolitanism is not, and never has been, a 'western', elitist ideal exclusively. The book's major innovation is to show the way cosmopolitans beyond the North--in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Malaysia, India, Africa, the Middle East and Mexico--juggle universalist commitments with roots in local cultural milieus and particular communities.Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. It introduces the reader to key debates surrounding cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, and is written clearly and accessibly for undergraduates in anthropology and related subjects.

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters

Authenticity and Authorship in Pacific Island Encounters
Author: Jeannette Mageo
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800730551

The insular Pacific is a region saturated with great cultural diversity and poignant memories of colonial and Christian intrusion. Considering authenticity and authorship in the area, this book looks at how these ideas have manifested themselves in Pacific peoples and cultures. Through six rich complementary case studies, a theoretical introduction, and a critical afterword, this volume explores authenticity and authorship as “traveling concepts.” The book reveals diverse and surprising outcomes which shed light on how Pacific identity has changed from the past to the present.

Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization

Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization
Author: R. Johnson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-11-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137455381

The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.

Anyone

Anyone
Author: Nigel Rapport
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857455230

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.

International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific

International Society in the Early Twentieth Century Asia-Pacific
Author: Hiroo Nakajima
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000382427

Concentrating on the rivalry between the formal and informal empires of Great Britain, Japan and the United States of America, this book examines how regional relations were negotiated in Asia and the Pacific during the interwar years. A range of international organizations including the League of Nations and the Institute of Pacific Relations, as well as internationally minded intellectuals in various countries, intersected with each other, forming a type of regional governance in the Asia-Pacific. This system transformed itself as post-war decolonization accelerated and the United States entered as a major power in the region. This was further reinforced by big foundations, including Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford. This book sheds light on the circumstances leading to the collapse of formal empires in the Asia-Pacific alongside hitherto unknown aspects of the region’s transnational history. A valuable resource for students and scholars of the twentieth century history of the Asia-Pacific region, and of twentieth century internationalism

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory

The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2021-11-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501361953

Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what “world” means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when “world” is appended to a particular form of humanistic or scientific inquiry? How exactly does “worlding” bear on the theoretical operating system and the history of that field? What is the theory or theoretical model that allows “world” to function in a meaningful way in coordination with that knowledge domain? With contributions from 38 leading theorists from a vast range of fields, including queer studies, religion, and pop culture, this is the first large reference work to consider the profound effect, both within and outside the academy, of the worlding of discourse in the 21st century.

Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora

Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora
Author: Gemma Tulud Cruz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000609898

This book focuses on the Philippines as a powerhouse in the Catholic and global migration landscape. It offers a wide-ranging look at the roles, dynamics, character, and trajectories of Catholic faith and practice in the age of migration through an interdisciplinary, religious, and theological approach to Filipino Catholics’ experience of migration and diaspora both at home and overseas. In so doing, the book introduces the reader to the hallmarks and characteristics of a contextual model of world Christianity and global Catholicism in the twenty-first century.