What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)
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What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

What Is in a Rim?: Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea (Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)

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Arif Dirlik (Author) Glenn Alcalay (Contributor) Xiangming Chen (Contributor) Bruce Cumings (Contributor) Gary Gereffi (Contributor) Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Contributor) Donald M. Nonini (Contributor) Neferti Xina M. Tadiar (Contributor) Rob Wilson (Contributor) Meredith Woo-Cumings (Contributor)  

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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.'
Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.
  • Contributor: Arif Dirlik
  • Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN13: 9780847684694
  • Number of Pages: 390
  • Packaged Dimensions: 181x227x30mm
  • Packaged Weight: 553
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release Date: 1998-03-05
  • Series: Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Arif Dirlik is professor of history at University of Oregon.

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