P Duara
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 22590 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Duara |
| PRENOMES | P |
| SOBRENOME | Duara |
| ASSINATURA | DUARA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3857-3571 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 86 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 632 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Biocultural Diversity in Monsoon Asia
Portrait
My BA was a double major in anthropology and what was then called 'Oriental languages', and my MA and PhD were in anthropology, all at the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley instilled in me a strong sense of politics and power dynamics and a penchant for social critique in my work. My PhD advisers were Jack Potter, a cultural Marxist who had done fieldwork on peasants in rural Hong Kong and Guangdong Province in China; Paul Rabinow, a p…
Oceans, Jungles, and Gardens
Contemporary world politics is structured around the world order of nation-states in turn founded largely upon a Newtonian cosmology and an associated worldview. I develop a conceptual framework around the ‘epistemic engine’ which organizes and circulates the cosmological and institutional structures of Enlightenment modernity. Subsequently, I explore how the imperial Chinese world order-- functional until at least the late 19th century--reveals …
Uncertainty and Its Discontents
This volume provides the first major study of worldviews in international relations. Worldviews are the unexamined, pre-theoretical foundations of the approaches with which we understand and navigate the world. Advances in twentieth century physics and cosmology and other intellectual developments questioning anthropocentrism have fostered the articulation of alternative worldviews that rival conventional Newtonian humanism and its assumption tha…
The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture
Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I argue that the nation form is the 'epistemic engine' driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature …
Oceans as the Paradigm of History
The temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. Historical processes are not linear and tunneled but circulatory and global, like oceanic currents. The argument of distributed agency deriving from the 'ontological turn' dovetails with the oceanic paradigm of circulatory histories. The latter allows us to grasp modes of both natural and historical inter-temporal communication through the…
Fluid Histories
Human history, including the study of history (i.e., historiography), overlaps with natural history, yet these histories do not operate at the same scales. The fragmentation of those histories contributes to ethical and political failures to address environmental issues. Providing an antidote to this fragmentation, this chapter thinks with the circulating waters of oceans to articulate the complex confluence of human and natural histories, with p…
Presidential Address
This address was intended to be and remains about global circulatory processes and the ways that human societies have sought to deploy, control, or regulate these processes. In this essay, I principally consider how nationalist ideologies regulate global circulatory processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us …
The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective
I seek to grasp the genealogy of China’s Belt and Road (BRI) in relation both to the imperial Chinese world order and the historical sequence of forms of global domination, i.e., modern imperialism, the ‘imperialism of nation-states’ during the inter-war and Cold War period as well as the post-Cold War notion of ‘soft power’. While we may think of BRI as poised uncertainly between the logics of the older imperial Chinese order and the more recent…
Area studies scholarship of Asia
Area studies of Asia can be said to be a product of the post-Second World War new world order under hegemony of the United States. The national modernization paradigm continued to dominate scholarship on Asia within developing Asian nations. Very few, if any, regional and national universities contained programmes of the Asian studies, let alone area studies. Critical Asian studies has encountered a world in which the possibilities of non-capital…
Time and Tide Wait for No Man
The two leading scholars of EASTS reflect on two approaches of STS studies in East Asia and Southeast Asia: one that discusses the reactions, reflections, and recreations of scientific interventions and the other that looks for more strictly scientific contributions. I propose a third methodology that compares historical processes with oceanic flows. Scientific breakthroughs and attendant practices and emergences circulate beyond their controllin…
Foreword. Sovereignty and Citizenship in a Decentered China
Introduction
There are several good reasons for the reluctance to call the overlapping waves of Chinese migration overseas since at least the 14 th century, the Chinese diaspora. The term diaspora has come to refer to relatively homogenized groups with a strong sense of loyalty to the homeland. The overseas Chinese distributed over six populated continents are not homogenous. Yet the term diaspora is not entirely mistaken because the overwhelming bulk of the …
Rogers Brubaker. Grounds for Difference
Rogers Brubaker is a well-known sociologist whose work on nationalism and identity has been extremely helpful to historians in the past. Grounds for Difference is a collection of seven essays on themes of identity, belonging, and inequality that contains some important observations, although, all in all, it may be considered a mixed bag by many historians. Among the most valuable essays, at least for me, is one entitled “The Return of Biology” (c…
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
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The Agenda of Asian Studies and Digital Media in the Anthropocene
I explore the intersection of three forces: the changing status of humanities and, in particular, of Area Studies in the neoliberal era; the unsustainability of contemporary vision of humanity and the world in the Anthropocene; and the new methods, technologies, and partnerships that may help us re-prioritize and renew the intellectual goals and paradigm of Asian Studies globally
A Tale of Two Chinas
The Crisis of Global Modernity
In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of what he terms transcendence - the ideals, principles and ethics onc…
The End of Pax Americana
China Unbound
China’s Unequal Treaties
The Politics of Imagining Asia
Beyond Regimes
The Crisis of Global Modernity
Between Empire and Nation
Rescuing History from the Nation
Asia Redux
How has Asia appeared as a region and been conceived as such in the last hundred years? While there is a long-standing and still burgeoning historiography of Asian connections through the study of the precolonial and early modern maritime trade, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are generally not seen as a time of growing Asian connections. The recent rise of interest in Asian connections in the current time is thus unable to grasp the conti…
Superscribing Symbols
Historical studies of how myths and symbols change have only recently begun to emerge. They tend to stress the layered and historically stratified nature of myths, each stratum reflecting the concerns of an epoch or a particular group. Marina Warner (1982) has shown how the image of Joan of Arc has been differently interpreted by Nazis, nationalists, and feminists, among many others, and Jacques Le Goff (1980) has demonstrated how ecclesiastical …
Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity
Ever since the enlightenment-the dawn of the modern era-historical understanding has been much concerned with the passage to modernity. In our present century, questions and dilemmas of the transition to modernity and the evaluation of "tradition" in the non-Western world have been central to the historical problematique the world over. I have chosen to analyze the modernist understanding of this historical transition in China not only among prof…
The Regime of Authenticity
While there is much writing on the nation as the subject of linear history, considerably less attention has been paid to the dimension of the nation as the always identifiable, unchanging subject of history. This unchanging subject is necessitated by the ascendancy of the conception of linear time in capitalism in which change is viewed not only as accelerating, but can no longer be framed by an ultimate source of meaning such as God. Ostensibly,…
State Involution
Beginning around the turn of the twentieth century, the Chinese state launched onto a course of development that seemed to resemble the process in early modern Europe that Charles Tilly and others have called state making (Tilly 1975). The phenomenon of an expanding state structure penetrating levels of society untouched before, subordinating, co-opting, or destroying the relatively autonomous authority structures of local communities in a bid to…
Oceans as the Paradigm of History
The temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. Historical processes are not linear and tunneled but circulatory and global, like oceanic currents. The argument of distributed agency deriving from the 'ontological turn' dovetails with the oceanic paradigm of circulatory histories. The latter allows us to grasp modes of both natural and historical inter-temporal communication through the…
The global and regional constitution of nations
While the origins of nationalism are sought in global historical trends, few analysts have shown how nations themselves are constituted and re‐shaped by circulating global power, ideas and models. The view from East Asia shows that these circulations are mediated by regional developments and interactions which bind these nations together in rivalry and interdependence. The histories of China, Japan and Korea have been closely tied together since …
Why Is History Antitheoretical
Historians and history departments generally do not teach courses that reflect on a common foundation of knowledge in their discipline. Occasional historiography courses make vague claims to a universalism, but the historiography turns out to be embedded in an area, usually Europe. The philosophy of history is clearly out. History may be about the only discipline that does not care to consider its own suppositions and may well be institutionally …
The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture
Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I argue that the nation form is the 'epistemic engine' driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature …
The Cold War as a historical period
As a historical period, the Cold War may be seen as a rivalry between two nuclear superpowers that threatened global destruction. The rivalry took place within a common frame of reference, in which a new historical relationship between imperialism and nationalism worked in remarkably parallel ways across the superpower divide. The new imperial–national relationship between superpowers and the client states also accommodated developments such as d…
Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
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China Inside Out
The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a much-needed perspective on area studies, a perspective that is attentive to both manifestations of "traditional culture" and the new global relationships in which they are …
Local Worlds
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 99, Number 1, Winter 2000
History and Globalization in China's Long Twentieth Century
This commentary reflects on the contributions of the five principal essayists in this volume of Modern China. It seeks to grasp the role and weight of historical and distinctively Chinese factors in relation to global forces operating in China since the early twentieth century in these macroscopic essays. Building on their contributions, I develop a “globalization paradigm” in which the embeddedness of nations in global discourses and practices a…
Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States
Transnationalism tends to be seen as a late twentieth century development associated with advanced capitalism, flexible production and post-modernism. However, if, as many claim, nationalism emerged in the era of capitalism, then it surely had to deal with the boundary-crossing and globalizing impetus of capitalism from its inception. This article explores how nationalist regimes and spokesmen dealt with the transnational flows, demands, and idea…
Bifurcating Linear History
Research Article| August 01 1993 Bifurcating Linear History: Nation and Histories in China and India Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (3): 779–804. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-3-779 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Prasenjit Duara; Bifurcating Linear History: Nation and Histories in China and India. positions 1 August 1993; …
Nationalism in East Asia
The historiography of nationalism in East Asia, particularly on China and Japan, is predictably enormous, although it is considerably smaller for Korea. This survey will cover only certain key themes relating this historiography to modern nationalism more widely and to the relationships among the countries in this region
Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Globalisation of China
Biocultural Diversity in Monsoon Asia
Presidential Address
This address was intended to be and remains about global circulatory processes and the ways that human societies have sought to deploy, control, or regulate these processes. In this essay, I principally consider how nationalist ideologies regulate global circulatory processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us …
To Think Like an Empire1
Nationalism, Imperialism, Federalism, and the Example of Manchukuo
Research Article| January 01 2006 NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, FEDERALISM, AND THE EXAMPLE OF MANCHUKUO: A Response to Anthony Pagden Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (1): 47–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-12-1-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Prasenjit Duara; NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, FEDERALISM, AND THE EXAMPLE OF M…
The Limits of Legal Sovereignty
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Leftist criticism and the political impasse
(2001). Leftist criticism and the political impasse: Response to Arif Dirlik's 'How the grinch hijacked radicalism: Further thoughts on the postcolonial' Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 81-88
The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China
State Involution
Beginning around the turn of the twentieth century, the Chinese state launched onto a course of development that seemed to resemble the process in early modern Europe that Charles Tilly and others have called state making (Tilly 1975). The phenomenon of an expanding state structure penetrating levels of society untouched before, subordinating, co-opting, or destroying the relatively autonomous authority structures of local communities in a bid to…
Books to review
Superscribing Symbols
Historical studies of how myths and symbols change have only recently begun to emerge. They tend to stress the layered and historically stratified nature of myths, each stratum reflecting the concerns of an epoch or a particular group. Marina Warner (1982) has shown how the image of Joan of Arc has been differently interpreted by Nazis, nationalists, and feminists, among many others, and Jacques Le Goff (1980) has demonstrated how ecclesiastical …
Chinese Society in The Eighteenth Century
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Culture, Power and the State
Culture, Power, and the State
Knowledge and Power in the Discourse of Modernity
Ever since the enlightenment-the dawn of the modern era-historical understanding has been much concerned with the passage to modernity. In our present century, questions and dilemmas of the transition to modernity and the evaluation of "tradition" in the non-Western world have been central to the historical problematique the world over. I have chosen to analyze the modernist understanding of this historical transition in China not only among prof…
The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988
De-Constructing the Chinese Nation
Bifurcating Linear History
Research Article| August 01 1993 Bifurcating Linear History: Nation and Histories in China and India Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1993) 1 (3): 779–804. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1-3-779 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Prasenjit Duara; Bifurcating Linear History: Nation and Histories in China and India. positions 1 August 1993; …
The Displacement of Tension to the Tension of Displacement
Research Article| October 01 1993 The Displacement of Tension to the Tension of Displacement Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (57): 60–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-57-60 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Prasenjit Duara; The Displacement of Tension to the Tension of Displacement. Radical History Review 1…
Rescuing History from the Nation
Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic. David E. Apter , Tony Saich
Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism. Rubie S. Watson
Rescuing History from the Nation
Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty
Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty: China, 1900–1945 Prasenjit Duara Prasenjit Duara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Prasenjit Duara was born in Assam, the northeastern periphery of India, was educated at Delhi University and at Harvard, and is now professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China, 1900–1942 (1988, 1991),…
Rescuing History from the Nation
Transnationalism and the Predicament of Sovereignty
The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945
Short review
In many ways this volume has the appearance of being the standard work, if not quite the classic, of that much attacked, ill-defined, but still burgeoning body of ideas known as “postcolonialism.” As a sympathetic critic, it gives me an opportunity to explore the promise and the dangers in that writing and methodology. Postcolonialism as an intellectual project, rather than a chronological moment, turns the insights (and baggage) of critical cult…
Rescuing History from the Nation
Rescuing history from the nation
I have been asked to touch on the history that Prasenjit Duara rescues in Rescuing History, rather than on the theoretical apparatus employed in his attempt. The two are not easily separated in any case, but here the customary distinctions among empirically verifiable evidence, explanatory strategies, and historical method are especially tenuous. Duara goes well beyond the relativist claim that historical “facts” are selective and partial records…
Awakening China
Political science (59 obras) · History (47 obras) · Law (47 obras) · Chinese history and philosophy (46 obras) · Sociology (43 obras) · China (40 obras) · Politics (31 obras) · Philosophy (28 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (23 obras) · Computer Science (21 obras)