Questions of Community

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2008 proposal for an Asia-Pacific community, while ambitious and likely to be resisted by many in the East Asian region, raises important concerns about Asia's regional architecture at a time of profound change and challenge from economic uncertainty, human insecurity, environmental problems and intrastate conflict. This article examines how historic Australian and Asian discourses of identity have shaped Asian–Australian relations and how identity discourses now interact with profound contemporary struggles over the pace and direction of normative and institutional change, as exemplified by struggles over the ASEAN Charter or approaches to Burma. One key to this process of change will be how the region defines ‘community’ in both ideational and institutional terms. Will it be people- or elite-centred? Will it be exclusivist and conservative, or open and cosmopolitan? The article critiques older discourses that conceived Australian identity as radically different from Asia and Asian identity as homogenous and anti-Western, arguing that these enabled repressive forms of politics at home and hobbled the ability of the region to grapple collectively with new challenges and insecurities abroad. It argues for homogenising and egoistic models of identity to be abandoned in favour of a more pluralist and cosmopolitan orientation – a new vision of ‘unity in diversity’ where there are no civilisations to clash

Aesthetics · Identity (music · Identity change · Political economy · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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