Asia Redux
Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23540914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sugata Bose (0000-0002-6756-1393) |
| Editors | Prasenjit Duara |
| Year | 2013 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Asia Redux (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ISEAS Publishing (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1355/9789814414517 |
| OpenAlex | W4237800546 |
| ISBN | 9789814414517 |
| Open Library | OL38384060M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
"In the erudite essay that opens this forum, Prasenjit Duara turns to both indigenous thinkers and the premodern past for tools with which to think about Asia in a global age. Contemporary modalities of regional exchange – ‘weakly bounded, network-oriented, pluralistic, multitemporal’ – chime with earlier patterns of cultural circulation without state domination, giving rise to a prophetic vision of ‘Asia Redux’. This attempt to capture the contours of a (re)-emergent region was calculated to provide. And what a debate it kicks off. Wang Hui resolutely reframe imagining Asia as a political project on a world-historical canvas. Tansen Sen greatly complicates the map of intra-Asian commercial exchange in earlier times; Amitav Acharya outlines five competing conceptions of Asia in the domain of international relations alone.; Barbara Watson Andaya teases out the paradoxical way in which regional religions make clashing claims about Asian unity; and Rudolf Mrazek asks, what of the Asia that bleeds? what of exploitation and its spawn, the inglorious ‘built-ends’ of the global economy? The reward for those who read this collection straight through is a thrillingly cacophonous conversation about how to grasp Asia in our time.” – Karen E. Wigen, Stanford University “Will a re-emergent Asia extend the violent rivalries and inequalities of Western-dominated empires, nations and capital? Or can Asia somehow draw on a relatively more peaceful past of maritime trade, interlinked religions and circulations beyond states to think and make a very different sort of region and world? Prasenjit Duara and his interlocutors define this vital debate on Asia’s future through illuminating reflections on its recent and deep past. A touchstone for anyone concerned with a future shape of an inter-connected Asia newly possessed of wealth and power” – Engseng Ho, Duke University
Geography · Redux · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · asia · History · Regionalism
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |