Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Politics Culture and Society · January 1, 2025
Deforestation and dam building together with climate change along the Lancang/Mekong have upended centuries and even millennia of biocultural management. The river and the rainforests in this part of monsoon Asia provide the livelihood for over 70 million ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2024
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is perhaps the most important manifestation of China's global ascendancy. The literature across the world about the initiative cannot agree on whether it represents a new form of imperialism or a “soft power” expressi ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
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 ...
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Journal ArticleTheory Culture and Society · December 1, 2021
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 fro ...
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Journal ArticleNations and Nationalism · July 1, 2021
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 t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Asian Studies · November 1, 2020
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 c ...
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Book · October 26, 2020
For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four inter ...
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Journal ArticleEast Asian Science Technology and Society · December 1, 2018
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 con ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2015
Although decolonization has been one of the most significant events in the twentieth century, transforming colonies and dependent territories into nation states, it remains an amorphous term because of the different phases and varieties of decolonization. ...
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Journal ArticleAsiascape Digital Asia · January 1, 2015
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, technol ...
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Chapter · September 18, 2012
The renewed interest in imperialism after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has re-cast a vexed problem regarding the delimitation of the scope of the term imperialism. The urge to distinguish 'imperialism' from 'empire' has surfaced as some scholars seek t ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Global History · November 1, 2011
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 nati ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Global History · November 2011
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 ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic and Political Weekly · April 30, 2011
This article identifies the spatial conditions of peasant revolutionary uprisings principally by comparing the Indian Maoist movement with the Chinese peasant revolution that established the People's Republic of China in 1949. The spatial factors were by n ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2009
The present moment is one of high visibility for diasporic and migrant communities. Indeed, they are often celebrated as cosmopolitan, in-between communities who are self-starters and drivers of success of the countries from which they or their ancestors e ...
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Book · December 1, 2008
China's history tends to be studied from a national perspective only. The Global and Regional in China's Nation-Formation attempts to train our eyes to see the picture of China less as a self-contained entity, a "geobody", than as part of a broader set of ...
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Journal ArticleNations and Nationalism · April 1, 2008
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 m ...
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Journal ArticleModern China · January 1, 2008
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 ea ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2008
Most Chinese are extremely proud of their long and continuous historical civilization, which some claim extends for five thousand years. But for much of the twentieth century, Chinese revolutionaries had a very ambivalent and mostly negative view of these ...
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Book · September 1, 2004
In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of World History · January 1, 2004
This short introduction to the following collection of essays seeks to map out the different ways in which the discourse of civilization has been understood and deployed over the past century. We can find tensions in the understanding of civilization betwe ...
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Book · January 1, 2004
Decolonization brings together the most cutting-edge thinking by major historians of decolonization, including previously unpublished essays and writings by leaders of decolonizing countries including Ho Chi-Minh and Jawaharlal Nehru. The chapters in this ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2004
From a historian’s perspective, decolonization was one of the most important political developments of the twentieth century because it turned the world into the stage of history. Until World War I, historical writing had been the work of the European conq ...
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Journal ArticleChina Report · January 1, 2003
This paper is an effort to chart a genealogy of globalisation. A genealogy is a 'history of the present in terms of its past'. Thus, genealogy is not the story of the past in itself, but an examination of the historical possibilities of the present in the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of World History · January 1, 2001
At the end of World War I, the idea of multiple civilizations as opposed to a singular Enlightenment Civilization gained acceptance with the emergence of anti-imperialist nationalism. The new civilization discourse was a product not only of the writings of ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and Change · January 1, 1998
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 ...
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Journal ArticleHistory and Theory · January 1, 1998
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 a ...
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Book · November 20, 1996
In this book, Duara offers a way out of the impasse between constructionism and the evolving nation; he redefines history as a series of multiple, often conflicting narratives produced simultaneously at national, local, and transnational ... ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of Asian Studies · February 1991
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” ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Studies in Society and History · January 1, 1987
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 ...
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