Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times
Prasenjit Duara, editor
Date of publication:
2013
Publisher:
ISEAS / Manohar
Number of pages:
95
Code:
NSC12
About the publication
"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.”
“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”
—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
Co-publication: ISEAS / Manohar
Available for worldwide distribution by ISEAS except for South Asia.
Contents
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Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times
[Whole Publication, ISBN: 9789814414517] -
Preliminary pages
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Introduction, by Jennifer Munger, author
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Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times, by Prasenjit Duara, author
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The Idea of Asia and Its Ambiguities, by Wang Hui, author
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The Intricacies of Premodern Asian Connections, by Tansen Sen, author
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Asia is Not One, by Amitav Acharya, author
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Response to Prasenjit Duara, “Asia Redux”, by Barbara Watson Andaya, author
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floating. No Gears Shifting, by Rudolf Mrázek, author
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Response to Comments on "Asia Redux", by Prasenjit Duara, author
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Contributors
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Index
