1st Edition
Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia
By William A. Callahan
Copyright 2006
256 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
256 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the objective of analyzing the relation between the state’s cultural governance and resistance to it.
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Introduction 1. Culture and Military Policy in the "South Pacific" 2. Beauty Queens, National Identity and Transnational Politics 3. Gender, Democracy and Revolutionary Photo Albums 4. Popular Politics, Civil Society and Social Movements 5. Corruption, Political Reform and the Deferral of Democracy 6. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Diasporic Politics. Conclusion
Biography
William A. Callahan is Professor of International Politics at the University of Manchester, and has taught in Thailand, China, South Korea and the United States. His most recent publication is Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
