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A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations book cover

1st Edition

A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations

Edited By Kiyonobu Date, Jean-François Laniel Copyright 2024
290 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited... Read more

Introduction

Kiyonobu Date and Jean-François Laniel

Part I: Quebec society through the lens of the small nation

1. A Small Nation in Search of Normalcy: Modern Quebec and its Significant Others

Jean-François Laniel

2. The return from Europe and the return from America as heuristic figures of the small nation in Quebec

François-Olivier Dorais

3. The Value of an Intercultural Citizenship Regime for Small Nations: The Case of Quebec

Félix Mathieu

4. Between vulnerability and adaptability: rethinking financial interventionism in Quebec as a "small nation"

X. Hubert Rioux

Part II: Re-examining Japan from a small-nation perspective

5. Japan, a Small Nation Feigning to be Something Greater: Redefining Universality with Special Reference to the Religious and the Secular and a Counter Intellectual History

Kiyonobu Date

6. Imagining a Small Nation in an Empire: Kōtoku Shūsui and His “Small-Nationism”

Hiroki Tanaka

7. The Foundational Violence of Sovereignty: The Racist Logic of "Rescuing" the Ainu　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Katsuya Hirano

8. Inventing "Independence": A Short Intellectual History of Post-war Okinawa

Sana Sakihama

Part III: Diversity: Small nations in subnational contexts

9. Small Nations, Empires and the Commonwealth: Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in Global Perspective

Hiroyuki Ogawa

10. Philosophy in Hong Kong after 1949: Tang Chun-i, Lao Sze-kwang and Cheung Chan-fai

Cheung Ching Yuen

11. "The Other America" and the Quest for Economic Justice: Race, Gender, and the Struggle over Guaranteed Income in the Late 20th Century United States

Kazuyo Tsuchiya

12. People or Nation? East European Jews’ Struggle over Their Categorization before the Holocaust

Taro Tsurumi

Epilogue   Size Matters: Small Nations’ Existential Pursuits of Power, Happiness, and Purpose

Uriel Abulof

Biography

Kiyonobu Date is Professor in the Department of Area Studies at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Jean-François Laniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université Laval, Canada.

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