1st Edition
What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea
By Arif Dirlik
Copyright 1994
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific rim also seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the region in terms of human interactions.
Part 1 Setting the scene: introducing the Pacific, Arif Dirlik; the Asia-Pacific idea as a mobilization myth, Alexander Woodside; Rimspeak, or the discourse of the Pacific Rim, Bruce Cumings. Part 2 Constructing a region - the political economy of the Asia Pacific: global sourcing and regional divisions of labour in the Pacific Rim, Gary Gereffi; restructuring manufacturing - Mexican maquiladoras and East Asian EPZs in the presence of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Victor M. Castillo and Ramon de Jesus Ramirez Acosta; China's growing integration with the Asia-Pacific economy, Xiangming Chen; adjusting to the Rim - Japanese corporate social responsibility in the United States, Tomoji Ishi; market dependency in US-East Asian relations, Meredith Woo-Cumings. Part 3 Down and out in the realm of miracles - class and gender perspective on the Asia-Pacific: on the outs on the Rim - an ethnographic grounding of the Asia-Pacific imagery, Donald M. Nonini; sexual economies in the Asia-Pacific community, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar; minorities in a homogeneous state - the case of Japan, Edward Fowler; Pacific-island responses to US and French hegemony, Glenn Alcalay; Latin America in Asia-Pacific perspective, Evelyn Hu-DeHart. Part 4 Cultural formations in the Asia-Pacific: blue Hawaii - Bamboo Ridge as critical regionalism, Rob Wilson; the Asia-Pacific region in Asian-American perspective, A. Dirlik.
Biography
Professor Arif Dirlik (Duke University)
