Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans

Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans

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How do we understand the roots of modern identities and subjectivities (citizen, labour migrant, artist, member of a global faith community) and the cosmopolitan imaginaries and practices embraced and generated in the Asia Pacific region? Writing from a range of disciplines, and diverse sites, the authors explore the ways in which identities are recognized and contested, subjectivities dislodged and reconstituted in the contemporary world, and the role of dialogic scholarly practices in engaging, stimulating and promoting emergent subjectivities and identities.

KATHRYN ROBINSON is Professor in Anthropology in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia. She is editor of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology and has published extensively. Her key publications include Women in Indonesia: Gender, Equity and Development, Living Through Histories: Culture History and Social Life in South Sulawesi and Stepchildren of Progress: The Political Economy of Development in an Indonesian Mining Town.

Notes on Contributors * Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion K. Robinson * PART 1: REPRESENTATION, SELF-RECOGNITION, AND SELF-DISCOVERY * “Self” and “Subject” in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age–T. Day * Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere–K. M. George * Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction–K. Narayan * Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto–C. Turner * PART 2: RELIGION, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND SUBJECTIFICATION * Billy Graham in the South Seas–R. Eves * A Cultural Revival! Development, and the Custom of Christian Country in Western Province, Papua New Guinea–A. Dundon * Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis–P. Werbner * PART 3: IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT * The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia–M. Budianta * Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration–D. Mckay * Transporting Culture Across Borders–The Hmong–N. Tapp * Afterword–R. Werbner * Index

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