Reflections on nationalism in Japan and beyond: Remembering Kosaku Yoshino through dialogue
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 1124-1126
ISSN: 1469-8129
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In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 25, Heft 4, S. 1124-1126
ISSN: 1469-8129
In: International journal of Japanese sociology, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 41-54
ISSN: 1475-6781
This article offers a framework for exploring the relevance of modernity to contemporary East Asia. I first examine different conceptualizations of modernity, paying special attention to Eisenstadt's influential concept of multiple modernities. Second, I point out the limitations and flaws of Eisenstadt's theory by drawing on nationalist politics in East Asia as an illustrative case. In particular, I examine the so‐called "history perception problem," which has been created by war and shaped by the legacies of war, to demonstrate the peculiar features of modernity in East Asia. Third, I use the works by three scholars as examples to show how intellectuals in China, South Korea, and Taiwan respond to the tensions between universalism and particularism, which, as a whole, reflect what can be called "East Asian modernity." And finally, I try to respond to the controversial but fashionable question that is peculiar to East Asia: can modernity be overcome? It is argued that East Asia can be understood through the lens of modernity, and vice versa. Nowadays, modernity has become a global condition in both geographical and topological senses. It is not something to be overcome, but a condition that we all live in and should learn to live with, here and now.
In: Comparative studies in society and history, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 786-815
ISSN: 1475-2999
In his groundbreakingNationalism Reframed,Rogers Brubaker challenges conventional understandings of nations and nationalism by advancing a distinctive, if not innovative, approach to the subject. Drawing on recent theoretical developments that problematize the realist ontology implicitly assumed in previous literatures, Brubaker calls for an institutionalist approach to the study of nations and nationalism. As he points out, nation and nationhood can be better understood not as substance but as institutionalized form, not as collectivity but as practical category, and not as entity but as contingent event (1996:18). He then employs this approach to analyze the breakdown of the Soviet Union. According to Brubaker, nationhood and nationality were institutionalized in the Soviet Union in two different modes: political-territorial and the ethno-personal. While the incongruence between these two modes led to tensions and contradictions within Soviet society, the dual legacy of such an institutionalization, manifesting itself as unintended consequences, eventually shaped the disintegration of the Soviet Union and continues to structure nationalist politics in the successor states today.
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 351-376
ISSN: 1547-3384
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 351-376
ISSN: 1070-289X
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 106, Heft 6, S. 1836-1838
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Theory, culture & society: explorations in critical social science, Band 17, Heft 4, S. 93-117
ISSN: 1460-3616
This article explores the interplay between the globalization process and the nation/nation-state by examining the case of contemporary Taiwan. Globalization is analyzed along four dimensions: flows of people, flows of culture, economic globalization and international/transnational institutions. Along each dimension, it is found that globalization has had a profound impact upon how cultural and political elites imagine their nation, leading to rising aspirations for nationhood and nation-stateness. Meanwhile, nation-building efforts have deepened Taiwan's embeddedness in globalization, where globalization itself is being employed, both by the state and non-state elites, as a strategy to construct the nation. Three implications suggest that the relationship between `the global' and `the national' be reconceptualized. First, nations and nationalism can be better comprehended against a global/international backdrop, as national identity to a large extent depends upon the imagined or real approval of other nations. Second, there emerges a new strategic alliance between the global and the national, in the sense that globalization gives new ground upon which the nation can be (re)formulated. And finally, by reinforcing certain institutional prerogatives of nations and nation-states, globalization may also lead to an increased desire for nationhood and nation-stateness in cases where the latter two have not been fully realized.
In: Asian perspective, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 121-147
ISSN: 2288-2871
In: Asian perspective, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 121-147
ISSN: 0258-9184
In: American journal of cultural sociology: AJCS, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 516-534
ISSN: 2049-7121
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 46, Heft 2
ISSN: 1558-5727
In: Asian perspective, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 5-147
ISSN: 0258-9184
So, Alvin Y. ; Pun Ngai: Globalization and anti-globalization of SARS in Chinese societies Hung Ho-fung: The politics of SARS : containing the perils of globalization by more globalization Shen, Simon: The "SARS diplomacy" of Beijing and Taipei : competition between the Chinese and non-Chinese orbits Cheng, Cecilia: To be paranoid is the standard? Panic responses to SARS outbreak in the Hong Kong special administrative region Ma Ngok: SARS and the limits of the Hong Kong SAR administrative state Ku, Agnes S. ; Wang Horng-luen: The making and unmaking of civic solidarity : comparing the coping responses of civil societies in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the SARS crises
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In: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis 2
The effects of globalization have led to accentuated social inequality in most first-world countries, above all the U.S. and U.K. International trade and capital flows have tended to redistribute income in ways that aggravate inequality in advanced industrialized nations where relative income levels of the salaried middle class and the working class are being eroded, resulting in a downward mobility of these classes. At the same time, unwaged forms of labor, including forced labor and slavery, in poorer regions more and more replace wage labor in developed countries. Informed by an anthropological, humanistic perspective, the contributors in this provocative volume offer critical analyses and alternative visions