Dislocating Nation-States

by Abinales, Patricio N.; Ishikawa, Noboru; Tanabe, Akio

• ISBN13: 9781920901073
• ISBN10: 1920901078
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Trans Pacific Press

Summary

As much of the world turns its attention to questions of the role and even survival of the nation-state formation in an increasingly globalized world, the authors of this interdisciplinary volume shift the focus of the debate by examining various sites of social action where the nation-state is still in a formative stage even as it is increasingly under threat. Challenges to emergent nation-building arise both from within multi-ethnic "states" as well as from without, e.g., through pressure from international human rights organizations and the global capitalist marketplace. The authors demonstrate, too, that this betwixt and between situation is neither entirely new nor unique to the globalized world system; parallel tensions already existed between locals and migrants of regional trading networks before the European colonizers arrived on the scene to further complicate matters. Including micro level ethnographies, local histories and a macro-theoretical overview of the world-system, this volume directly engages with the complexities of globalization in marginal and troubled states, complexities that are themselves typically marginalized in debates all too often obsessed with the plight of the most powerful and developed nations.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	vii
List of contributors	viii
Acknowlegements	ix
1 Introduction: Dislocating nation-states
Patricio N. Abinales, Noboru Ishikawa and Akio Tanabe	1	(14)
Part I: States under stress
2 The Asian crisis reconsidered
Takashi Shiraishi	15	(26)
3 In the wake of globalization: Political stresses in South Asia
Achin Vanaik	41	(23)
4 Globalization, hegemony and the state in Bangladesh
Amena Mohsin	64	(25)
5 Marginalization, globalization and state transformation in Africa
Letitia Lawson	89	(33)
6 Forecasting failure in Southeast Asia: Burma since the 1990's
Mary P. Callahan	122	(25)
Part II: Society in flux
7 Between autochthony and diaspora: Indians in the "new" South Africa
Thomas Blom Hansen	147	(24)
8 Recapturing the city: Everyday life practices of Maragoli migrants in Nairobi
Motoji Matsuda	171	(23)
9 Producing a national boundary at the margin of the state: A case from Sarawak, East Malaysia
Noboru Ishikawa	194	(18)
10 Globalization and religious conversion in Lamu, Kenya
Kazuo Ohtsuka	212	(15)
11 Presentable ethnicity: Constituting Mien in contemporary Thailand
Hjorleifur Jonsson	227	(26)
Part III: Prospects
12 Geopolitical cleavage of the 21st Century: What future for the world?
Immanuel Wallerstein	253	(18)
13 Conclusion: States under stress, society in flux
Akio Tanabe, Noboru Ishikawa and Patricio N. Abinales	271	(13)
Index	284