What Is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the Pacific Region Idea

by Dirlik, Arif; Alcalay, Glenn; Chen, Xiangming; Cumings, Bruce,; Gereffi, Gary; Hu-DeHart, Evelyn; Nonini, Donald M.; M. Tadiar, Neferti Xina; Wilson, Rob; Woo-Cumings, Meredith; Woodside, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780847684687
• ISBN10: 0847684687
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This pathbreaking, multidisciplinary work challenges our unthinking acceptance of such terms as Asia Pacific and Pacific Rim. Revealing the hidden power relationships and hegemonic struggles that are disguised by ideological constructions of the region, the contributors uncover fundamental contradictions that underlie the much-celebrated economic boom. The book shifts our focus from abstract relationships between capital and commodities to the human interactions that the contributors agree constitute the region, rather than any physical boundaries. This revised and updated edition brings in additional essays focusing on conceptualizations of the Pacific, considers more fully interactions among countries, and strongly emphasizes peoples inhabiting the region, who are so often overlooked in most discussions of the Rim.

Table of Contents

Pacific as Concept and Fantasy
Introduction: Pacific Contradictions	p. 3
The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure	p. 15
The Asia-Pacific Idea as a Mobilization Myth	p. 37
Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the "Pacific Rim"	p. 53
On the Outs on the Rim: An Ethnographic Grounding of the "Asia-Pacific" Imaginary	p. 73
The Political Economy of the Pacific
The Northeast Asian Political Economy	p. 99
Global Sourcing and Regional Divisions of Labor in the Pacific Rim	p. 143
Market Dependency in U.S.-East Asian Relations	p. 163
China's Growing Integration with the Asia-Pacific Economy	p. 187
Sexual Economies in the Asia-Pacific Community	p. 219
Pacific Social and Cultural Formations
Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective	p. 251
The Asia-Pacific in Asian-American Perspective	p. 283
Pacific Island Responses to U.S. and French Hegemony	p. 309
Blue Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism"	p. 325
There Is More in the Rim Than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea"	p. 351
Index	p. 371
About the Book and the Editor	p. 381
About the Contributors	p. 383
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