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: 9780847684694
• ISBN10: 0847684695
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-05
• 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

PART ONE PACIFIC AS CONCEPT AND FANTASY	3	(96)
1. Introduction: Pacific Contradictions	3	(12)
Arif Dirlik
2. The Asia-Pacific Idea: Reality and Representation in the Invention of a Regional Structure	15	(22)
Arif Dirlik
3. The Asia-Pacific Idea as a Mobilization Myth	37	(16)
Alexander Woodside
4. Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the "Pacific Rim"	53	(20)
Bruce Cumings
5. On the Outs on the Rim: An Ethnographic Grounding of the "Asia-Pacific" Imaginary	73	(26)
Donald M. Nonini
PART TWO THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE PACIFIC	99	(152)
6. The Northeast Asian Political Economy	99	(44)
Bruce Cumings
7. Global Sourcing and Regional Divisions of Labor in the Pacific Rim	143	(20)
Gary Gereffi
8. Market Dependency in U.S.-East Asian Relations	163	(24)
Meredith Woo-Cumings
9. China's Growing Integration with the Asia-Pacific Economy	187	(32)
Xiangming Chen
10. Sexual Economies in the Asia-Pacific Community	219	(32)
Neferti Xina M. Tadiar
PART THREE PACIFIC SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FORMATIONS	251	(120)
11. Latin America in Asia-Pacific Perspective	251	(32)
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
12. The Asia-Pacific in Asian-American Perspective	283	(26)
Arif Dirlik
13. Pacific Island Responses to U.S. and French Hegemony	309	(16)
Glenn Alcalay
14. Blue Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge as "Critical Regionalism"	325	(26)
Rob Wilson
15. There Is More in the Rim Than Meets the Eye: Thoughts on the "Pacific Idea"	351	(20)
Arif Dirlik
Index	371	(10)
About the Book and the Editor	381	(2)
About the Contributors	383