Europe and the AsiaPacific
This book highlights the many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia-Pacific. In terms of democracy, human rights and the state of the economy, Asian culture and values have been a major factor in representing the region and its identity. Definitions of region here have generally taken the West as the major point of contrast, and the edifice against which culture, identity and representations of region have been constructed in the Asia-Pacific. Similarly, the idea of Europe and the construction of European identity have required contrasting entities. All this has occurred as part of a process of increasing regionalization, particularly with the deepening and widening of the European Union.
This book surveys a variety of issues relating to culture, identity and representation from an interdisciplinary perspective, with contributions from sociology, economics, history, politics, international relations, security studies, museum studies, translations studies and literary and cultural studies. Each brings a different perspective to bear on questions of culture and identity in the contemporary period and how these relate to the politics of representation.
Stephanie Lawson is Professor of International Relations at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of several books and many articles and chapters on comparative and international politics, focusing mainly on Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific and encompassing normative issues to do with culture, nationalism, ethnicity, democracy and human rights. Her most recent book is The New Agenda for International Relations: From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics? (2002).
Europe and the AsiaPacific
Culture, Identity and Representations of Region
Edited by Stephanie Lawson
First published 2013
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Contents
List of illustrations
STEPHANIE LAWSON
JOHN CLAMMER
MICHAEL S. DRAKE
JULIE GILSON
PHILOMENA MURRAY
DAVID LOCKWOOD
LEE MARSDEN
DIRK NABERS
JUDITH MEHTA
RED CHAN
TAKU TAMAKI
DOUG SLAYMAKER
NICOLE COOLIDGE ROUSMANIERE AND SIMON KANER
MINOU REEVES
STEPHANIE LAWSON
Illustrations
Figures
AustraliaEU total investment
Australias merchandise exports to the EU
AustraliaEU merchandise trade
AustraliaEU trade in services
Australian merchandise exports to and imports from the EU
Tables
AustraliaEU trade
Politicians visits to selected European cities
AustraliaEU two-way merchandise trade flows
How do you feel about Russia?
Electoral party list vote
Red Chan is reading for a doctoral degree in Chinese studies at the University of Oxford. She is a professional interpreter and translator specializing in legal interpreting. Her current academic pursuits concern the re-writing of Chinese literature in English through works of translation, a canon built on politically charged and power-informed cultural perceptions and representations.
John Clammer is Professor of Comparative Sociology and Asian Studies at Sophia University, Tokyo, and has previously taught or researched at the Universities of Hull, Singapore, Oxford and Tokyo, and at Murdoch University. His work encompasses the sociology of modern Japan and of Southeast Asia, Asian social theory and issues in development, religion and ethnicity. Recent publications include Japan and Its Others (2001), Contemporary Urban Japan (1998), Race and State in Independent Singapore (2000) and a forthcoming book Diaspora and Identity: The Sociology of Culture in Southeast Asia.
Michael S. Drake received his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1998 and is now a postdoctoral fellow there. He is the author of Problematics of Military Power: Government, Discipline and the Subject of Violence (2001). He teaches in the area of the history, culture and sociology of the body, social identities and social theory.
Julie Gilson is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, and Deputy Director of Asian Studies, at the University of Birmingham. She is co-editor (with Peter W. Preston) of The European Union and East Asia: Interregional Linkages in a Global System (2001). Her current research interests focus on the foreign policy of Japan as well as AsiaEurope relations.
Simon Kaner is Assistant Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in Norwich. Before that he was Senior Archaeologist at Cambridgeshire County Council and retains an interest in the management of cultural heritage. He has taught and published on many aspects of East Asian and European archaeology and has undertaken archaeological research in Japan, Britain, Denmark and France. Most recently he has established the Jomon Project, designed to realize the potential of Japanese prehistory for world archaeology. He is on the Committee of the Society for East Asian Archaeology and is a regular contributor to the journal Antiquity. He has undertaken research at the Universities of Cambridge and Kyoto.
Stephanie Lawson is Professor of International Relations and Director of European and International Studies in the School of Economic and Social Studies at the University of East Anglia. She has previously worked at the University of New England and the Australian National University. She has published extensively on issues to do with culture, democracy, nationalism and ethnicity in the AsiaPacific as well as normative international theory. Her most recent edited book is The New Agenda for International Relations: From Polarization to Globalization in World Politics? (2002).
David Lockwood is a specialist in Soviet history and in the contemporary politics and economics of Russia. He combines this with work in the broad areas of the role of the state in economic development; the transition from state-controlled to market economies; and the effects of globalization on national states. Recent publications include
