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Abstract
In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a history of colonialism, capitalist globalization and political conflicts, has rendered the idea of nation as both politically distinct and culturally malleable.
Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia explores the affective politics of Asian nationalism by addressing the entwined structures of precarious belonging and national feelings. Bringing together leading scholars it looks at how the reification of nationalism in social movements, popular sentiments, online groups, and cultural representation directs hatred towards migrant and minority groups across Asia. The book posits that nationalist affects are embedded in the politics of exclusion, and seeks to make room for precarious belongings in the transnational and multicultural present. It should be of interest to students and scholars interested in Asian Cultural Studies, transnationalism, migration and nationalism.
Asian nationalisms have often been discussed as state ideologies. The present volume rather discusses Asian nations as communal identities constituted by affects. Its demonstration of the seamless interweaving of love and hate in the operation of Asian nations is both fascinating and disturbing.
Kristen Nordhaug, Professor of Development Studies, Oslo and Akershus University College
Given the contemporary recrudescence of nationalism in varied forms across Europe, Asia, and North America, this publication is a timely one, providing significant insights from a wide variety of Asian perspectives.
Christopher Connery, Professor, World Literature and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
This illuminating collection offers grounded studies of experiences shaped by various nationalist moods being mobilised across Asia. It is also a riveting read for anyone anywhere concerned by the new forms of populism, civic disenchantment, ‘hate-loving’ speech, and digital militancy erupting now world-wide. Posing the question of conviviality in an age of precarity, this book helps us all to think.
Meaghan Morris, Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
Relationships between affect and national identity are a crucial aspect of the critical perspectivism ushered in by contemporaneity. This book is an important contribution to knowledge of those relationships in Asian contexts.
Paul Gladston, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham
Chih-ming Wang is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. He is the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (University of Hawaii Press, 2013), and guest-editor of the “Asian American Studies in Asia” special issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2012).
Daniel PS Goh is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore, and the Convener of Cultural Studies Minor and Cultural Studies in Asia PhD Programme. He is the editor of Worlding Multiculturalisms (Routledge, 2015), and co-editor of Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (Routledge, 2009).
Table of Contents
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Cover | Cover 1 | ||
Half Title | i | ||
Series Information | ii | ||
Title Page | iii | ||
Copyright Page | iv | ||
Contents | v | ||
Introduction: Tracking the Affective Twists of Nationalisms in Asia | vii | ||
In The Name of Love | vii | ||
Nationalism and Precariousbelongings in Asia | x | ||
From Precarity to Conviviality | xiii | ||
The Digital Platform | xv | ||
Structure of the Book | xvi | ||
Notes | xix | ||
References | xx | ||
Part I The Dialectics of Love and Hate | 1 | ||
Chapter One Complex Histories of the Foreign in Indonesia | 3 | ||
The Occident | 4 | ||
Anti-Chinese Sentiment | 10 | ||
Ambiguity and Precarity | 13 | ||
Notes | 15 | ||
References | 15 | ||
Chapter Two Hate-Loving Nation-State: Theorizing Asian Nationalist Affects | 19 | ||
Progressive Use of Nationalist Affects? | 21 | ||
Entanglement of Love and Hate | 24 | ||
Affective Economy and Nation without State | 27 | ||
Asianism of Gandhism and Maoism, and Emotional Capital | 31 | ||
Notes | 36 | ||
References | 37 | ||
Chapter Three Introverted Jingoism in a Post-Imagined-Community Digital Era: The Upswings of Hate Speech Demonstration in Japan | 39 | ||
Sociohistorical Contexts of the Rise of Nationalism and Jingoism | 40 | ||
Cyber Right-Wingers (netto-uyoku) in Hate Speech Demonstration | 44 | ||
Is it Nationalism or Jingoism? | 47 | ||
Common Table in a Digital Age | 50 | ||
Notes | 53 | ||
References | 54 | ||
Part II Precarious Belongings | 57 | ||
Chapter Four “We Are Already Living Together”: Race, Collective Struggle, and the Reawakened Nation in Post-3/11 Japan | 59 | ||
A Reawakened Nation | 60 | ||
Race, Nation, and Disaster | 64 | ||
Going Home | 68 | ||
The Burdens of Protection | 71 | ||
Conclusion | 73 | ||
Acknowledgement | 74 | ||
References | 74 | ||
Chapter Five From the Outside: Performing Korean Diaspora, Redoing National Affiliation | 77 | ||
Starting The Journey | 77 | ||
Between History and the Present: Korean Diaspora Through Performance | 79 | ||
About the Performance Venue and Beyond | 85 | ||
Nationalistic Consensus in South Korea | 89 | ||
Conclusion: Journey That Never Ends | 91 | ||
Notes | 92 | ||
References | 93 | ||
Chapter Six Loyalty on Trial: Chinese-Filipinos and the West Philippine Sea Dispute | 95 | ||
Historicizing Loyalty | 97 | ||
Surveying Views on the Dispute | 99 | ||
Does Self-Identifying as Filipinos Matter for National Affect | 100 | ||
Whose Side Are Tsinoys On and What Do Others Think? | 102 | ||
Respondents’ Own Views on the Dispute | 103 | ||
Conclusion: Relitigating Loyalty? | 107 | ||
Acknowledgement | 108 | ||
Notes | 108 | ||
References | 109 | ||
Part III Affected Selves | 115 | ||
Chapter Seven “Freedom is Elsewhere”: Circulating Affect and Aversion for Asian and Islamic Others in Indonesia | 117 | ||
Indonesian Inter-Asia Labor Migrations in Context | 119 | ||
Circulating Aversion: Reaffirming Javanese and Indonesian Selves | 121 | ||
Circulating Affection: Rethinking the Ethno-National Boundaries of Kinship | 124 | ||
Negotiating and Remaking Gendered “Indonesianness” | 127 | ||
Conclusion | 130 | ||
Notes | 132 | ||
References | 132 | ||
Chapter Eight “Let’s Save the Nation from Being Anti-Multicultural!”: The Emergence of the Anti-Multiculturalist Movements in South Korea | 137 | ||
“Multicultural” Discourses as Racialization | 139 | ||
Emergence of Anti-multiculturalism as a Patriotic Aspiration | 144 | ||
Spread of Racism and the “Stateless” State | 148 | ||
Conclusion | 149 | ||
References | 150 | ||
Chapter Nine “Feels so Foreign in My Own Homeland”: Xenophobia and National Identity in Singapore | 153 | ||
Singapore as an Immigrant Nation | 154 | ||
Everyday Encounters with New Immigrants | 156 | ||
Hot Points in the Current Immigration Debate | 159 | ||
Conclusion | 164 | ||
References | 166 | ||
Chapter Ten Becoming a Revanchist City: Reflections on Hong Kong Nativist Affects | 169 | ||
Making Boundaries Between Hong Kong and China | 170 | ||
Disempowerment | 173 | ||
Empowerment and Spatial Governance | 176 | ||
In Pursuit of Different Forms of Power | 179 | ||
Note | 182 | ||
References | 182 | ||
Part IV The Specter of China | 185 | ||
Chapter Eleven Image-Driven Nationalism: Visuality, Digital Platform, and Generation Post-1980s | 187 | ||
Introduction | 187 | ||
Image-Driven Nationalism: an Overview | 188 | ||
Generation Post-1980s | 193 | ||
Overseas Students and the Limits of E-Learning | 196 | ||
Conclusion | 199 | ||
Notes | 200 | ||
References | 200 | ||
Chapter Twelve Sydney’s Chinatown and the Rise of China | 203 | ||
Sydney’s Chinatown: From Ethnic Enclave to Icon of Multiculturalism | 207 | ||
Globalization of the Chinatown idea | 212 | ||
Conclusion | 215 | ||
Acknowledgement | 216 | ||
References | 216 | ||
Conclusion: The Geopolitical Unconsciousof Inter-Asia | 219 | ||
References | 224 | ||
Index | 225 | ||
About the Authors | 233 |