Asian Studies

Nationalism in times of globalization: A study in the dynamics of 'globalism'

by Miguelángel Verde Garrido

Published in: LÓGOI: Revista de Filosofía. (January-June 2008). (n. 13). (pp. 101-120). Caracas: Escuela de Filosofía/Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
ISSN 1316-693X

Prime Minister Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni-jinja; the deployment of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq; Prime... more Prime Minister Koizumi's visits to Yasukuni-jinja; the deployment of Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq; Prime Minister Abe's claim that the coercion of "comfort women” remains to be proven …
In recent years, China, Korea and other countries have expressed outrage towards controversial Japanese government decisions and public statements. Added to proposals of constitutional revision, bills regarding Self-Defense Forces and the content of education, the specter of Japan's ultranationalist past seems to hinder its integration and ability to overcome differences within the Asian-Pacific region. However, carefully considered, these matters may not be as interrelated as they appear. Some actions respond to domestic nationalistic discourse, but others are a reaction to the changes in global geopolitics and attempts at international cooperation. In times of globalization, all countries try to accommodate to “globalism” - the often-contradictory ideology that underlies globalization - in order to secure and maintain their own national identity. This paper, using Japan as a case study, offers an explanation regarding how “globalism” can lead to nationalism. It also questions whether the greatest threat to democracy is not civil society’s tendency to inaction; and, if action is sufficient to thwart radicalization of nationalism.

“Passing” for White to Get Into Harvard? By Grace Yia-Hei Kao

by Feminism and Religion

Originally published on Feminism and Religion project

Asian Americans and Harvard University have been in the news and on my mind recently. The bigger story has been about... more Asian Americans and Harvard University have been in the news and on my mind recently. The bigger story has been about the “Linsanity” surrounding (Harvard grad) New York Knicks player Jeremy Lin who continues to take the NBA by storm.

The smaller story, though one that also made national headlines in  early February, is of the recent decision by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to investigate a complaint that Harvard and Princeton Universities discriminate against Asian Americans in admissions.

According to Daniel Golden of the Bloomberg News who first broke the story:

“Like Jews in the first half of the 20th century, who faced quotas at Harvard, Princeton, and other Ivy League schools, Asian-Americans are over-represented at top universities relative to their population, yet must meet a higher standard than other applicants based on measures such as test scores and high school grades, according to several academic studies.”

De la India a las Indias y viceversa. Relaciones literarias entre Hispanoamérica y Asia (siglo XX)

by Catalina Quesada Gómez

Published in Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, XI, 42 (2011), pp. 43-63. ISSN 1577-3388

Theorizing Dialogical Property Rights in Socialist East Asia

by John Gillespie

47 (1) Urban Studies Journal 2011 595-604.

Economic and political reforms have triggered the return of individual property in socialist Asia brought these... more Economic and political reforms have triggered the return of individual property in socialist Asia brought these countries into the globalized economy that is characterized by legally protected property rights. Reforms have also provoked debate in the media, academic circles, and among state regulators and landholders about market values and social values, legal rights to property and how to balance infrastructure development with private interests. This article proposes a theoretical framework for considering how dialogical exchanges shape the way states respond these social problems generated by land reforms.

Cointegration among Asian currencies: Evidence of the increasing influence of the Japanese yen

by Raj Aggarwal

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

Asian Integration - Scope and Limits

by Reuben Wong

In ISPI Analysis no.14, Milan: Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI), 2010.

"East Asia" shows signs of integrating into a more coherent economic area, and some optimistic observers... more "East Asia" shows signs of integrating into a more coherent economic area, and some optimistic observers even envisage a political unit in the making. This paper argues that integration in Asia is necessarily limited because it is essentially a series of overlapping state-directed initiatives without a clear overarching vision, and with low civil society participation. There are paradoxes - two internal and one external – in the current integration process(es) in Asia. First, these initiatives and activities are a response to economic imperatives for more ease (or rather, lower barriers to) trans-border flows of trade, investment, production and finance; they have achieved very little in promoting regional consciousness and identity. Second, there are no concrete commitments to resolving longstanding inter-state (much less intra-state) conflicts, and no shared visions of what an integrated Asia would look like. Third (and this is the external contradiction), there is a problem grappling with the place and role of the United States- how should the US be included? If it is, can the US be counted on as a full-fledged member of the region? These paradoxes will be examined in turn.

Positive Energy: A Review of the Role of Artistic Activities in Refugee Camps

by Awet Andemicael

published by the United Nations High Commisisoner for Refugees Policy Development and Evaluation Service (UNHCR PDES)

Schistosoma japonicum, Schistosomiasis, Katayama Syndrome, and Molecular Conjecture

by Russell Kabir

Thesis, Bachelor of Science at the University of Oklahoma.

Schistosoma japonicum is a blood fluke that parasitizes mammalian hosts, specifically Asian populations of humans and... more Schistosoma japonicum is a blood fluke that parasitizes mammalian hosts, specifically Asian populations of humans and bovines. Flatworms of the genus Schistosoma cause schistosomiasis, a chronic disease that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide and accounts for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year (Zhou et al. 2009). According to the WHO, schistosomiasis contributes to the loss of 1.532 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) (Gryseels 2006) and is one of ten tropical diseases targeted for control by global public health organizations. This trematode causes an acute form of the disease known as Katayama syndrome, which is an early clinical manifestation of schistosomiasis that occurs many weeks after infection. The syndrome, previously known as Katayama fever, is primarily diagnosed in travelers and “adventure tourists,” likely due to a lack of health care infrastructure and subsequent relative immunity found in indigents of endemic areas (Ross et al. 2007). Climate change and floods are being attributed to a reemergence of schistosomiasis in China, which has prompted a search for sustainable, novel treatments and preventative measures, such as the antimalarial drug artemether, and the development of a transmission blocking vaccine for reservoir hosts and humans (Bottieau et al. 2005, Ingram 2002). Schistosoma japonicum is the first lophotrochozoan to have a sequenced genome, which has resulted in a battery of conjectural conclusions about the molecular constitution and evolutionary history of the parasite, as well as opportunities for new interventions toward its control and elimination (Zhou et al.2009).

Domopolitics of Japanese Human Security

by Nik Hynek

published in "Security Dialogue", Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 119-137. ISSN 0967-0106

Publications of DAMIN Program

by Georges Depeyrot

www.anr-damin.net

TartariaMag_issue1-2012

by Nikolay Tsyrempilov

[Non-refereed Op-ed] Whose Arms Will Embrace You? The United States and the Beijing Consensus

by Amarnath Amarasingam

The United States is increasingly playing a game of subtle communication in the international arena. I suspect we had... more The United States is increasingly playing a game of subtle communication in the international arena. I suspect we had a passing glimpse of this at the 19th Session of the Human Rights Council, which gathered in Geneva last month. The question is: who is the United States talking to and what is it trying to say?

"Waking In Seoul" (Korea-based poems) [Korea Journal]

by Rob Wilson

"Hiroshima Sublime: Trauma, Japan, and the US Asia/Pacific Imaginary": DRAFT

by Rob Wilson

The Middle Ground Journal Call for Reviewers 1.0

by Hong-Ming Liang 梁弘明教授

Learning modernity: lifestyle advice television in Australia, Taiwan and Singapore

by Tania Lewis

Co-authored with Fran Martin
This is an electronic version of an article published in Asian Journal of Communication 2010, 20(2): 318-336. The final version of the paper is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01292981003802192#preview

Making Over Culture? Lifestyle Television and Contemporary Pedagogies of Selfhood in Singapore

by Tania Lewis

Probable Sources and Refining Technology of Parthian and Sasanian Silver Coins

by Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica IANSA

Natural Right to Grow and Die in the Form of Wholeness: A Philosophical Interpretation of the Ontological Status of Brain-dead

by Masahiro Morioka

Diogenes, Vol.57, No.3 (2011):103-116.

In this paper, I would like to argue that brain-dead small children have a natural right not to be invaded by other... more In this paper, I would like to argue that brain-dead small children have a natural right not to be invaded by other people even if their organs can save the lives of other suffering patients. My basic idea is that growing human beings have the right to grow in the form of wholeness, and dying human beings also have the right to die in the form of wholeness; in other words, they have the right to be protected from outside invasion, unless they have declared their wish to abandon that right beforehand. I call this the principle of wholeness. Natural rights, which were discussed by Hobbes and Locke in the 17th century, have to be extended to include the right to grow and die in the form of wholeness in the age of scientific civilization, where peripheral human lives are being threatened by aggressive biomedicine and other advanced technologies.