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  • What Is In A Rim?
    Arif Dirlik
    In this volume, scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological, focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development, its human costs and consequences. This critique of t...
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    79,52 €

  • Global Modernity
    Arif Dirlik
    ’An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism.’ Immanuel Wallerstein ...
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    104,63 €

  • Pedagogies of the Global
    Arif Dirlik
    Essays that engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change. ...
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    140,51 €

  • Chinese on the American Frontier
    Arif Dirlik / Malcolm Yeung
    Chinese immigrants played a dynamic role in frontier America, yet scholars of Asian America have focused for the most part only on the Pacific Coast, especially California. This reader fills that gap by collecting memoirs, documents, and historical analyses from the other Western states-from the Cascades to the Great Plains-to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chinese in ...
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    93,28 €

  • Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization
    Arif Dirlik / Roxann Prazniak
    This unique work opens a field of inquiry around place-based critiques of global capital as it focuses on the interactions between local issues and international financial flows. Framing their discussions around the concept of place-based imagination, the contributors examine such cases as indigenous movements against land degradation, ethnic pluralism and union organizing, eth...
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    68,97 €

  • Postmodernity’s Histories
    Arif Dirlik
    Challenges to the conventional study of history have been raised by the recent paradigm of globalization and by new intellectual transformations linked to postmodernism and postcolonialism. In this book the noted historian Arif Dirlik argues for a new approach to the practice of historical research. Moving beyond mere critique, he synthesizes traditional historical methods with...
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    69,53 €

  • The Postcolonial Aura
    Arif Dirlik
    This book presents a range of issues from cultural self-representation in China to more general problems of reconceptualizing global relationships in response to contemporary changes. It offers 'multi-historicalism,' which presupposes a historically grounded conception of cultural difference. ...
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    88,03 €

  • What Is in a Rim?
    Arif Dirlik
    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 f...
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    98,04 €

  • Marxism and the Chinese Experience
    Arif Dirlik / Maurice Meisner
    These essays consider the implications for Chinese socialism of the repudiation of the Cultural Revolution and the legacy of Mao Zedong as well as the meaning of the new definition and direction Mao’s successors have given socialism. ...
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    76,61 €