Imagining Asias
Imagining Asias As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. It seeks to explore Asian societies as interconnected…
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Imagining Asias
As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. It seeks to explore Asian societies as interconnected formations through trajectories/networks of circulation of people, ideas, and objects in the longue dur e. Recent scholarship has highlighted how the seemingly self-contained regional configurations of West and Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia carved by the Area Studies paradigm reflect changing (geo)political and economic interests than historical or cultural roots.This volume advances the question as to what Asia is, and as to whether there existed one or many Asia(s).
Moving beyond the divides of Area Studies scholarship and the arbitrary borders set by late colonial empires and the rise of post-colonial nation-states, this volume maps critically the configuration of
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