Globalisation and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories (Warwick Studies in Globalisation)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation Series preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
National crises, regional crisis, global crisis......Page 21
Interpreting the crisis......Page 24
From crisis to fundamentals......Page 25
Conclusion......Page 30
Part I Global discourses......Page 32
Globalisation: a ‘chaotic concept’......Page 33
The relativisation of scale......Page 38
The contradictions of capital accumulation......Page 40
The illogic(s) of globalisation......Page 42
An excursus on the Asian crisis......Page 45
The illogic(s) of globalisation and the political economy of scale......Page 47
Conclusions......Page 50
Notes......Page 51
3 Globalism and the politics of place......Page 53
Global/local: spatial/place-based......Page 54
Hybridity and contradiction: the unity of the global and the local......Page 57
Place in social and cultural analysis......Page 59
A defence of place......Page 64
By way of conclusion......Page 67
A post-script on Hong Kong......Page 69
Notes......Page 70
The practicalities of capitalism......Page 71
Reflexive capitalism......Page 77
The globalisation of business knowledge......Page 81
Conclusion......Page 84
Acknowledgements......Page 85
Introduction......Page 86
Characteristics of environmental resistance politics......Page 88
Forms and sources of popular environmental resistance......Page 90
Sites of resistance......Page 91
The agents......Page 93
Core strategies of resistance......Page 96
Fledgling tendencies......Page 100
Notes......Page 101
Part II Regional reformations......Page 102
Introduction......Page 103
The political economy of globalisation and regionalisation......Page 104
The role for regions......Page 106
Explaining regionalism in Asia: from rationialism to social constructivism?......Page 108
 of 1997–8 .........Page 113
Conclusion......Page 116
Notes......Page 117
Introduction......Page 118
Asian NIEs as sources of manufactured exports......Page 119
Asia as a source of foreign direct investment......Page 121
Japanese FDI......Page 122
FDI from Asian NIEs......Page 124
Strategies and organisation of production by Asian firms......Page 126
Regional networks of production chains......Page 129
Regionalisation and Chinese business networks......Page 130
The political economy of regionalisation......Page 133
Some implications......Page 134
Notes......Page 138
Introduction and overview......Page 140
Time-space governance and its different moments......Page 141
Time-space dimensions......Page 143
Global-regional-national-local dimensions......Page 144
Global-regional-national contexts of the ‘Open Door’ discourse in the PRC......Page 145
Building and consolidating time-space governance capacities in ‘Greater China’......Page 147
The emergence of cross-cutting networks in China......Page 148
The formation of strategic networks in ‘Greater China’......Page 149
Consolidating a trans-border division of labour/knowledge in ‘Greater China’......Page 150
‘Time-space governance tensions’ and scale politics in ‘Greater China’......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 155
Part III Reterritorialising the state......Page 156
9 Servicing the global economy......Page 157
Necessary instrumentalities: state and non-state centred mechanisms......Page 158
Implementing the new norms through national institutions......Page 161
The new intermediaries......Page 163
The new Accoutnting Standards......Page 164
Working to solve financial crises......Page 165
Conclusion......Page 166
Notes......Page 167
Global financial integration......Page 171
Capital flows to developing countries and the Asia-Pacific......Page 174
Financial liberalisation: ‘the baby…’......Page 176
The international financial market players......Page 178
The phenomenon of contagion......Page 181
Market perception and the sequence of economic liberalisation......Page 182
Effectiveness of macroeconomic policy tools......Page 183
The practice of economic management......Page 184
Effects on economic institutions......Page 185
Notes......Page 187
Part IV Global lives......Page 189
Introduction......Page 190
Two models of global dynamics......Page 191
The regional shift......Page 194
Social structuration of the global system......Page 197
Parameters of globalisation I: horizontal fragmentation......Page 198
Consolidation in East and Southeast Asia as an expression of hegemonic restructuring......Page 200
Parameters of globalisation II: vertical polarisation......Page 202
Hybridity and class......Page 204
Paradoxes of globalisation......Page 207
Notes......Page 208
Transmigrants and the logic of nation-state building1......Page 209
Rethinking paradigms of the relationship between nations, states and international migration......Page 210
How new is transnational migration? The Asian experience......Page 212
The relationship between migration and nation-state building: the nineteenth century......Page 214
revisited .........Page 217
Notes......Page 223
Introduction: rethinking globalisation......Page 226
Issues of ethnic identity......Page 227
Interrogating Chinese identity......Page 228
Singaporeans in China: increasing transmigration in a global world......Page 229
Redefining ethnic markers......Page 230
Searching for ‘authenticity’: maintaining and recovering ‘Chineseness’......Page 235
Acknowledging hybridities......Page 237
Exploiting ethnicity......Page 239
Conclusions......Page 241
Notes......Page 243
14 Globalisation, postcolonialism and new representations of the Pacific Asian metropolis......Page 245
Globalisation, postcolonialism and the metropolis......Page 246
Representations of space and the metropolis......Page 247
Singapore as global hub and world city......Page 248
Representation of the metropolis in cinema......Page 252
The films of Tran Anh Hung......Page 253
New perspectives on the metropolis......Page 257
Notes......Page 260
References......Page 261
Name index......Page 289
Subject index......Page 294