Identity in Crossroad Civilisations
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
The contributors to this timely volume discuss the role that ethnicity, nationalism, and the effects of globalization have played in the emergence of new identities in Asia. Challenging Samuel Huntington’s popular yet controversial thesis of the “clash of civilizations,” the essays examine communities in Bhutan, China, India, Japan, the Philippines, and New Zealand, and reveal how new, amalgamated identities have materialized as a result of these communities’ willingness to adapt to the changing economic, political, and social climates brought on by globalization.
1 Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities
Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles
2 Asia and the Global World: Identities, Values, Rights
Elena Asciutti
3 Creating 'Malaysians': A Case Study of an Urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
Toru Ueda
4 Ethnic Mosaic and the Cultural Nationalism of Bhutan
Rup Kumar Barman
5 Religion and Cultural Nationalism: Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India
Sali Augustine
6 Is Identity Clash Inevitable? Identity and Network Building amongst Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
Sam Wong
7 Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India
Samar Kumar Biswas
8 Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space
Krishna Sen
9 Occidentalism and Asian Middle-Class Identities: Notes on Birthday Cakes in an Indian Context
Minna Säävälä
10 Ode to 'Personal Challenge': Reconsidering Japanese Groupism and the Role of Beethoven's Ninth in Catering to Socio-Cultural Needs
Eddy Y. L. Chang
11 Performing Cosmopolitan Clash and Collage: Krishen Jit's Stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia
Charlene Rajendran
12 Constructing Identity: Visual Expressions of Islam in the Predominantly Catholic Philippines
Vivienne SM. Angeles
13 Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: The Challenges of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security - and the Return of the Xenophobes
Erich Kolig
Contributors
References
Political Science: Comparative Politics
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