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Contents
Welcome to Volume 3 Number 2 of the Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. In this edition contributors have addressed the theme of 'Hegemony and Resistance in the Asia-Pacific'. Individual and community experience in the Asia-Pacific region is characterised by deep disparities drawn along the lines of class, race, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, nationality, and faith. These disparities are the material evidence of continued domination of certain groups by others through a combination of political and ideological means – or hegemony. While the scope of this conceptualisation of hegemony might differ from Gramsci’s original, there is no doubt that his assertion that the exercise of power pervades life from macro- to micro-experience still holds true. Indeed, if we are to glance quickly at our own nations, cities, neighbourhoods or even homes – as some of the contributors to this edition do – then the exercise of hegemonic power will become only too apparent. Concomitantly, power, in the Foucaultian sense, is never a zero-sum game. Instead, power is always contingent, always in the making, never complete and always subject to contestation and resistance. Moreover, because hegemonic power pervades all aspects of our lives, the opportunities to resist it or at least contest its meanings are also ever present. The contributions in this issue offer different approaches to understanding hegemony and resistance in the Asia-Pacific region. Ranging from everyday experience to institutional politics and from consumption to security, they each remind us of the continued centrality of questions of power to an understanding of the Asia-Pacific region and indeed the world.
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Volume 3, Number 2, December 2005
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Complete Journal Includes all of the files listed below in one document |
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Cover Hegemony and Resistance in the Asia-Pacific |
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Contents Volume 3, Number 2, December 2005 |
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Editorial Hegemony and Resistance in the Asia-Pacific |
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Artwork Tevita Havea, 'Push and Pull' |
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Abstract Tonglu Li, 'The Final Confession of Mistress Wang' |
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Creative Writing |
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Abstract Elena Kolesova, 'Struggle From the Margins: Hokkaido Popular Education Movement in the Towering Shadow of the Japanese Examination System (1950-1969) |
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Article |
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Abstract Athena Nguyen, 'I'm Not a Racist, I Eat Dim Sims!: The Commodification and Consumption of Asianness within White Australia' |
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Article |
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Abstract Elena Atanassova-Cornelis, 'Japan and the 'Human Security' Debate: History, Norms and Pro-active Foreign Policy' |
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Article |
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Artwork Brydee Rood, 'Habitat' - with an interview by Winsome Wild |
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Review Kathy Ooi, review of Histories, Cultures, Identities: studies in Malaysian Chinese Worlds |
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Review Margaret Barnhill Bodemer, review of Imagined Ancestries of Vietnamese Communism: Ton Duc Thang and the Politics of History and Memory |
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Review Tim Neale, review of Kafka on the Shore |
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Review Chris Payne, review of The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film and The Japan Journals 1947-2004 |
