ASIAN AND PACIFIC COSMOPOLITANS: SELF AND SUBJECT IN MOTION; ED. BY KATHRYN ROBINSON

How do we understand the roots of modern identities and subjectivities (citizen, labour migrant, artist, member of a global faith community) and the cosmopolitan imaginaries and practices embraced and generated in the Asia Pacific region? Writing from a range of disciplines, and diverse sites, the authors explore the ways in which identities are recognized and contested, subjectivities dislodged and reconstituted in the contemporary world, and the role of dialogic scholarly practices in engaging, stimulating and promoting emergent subjectivities and identities. This new collection of essays explores questions of subjectification, selfhood and identity in the contemporary Asia Pacific, examining the way that migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era, and collectively questioning the novelty of the 'global age' in this region. How do we understand the diverse roots of modern identities and subjectivities - of citizen, labour migrant, artist, intellectual, member of a global faith community? How do migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era? What kinds of cosmopolitan imaginaries and practices are embraced and generated in the Asia Pacific, characterized by long histories of regional, indeed global networks of power and meaning, including Islam and Christianity? Writing from a range of disciplines, the authors explore from first-hand experience the discursive strategies through which individuals embrace new subjectivities, and groups construct cultural identities. These issues are addressed in regionally specific terms, with an eye to the long term in history, and not merely as emergent global novelties. Several of the contributors explore the role of our dialogic scholarly practices in engaging, stimulating and promoting emergent subjectivities and identities Cover 1 Contents 5 List of Figures 7 Acknowledgements 9 Foreword 10 Notes on Contributors 17 1 Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion 21 Part I: Representation, Self-recognition and Self-discovery 36 2 ‘Self’ and ‘Subject’ in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age 37 3 Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere 55 4 Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction 78 5 Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto 95 Part II: Religion, Cosmopolitanism and Subjectification 118 6 Billy Graham in the South Seas 119 7 A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea 144 8 Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis 161 Part III: Identity and Displacement 182 9 The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia 183 10 Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration 204 11 Transporting Culture Across Borders – the Hmong 223 Index 244 A 244 B 244 C 244 D 245 E 246 F 246 G 246 H 247 I 247 J 248 K 248 L 248 M 248 N 249 O 249 P 249 R 250 S 250 T 251 U 251 V 251 W 251 Y 251 Z 251 "How do we understand the diverse roots of modern identities and subjectivities - as citizen, labour migrant, artist, intellectual, member of a global faith community? How do migrant lives express the complex interplay of local and global processes in the post-Cold War era? What kinds of cosmopolitan imaginaries and practices are embraced and generated in the Asia Pacific, characterized by long histories of regional, indeed global networks of power and meaning, including Islam and Christianity?" "Writing from a range of disciplines, the authors explore from first-hand experience the discursive strategies through which individuals embrace new subjectivities, and groups construct cultural identities. These issues are addressed in regionally specific terms, with an eye to the long term in history, and not merely as emergent global novelties. Several of the contributors explore the role of our dialogic scholarly practices in engaging, stimulating and promoting emergent subjectivities and identities."--Jacket