Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis

This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in which we approach the subjects, objects, methods, and praxes of the academic study of Asia. Structurally dissonant as an epistemological project,...

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Published inThe Journal of Asian studies Vol. 80; no. 4; pp. 997 - 1009
Main Author Chen, Tina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.11.2021
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects
Area studies
Asian Americans
Collaboration
Colonialism
Cultural instruction
Diaspora
Ethnic studies
Forum: Global Asias
Geopolitics
Interdisciplinary aspects
Neutrality
Philosophy
Praxis
Regional studies
Topography
Transnationalism
Asia
transnational
Asian American studies
Asian diaspora studies
Asian studies
multidisciplinarity
inter-Asia
Global Asias
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Summary:This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in which we approach the subjects, objects, methods, and praxes of the academic study of Asia. Structurally dissonant as an epistemological project, Global Asias encourages scholars to acknowledge the institutional designs and disciplinary practices that currently organize and make legible work on Asia and its diasporas while simultaneously highlighting the limits of, and points of noncontact between, the broader infrastructures (including area studies, ethnic studies, diaspora studies, and the disciplines and interdisciplines) under which such work has traditionally been organized. In addition to offering a conceptual topography of Global Asias, this essay proposes three praxis-oriented concepts—relational nonalignment, structural dissonance, and imaginable ageography—that enable Global Asias as a tactical and evolving approach to the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas, one which actively resists the drive toward “critical consolidation” that often results from academic paradigm work.
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ISSN:0021-9118
1752-0401
DOI:10.1017/S0021911821001595