What Is In A Rim?

Professor Arif Dirlik (Duke University)

• Part 1 Setting the scene: introducing the Pacific, Arif Dirlik; the Asia-Pacific idea as a mobilization myth, Alexander Woodside; Rimspeak, or the discourse of the Pacific Rim, Bruce Cumings. Part 2 Constructing a region - the political economy of the Asia Pacific: global sourcing and regional divisions of labour in the Pacific Rim, Gary Gereffi; restructuring manufacturing - Mexican maquiladoras and East Asian EPZs in the presence of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Victor M. Castillo and Ramon de Jesus Ramirez Acosta; China's growing integration with the Asia-Pacific economy, Xiangming Chen; adjusting to the Rim - Japanese corporate social responsibility in the United States, Tomoji Ishi; market dependency in US-East Asian relations, Meredith Woo-Cumings. Part 3 Down and out in the realm of miracles - class and gender perspective on the Asia-Pacific: on the outs on the Rim - an ethnographic grounding of the Asia-Pacific imagery, Donald M. Nonini; sexual economies in the Asia-Pacific community, Neferti Xina M. Tadiar; minorities in a homogeneous state - the case of Japan, Edward Fowler; Pacific-island responses to US and French hegemony, Glenn Alcalay; Latin America in Asia-Pacific perspective, Evelyn Hu-DeHart. Part 4 Cultural formations in the Asia-Pacific: blue Hawaii - Bamboo Ridge as critical regionalism, Rob Wilson; the Asia-Pacific region in Asian-American perspective, A. Dirlik.