Precarious Belongings

Chih-ming Wang is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. He is the author of Transpacific Articulations: Student Migration and the Remaking of Asian America (University of Hawaii Press, 2013), and guest-editor of the “Asian American Studies in Asia” special issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (2012).Daniel PS Goh is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore, and the Convener of Cultural Studies Minor and Cultural Studies in Asia PhD Programme. He is the editor of Worlding Multiculturalisms (Routledge, 2015), and co-editor of Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore (Routledge, 2009).

Relationships between affect and national identity are a crucial aspect of the critical perspectivism ushered in by contemporaneity. This book is an important contribution to knowledge of those relationships in Asian contexts.

• 1. Introduction: Tracking the Affective Twists in Asian Nationalisms, Chih-ming Wang/ Part I: The The Dialectics of Love and Hate/ 2. Complex Histories of the Foreign in Indonesia, Adrian Vickers/ 3. Hate-Loving Nation-State: Theorizing Asian Nationalist Affects, Kwai-Cheung Lo/ 4. Introverted Jingoism in a Post-Imagined-Community Digital Era: The Upswings of Hate Speech Demonstration in Japan, Koichi Iwabuchi/ Part II: Precarious Belongings/ 5. “We Are Already Living Together”: Race, Collective Struggle, and the Reimagined Nation in Post-3/11 Japan, Vivian Shaw/ 6. From the Outside: Performing Korean Diaspora, Redoing National Affiliation, Hyunjung Lee/ 7. Loyalty on Trial: Chinese-Filipinos and the West Philippine Sea Dispute, Tina Clemente/ Part III: Affected Selves/ 8. “Freedom is Elsewhere:” Circulating Affect and Aversion for Asian and Islamic Others in Indonesia, Carol Chan/ 9. “Let’s Save the Nation from being Multicultural!”: The Emergence of the Anti-multiculturalist Movements in South Korea, Hyun Mee Kim/ 10. “Feels so Foreign in My Own Homeland:” Xenophobia and National Identity in Singapore, Raj Velayutham/ 11. Becoming a Revanchist City: Reflections on Hong Kong Nativist Affects, Iam Chong Ip/ Part IV: The Affective Order and the Rise of China/ 12. Image-Driven Nationalism: Visuality, Digital Platform, and Generation Post-80s, Jack Qiu/ 13. Sydney’s Chinatown and the Rise of China, Daniel PS Goh/ 14. The Geopolitical Unconscious of Inter-Asia, Daniel PS Goh/ Index