Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes – Serie
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Discourses of Weakness in Modern China
Historical Diagnoses of the "Sick Man of East Asia"
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
496 kr
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From the time of China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese war of 1894–95 until the 1930s, the assumption that China was a “weak state” dominated political discourse in China and beyond. In those discussions, China was seen as lacking competitiveness in a world that was increasingly being understood in harsh Darwinian terms. Aiming to better understand contemporary China’s self-image and identity, this volume traces both the emergence of the narrative of China’s alleged “national ruin” and the discursive construction of China as the “Sick Man of East Asia.”
Regimes of Contention
Resistance and the Governmentality of Resources in Indigenous Philippines
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
646 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
An anthropological reflection on the shifting governmentality of Indigenous resources in the Philippines.The notion of indigeneity in the Philippines is politically fraught. Most who live on the archipelago are descendants of aboriginal peoples, whether they claim tribal affiliation or not, and those who do enact traditional identities share little else in common. As a result, the term “indigenous” remains unstable and malleable seventy-five years after independence. Connecting insights from Tillian and Foucauldian social theory, Regimes illuminates how the ever-changing Philippine state, from the 1970s through today, constructs artificial subjectivities that Indigenous peoples must embody to access ancestral resources held by the federal government. What emerges is a lucid illustration of how governmentality is entangled with indigeneity in the Philippines.