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States and Societies in Motion - Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi (Hardcover)
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States and Societies in Motion - Essays in Honour of Takashi Shiraishi (Hardcover)
Series: NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, 72
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With contributions from leading scholars in their field, this
collection of fourteen essays offers wide-ranging but incisive
perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Studies. Apart from
informing and enlightening the reader, the essays offer a tribute
to Professor Takashi Shiraishi, the renowned Japanese scholar, for
his many contributions across continents and disciplines as well as
his personal qualities as a long-time colleague, teacher and
friend. Now Professor Emeritus of the National Graduate Institute
for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo, Shiraishi-sensei has had an
outstanding career as a teacher, scholar, administrator and policy
advisor, his many roles including Deputy Director of the Southeast
Asia Program at Cornell University and president both of GRIPS and
the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan. Often with Japan at
their nexus, the essays speak to three enduring themes in the
research interests that spanned Shiraishi's half-century career,
namely, political movements in Southeast Asia; national and
regional politics in China and Japan; and the links between
ideology, networks and policies at critical junctures of state
formation. An introduction by the editors reviews Shiraishi's
contributions to many areas of scholarship (these are documented in
the back matter, in a bibliography of his publications and writings
in English and Japanese). Among authors of the fourteen essays that
follow are Patricio Abinales, Chris Baker, Caroline Hau, Peter
Katzenstein, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Thongchai Winichakul. In a
concluding lengthy interview Shiraishi speaks for the first time,
in a frank if light-hearted tone, of his diverse experiences in
academia, as student, faculty and administrator, his thoughts on
area studies and their connections with official policy-making, and
his initiatives for building regional networks of research and
intellectual exchange. A festschrift in English being a rarity for
a Japanese scholar, this collection offers valuable if indirect
insights into the links and influences that have animated a
burgeoning community of international academic exchange and expert
cooperation. This has been facilitated by Shiraishi's position,
time and again (even if an accidental one, as he likes to say), as
a transnational intersection point for colleagues, students and
friends in their many various research pursuits. A rich and
rewarding collection.
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