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Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches
human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in
global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists,
filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new
understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of
contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism
and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to
Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and Noor Zaheer, among others,
this volume takes its lead from global Asian artists, powerfully
re-orienting thinking about human rights subjects and contexts to
include the physical, spiritual, social, ecological, cultural, and
the transnational. Looking at a range of work from Tibet,
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea,
Vietnam, and Macau as well as Asian diasporic communities, this
book puts forward an understanding of global Asia that underscores
"Asia" as a global site. It also highlights the continuing
importance of nation-states and specific geographical entities,
while stressing the ways that the human rights subject breaks out
of these boundaries. Many of these works are included in the
companion volume Human Rights and the Arts in Global Asia: An
Anthology, also published by Lexington Books.
Human Rights and the Arts: Perspectives on Global Asia approaches
human rights issues from the perspective of artists and writers in
global Asia. By focusing on the interventions of writers, artists,
filmmakers, and dramatists, the book moves toward a new
understanding of human rights that shifts the discussion of
contexts and subjects away from the binaries of cultural relativism
and political sovereignty. From Ai Wei Wei and Michael Ondaatje, to
Umar Kayam, Saryang Kim, Lia Zixin, and Noor Zaheer, among others,
this volume takes its lead from global Asian artists, powerfully
re-orienting thinking about human rights subjects and contexts to
include the physical, spiritual, social, ecological, cultural, and
the transnational. Looking at a range of work from Tibet,
Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, China, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea,
Vietnam, and Macau as well as Asian diasporic communities, this
book puts forward an understanding of global Asia that underscores
"Asia" as a global site. It also highlights the continuing
importance of nation-states and specific geographical entities,
while stressing the ways that the human rights subject breaks out
of these boundaries.
Do authoritarian regimes manage ethnic pluralism better than
democracies? Is the process of democratization itself destructive
of inter-ethnic accomodation? The notable contributors to
Democratization and Identity explore and challenge such arguments
as they introduce the experiences of East and Southeast Asia into
the study of democratization in ethnically (including religiously)
diverse societies. This insightful volume views political regimes
and ethnic identities as co-constitutive: authoritarianism,
democratization, and democracy are interconnected processes of
(re)producing collective (including ethnic) identities and
political power, under the influence of entrenched and evolving
sociopolitical relations and forms of economic production.
Democratization and Identity suggests that the risk of ethnicized
conflict, exclusion, or hierarchy during democratization depends in
large part on the nature of the ethnic identities and relations
constituted during authoritarian rule. This collection's
theoretical breakthroughs and its country case studies shed light
on the prospects for ethnically inclusive and non-hierarchical
democratization across East and Southeast Asia and beyond.
Do authoritarian regimes manage ethnic pluralism better than
democracies? Is the process of democratization itself destructive
of inter-ethnic accomodation? The notable contributors to
Democratization and Identity explore and challenge such arguments
as they introduce the experiences of East and Southeast Asia into
the study of democratization in ethnically (including religiously)
diverse societies. This insightful volume views political regimes
and ethnic identities as co-constitutive: authoritarianism,
democratization, and democracy are interconnected processes of
(re)producing collective (including ethnic) identities and
political power, under the influence of entrenched and evolving
sociopolitical relations and forms of economic production.
Democratization and Identity suggests that the risk of ethnicized
conflict, exclusion, or hierarchy during democratization depends in
large part on the nature of the ethnic identities and relations
constituted during authoritarian rule. This collection's
theoretical breakthroughs and its country case studies shed light
on the prospects for ethnically inclusive and non-hierarchical
democratization across East and Southeast Asia and beyond.
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