The making of the Asia Pacific : knowledge brokers and the politics of representation /


See Seng Tan.
Bok Engelsk 2013

Omfang
1 online resource (236 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
Opplysninger
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).. - Introduction: From 'Pacific Asia' to 'Asia Pacific' -- The desire for essence -- Knowledge networks as agents of representation -- Representing the 'Asia Pacific' -- Representing sovereign states -- Representing the 'In/Human' faces of Asia Pacific security -- Representing the 'Authority' of knowledge networks -- Conclusion: A plea in three parts.. - Critically surveying the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific, See Seng Tan examines the purposes, practices, power relations, and protagonists behind policy networks such as the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. The author argues that, filled with economic, social, and political meaning, the policy and academic discourses regarding the Asia Pacific and its subregions authorize and provoke certain understandings while preventing counternarratives from emerging.
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ISBN
90-485-1802-4

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