Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.1.0133
J. Rousseau, S. Turner
Abstract:The Chinese and Vietnamese states are encouraging or endorsing numerous schemes to “modernize” what they deem to be the physical and cultural frontiers of their political territories. Proceeding at a rapid pace across the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, frontier projects frequently enclose resources at the core of ethnic minority livelihoods for the sake of capitalist expansion, while promoting specific visions of what appropriate, “civilized” frontier livelihoods should be. Though researchers are beginning to direct their attention to such individual transformations, we still know very little about their similarities and differences across space. In this article, we analyze four frontier schemes strongly encouraged by either the Chinese or Vietnamese state: hydropower and house renovation projects directly impacting ethnic minority Handai communities in China's Yunnan Province and state-led agricultural and marketplace restructuring just across the border in northern Vietnam, with important consequences for minority Hmong households. Drawing on the emic, subjective perspectives of ethnic minority populations in these contact zones, we examine and compare how they employ culturally informed livelihood criteria and decision-making processes to accept, rework, or, in some cases, carefully resist the consequences of such frontier schemes.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.1.0187
J. George
Abstract:The 1933 flight of the British Houston–Mount Everest Expedition over the summit of Everest was touted as a triumph of the Britannic imperium. This article explores the clamor for Everest in the interwar years in the political and diplomatic circles to better understand the rhetoric of staging an expedition to the frontiers of science. If the imperial investment in aerial expeditions was calculated to impress the colonial subjects of the authoritative might and reach of the British Empire, in the colonial records, the imperial agents appear as both hostages and instigators of the allure of Everest and the claim-making potential it harbored.
{"title":"Everest from on High: British Imperial Aerial Expedition to the Himalayan Frontiers, 1932–1934","authors":"J. George","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.1.0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.4.1.0187","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 1933 flight of the British Houston–Mount Everest Expedition over the summit of Everest was touted as a triumph of the Britannic imperium. This article explores the clamor for Everest in the interwar years in the political and diplomatic circles to better understand the rhetoric of staging an expedition to the frontiers of science. If the imperial investment in aerial expeditions was calculated to impress the colonial subjects of the authoritative might and reach of the British Empire, in the colonial records, the imperial agents appear as both hostages and instigators of the allure of Everest and the claim-making potential it harbored.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115951954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.5.1.0001
Iyko Day, J. Pegues, Melissa Phung, D. Saranillio, Danika Medak-Saltzman
{"title":"Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions","authors":"Iyko Day, J. Pegues, Melissa Phung, D. Saranillio, Danika Medak-Saltzman","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.5.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.5.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132417405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0112
E. Brindley
{"title":"Encountering the Euro-American Hegemonic Past","authors":"E. Brindley","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130046667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0182
Monika Bhagat-Kennedy
Abstract:This article examines how migrant Bengali writers Siddha Mohana Mitra and Sarath Kumar Ghosh reified the emerging understanding of India as the fundamentally Hindu nation “Bharat” in their respective English-language novels that were published in London in 1909. In line with recent scholarship highlighting the global dimensions of the swadeshi movement that protested the 1905 partition of Bengal, the article argues that an expansive notion of Bharat—one that readily exceeded the boundaries of the colonial state and boasted a broader Asian configuration—was indispensable to the admonitory politics of both works. At a time in which the colonial relationship was being scrutinized on all sides, Mitra and Ghosh advocated increased amity between India and Britain while warning of violent retaliation through powerful geopolitical alliances, with a Hindu India at its center, should the country continue to suffer under British rule.
{"title":"“A Grand Asiatic Empire”: Swadeshi Transnationalism and the Expanse of Bharat in the Early Indian Anglophone Novel","authors":"Monika Bhagat-Kennedy","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0182","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines how migrant Bengali writers Siddha Mohana Mitra and Sarath Kumar Ghosh reified the emerging understanding of India as the fundamentally Hindu nation “Bharat” in their respective English-language novels that were published in London in 1909. In line with recent scholarship highlighting the global dimensions of the swadeshi movement that protested the 1905 partition of Bengal, the article argues that an expansive notion of Bharat—one that readily exceeded the boundaries of the colonial state and boasted a broader Asian configuration—was indispensable to the admonitory politics of both works. At a time in which the colonial relationship was being scrutinized on all sides, Mitra and Ghosh advocated increased amity between India and Britain while warning of violent retaliation through powerful geopolitical alliances, with a Hindu India at its center, should the country continue to suffer under British rule.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130060690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.2.1.0001
Preeti Chopra
{"title":"The Poetics and Politics of Space: Art, Memory, and Change in the Indian City","authors":"Preeti Chopra","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.2.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.2.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130225021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0031
B. Roberts
{"title":"On the Borderwaters and Watery Borders of a New World Order","authors":"B. Roberts","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.7.1.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131033640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0118
Lisandro E. Claudio
{"title":"The Contemporary History of Duterte's Mass Murder","authors":"Lisandro E. Claudio","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.5.1.0118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133688533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.2.0167
Joanne Leow
Abstract:Singapore's urban infrastructures–its reclaimed land, gleaming skyscrapers, orderly public housing, and manicured gardens–are central to its image as a successful postcolony and global city. This article examines the work of the Singaporean conceptual artist Charles Lim and the Cambodian American documentary maker Kalyanee Mam in unsettling and bearing witness to the invisible collateral damage of this spectacle. Lim's transmedial project, SEA STATE, attempts to catalogue, record, and understand Singapore's immense territorial changes through a variety of media. Mam's short film The Lost World follows a Cambodian fisherwoman and the devastation of her native mangrove swamp as it becomes a source of sand for Singapore. These texts are in a transnational dialogue on the scale, intimacies and ruins of the city-state's rapid development.
{"title":"“this land was the sea”: The Intimacies and Ruins of Transnational Sand in Singapore","authors":"Joanne Leow","doi":"10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.2.0167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/vergstudglobasia.6.2.0167","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Singapore's urban infrastructures–its reclaimed land, gleaming skyscrapers, orderly public housing, and manicured gardens–are central to its image as a successful postcolony and global city. This article examines the work of the Singaporean conceptual artist Charles Lim and the Cambodian American documentary maker Kalyanee Mam in unsettling and bearing witness to the invisible collateral damage of this spectacle. Lim's transmedial project, SEA STATE, attempts to catalogue, record, and understand Singapore's immense territorial changes through a variety of media. Mam's short film The Lost World follows a Cambodian fisherwoman and the devastation of her native mangrove swamp as it becomes a source of sand for Singapore. These texts are in a transnational dialogue on the scale, intimacies and ruins of the city-state's rapid development.","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133230132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0158
R. Srinivasan
{"title":"The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India","authors":"R. Srinivasan","doi":"10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5749/VERGSTUDGLOBASIA.1.2.0158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":263014,"journal":{"name":"Verge: Studies in Global Asias","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128821305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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