Nations, national narratives and communities in the Asia-Pacific:

"Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the co...

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Weitere Verfasser: Vasu, Norman (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Routledge 2014
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Comparative development and policy in Asia series 14
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Zusammenfassung:"Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant narratives which arise"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : un/settled narrations : nationalism in the Asia-Pacific / Norman Vasu, Yolanda Chin and Kam-yee Law -- Rethinking the who, what and when : why not Singaporean military heroes? / Ho Shu Huang -- The nation and its murals : a reading of Malaysian images, 1957-1969 / Lai Chee Kien -- Between assimilation and multiculturalism : social resilience and the governance of diversity in Singapore / Daniel P.S. Goh -- (Un)problematic multiculturalism : challenges and opportunities for social cohesion in New Zealand / Allen Bartley -- Colonialism, sinicization and ethnic minorities in Hong Kong : social exclusion and barely citizenship / Kim-ming Lee and Kam-yee Law -- Globalization, multicultural society and consensus politics in S. Korea / Inchoon Kim -- Managing conflict in Canberra : national identity and narrating difference / Catriona Elder -- Renegotiating unity and diversity : problematic multiculturalism in post-Suharto Indonesia / Hikmat Budiman
Beschreibung:XIII, 218 S. Ill., graph. Darst.

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