Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis

Chen, Tina

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“…In line with recent methodological reflections, this issue harnesses a practice-oriented approach to method, wherein knowledge produced from analyses of specific objects or phenomena can be productively delinked, if only momentarily, from the particularities of specific examples to address a wider range of concerns (Chen 2022; Rojas 2019). One argument all the articles in this issue jointly extend is that the China-India pairing can serve as a crucial tool through which to expose and unsettle disciplinary assumptions that far exceed the materials or contexts immediately at issue.…”

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Introduction: Methods in China-India Studies

Mangalagiri

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2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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Amid growing interest in studying China and India together, this special issue, “Methods in China-India Studies,” seeks to open a conversation on the relevance, approaches, and stakes of China-India research. Why should we pair China and India together, how can we best do so, and to what ends? In this introduction to the issue, the editors first discuss the rationales commonly evoked as justification for studying China and India together. The first section articulates shared intellectual commitments as lending a coherence to China-India studies, and as providing a common ground and point of departure for scholars across disciplinary boundaries. The second section outlines a history of the China-India pairing from the first century CE to the end of the twentieth century, with a focus on how a range of historical actors paired China and India under shifting political circumstances and with differing objectives. This section also offers an assessment of the methodological approaches recent scholarship has extended to studying each of these periods. As a whole, this introduction reflects on the unique challenges and opportunities of conducting China-India research, and outlines some of the contributions the China and India conceptual pairing can make to other fields of study.

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Introduction: Methods in China-India Studies

Mangalagiri

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2022

International Journal of Asian Studies

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Introduction: Documenting Vietnam over the Long Twentieth Century—Becoming Modern, Going Global

Kelley,

Sasges

2024

Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century

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This chapter places the chapters in this volume in the context of the evolution of scholarship from Area Studies to Global Studies,and the accompanying transition from a nation-focused and language-based approach to a transnational perspective that leverages Western-language sources. Combining the best of both approaches, the authors in this volume emphasize the importance of language-based research while still remaining attentive to the global dimensions of the Vietnamese past.

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The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan

Suarez

2024

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This article argues that the archipelagic serves as a potent cultural geographic figure challenging resurgent nationalisms in two specific ways. First, it enables us to explore a simultaneous proximity and distance in cultural politics; second, it leads us astray from the conceptual binary that would insist that it is simply other to the nation. In doing so, it arrives at a universalism that is fundamentally differentiated. The essay pursues this framework through an analysis of Miko Revereza's recent documentary film, No Data Plan (2019), which explores Revereza's undocumented status in the United States, and its repertoire of aesthetic techniques, including its erratic and partial framing of his train journey across the country as well as its disjointed soundtrack. Above all, the essay draws attention to the film's use of captions, through which Revereza's mother's story is narrated, and which cannot be reconciled with the rest of the film. Her captions hover in proximity to the filmic diegesis without seeking presence, rejecting a dialectical engagement with a presence in the film that stands in for a documented presence in the nation. By choosing instead to “speak nearby,” she disturbs conventional cultural political logics and dwells within an archipelagic relation to the film, her son, and the world.

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Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis

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Introduction: Methods in China-India Studies

Introduction: Methods in China-India Studies

Introduction: Documenting Vietnam over the Long Twentieth Century—Becoming Modern, Going Global

The Undocumented and Archipelagic Universal in Miko Revereza'sNo Data Plan

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