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Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms

by: Desai; Radhika

ISBN: 9780415469289 | 0415469287

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 1/9/2009

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Summary Table of Contents

Amid announcements of the eclipse of nation-states under 'globalization', this volume takes a fresh look at fate of nations and nationalisms in our times. It focuses on changes in the nature of nationalisms in selected cases of Asia under the impact of the inegalitarian political economy of neoliberalism since the 1970s.

Presenting current research and thinking on the significance of corporate Japan's growing engagement with China, this book explores the following immanent questions: What is China's future position... MORE in the global corporate activities of Japanese firms? How has China's investment profile changed and how and with what purpose do Japanese firms enforce their Chinese presence?

"Focussing on selected Asian cases, this book argues that nationalisms have always contained political economics as well as cultural politics. Placing nation-states centrally in our understanding of modern capitalism, it challenges the 'globalization' thesis. Rather than eclipse, nations and nationalsims have undergone changes under the impact of neoliberalism since the 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.

Premature announcements of the eclipse of nation states under 'globalization' and 'empire' stand exposed as the 21st century's first economic crisis underlines their continuing importance. A predominantly cultural study of nationalism was unable to resist the 'globalization' thesis. Focusing on selected Asian cases, this book argues that nationalisms have always contained political economies as well as cultural politics. Placing nation-states centrally in our understanding of modern capitalism, it challenges the 'globalization' thesis. Rather than eclipse, nations and nationalisms have undergone changes under the impact of neoliberalism since the 1970s. Classical 20thcentury developmental nationalisms emphasised citizenship, economy and future orientations. Later cultural nationalisms - 'Asian values', 'Hindutva', 'Confucianism' or 'Nihonjiron' - stressed identity, culture and past orientations. Amid neoliberalism's flagrantly unequal political economy, not primarily concerned with material production or productivity, they glorified static conceptions of 'original' cultures and identities - whether religious, ethnic or other - and justified inequality as cultural difference. In contrast to the popular mobilizations which powered developmental nationalisms, cultural nationalisms throve on neoliberalism's disengagement and disenfranchisement, albeit partially compensated by the political baptism of newly enriched groups. Extremist wings of cultural nationalism in some countries were a function of this lack of popular support. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Nationalisms in Historical PerspectiveRadhika DesaiUniversity of ManitobaExplorationsNationalism and Poverty: Discourses of Development and Culture in Twentieth Century IndiaSumit SarkarDelhi UniversityThe Cultural Career of the Japanese Economy: Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms in Historical PerspectiveLaura HeinNorthwestern UniversityFrom Post-Imperial to Late-Communist Nationalism: HistoricalChange in ChineseNationalism from May Fourth to the 1990sGuogang Wu... MORE

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