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Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

Otmazgin, Nissim
Ben-Ari, Eyal

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0415679699
ISBN13: 9780415679695
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 14 2011
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular culture in the political life of states brought about by the massive circulation of cultural commodities and the possibilities for attaining soft power. In contrast to earlier studies, this volume pays particular attention to the role of states and cross-state cultural interactions in these processes. It is the first major attempt to look at these issues comparatively and to provide an important corrective to the limitations of existing scholarship on popular culture in Asia that have usually neglected its political aspects. As part of this move, the essays in this volume suggest a widening of disciplinary perspectives. Hitherto, the preponderance of relevant studies has been in cultural and media fields, anthropology or history. Here the contributors explicitly draw on other disciplinary perspectives - political science and international relations, political economy, law, and policy studies - to explore the complex interrelationships between the state, politics and economics, and popular culture.

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