Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Imagination — Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society

Sakai, Naoki; Yoo, Hyon Joo

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“…It fosters interdisciplinary research on the impact of mobility on notions of identity, cultural belonging, rights, and community. The field builds on previous critical interrogations of how the "Pacific" has been variously imagined historically and in the contemporary world (Dirlik, 1998;Sakai & Yoo 2012;Wilson, 2000). The term transpacific was initially used in Yunte Huang's (2008) study of Asian and North American literary encounters as a corollary to transatlantic, a well-known concept in works such as The Black Atlantic (Gilroy, 1993) that unsettles nationalist epistemologies and calls attention to histories of chattel slavery and racial capitalism.…”

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Discerning the Human Rights Museum

Erni

2022

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This paper critically engages with the growth of cultural actions among governments, urban policy makers, and various kinds of cultural institutions to find ways to translate human rights into accessible ideas and practices for the public. Researchers have noted an increasing interest in the utility of “cultural well-being” for promulgating a common understanding of rights in conflict-ridden times. An important type of relevant project seen in the last three decades is the construction of human rights museums. As a public cultural institution, a “human rights museum” (HRM) is defined in this paper as one that engages in collecting and curatorial exhibition of artifacts with a threefold mission to educate/advocate for the mainstreaming of rights, memorialize past events of trauma, and engender a legal common sense. This definition is consistent with the International Council of Museums’ general definition, according to the ICOM Statutes (adopted in 2007). Added to this generality are two important dimensions pursuant to HRMs, namely their relation to cultural governance and to human rights sociolegal norms. In this paper, I introduce a “juris-cultural” theoretical approach and use it to chart a conceptual framework for discerning the social, cultural, and political role played by HRMs in their vision of social memorialization and cultural transformation.

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Discerning the Human Rights Museum

Erni

2022

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“…Recent scholarly contributions in Asian/American studies, Pacific Native studies, and to a lesser degree, Asian studies, have come together to pursue how the Pacific has functioned as an intensified stage for militarized modernity (Camacho and Shigematsu, 2010; Diaz, 2004; Diaz and Kauanui, 2001; Kauanui, 2005; Sakai and Yoo, 2012; Saranillio, 2013; Teaiwa, 2017). These works have articulated the Pacific as a site of major critical inquiry for the kinds of knowledge it produces through ongoing political contestation of military occupations, and they have also pointed to several points of tension that have motivated the erasure of the Pacific in the larger disciplinary formation.…”

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The transpacific tempest: Relational sovereignty and spiritual sociogenesis

2019

Cultural Dynamics

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This article examines the intersection of The Tempest adaptations and militarization across the Caribbean and Pacific. Through an analysis of the South Korean writer Ch’oe In-Hun’s 1973 novel The Typhoon, it argues that past speculative visions for a decolonial future continue to offer a critical imaginary of decolonization in the Pacific and of reunification of Korea. Building on the works of Sylvia Wynter, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant, the article theorizes relational sovereignty and spiritual sociogenesis in the context of militarization of islands. It considers the transpacific region alongside the Caribbean through a comparative analysis of The Typhoon and the Martinican thinker Aimé Césaire’s 1969 play Une Tempête. This is an archipelagic perspective that decenters the logic that justifies militarization of the islands for the securitization of the continents. The article analyzes how decolonial knowledge emerges through the affective, spiritual, and environmental transformations and alters the course of military mobilization of the colonized on islands both real and fictional.

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Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II

Miyao

2022

Japanese Studies

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Introduction: The Trans-Pacific Imagination — Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Discerning the Human Rights Museum

Discerning the Human Rights Museum

The transpacific tempest: Relational sovereignty and spiritual sociogenesis

Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II

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