Japan’s Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945

Esenbel, Selçuk

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“…Yet a wide range of historical scholarship (GoGwilt 1998, 226ff;Heller 2006, 150;Osterhammel 2014, 616, 912-13;Makdisi 2014, xv;Aydin 2007, 3), and social science (Zarakol 2011, 42-49;Buzan and Lawson 2015, 25-28), suggests that exactly this equation between 'Westernisation' and 'modernity' was a general feature of nineteenth-century cultural changeespecially in those societies where the experience of relative backwardness was most acute. In particular, it is now clear that East Asian, Ottoman, and Russian intellectual production played a key role in fostering the logics inter-cultural comparison that helped the transform the West into a standard frame of reference (Bonnett 2017, 63-122;Carrier 1995;Duara 2001;Esenbel 2004). Among the most important works of this kind, Aydin's (2007) study of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian thought demonstrates that the idea of a distinctively Occidental mode of social and political organisation was initially the creation of mid-nineteenth century Asian intellectuals, whose interest in the imagined West arose from a shared, post-Enlightenment project of progressive social transformation (Aydin 2007, 21-37).…”

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Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Leigh

2020

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Recent works on 'uneven and combined development' (UCD) have focused on its contributions to the study of political economy and geopolitics, but they have yet to systematically address the cultural dimension of social changethe socially shared ideas by which people understand and act upon the world. The present article addresses this lacuna by applying the premises of UCD to the nineteenth-century emergence of Occidentalism: the idea of 'the West' as the dominant site of culture, civilisation and modernity. Against the problems of methodological internalism and Eurocentrism, I argue that the categories of unevenness and combined development provide critical entry points for an examination of the international construction of 'Western' identities and discourses during the late-nineteenth century imperial era. Specifically, I advance a theory of geocultural feedback which locates the constituting terms of those identities and discourses in a specific conjuncture of global unevenness: how the experience of 'relative backwardness' in late-industrialising societies translated into self-consciously 'Westernising' projects of catch-up development which destabilised prevailing conceptions of white European supremacy. In both the British and American empires, this historical dynamic produced a distinct pattern of cultural transformation: a reactive discourse of civilisational closure centred on the defence of 'the West.' I am especially grateful to my supervisor, George Lawson, for his advice and support throughout the PhD from which this article arises. Thanks also to Justin Rosenberg, the editors of CRIA, and three anonymous reviewers for convening this special issue and providing invaluable comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank Grace Benton and Lewis Bassett-Yerrell for their insightful comments on an earlier draft.

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Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Leigh

2020

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…При этом авторы демонстрируют крайне избирательное отношение к истории турецко-японских отношений, которая изображается исключительно как череда дружественных контактов. Однако отношения двух стран нередко характеризовались значительной напряженностью: например, в 1930-е гг., ввиду того, что японское руководство пригласило к себе внука Абдул-Хамида II Мехмета Абдул-Керима и некоторых представителей пантюркистского движения и даже пыталась создать марионеточное тюркское государство в Восточном Туркестане, опираясь на идеи пантюркизма, 28 Содержание рекламных роликов, опубликованных на официальном Youtube-канале авиакомпании, сопоставимо с содержанием аналогичной рекламной продукции "Qatar Airways". В видеоматериалах всячески подчеркивается то, насколько важную миссию выполняют авиакомпания и ее сотрудники, которые представляют Турцию на мировой арене и несут государственный флаг страны (на этом делается особый акцент) в различные города мира.…”

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Flag-carrying airlines as soft power tools: “Qatar Airways” and “Turkish Airlines”

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2019

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“…Esenbel, ‘Japan's Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam’; Majeed, ‘Geographies of Subjectivity’.…”

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Making and Unmaking the Nation in World History: Introduction

2017

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This special issue consists of six articles initially presented at a conference titled ‘(Un)Making the Nation’, held at the University of Cambridge on the 10th and 11th of September in 2015. With papers ranging across temporal, geographical and thematic boundaries, this international and interdisciplinary conference explored various new engagements with the concepts of nations and nationalism. The introduction traces the ways historians have sought to insert ‘the nation’ into their work in spite of the methodological challenges brought by the global turn. The goal is neither to bury the nation nor to resurrect it, but is rather to introduce some useful approaches through which the making and unmaking of nations in world history can be better understood. This article then concludes by offering a brief synopsis of the articles that constitute the wider issue.

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Japan’s Global Claim to Asia and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1900–1945

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Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Flag-carrying airlines as soft power tools: “Qatar Airways” and “Turkish Airlines”

Making and Unmaking the Nation in World History: Introduction

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