The Rise of East Asia: World Systemic and Regional Aspects

Arrighi, Giovanni

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“…Transnational seafaring is one of the most potent examples of the integration of Kiribati's economy into what Arrighi calls "global circuits of capital" [42]. As well as the extraction of value from Kiribati's marine resources, as signalled above, the migrant labour of i-Kiribati seafarers is an essential element of Kiribati's MIRAB-type economy.…”

Section: Labour Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development, Dependency and HIV Risk in Kiribati

McMillan¹,

Worth²

2014

WJA

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A study was undertaken in Kiribati, a small Pacific island nation, that has a low-level HIV epidemic but a high incidence of STIs among seafarers, their spouses (and children), and those involved in sex work. There are connections between development and dependency and HIV risk in Kiribati. Kiribati is a peripheral and dependent small island state underwritten by conditional aid and financial assistance and advice from donor countries, entwined in, and subject to, external globalising processes. We found two major factors related to Kiribati's dependency engendered HIV risk. The first is Kiribati's reliance on transnational seafaring. Long periods away from home, shipboard and port mateship cultures, and infrequent condom use in casual and paid sexual relations while in overseas ports, exacerbated by heavy alcohol use, have rendered i-Kiribati seafarers vulnerable to HIV. The second factor is related to the labour force participation of young women, which is extremely limited. In this context, some young i-Kiribati women choose to work on board, foreign fishing vessels selling sex. They stay with one client while on board a boat-for up to three months-and sex work is not only an economic transaction, but also emotional and affective labour. It is a pattern that makes consistent condom use problematic. Having multiple sequential seafarer partners may in fact generate considerable HIV vulnerability.

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Section: Labour Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development, Dependency and HIV Risk in Kiribati

McMillan¹,

Worth²

2014

WJA

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“…Later, a hierarchical structure between big businesses and the archipelago of subcontracting companies with millions of irregular workers also emerged, which might tarnish the splendid ascent of South Korean economy. 16 In the international context, on the other hand, historical, political, and economic dynamics are entwined during the ascent processes and the rise of 'East Asia as a world region' (So 1995;Frank 1998;Arrighi et al 2003), resulting in a new formation of regional and international inequality (Arrighi 1996). By focusing on the generative sectors, it turns out that the simplistic 'flying geese model' (Kojima 1977) is misleading for understanding South Korea's rise to become a challenging player in the world steel and shipbuilding industries.…”

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“…Burkett and Hart-Landsberg 2000;Amsden 1989Amsden , 1994Wade 1990bWade , 1996Kohli 2004;Ozawa 2001). Alternative explanations offered by these and other analysts of the rapid rise of South Korea focused on institutional patterns of the South Korean state and the chaebol (large industrial groups) (Amsden 1989;Woo 1991;Kohli 2004), the broader rise of Asia (Arrighi 1996;Arrighi, Hamashita and Selden 2003;Frank 1998;Peng 2002), and participation in the flying geese model of development led by Japan (Ozawa 2001(Ozawa , 2003(Ozawa , 2005Hayter and Edgington 2004;Kojima 2000;Korhonen 1994;Romm 1992;Cutler and Ozawa 2007). Each of these lines of analysis captures a critical element of South Korea's rapid economic ascent.…”

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“…In the South Korean economy, the steel and shipbuilding industries are mainstay industries ('Rice for Industry') from which many other manufacturing sectors of the export-oriented national economy have benefited. In this paper, we examine the economic ascent of Korea in terms of the new historical materialism (Ciccantell and Bunker 2004) and the rise of Asia (Arrighi 1996;Frank 1998;Arrighi et al 2003).…”

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“…In the same year, South Korea produced 3.2 million automobiles, 5.2% of total global production and ranking 6th in the world. Electronics production totaled US$69.8 billion, trailing only the U.S. discussion of how East Asian capitalism has gone far toward freeing itself from dependence on the economic and political power of the U.S., see Arrighi (1996). and Japan.…”

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The Steel and Shipbuilding Industries of South Korea: Rising East Asia and Globalization

Shin

Ciccantell

2009

JWSR

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In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Korea's rapid economic ascent. We argue that a worldsystems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Korea's rapid economic ascent than do other theoretical models. We outline the similarities between this case and those analyzed by Ciccantell (2005, 2007)

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East Asia, the rise of

2012

The Wiley‐Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

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For the last decades, the East Asian economy (that is, the economies of China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)) has been growing remarkably to become a major axis of the global economy. In 2008, the total value of exports and imports of the region were US$4112.9 billion and US$3886.1 billion which account for 25.6 percent of world exports and 23.8 percent of world imports, respectively (WTO 2009). In the same year, Japan produced 11.56 million automobile vehicles, China 9.34 million, and South Korea (hereafter Korea) 3.87 million, which occupy 37 percent of the global production of the total of 70 million vehicles. Global steel production in 2008 was 1326.5 million metric tons; the biggest steel producing nation was China with 500.5 million tons, 37.7 percent of global production. Japan's production of steel was 118.7 million tons and Korea's 53.6 million tons, which made the region's total production 672.8 million tons; 50.7 percent of world steel production in 2008 (World Steel Association 2009). East Asian nations build more ships than any other region of the world; Korean shipbuilders completed 26 103 000 CG/T of ships, 39.4 percent of world production, Japan 18 631 000 CG/T, 28.1 percent, and China 13 735 000 CG/T, 20.7 percent in 2008 (Lloyd 2009). (Reportedly, Chinese shipbuilders grabbed the biggest market share with 26 million DWT, 61.6 percent of world orders in 2009, overtaking Korea as the world's largest shipbuilding nation; Xinhua News Agency, January 25, 2010.) The three nations' shipbuilding products constitute around 88 percent of the global shipbuilding industry.

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The Rise of East Asia: World Systemic and Regional Aspects

Cited by 76 publications

References 16 publications

Development, Dependency and HIV Risk in Kiribati

Development, Dependency and HIV Risk in Kiribati

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