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...Worlding the Pacific Rim The chapter elaborates an emergent regional category and global-local vision of an Asia Pacific “ocean commons” coming to be called “Oceania” as an archipelagic interzone spread inside and across the Pacific Ocean from coastal California to Asia and Australia...

... The Pacific Ocean extending from coastal California to Austronesia, as well as to Japan and China, has become a site of global capitalist dynamism and transpacific investment; it is also riddled with political, territorial, and commercial conflicts that the “Pacific Rim” needs to conjure...

... As a signifier of techno-urban development, the Pacific Rim still enchants in its mysterious allure, as if this geo-imaginary moved toward a utopic destiny hailing disparate countries into its transnational coalition of region, place, community, motivation, and cultural identity. The vast...

...Transpacific Conjugations<subtitle>Unmaking and Remaking Worlds</subtitle> The aim of this chapter is to provoke a situated turn, or eco-conversion, toward a cultural-political way of thinking about worlding Pacific Rim cities as complex environmental formations connected to common resources...

... The aim of this chapter is to provoke a situated turn, or eco-conversion, toward a cultural-political way of thinking about worlding Pacific Rim cities as complex environmental formations connected to common resources and shared, if imbalanced, issues of watersheds, oceans, place, agricultural...

... Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, and Vladivostok on the Pacific Rim. The concluding part focuses on remote Yakutsk, built on permafrost. Buryatia Buddhism: Transbaikal region Khabarovsk Yakutsk ...

... Rim” needs to conjure and contest. A Pacific becoming Oceania projects transpacific cross-border unity and possibility of transnational solidarity to deal with this crisis of oceanic and atmospheric belonging. Ocean commons, figured as biospheric element necessary to sustaining life and planetary...

... centers of Buddhist culture, reflected in wooden architecture. The chapter also includes Khabarovsk, on the Amur River, and Vladivostok on the Pacific Rim. The concluding part focuses on remote Yakutsk, built on permafrost. Buryatia Buddhism: Transbaikal region Khabarovsk Yakutsk ...