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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 707–738.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Julian Kuttig; Bert Suykens Abstract In Bangladeshi student politics, political performances in public spaces play an essential role in establishing patronage relationships and determining local authority structures. As Thomas Blom Hansen has famously argued, “visibility means everything...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (2): 513–543.
Published: 01 May 2008
... into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 1 In fact, the performative dimension of the Mangalkabyas probably explains its remarkable durability, malleability, and potential as a site where urgent new social and political concerns could be legitimated. The earliest Bengali narratives that were...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 603–605.
Published: 01 May 1994
...John Adams India's Mixed Economy: The Role of Ideology and Interest in Its Development .: By Baldev Raj Nayar . Bombay : Popular Prakashan , 1989 . ix, 421 pp. Rs. 350. The Political Economy of India's Public Sector: Policy and Performance . By Baldev Raj Nayar . Bombay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Ravi Arvind Palat Political Regimes, Public Policy, and Economic Development: Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs . By Holly Sims . New Delhi : Sage Publications , 1988 . 206 pp. $26.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 1025–1027.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Pattana Kitiarsa Performing Political Identity: The Democrat Party in Southern Thailand . By Marc Askew . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2008 . xvi , 1 pp. $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 The general impression of Thailand's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (4): 1187–1191.
Published: 01 November 2007
... disciplines including theater history, postcolonial and literary-cultural studies, and South Asia. Poetics, Plays and Performances: The Politics of Modern Indian Theatre . By Vasudha Dalmia . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2006 . xiii , 366 pp. $39.95/Rs1080 (cloth). Theatres...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 759–761.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Neilesh Bose Political Representation in India: Ideas and Contestations, 1908–1951 . By Abhay V. Datar . New Delhi : Bloomsbury India , 2019 . ix, 255 pp. ISBN: 9789388271776 (cloth). Performing Nationhood: The Emotional Roots of Swadeshi Nationhood in Bengal, 1905–12...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 309–313.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of contemporaneous cultural production. The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture . By Mari Boyd . Tokyo : Sophia University Press , 2006 . xii , 293 pp. ¥3,086 (cloth). Theorizing the Angura Space: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan, 1960–2000 . By Peter...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 291–292.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Daniel Bass Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka . By Susan A. Reed . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 2010 . xv, 280 pp, DVD. $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 The book's early chapters...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2006) 65 (4): 835–837.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Jim Fisher Beyond Lines of Control: Performance and Politics on the Disputed Borders of Ladakh, India . By Ravina Aggarwal . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . ix , 305 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 814–815.
Published: 01 August 2016
...: Tian Han and the Intersection of Performance and Politics . By Liang Luo . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 2014 . xviii, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780472072170 (cloth; also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2016 2016...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (3): 689–714.
Published: 01 August 2009
... as a “political performance”—as an assembly of formulaic elements borrowed from contemporary discourse, historical example, and generic conventions that was designed to locate collaboration within a range of conceivable responses to China's predicament. While the emerging narratives of national resistance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 February 2018
... political caché by maintaining the shrines, and by performing Confucian commemoration rituals with royal support. 18 King Chŏngjo legalized the practice of making a direct appeal to the king (see Jisoo Kim 2010 , 146). 17 Interestingly, many central elites supporting the Miryang shrine...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1972) 31 (4): 821–839.
Published: 01 August 1972
...” schemes of political conceptualization. Exploring Dazai's analytical perception of political structure and of how political structure should perform in concrete historical situations, the essay shows how Dazai takes the logic of “ancient studies” beyond agrarianism and status quo economics toward die...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1959) 18 (2): 213–225.
Published: 01 February 1959
... and application of knowledge from the West was made official policy. For the most part the military and political leaders were concerned with the mastery of Western military techniques and administrative and economic forms. But among the intelligentsia there were those who performed the broader task of learning...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 991–1011.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ashraf Hoque; Lucia Michelutti Abstract This article explores the performances of a particular category of young men often derogatively referred to as “chamchas” (sycophants) who are using the art of making do (jugaad) by exploiting and bluffing links with powerful political networks and political...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 27 (4): 809–834.
Published: 01 August 1968
... fields on an individual and hereditary ( paraveny ) basis. There was, however, no concept of freehold ownership. Authority was political. One could not distinguish private rights from political allegiance. Landholders combined rights in land with duties to the king. Service was attached to the land...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 947–967.
Published: 01 November 2020
.... That the gendered body is performative suggests that it has no ontological status apart from the various acts which constitute its reality. . . . The displacement of a political and discursive origin of gender identity onto a psychological “core” precludes an analysis of the political constitution of the gendered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (2): 303–322.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Doreen Lee Abstract Activist art and political resistance became popular aesthetics in the work of Indonesian artists after the fall of the New Order in 1998. In subsequent years, more art alternatives have emerged in cities and small towns across Indonesia, including diverse and vernacular modes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 527.
Published: 01 August 2000
... geographies—here defined as visual and verbal discourses about space—perform political and cultural work. That is, we examine how geographies in Asia were deployed strategically, whether to map, narrate, frame, relocate, or dislocate particular places, regions, “homelands,” or nation-spaces. In recent...
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