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Inspired by michel foucault, she argues that immigrants and refugees are subject to hegemonic ideas that create images of being an ideal immigrant, which subsequently produces immigration policies and social policies accordingly. Buddha is hiding by aihwa ong paperback university of. Are nationstates being transformed by globalization into a single globalized economy. Discover book depositorys huge selection of aihwa ong books online. For ong, the hong kong business elite adopted a kind of flexible citizenship in the wake of tiananmen square and with a view to hong kongs. Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and as little understood, as globalization. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effec. Borrowing from the french philosopher michel foucault, she uses the term regime to refer to knowledgepower schemes that seek to normalize power relations. Flexible citizenship pb has 1 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace. She asserts that while states have developed flexible means of regulating transnational flows, individuals have also developed a kind of flexible citizenship that can be liberating, finding markets and homes in multiple locales. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read neoliberalism as exception. Tying ethnography to structural analysis, flexible citizenship explores such questions with a focus on the links between the cultural logics of.
Contents acknowledgments ix introduction flexible citizenship. Few recent phenomena have proved as emblematic of our era, and. Are nationstates being transformed by globalization into a single globa. Aihwa ongs flexible citizenship begins with an anecdote about hong kong business leaders who, facing the political uncertainty of the citystates imminent. Flexible citizenship is an ideology on citizenship that asserts that economic reasons are the. Aihwa ong is professor of anthropology at the university of california, berkeley, a member of the science council of the international panel on social progress, and a former recipient of a macarthur fellowship for the study of sovereignty and citizenship. She is well known for her interdisciplinary approach in investigations of globalization, modernity, and citizenship from southeast asia and china to the pacific northwest of the united states. For ong, the hong kong business elite adopted a kind of flexible citizenship in the wake of.
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Flexible citizenship exemplifies the anthropological imagination at its best. Ong approaches research from vantage points outside or athwart the united states. Grappling with the meanings of citizenship in late capitalism, ong coins the term flexible citizenship to refer to the. The cultural politics of modern chinese transnationalism. The cultural logics of transnationality, winner of the association for asian american studies. Flexible citizenship is an ideology on citizenship that asserts that economic reasons are the primary reason people choose their citizenship as opposed to identifying with a community based on shared political rights. Curriculum vitae 2015 aihwa ong department of anthropology.
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Ongs book is about this ambivalence that attends the flows of people and capital across the pacific, and the cultural meanings that are created in order to make sense of them. Explaining how intensified travel, communications, and mass media have created a transnational chinese public, aihwa ong argues that previous studies have mistakenly viewed transnationality as necessarily detrimental to the nationstate and have ignored individual agency in the largescale flow of people, images, and cultural forces across borders. About the author 1999 aihwa ong is professor of anthropology at the university of california at berkeley. Flexible citizenship ebook by aihwa ong 9780822396772. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In her earlier book, flexible citizenship, anthropologist aihwa ong wrote of elite asians shuttling across the pacific. Ong writes an anthropological text with the fluidity of a storyteller, cleverly combining academic analysis with contemporary media examples and personal anecdotes. Read flexible citizenship the cultural logics of transnationality by aihwa ong available from rakuten kobo. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline. This kind of help could make people far more joined.
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