Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments [Hardcover]

Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination is integral to global cultural processes, questions still arise about how the imagination of life with a global span is made possible at the level of everyday social practices. This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics  both spatially grounded and mediatized  and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global. After the performative turn of the 1960s, it has been understood that shared experience of performance as event or spectacle can transform interpretations of the global and the local and create new meanings, and this book continues in the direction of this important tradition, while also fully expanding on its consequences.This book examines performative interventions that can generate a re-imagining of local publics  both spatially grounded and mediatized  and help to renegotiate the connection between the local and the global.Chapter 1 Global Imaginaries and Performance in Asia Chris Hudson and Bart Barendregt, Chapter 2 Globalizing the Imagination: Introductory Reflections Terrell Carver, Chapter 3 Weddings, Yoga, Hookups: Performed Identities and Technology in Bali Craig Latrell, Chapter 4 Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich and the ideal of convenience in Japan Peter Eckersall, Chapter 5 Unearthing the past and re-imagining the present: Contemporary art and Muslim politics in post-9/11 Indonesia Leonie Schmidt, Chapter 6 Keeping Communists Alive in Singapore Chua Beng Huat, Chapter 7 Performative pedagogies: lifestyle experts on Indian television Tania Lewis,, Chapter 8 Performing Cities: The Philippines Pavilion at the Shanghai International Exposition William Peterson, ClƒR