Author(s): Terence Wesley-Smith, Jon Goss
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 243
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction: Remaking Area Studies, Jon Goss and Terence Wesley-Smith......Page 10
Part 1: Reshaping Area Studies in an Era of Globalization......Page 30
1. Asia Pacific Studies in an Age of Global Modernity, Arif Dirlik......Page 34
2. Remapping Area Knowledge Beyond Global/Local, Neil Smith......Page 53
3. Locating Asia PacificThe Politics and Practiceof Global Division, Martin W. Lewis......Page 70
Part II: Perspectives from Asiaand the Pacific......Page 96
4. The Evolution of “Area Studies”in Japan: The Impact of Global Context and Institutional Setting, Lonny E. Carlile......Page 100
5. The Development of Asia Pacific Studies: A Case Study of Internationalization in Japanese Higher Education, Jeremy Eades......Page 121
6. For or Before an Asia Pacific Studies Agenda?Specifying Pacific Studies, Teresia K. Teaiwa......Page 139
7. Institutional Collaborations: People, Politics, Policy, Lily Kong......Page 154
Part III: Asia Pacific Learning Communities......Page 170
8. Traveling Cultures: Tourism and the Virtual Classroom in Hawai‘i and Singapore, T. C. Chang, Jon Goss, and Christine R. Yano......Page 175
9. Chinatown and the Virtual Classroom in Singapore and Hawai‘i, Lisa Law and Jon Goss......Page 193
10. Salaam Mānoa, Aloha Mindanao: Creating a Student-Centered,Real-Time, Virtual Classroom, Conrado Balatbat, Hezekiah Concepcion, Gerard Finin, and Ricardo Trimillos......Page 207
11. E-Learning and the Remaking of Pacific Studies An Evolutionary Tale, Peter Hempenstall, Robert Nicole, and Terence Wesley-Smit......Page 225
Epilogue: Remaking Asia Pacific Studies, Ricardo Trimillos......Page 240
About the Contributors......Page 254
Index......Page 260
