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Introducing the Pacific
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Dirlik, Arif |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Pacific rim” and a variety of terms cognate to it, such as “Pacific Basin” and “Asia-Pacific,” have become commonplaces in geopolitical vocabulary over the last decade. And yet, what these terms mean remains unclear. The immediate reference is obviously physically geographic: Pacific Rim (or Pacific Basin) refers to societies situated on the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean and within it. Discussions of the Pacific Rim, however, rarely account for all the societies thus situated, more often than not referring primarily to societies of the northern hemisphere and sometimes using the term euphemistically as a contemporary substitute for what used to be called East Asia. The terms sometimes include societies technically outside the physical boundaries of the Pacific Ocean even as some of the societies situated on the Rim or within it are left out. These usages problematize the geographic reference of the term(s). Indeed, it is arguable that the terms represent ideational constructs that, although they refer to a physical location on the globe, are themselves informed by conceptualizations that owe little to geography understood physically or positivistically; in other words, that they define the physical space they pretend to describe. 1 Book Name: What is in a Rim? |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9780429267611-2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-10-08 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: What Is in a Rim? Pacific Rim Boundaries Societies Situated Physical |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
