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The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia

The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia

Yang, Jie

Hardcover

Series: Asia's Transformations

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415709709
ISBN13: 9780415709705
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 6 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and communitarianism. Affect is central to these concepts, and yet the role of affect and its animated or imagined potentialities in the political economy of East Asia has not been systematically studied. The book examines the affective dimensions of power and economy in East Asia. It illuminates the dynamics of contemporary governance, and ways of overcoming common Western assumptions about East Asian societies. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this book demonstrates, it can provide an analytical tool for a nuanced and enriched analysis of social, political, and economic transformations in East Asia.

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