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Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans Self and Subject in Motion Edited by Kathryn Robinson Australian National University Foreword by Richard Werbner Selection and editorial matter ©Kathryn Robinson2007 Chapters ©their authors2007 Foreword © Richard Werbner 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007978-0-230-01330-8 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28462-7 ISBN 978-0-230-59204-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230592049 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements ix Foreword: By Richard Werbner x Notes on Contributors xvii 1 Introduction: Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion 1 Kathryn Robinson Part I Representation, Self-recognition and Self-discovery 2 ‘Self’ and ‘Subject’ in Southeast Asian Literature in the Global Age 19 Tony Day 3 Art and Identity Politics: Nation, Religion, Ethnicity, Elsewhere 37 Kenneth M. George 4 Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction 60 Kirin Narayan 5 Wounds in Our Heart: Identity and Social Justice in the Art of Dadang Christanto 77 Caroline Turner Part II Religion, Cosmopolitanism and Subjectification 6 Billy Graham in the South Seas 103 Richard Eves 7 A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea 128 Alison Dundon 8 Sufi Regional Cults in South Asia and Indonesia: Towards a Comparative Analysis 145 Pnina Werbner v vi Contents Part III Identity and Displacement 9 The Dragon Dance: Shifting Meanings of Chineseness in Indonesia 169 Melani Budianta 10 Identities in a Culture of Circulation: Performing Selves in Filipina Migration 190 Deirdre McKay 11 Transporting Culture Across Borders – the Hmong 209 Nicholas Tapp Index 230 List of Figures 3.1 Surat Ikhlas,A. D. Pirous, 1970, 40(cid:2)50cm, color etching 45 3.2 White Writing, A. D. Pirous, 1972, 100(cid:2)180cm, marble paste, acrylic on canvas 49 3.3 And God the Utmost, A. D. Pirous, 1978, 30(cid:2)30cm, marble paste, gold, acrylic on canvas 50 3.4 Sura Isra II: Homage to Mother, A. D. Pirous, 1982, 80(cid:2)54cm, serigraph 52 3.5 The artist and They Who are Buried without Names, A. D. Pirous, 2001, 122(cid:2)122cm, marble paste, sand, acrylic on canvas 54 3.6 Detail from The Shackling of the Chronicle of the Holy War II, A. D. Pirous, 1999, 72(cid:2)77cm, mixed media on canvas 55 5.1 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957, Api Bulan Mei/Fire in May, 1998/1999, installation and performance at Third Asia-Pacific Triennial Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (Australia) 78 5.2 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957, For Those Who Have Been Killed(detail), 1992, Bamboo, metal, 110(cid:2)80(cid:2)335 cm (irreg., approx.). The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 1993 with funds from The Myer Foundation and Michael Simcha Baevski through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Collection: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (Australia) 83 5.3 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957, Mereka Memberi Kesaksian/They Give Evidence, 1996/1997. Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan). Fibreglass, brick powder, stone and clothes Dimensions variable. Collection: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan) and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia) 85 5.4 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957. 1001 Manusia Tanah/Earth (Soil) People, 1996. Installation at Marina Beach, Ancol, Jakarta (Indonesia). Fibreglass, 1000 life-size figures 90 vii viii List of Figures 5.5 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957, Litsus/Portrait of a Family, 15 August 2004. Performance by Dadang Christanto, Tukgunung Tan Aren (right) and Kilau Setanggi Timur (left). Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) 92 5.6 Dadang Christanto, Indonesia b. 1957. Performance at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (Australia), in association with the work ‘Heads from the North’, 2004 94 8.1 Sufi myths in Morocco and Indonesia (after Geertz 1968) 150 11.1 The new Hmong Cultural Centre in Chiangrai province 220 Acknowledgements The chapters in this volume were originally presented at the conference Cultures, Nations, Identities and Migrations, held at the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at the Australian National University (ANU) in April 2004. The HRC sponsored the conference under its 2004 theme, Asia Pacific. The HRC Director, Professor Iain McCalman identified this theme and his successor, Professor Ian Donaldson enthusiastically supported this particular conference. Deputy Director Dr Caroline Turner and Research Project Officer Ms Christine Clark were unstinting in their assistance in bringing the programme to fruition, and Program Manager Leena Messina gave all of her extraordinary organizational skills, assisted by Judy Buchanan. Additional funding was provided by the ANU National Institute of Law and Social Sciences, and Christine Debono facilitated a smooth collaboration. In preparing the papers for publica- tion, Belinda Henwood (Rent-a-Writer) gave meticulous attention to editing, and Fritha Jones coordinated production of the final manuscript. ix Foreword: Oceanic Visions, Situated Practices and the New Cosmopolitanism Richard Werbner The worlds within worlds in these chapters are never at rest. Their people are on the move; their selves, subjects and identities in becoming; their stories, driven by uncertainties; and even the contributors are caught up reflecting upon their own self-development through cosmopolitan engagement with their subjects. Yet, taken as a whole, the chapters reflect the current force of confidence in the growing intellectual move- ment which is the new cosmopolitanism. It is already well known that the new cosmopolitanism represents a cross-disciplinary movement of intellectuals, mainly liberals, who since the mid-1990s have been seeking a mid-way between extreme doctrinal positions. Of these, one is overcommitted, David Hollinger argues, to universalism and its appeal to identification with humanity as a whole, to moral obligation without borders and the same treatment for all (2002, p. 230). Martha Nussbaum’s approach – her manifesto being the focus of debate in a landmark special issue of The Boston Review(1994) – is the leading example. At the other extreme, again emerging within liberal philosophy, is a communitarian form of pluralism which, in Hollinger’s view (somewhat of a caricature, in my own view) disregards multiple, overlapping identities, ‘is likely to ascribe to each individual a primary identity within a single community of descent…[and is] more concerned to protect and preserve the cultures of groups that are already well established’ (2002, p. 231). For Hollinger, the leading exponent of such pluralism is the Canadian philosopher Will Kymlicka (on Kymlicka’s ideas, see also Werbner 2004a, p. 34, 2004b, pp. 262, 267), although it is in my view Charles Taylor who has contributed even more to what I call ‘the new dialogue with post-liberalism’ through which the political theory of liberalism, above all its concern for equal rights, is being rethought, repositioning it in history and society (Werbner 2004b, p. 261, see also 2002a, 2002b, 2002c, passim). x

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