A New Approach to Global Studies from the Perspective of Small Nations.
With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples - notably Japan and Quebec - Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | The University of Tokyo-Routledge Global Studies Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I: Quebec Society Through the Lens of the Small Nation
- Part II: Re-Examining Japan From a Small-Nation Perspective
- Part III: Diversity: Small Nations in Subnational Contexts
- Bibliography
- Part I Quebec Society Through the Lens of the Small Nation
- 1 A Small Nation in Search of Normalcy: Modern Quebec and Its Significant Others
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Small Nation - The Singular Other
- 1.3 The Colonised Society: The Alienated Other
- 1.4 The New Society - The Modernist Other
- 1.5 The New Nationalism - The Globalist Other
- 1.6 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 2 The Return From Europe and the Return From America as Heuristic Figures of the Small Nation in Quebec
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The "Return From Europe"
- 2.3 The "Return From America"
- 2.4 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 3 The Value of an Intercultural Citizenship Regime for Small Nations: The Case of Quebec
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 What Is Interculturalism? Small Nations and Theories of Pluralism
- 3.3 An Intercultural Citizenship Regime
- 3.4 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 4 Between Vulnerability and Adaptability: Rethinking Financial Interventionism in Quebec as a "Small Nation"
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Small Nation, Big Changes: An Overview of the International Context
- 4.3 Quebec Interventionism: Between Consolidation and Transformation
- 4.4 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part II Re-Examining Japan From a Small-Nation Perspective
- 5 Japan, a Small Nation Feigning to Be Something Greater: Redefining Universality With Special Reference to the Religious and the Secular and a Counter Intellectual History
- 5.1 Introduction: Reconsidering Japan as a Small Nation to Redefine Universality.
- 5.2 Premodern Japan as a Small Nation and Its Religious Aspects
- 5.3 Is Modern Japan's National Body Secular Or Religious Or Rather Confucian?
- 5.4 Oscillating Perception of Smallness/greatness and Critical Intellectual Genealogy of Seeing Japan as a Small Nation
- 5.4.1 Pre-War Period: From 1868 to 1945
- 5.4.2 Post-War Period: Since 1945
- 5.5 Conclusion: In Search of Universality From a Japan That Will Become a Small Nation
- Notes
- References
- 6 Imagining a Small Nation in an Empire: Kotoku Shusui and His "small-Nationism"
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Kotoku's Small-Nationism
- 6.2.1 The "Little England" Model
- 6.2.2 The Switzerland Model
- 6.2.3 Another Principle of Heiminsha
- 6.3 The Intellectual Sources of Kotoku's Small-Nationism
- 6.3.1 Nakae Chomin
- 6.3.2 The East Asian Tradition: Mencius
- 6.3.3 The Western European Enlightenment: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 6.4 Conclusion
- Acknowledgement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 7 The Foundational Violence of Sovereignty: The Racist Logic of "Rescuing" the Ainu
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Act of "Rescue" as Dispossession
- 7.3 Sovereignty and Sekishi
- 7.4 "Terra Nullius:" The Logic of Dispossession and Occupation
- 7.5 The Logic and Reality of "Rescue"
- 7.6 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 8 Inventing "Independence": A Short Intellectual History of Post-War Okinawa
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The US Military Occupation and the Thirst for the Right to Self-Determination in the Early Years of Military Rule After 1945
- 8.3 Opposition to the Separation Policy and the Desire for the Reversion: Various Aspects of Identity in Okinawa
- 8.4 Scepticism About "Reversion": The Wavering Ethnic Consciousness
- 8.5 The "Anti-Reversion Theory" as an Attempt to Overcome the Nation-State
- 8.6 Conclusion: "Independence" as a Constituent Power
- Notes.
- Bibliography
- Part III Diversity: Small Nations in Subnational Contexts
- 9 Small Nations, Empires and the Commonwealth: Canada, Quebec, Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon in Global Perspective
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 "Bigness Bias" and Visions of "A Federated Future"
- 9.3 Quebec
- 9.4 Newfoundland
- 9.5 Saint-Pierre-Et-Miquelon
- 9.6 The British Empire, the Commonwealth, States and Nations
- 9.7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 10 Philosophy in Hong Kong After 1949: Tang Chun-I, Lao Sze-Kwang and Cheung Chan-Fai
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Tang Chun-I
- 10.3 Lao Sze Kwang
- 10.4 Cheung Chan-Fai
- 10.5 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 11 "The Other America" and the Quest for Economic Justice: Race, Gender and the Struggle Over Guaranteed Income in the Late 20th Century United States
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.1.1 Social Policy as a Battleground Over Citizenship
- 11.1.2 The Rediscovery of "The Other America"
- 11.2 Struggles Over Clothing, Food and Housing
- 11.3 Contestations Over Guaranteed Income
- 11.4 Divergence Over the Family Assistance Plan
- 11.5 From "Up the Nixon Plan!" to "Down With FAP!": The NWRO and the Family Assistance Plan
- 11.6 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- 12 People Or Nation?: East European Jews' Struggle Over Their Categorisation Before the Holocaust
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Variation in Jewish Collective Movements
- 12.3 Zionists' "Nation"
- 12.3.1 Improvement in the Jewish Status
- 12.3.2 Demonstration of the Unity of Jews as a Political Entity
- 12.3.3 Guarantee of Neutrality Within the Multi-Ethnic Environment
- 12.3.4 Securing a Free Space for Jews
- 12.4 Is "Nation" Jewish?
- 12.5 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Epilogue: Size Matters: Small Nations' Existential Pursuits of Power, Happiness and Purpose
- A Sisyphean Model of Small Nations.
- Frailty and Power
- Fatalism and Happiness
- Futility and Purpose
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index.