Manila and the World Dance Space: Nationalism and Globalization in Cold War Philippines and South East Asia

2017 ◽  
pp. 307-323
Author(s):  
meLê yamomo ◽  
Basilio E. Villaruz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The World

New Regional Order

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Simon Creak
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The Political ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Cold War Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Regional Order ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Cold War

Despite being minnows on the world stage, Thailand and the newly independent countries of Southeast Asia embraced sport during the Cold War as a means of nation and region building. This essay examines the political dimensions of the South East Asia Peninsular Games—the precursor of today’s Southeast Asian Games—founded in 1959 by US ally Thailand. This event reflected and reinforced the Cold War culture of Thailand and Southeast Asia. The games embodied motifs of regional friendship and antagonism between the “free” anti-Communist and neutralist nations of peninsular Southeast Asia; domestically, they embodied key themes in the domestic Cold War culture of Thailand, including nationalism, developmentalism, the revival of the monarchy, and militarization. This essay examines the Thai military junta’s objectives in founding the event, the effectiveness of the inaugural South East Asia Peninsular (SEAP) Games, and the cultural and semiotic features that reinforced the games’ major themes.

Fishing for a Career: Alternative Livelihoods and the Hardheaded Art of Academic Failure

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Deb Cleland
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Alternative Livelihoods ◽  
Alternative Livelihood ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Charting the course: The world of alternative livelihood research brings a heavy history of paternalistic colonial intervention and moralising. In particular, subsistence fishers in South East Asia are cyclical attractors of project funding to help them exit poverty and not ‘further degrade the marine ecosystem’ (Cinner et al. 2011), through leaving their boats behind and embarking on non-oceanic careers. What happens, then, when we turn an autoethnographic eye on the livelihood of the alternative livelihood researcher? What lexicons of lack and luck may we borrow from the fishers in order to ‘render articulate and more systematic those feelings of dissatisfaction’ (Young 2002) of an academic’s life’s work and our work-life? What might we learn from comparing small-scale fishers to small-scale scholars about how to successfully ‘navigate’ the casualised waters of the modern university? Does this unlikely course bring any ideas of ‘possibilities glimmering’ (Young 2002) for ‘exiting’ poverty in Academia?

scholarly journals Singapore, A Growing Economic Titan from South East Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-54
Author(s):  
Ignatius Hubert Tantra
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
East Asia ◽  
International System ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Land Mass

Singapore has one of the fastest economic development pace throughout South East Asia. Despite the fact that by land mass, it is not the biggest or the most fertile country. By demographic factor, it is not the most populated nor the most culturally diverse country. It also didn’t have the natural resources that its neighboring countries boasted as their main commodity. Yet, Singapore is a country with one of the most efficient implementation of living space, land usage, and education programme in the world. Because of its greatness, Singapore can be put in the same class with the others developed countries in the world. This is despite all the handicap that this country has, through the thick and thin of its history. The author believes that these successes can be atributted mostly to the efficient leadership of Singapore as a nation state in the international system, and that these successes can be adapted throughout Asia, and the world as a whole. This essay was made exactly to achieve this successful impact on ASEAN’s countries economics. In this writing, the author will examine what makes Singapore such a great economic titan, and how it can turn its unlikely position into a flourishing market economy and becoming a model for other developing countries to replicate, with institutional leadership. All of these, for the purpose of learning, and in the bid of rejuvenating economic vigor that most Asian countries and developing countries needed to keep up and even compete with more prominent countries in the international political system of the world.

Travelling through East and South East Asia with John Saboe

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Scott Sommers
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Current Work ◽  
The Internet ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

John Saboe is one of the leading travel YouTubers on the internet, with dozens of podcasts dealing with a wide range of issues on travel throughout East Asia. His current work, The Far East Travels Podcast (https://fareasttravels.com/), receives thousands or even tens of thousands of views. He has been involved in broadcasting for most of his working life. Beginning in high school, John developed an interest spanning audio podcasts, digital podcasts and publishing a digital magazine, in addition to a background working in traditional radio and TV. He has taught at the Columbia Academy in Vancouver and currently runs training seminars in different aspects of internet broadcasting for customers all around the world.

2. Two Worlds East and West, 1945–8

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Young ◽  
John Kent
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Berlin Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
War Consequences

This chapter examines how the world was divided into two opposing blocs, East and West, during the period 1945–1948. It begins with a discussion of the Marshall Plan, focusing on its implementation and its Cold War consequences, and the Western economic system. It then considers the Soviet Union’s takeover of Eastern and Central Europe, with emphasis on the split between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. It also looks at the struggle for influence in East Asia and concludes with an assessment of the division of Germany. The chapter suggests that the Berlin crisis was in many ways a symbolic crisis in a city which came to epitomize Cold War tensions until 1989; the crisis has also been regarded as an important cause of the militarization of the Cold War and the formation of NATO.

The World Beyond Europe: An Introduction to the History of Africa, India, South East Asia, and the Far East.

1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
John Davidson ◽  
George Alexander Jensen ◽  
Charles W. Forman ◽  
John J. Saunders ◽  
Joseph R. Levenson
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Far East ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Two Centuries of Nautical Instruments in Japan

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-310
Author(s):  
Torao Mozai
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Grasp ◽  
Short Time

The first reference to western techniques of navigation in Japan is in the Genna-Kohkaisho or The Navigation Arts in the Age of Genna by Koh-un-Ikeda, written in 1618 just sixty-three years after the first Portuguese visit to Japan. During these sixty-three years the Japanese had built some western-style sailing vessels and actually used western techniques for navigation to south-east Asia. The author shows a good grasp of western navigation. For instance Ikeda had asked his teacher, the Portuguese captain Gonsaro (Japanese pronunciation) ‘Is there any method of obtaining the latitude when the sky is clouded for a short time just as the Sun or the star transits the meridian?’ Captain Gonsaro answers ‘It is of course impossible, no one in the world can ever do it.’ Ikeda suggests the possibility of estimating the altitude of the Sun or star on the meridian and one can see now that this foreshadows the famous ex-meridian method that was developed much later.

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