Precarious Belongings

Edited by Chih-ming Wang and Daniel PS Goh

In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a history of colonialism, capitalist globalization and political conflicts, has rendered the idea of nation as both politically distinct and culturally malleable.Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia explores the affective politics of Asian nationalism by addressing the entwined structures of precarious belonging and national feelings. Bringing together leading scholars it looks at how the reification of nationalism in social movements, popular sentiments, online groups, and cultural representation directs hatred towards migrant and minority groups across Asia. The book posits that nationalist affects are embedded in the politics of exclusion, and seeks to make room for precarious belongings in the transnational and multicultural present. It should be of interest to students and scholars interested in Asian Cultural Studies, transnationalism, migration and nationalism.

1. Introduction: Tracking the Affective Twists in Asian Nationalisms, Chih-ming Wang/ Part I: The The Dialectics of Love and Hate/ 2. Complex Histories of the Foreign in Indonesia, Adrian Vickers/ 3. Hate-Loving Nation-State: Theorizing Asian Nationalist Affects, Kwai-Cheung Lo/ 4. Introverted Jingoism in a Post-Imagined-Community Digital Era: The Upswings of Hate Speech Demonstration in Japan, Koichi Iwabuchi/ Part II: Precarious Belongings/ 5. "We Are Already Living Together": Race, Collective Struggle, and the Reimagined Nation in Post-3/11 Japan, Vivian Shaw/ 6. From the Outside: Performing Korean Diaspora, Redoing National Affiliation, Hyunjung Lee/ 7. Loyalty on Trial: Chinese-Filipinos and the West Philippine Sea Dispute, Tina Clemente/ Part III: Affected Selves/ 8. "Freedom is Elsewhere:" Circulating Affect and Aversion for Asian and Islamic Others in Indonesia, Carol Chan/ 9. "Let's Save the Nation from being Multicultural!": The Emergence of the Anti-multiculturalist Movements in South Korea, Hyun Mee Kim/ 10. "Feels so Foreign in My Own Homeland:" Xenophobia and National Identity in Singapore, Raj Velayutham/ 11. Becoming a Revanchist City: Reflections on Hong Kong Nativist Affects, Iam Chong Ip/ Part IV: The Affective Order and the Rise of China/ 12. Image-Driven Nationalism: Visuality, Digital Platform, and Generation Post-80s, Jack Qiu/ 13. Sydney's Chinatown and the Rise of China, Daniel PS Goh/ 14. The Geopolitical Unconscious of Inter-Asia, Daniel PS Goh/ Index