Browsing by Author "Duara, P"

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Biocultural Diversity in Monsoon Asia: The Mekong and the Forests
(International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2025) Duara, P
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Connecting Maritime Asia: A Roundtable Discussion on Eric Tagliacozzo, In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohoma
(Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 2024-09-01) Duara, P; Huebner, S; Menon, D; Volland, N
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Foreword
(Sacred Forests of Asia: Spiritual Ecology and the Politics of Nature Conservation, 2022-01-01) Duara, P
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Nations and Nationalism roundtable discussion on Chinese nationalism and national identity
(Nations and Nationalism, 2016-07-01) Carlson, AR; Costa, A; Duara, P; Leibold, J; Carrico, K; Gries, PH; Eto, N; Zhao, S; Weiss, JC
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Oceans as the Paradigm of History
(Theory, Culture and Society, 2021-01-01) Duara, P
The temporality of historical flows can be understood through the paradigm of oceanic circulations of water. Historical processes are not linear and tunneled but circulatory and global, like oceanic currents. The argument of distributed agency deriving from the ‘ontological turn’ dovetails with the oceanic paradigm of circulatory histories. The latter allows us to grasp modes of both natural and historical inter-temporal communication through the medium of the natural and built environment. Yet the inclination in these new studies to deny any particular privilege to human will or design risks neglecting the changing role of human agency. Analytically I distinguish historiographical time from historical time. Historiographical time may be seen as the purposive capture of historical processes for various goals whereas historical time is more continuous with natural flows. More than origins and causes, the paradigm emphasizes the ramifying con-sequences of purposive actions. The gap in our understanding of the two temporalities has had a devastating impact on the planet.
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Presidential Address: The Art of Convergent Comparison-Case Studies from China and India
(Journal of Asian Studies, 2020-11-01) Duara, P
This address was intended to be and remains about global circulatory processes and the ways that human societies have sought to deploy, control, or regulate these processes. In this essay, I principally consider how nationalist ideologies regulate global circulatory processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us to thinking methodologically about largely invisible or inconspicuous modes of circulation and their consequences, less dire but deeply transformative.
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The Ernest Gellner Nationalism Lecture: Nationalism and the crises of global modernity
(Nations and Nationalism, 2021-07-01) Duara, P
Whether or not there is a direct causal relationship, nationalism is at the heart of all the crises in the modern world and becomes entangled in its effects. As the fundamental source of authority for all modes of governance in the world, we are beholden to its capacity to resolve these cascading crises. I argue that the nation form is the ‘epistemic engine’ driving the globally circulatory and doxic Enlightenment ideal of the conquest of nature and perpetual growth that sustains the runaway technosphere. The cascading crises that we have already witnessed in this century—financial, economic, epidemic and climatological—are rooted significantly in this technosphere. At the same time, we will have to find our way through and out of these forms to secure a sustainable planet. I explore the interstitial spaces and counter-flows of social movements that are seeking to develop a post-Enlightenment and a planetary, rather than a global, cosmology.
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Why Nations Fail to Rise
(Asia Policy, 2021-01-01) Duara, P