When Is Asia?. Issue 2 (2nd April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Roy, Ananya
• Is Part Of: Professional geographer. Volume 68:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 313
• Page End: 321
• Publication Date: 2016-04-02
• Subjects: Asia -- development -- global south -- postcolonial theory; 亚洲, 发展, 全球南方, 后殖民理论。; Asia, desarrollo, sur global, teoría poscolonial; Geography -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2015.1099183
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0033-0124

Abstract

Abstract : Recently, in geography and related disciplines, there has been a call to generate conceptual frameworks from the Global South. Such a call does not imply cataloging the diversity and plurality of the world but rather requires new understandings of relationalities and transformations. In this article, I contribute to these ongoing endeavors by thinking from Asia. In doing so, I interpret Asia not as a bounded geographical location but instead as interconnected space. In particular, I pay attention to how such interconnections reference Asian models of development, thereby creating a politics of futurity. A study of the making of Asian futures allows a broader understanding of the renewal of development in a rearranged south–north world.