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Using A Diverse Set Of Artifacts From Both Official And Popular Culture This Book Looks At The Interplay Between Culture And Politics, Examining How The State Seeks To Match Territorial And Cultural Boundaries Not Just Through Military Coercion And Fiscal Regulation, But Also Through A Management Of Identity Practices. Callahan Applies Poststructuralist Theory To Analyze The Powerful Dynamic Between Culture And Politics That Generates East-west Discourse And National Identities. Drawing On Original Ethnographic Research And Primary Source Materials, The Book Sets Out A Critical Methodology With Which To Study The Cultural Governance Of Capitalist Modernity From A Social, Economic And Cultural Perspective. In Taking Both A Theoretical And Empirical Approach To The Subject, Cultural Governance And Resistance In Pacific Asia Provides A Multi-disciplinary Study Of Pacific Asia That Will Appeal To Students And Scholars Of Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Comparative Politics, Sociology And Anthropology Alike.--jacket. Culture, The Military, And The 'south Pacific' -- Beauty Queens, National Identity And Transnational Politics -- Gender, Democracy And Revolutionary Photo Albums -- Popular Politics, Civil Society And Social Movements -- Corruption, Political Reform And The Deferral Of Democracy -- Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, And Diasporic Politics -- Conclusion. William A. Callahan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [225]-242) And Index.