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Positioning positions: A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies

Positioning positions: A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies positions 0 1994 by Duke University Press Chen Positioning positions the (Charles) Taylorian civil society have their own problematics.1 Locally situated, I have found that I simply can take neither Habermasian nor Taylorian notions for granted anymore. In order to clarify their submerged, unconscious, underlying rationality, I begin by considering the theoretical and political problem of doing cultural studies in a Taiwanese milieu. It is my contention that such effort allows me to reframe local debate on civil society vs. popular democratic struggles in terms of the notion I forward in this essay, of a new “internationalist localism.”2 My desperate attempts to articulate an alternative strategy that would confront the local and simultaneously international restructuration of power in the new nationalist, neocolonialist, and postsocialist contexts grew out of local concerns conditioned over the last five years by several historical conjunctures. T wit: Discontent with American academic isolation from a o social milieu brought me back to Taiwan in 1989, where I immediately encountered the local political fallout of the 1989 Peking Massacre. At that juncture, a group of friends and I made a first intervention into the new theoretical and political field and were able to articulate an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Positioning positions: A New Internationalist Localism of Cultural Studies

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
DOI
10.1215/10679847-2-3-680
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positions 0 1994 by Duke University Press Chen Positioning positions the (Charles) Taylorian civil society have their own problematics.1 Locally situated, I have found that I simply can take neither Habermasian nor Taylorian notions for granted anymore. In order to clarify their submerged, unconscious, underlying rationality, I begin by considering the theoretical and political problem of doing cultural studies in a Taiwanese milieu. It is my contention that such effort allows me to reframe local debate on civil society vs. popular democratic struggles in terms of the notion I forward in this essay, of a new “internationalist localism.”2 My desperate attempts to articulate an alternative strategy that would confront the local and simultaneously international restructuration of power in the new nationalist, neocolonialist, and postsocialist contexts grew out of local concerns conditioned over the last five years by several historical conjunctures. T wit: Discontent with American academic isolation from a o social milieu brought me back to Taiwan in 1989, where I immediately encountered the local political fallout of the 1989 Peking Massacre. At that juncture, a group of friends and I made a first intervention into the new theoretical and political field and were able to articulate an

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Published: Dec 1, 1994

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