Global Asias: Tactics & Theories

An indispensable guide to the methods, frameworks, and critical concepts animating Global Asias scholarship, Global Asias: Tactics & Theories is the inaugural volume of the Global Asias MAP book series sponsored by Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative. Praised as “visionary,” “innovative,” and “richly seductive,” the book exemplifies how the collaborative ethos of Global Asias praxis catalyzes new methods of scholarship and pedagogy—and creates inventive models of academic knowledge-production. Organized around five keywords—Transits, Indigeneity, Epistemology, Language, and A/Geography—and featuring innovative research and pedagogy forums, the book highlights potential overlaps and points of disagreement between area studies, ethnic studies, and diaspora studies.

Tina Chen is the founding director of Penn State’s Global Asias Initiative, founding editor of the award-winning journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias, co-editor (with Charlotte Eubanks) of the Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis book series at the University of Hawai’i Press, and author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title). She is interested in speculative fictions, the imaginable ageography of Global Asias, and developing a more capaciously imagined scholarly praxis.

Charlotte Eubanks (they/them) is professor of comparative literature, Japanese, and Asian studies at Penn State. They are author of two monographs Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan and The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan. They coedit a book series Global Asias: Methods| Architecture| Praxis and co-chair the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.