JOSAH VOL. 52 “What’s in A Name? After Orientalism” (2020-21)

 

 

JOSAH Vol. 52: “What’s in A Name? After Orientalism“.

Guest-edited by Olivier Krischer and Meaghan Morris

Marking the sixtieth anniversary of Australia’s oldest journal in Asian Studies, this special issue was inspired by a 2018 symposium on the legacy of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), as well as by the centenary of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney.

This historical orientation encouraged us not only to consider the influence of Said’s work over a forty year period but more widely to reflect on the worldly processes that have created and changed “Asian Studies” over the decades, renaming areas, redistributing resources and reshaping disciplinary clusters.

Much debate about Orientalism in English has been academically West-centric, invoking a smooth space of “post-colonialism” or confined to specialist silos. For this issue, we invited essays that engage with naming in relation to specific histories and locations of scholarship, ranging from the University of Sydney in the Australian context (Adrian Vickers) to Islamic Central Asia and the Russian-Soviet Orient (Adeeb Khalid), to the “contemporary Asia” constructed in art exhibitions (C.J. Wee Wan-ling), and to Maritime Southeast Asia (Imran bin Tajudeen).

This broadening of geographic frames of reference is extended by a “Roundtable” of eleven short, personal reflections by scholars working from a range of diverse disciplines, worldly situations, and individual practices as they look back to and beyond Said’s Orientalism.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS	2020-21
Remembrance Note: Vale Rosita Holenbergh (1937–2020) Jocelyn Chey	1-2
Introduction Olivier Krischer And Meaghan Morris	3-11
From Oriental Studies to Inter-Asia Referencing: The 2019 A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture Adrian Vickers	12-35
Islamic Central Asia and the Russian-Soviet Orient Adeeb Khalid	36-53
Coordinating Contemporary Asia in Art Exhibitions C.J.W.-L. Wee	54-79
Nusantara, Bilad Al-Jawa, The Malay World: Cultural-Geographical Constructions of Maritime Southeast Asia and Endogenous Terms as Palimpsests Imran Bin Tajudeen	80-104
ROUND TABLE: AFTER ORIENTALISM
Three Ways of Relating To Orientalism Chih-Ming Wang	105-109
After Orientalism John Frow	110-113
Orientalism Between the Desire to Harm and the Desire For Knowledge Ghassan Hage	114-119
Oriental Philology after Orientalism Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan	120-125
De-Imagining Tibet: Beyond Orientalism, Reverse Orientalism and Other Traps in the Study of Himalayan Histories Jim Rheingans	126-134
‘Orientalism’ and After: Impacting Feminist Theory in India Tejaswini Niranjana	135-140
Orientalisms in China Huaiyu Chen	141-146
Designing Japan’s Orient: Department Stores and the Modern Experience Nozomi Naoi	147-153
Saidean Time: Orientalism at the Fulcrum of Global Histories Of Art Mary Roberts	154-161
Scholarship at the Edge: Reflections about Teaching History of the Arab World And Islam in Australia after Orientalism Lucia Sorbera	162-167
Endemic Orientalism Tessa Morris-Suzuki	168-171
REVIEW ESSAY On the Sources of Lu Xun’s Treatise on Mara Poetry: Some Issues and a Few Answers Jon Eugene Von Kowallis	172-179
BOOK REVIEWS
Texts and Transformation: Essays in Honor of the 75th Birthday of Victor H. Mair, ed. Haun Saussy Chiew Hui Ho	180-182
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia, by Samia Khatun Anna Guttman	182-185
Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, ed. Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran Roger Lee Huang	185-187
OBITUARY Sowing the Seeds of Sinology in Australian Gardens: The Life and Career of Harry Simon, Foundation Professor of Chinese at the University of Melbourne Jon Eugene von Kowallis	188-191