- Title
- The peripheral centre : Essays on Japanese history and civilization
- Creator
- Smith, Jeremy
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/44855
- Identifier
- vital:3008
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513603073001012
- Identifier
- ISSN:0725-5136
- Abstract
- After world systems theory, resituating centres and peripheries became a new mission for comparative sociology. There seems to be a promise that some established views on non-western societies that had escaped the scrutiny of postcolonialist thinking could be revisited. The Peripheral Centre has a part to play in this postfunctionalist renewal of comparative analysis in both its examination of Japan and its theoretical reflections. Its hermeneutic premise is that centres and peripheries are constituted by the orientations present in both as well as by the exercise of power. Cultural, or more strictly civilizational, visions become vitally important in understanding how Japan established regional and global relationships and fashioned itself as a peripheral centre.; C2
- Publisher
- Sage
- Relation
- Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Vol. 73, no. 1 (2003), p. 133-136
- Rights
- Copyright Sage
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1608 Sociology
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