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Presidential Address: The Art of Convergent Comparison–Case Studies from China and India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2020

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Prasenjit Duara (prasenjit.duara@duke.edu) is Oscar Tang Distinguished Professor of East Asian Studies in the History Department at Duke University and Director of the Global Asia Initiative; he served as President of the Association for Asian Studies in 2019–20.
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This address was intended to be and remains about global circulatory processes and the ways that human societies have sought to deploy, control, or regulate these processes. In this essay, I principally consider how nationalist ideologies regulate global circulatory processes. The parallel with the current COVID-19 crisis is evident, and my remarks do suggest some similarities. Although COVID-19 is not the topic I engage here, my theme alerts us to thinking methodologically about largely invisible or inconspicuous modes of circulation and their consequences, less dire but deeply transformative.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , November 2020 , pp. 841 - 864
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020

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