Methodology of Leaving America for Asia: Reading South Korea’s Social Studies Textbooks through Chen Kuan-Hsing’s Asia as Method

dc.creator	Joungh-eun Rhee
dc.date	2013-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:18:52Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:18:52Z
dc.identifier	10.4471/qre.2013.31
dc.identifier	2014-6418
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9a79c551ca7c404fa91266e511b30827
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/27193
dc.description	This project began as a content analysis of five South Korean high school Social Studies textbooks. Yet, it has evolved into an epistemological experiment to pursue the question of “what does it mean to leave America for Asia, at least methodologically, for the researcher who left Asia for America?” Using the textbooks as a mediating site, therefore, I articulate a process that engages with, moves toward, and develops deimperializing methodology. More specifically, I interweave Kuan-Hsing Chen’s Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization (2010) with my data by analyzing the data through Asia as Method and reading and practicing Asia as Method as methodology. This allows me to move away from fixating on the West as a reference point even through my critique. Rather, I work to produce geo-historically grounded knowledge for specific interventions at this mediating site toward the movements of decolonization, de-cold war, and deimperialization. In the process, I discuss how Asia as Method as methodology provokes political, psychological, and social engagements of everyday, multiplies reference points for knowledge production, and requires a researcher to re-work on one’s subjectivity inevitably constituted by imperialism.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.publisher	Hipatia Press
dc.relation	http://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/qre/article/view/771/770
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2014-6418
dc.source	Qualitative Research in Education, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 328-354 (2013)
dc.subject	Asia as method
dc.subject	textbook analysis
dc.subject	South Korea
dc.subject	deimperializing methodology
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Methodology of Leaving America for Asia: Reading South Korea’s Social Studies Textbooks through Chen Kuan-Hsing’s Asia as Method
dc.type	article