Affiliation:
1. School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University , Chengdu, China
Abstract
Abstract
In this article, we examine the YouTube channel Railways Explained and its video on the Jakarta–Bandung High-Speed Railway (JBHSR). By stressing tensions among China, Indonesia, and Japan surrounding the JBHSR project, the video, we argue, managed to divert the audience’s attention away from its Eurocentric representation to a socially constructed Asian drama. Drawing upon Foucauldian poststructuralism, we then demonstrate how the Asian drama, narrated through three forms of otherness—ideological (Japan/Indonesia vs. China); developmental (Japan/China vs. Indonesia); and a geopolitical imaginary (the West vs. Asia)—revealed the perpetuation of Eurocentric hegemony in the knowledge of science and technology.
Funder
National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science
Sichuan Province College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Communication,Cultural Studies
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