Grace Kao presented as part of a roundtable based on a forthcoming book, Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives and Methods. The book features contributors who are Asian theologians, Asians in the diaspora, and Asian American scholars.
A transpacific political theology problematizes essentialized accounts of continents and regions and reflects on the transpacific circulation of peoples, cultures, commodities, and ideas. Its goal is to interrogate the relationship between the state and the political, nationalisms, old and new orientalisms, and U.S. colonial and military presence in Asia and the Pacific. It challenges and queers the construction of nation, empire, race, caste, gender, and sexuality by presenting grounded historical analyses. The roundtable offers examples of how faith communities have been involved in people’s struggles and movements across the Pacific.
The session was sponsored by the Liberation Theologies Unit.
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