Internationalizing Cultural Studies An Anthology

by Abbas, Ackbar; Erni, John Nguyet

• ISBN13: 9780631236238
• ISBN10: 0631236236
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-29
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates existing key and important writings in cultural studies literature from different regions of the world. The editors have designed the readings to challenge practitioners in the West and beyond to redefine cultural studies as a truly global movement. bull; bull;Contains 44 contemporary essays that introduce diverse intellectual traditions of cultural studies bull; bull;Includes lively and accessible introductions from an international panel of expert editors bull; bull;Features worldwide coverage, including Asia, Europe, and Africa bull; bull;Organizes material around key themes to aid disciplinary discussion including race and ethnicity, transnationalism, gender and sexual cultures, media production and consumption, urban life, popular practices, technocultures, and visual cultures bull; bull;Offers shape for the first time in one volume to this complex and diverse field

Author Biography

Ackbar Abbas is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

John Nguyet Erni is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Alternative Contents: Speaking Positions	x
Alternative Contents: Localities	xix
Preface: How To Use This Book	xxv
Acknowledgments	xxviii
General Introduction	1	(12)
Ackbar Abbas
John Nguyet Erni
Part I: Technocultures	13	(56)
Introduction	15	(6)
J. Macgregor Wise
Science as a Reason of State	21	(9)
Ashis Nandy
Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity	30	(13)
Vandana Shiva
Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India	43	(8)
Ravi Sundaram
Karaoke in East Asia: Modernization, Japanization, or Asianization?	51	(10)
Akiko Otake
Shuhei Hosokawa
Techno-Being	61	(8)
Viktor Mazin
Part II: Performance and Culture	69	(76)
Introduction	71	(8)
Della Pollock
Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture	79	(16)
Dwight Conquergood
The Answerability of Memory: ``Saving'' Khmer Classical Dance	95	(11)
Judith Hamera
The Fool	106	(11)
Smadar Lavie
East Asian Bouquet: Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theater	117	(15)
Jennifer Robertson
The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere	132	(13)
Diana Taylor
Part III: Gender and Sexuality	145	(80)
Introduction	147	(6)
Cindy Patton
Frontier City Berlin: The Post-War Politics	153	(12)
Erica Carter
Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing ``Female'' and ``Male'' in Japan	165	(16)
Jennifer Robertson
The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics	181	(15)
Lila Abu-Lughod
Freeing South Africa: The ``Modernization'' of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto	196	(14)
Donald L. Donham
Very Close to yinfu and enu, Or How Prefaces Matter for JPM (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995)	210	(15)
Naifei Ding
Part IV: Media Production and Consumption	225	(70)
Introduction	227	(5)
Toby Miller
Hizballah's Virtual Civil Society	232	(5)
Jenine Abboushi Dallal
Towards a Semiotic Inquiry into the Television Message	237	(16)
Umberto Eco
Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn	253	(12)
Richard Fung
From the Public to the Private: The ``Americanization'' of Spectators	265	(12)
Nestor Garcia-Canclini
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media	277	(18)
Faye Ginsburg
Part V: Popular Practices	295	(88)
Introduction	297	(7)
John Nguyet Erni
The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans	304	(13)
Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi
Doing Verbal Play: Creative Work of Cantonese Working-Class Schoolboys in Hong Kong	317	(13)
Angel M. Y. Lin
Love Letters and Amanuenses: Beginning the Cultural History of the Working Class Private Sphere in Southern Africa, 1900-1933	330	(14)
Keith Breckenridge
Live Life More Selfishly: An On-line Gay Advice Column in Japan	344	(17)
Mark McLelland
African Cuisines: Recipes for Nation-Building?	361	(22)
Igor Cusack
Part VI: Race, Ethnicity, and Nation	383	(36)
Introduction	385	(5)
Wimal Dissanayake
Racisms	390	(7)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Race and Social Theory	397	(4)
Cornel West
The End of Antiracism	401	(5)
Paul Gilroy
Whose Imagined Community?	406	(7)
Partha Chatterjee
Patriotism and Its Futures	413	(6)
Arjun Appadurai
Part VII: Visual Cultures	419	(80)
Introduction	421	(6)
Dominic Pettman
Visual Culture and the Place of Modernity	427	(12)
Sudeep Dasgupta
Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A Challenge for Cultural Studies?	439	(15)
Simon During
The Abject Artefacts of Memory: The 1997 Museum of Modern Art New York Exhibition of Photographs from Cambodia's Genocide	454	(14)
Rachel Hughes
Sex Machine: Global Hypermasculinity and Images of the Asian Woman in Modernity	468	(13)
L. H. M. Ling
De-Eurocentricizing Cultural Studies: Some Proposals	481	(18)
Robert Stam
Ella Shohat
Part VIII: Global Diasporas	499	(106)
Introduction	501	(10)
Ping-hui Liao
Exodus	511	(13)
Benedict Anderson
Diasporas	524	(35)
James Clifford
Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian(-)American Studies	559	(10)
David L. Eng
Situating Accented Cinema	569	(36)
Hamid Naficy
Part IX: Cities and the Urban Imaginary	605	(58)
Introduction	607	(6)
Ackbar Abbas
Cultural Intersections: Re-visioning Architecture and the City in the Twentieth Century	613	(14)
Zeynep Celik
Grassrooting the Space of Flows	627	(10)
Manuel Castells
The Generic City	637	(13)
Rem Koolhaas
Scene X: The Development of the X-Urban City	650	(8)
Mario Gandelsonas
On the Political Economy of the Fake	658	(5)
Ziauddin Sardar
Index	663