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.

Alternative Table of Contents - Speaking Positions
Alternative Table of Contents - Localities
Preface: How to Use this Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Techno-Cultures
Introduction
Science as a Reason of State
Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India
Karaoke in East Asia: Modernization, Japanization, or Asianization?
Techno-Being
Performance and Culture
Introduction
Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication and Culture
The Answerability of Memory: 'Saving' Khmer Classical Dance
The Fool
East Asian Bouquet: Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre
The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere
Gender And Sexuality
Introduction
Frontier City Berlin: The Post War Politics
Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing 'Female' and 'Male' in Japan
The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics
Freeing South Africa: The 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto
Very Close to yinfu and enu, Or How Prefaces Matter for JPM (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995)
Media Production And Consumption
Introduction
Hizballah's Virtual Civil Society
Towards a Semiotic Inquiry into the Television Message
Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn
From the Public to the Private: The 'Americanization' of Spectators
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media
Popular Practices
Introduction
The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans
Doing Verbal Play: Creative Work of Cantonese Working Class Schoolboys in Hong Kong
Love Letters and Amanuenses: Beginning the Cultural History of the Working Class Private Sphere in Southern Africa, 1900-1933
Live Life More Selfishly: An On-line Gay Advice Column in Japan
African Cuisines: Recipes for Nation-Building?
Race, Ethnicity And Nation
Introduction
Racisms
Race and Social Theory
The End of Anti-racism
Whose Imagined Communities?
Patriotism and Its Futures
Visual Cultures
Introduction
Visual Culture and the Place of Modernity
Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A Challenge for Cultural Studies?.Simon During
The Abject Artefacts of Memory: The 1997 Museum of Modern Art New York Exhibition of Photographs from Cambodia's Genocide
Sex Machine: Global Hypermasculinity and Images of the Asian Woman in Modernity
De-Eurocentrizing Cultural Studies: Some Proposals
Global Diasporas
Introduction
Exodus
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