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John Wiley Internationalizing Cultural Studies An Anthology by Ackbar Abbas , John Nguyet Erni
"Internationalizing Cultural Studies" is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions. The book contains forty-four contemporary essays that introduce and pluralize cultural studies work from diverse locales and intellectual traditions; covers regions the world over, including Asia, Europe, and Africa; organizes material around key themes such as race and ethnicity, transnationalism, gender and sexual cultures, media production and consumption, urban life, popular practices, techno-cultures, and visual cultures; and, includes expert introductions from an international panel of editors, and facilitates customization of content for course use. Alternative Table of Contents - Speaking Positions.Alternative Table of Contents - Localities.Preface: How to Use this Book.Acknowledgments..1. INTRODUCTION.Ackbar Abbas and John Nguyet Erni..PART I: TECHNO-CULTURES.Introduction.J. Macgregor Wise.2. Science as a Reason of State.Ashis Nandy.3. Biotechnological Development and the Conservation of Biodiversity.Vandana Shiva.4. Recycling Modernity: Pirate Electronic Cultures in India.Ravi Sundaram.5. Karaoke in East Asia: Modernization, Japanization, or Asianization?.Akiko Otake & Shuhei Hosokawa.6. Techno-Being.Viktor Mazin.PART II: Performance and Culture.Introduction.Della Pollock..7. Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication and Culture.Dwight Conquergood.8. The Answerability of Memory: 'Saving' Khmer Classical Dance.Judith Hamera.9. The Fool.Smadar Lavie.10. East Asian Bouquet: Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre.Jennifer Robertson.11. The Theatre of Operations: Performing Nation-ness in the Public Sphere.Diana Taylor..PART III: GENDER AND SEXUALITY.Introduction.Cindy Patton.12. Frontier City Berlin: The Post War Politics.Erica Carter.13. Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing 'Female' and 'Male' in Japan.Jennifer Robertson.14. The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics.Lila Abu-Lughod.15. Freeing South Africa: The 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto.Donald L. Donham.16. Very Close to yinfu and enu, Or How Prefaces Matter for JPM (1695) and Enu Shu (Taipei, 1995).Ding Naifei..PART IV: MEDIA PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION.Introduction.Toby Miller.17. Hizballah's Virtual Civil Society.Janine Abboushi Dallal.18. Towards a Semiotic Inquiry into the Television Message.Umberto Eco..19. Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.Richard Fung.20. From the Public to the Private: The 'Americanization' of Spectators.Nestor Garcia-Canclini.21. Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media.Faye Ginsburg..PART V: POPULAR PRACTICES.Introduction.John Nguyet Erni.22. The World of the Yoruba Taxi Driver: An Interpretative Approach to Vehicle Slogans.Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi.23. Doing Verbal Play: Creative Work of Cantonese Working Class Schoolboys in Hong Kong.Angel Lin.24. Love Letters and Amanuenses: Beginning the Cultural History of the Working Class Private Sphere in Southern Africa, 1900-1933.Keith Breckenridge.25. Live Life More Selfishly: An On-line Gay Advice Column in Japan.Mark McLelland.26. African Cuisines: Recipes for Nation-Building?.Igor Cusack..PART VI: RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATION.Introduction.Wimal Dissanayake.27. Racisms.Kwame Anthony Appiah.28. Race and Social Theory.Cornel West.29. The End of Anti-racism.Paul Gilroy.30. Whose Imagined Communities?.Partha Chatterjee.31. Patriotism and Its Futures.Arjun Appadurai.PART VII: VISUAL CULTURES.Introduction.Dominic Pettman.32. Visual Culture and the Place of Modernity.Sudeep Dasgupta.33. Popular Culture on a Global Scale: A Challenge for Cultural Studies?.Simon During.34. The Abject Artefacts of Memory: The 1997 Museum of Modern Art New York Exhibition of Photographs from Cambodia's Genocide.Rachel Hughes.35. Sex Machine: Global Hypermasculinity and Images of the Asian Woman in Modernity.L. H. M. Ling.36. De-Eurocentrizing Cultural Studies: Some Proposals.Robert Stam & Ella Shohat..PART VIII: GLOBAL DIASPORAS.Introduction.Ping-hui Liao.37. Exodus.Benedict Anderson.38. Diaspora.James Clifford.39. Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies.David Eng.40. Situating Accented Cinema.Hamid Nacify..PART IX: CITIES AND THE URBAN IMAGINARY.Introduction.Ackbar Abbas.41. Cultural Intersections: Re-visioning Architecture and the City in the Twentieth Century.Zeynep Celik.42. Grassrooting the Space of Flows.Manuel Castells.43. The Generic City.Rem Koolhaas.44. Scene X: The Development of the X-Urban City.Mario Gandelsonas.45. On the Political Economy of the Fake.Ziauddin Sardar