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Techno-Orientalism 2.0

New Intersections and Interventions

by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu Niu, Christopher T. Fan, Justin Battin, Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Edmond Chang0, Clare Kim1, Won Jeon2, Adhy Kim3, Jung Soo Lee4, Lori Kido Lopez5, Kimberly McKee6, Jane Park7, Imran Parray8, Baryon Posadas9, Thomas Sarmiento0, Gerald Sim1, Leland Tabares2, Rachel Tay3, Jae Yeon Yoo4, Liujia Tian5, Charles Tung6, Shana Ye7, Greta A. Niu8, Ian Liujia Tian9, Professor Anna Romina Guevarra0 ...

Series series Asian American Studies Today
Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically ... Read more

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Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically
... Read more
Filipinx American Studies

Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

by Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton0, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns1, Richard Chu2, Gary Colmenar3, Kim Compoc4, Denise Cruz5, Reuben Deleon6, Josen Diaz7, Robert Diaz8, Vernadette Gonzales9, Theodore Gonzalves0, Anna Guevarra1, Allan Punzalan Isaac2, Martin Manalansan3, Dina Maramba4, Cynthia Marasigan5, Edward Nadurata6, JoAnna Poblete7, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez8, Dylan Rodríguez9, Evelyn Rodriguez0, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez1, Michael Schulze-Oechtering2, Sarita Echavez-See3, Roy Taggueg4 ...

This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of ... Read more

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This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of
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Activists beyond Borders

Advocacy Networks in International Politics

by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

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Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states.
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Coming of Age in Second Life

An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...

Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are
... Read more
Pedagogies of Crossing

Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...

Series series Perverse Modernities
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

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M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to
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Queer Transfigurations

Boys Love Media in Asia

by Dr. Thomas Baudinette, Dr. Poowin Bunyavejchewin, Dr. Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin, Dr. Katrien Jacobs, Dr. Han Hau Lai, Byung’chu Dredge Kang-Nguyễn, Dr. Hyojin Kim, Dr. Jungmin Kwon, Dr. Aerin Lai, Dr. Xi Lin, Dr. Lakshmi Menon, Dr. Kazumi Nagaike, Dr. Gita Pramudita Prameswari, Dr. Asako P. Santo, Dr. Kristine Michelle Santos, Dr. Kania Arini Sukotjo, Dr. Peiti Wang, Dr. Yanrui Xu, Dr. Ling Yang, Dr. Wei Wei ...

Series series Asia Pop!
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL ... Read more

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The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s has become a global media phenomenon, weaving its way into anime, prose fiction, live-action dramas, video games, audio dramas, and fan works. BL
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Creole Indigeneity

Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

by Shona N. Jackson ...

Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly ... Read more

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During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly
... Read more
Techno-Orientalism

Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...

Series series Asian American Studies Today
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

$28.99 USD

What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in
... Read more
Where the River Ends

Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta

by Shaylih Muehlmann ...

Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90 ... Read more

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Living in the northwest of Mexico, the Cucapá people have relied on fishing as a means of subsistence for generations, but in the last several decades, that practice has been curtailed by water scarcity and government restrictions. The Colorado River once met the Gulf of California near the village where Shaylih Muehlmann conducted ethnographic research, but now, as a result of a treaty, 90
... Read more
Informatics of Domination

by Donna J. Haraway ...

Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power ... Read more

$20.89 USD

Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist, diagrammatic concept for situating power
... Read more
Filipinos in Canada

Disturbing Invisibility

by Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan, John Paul Catungal, Roland Sintos Coloma, Lisa M. Davidson ...

The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate ... Read more

$48.99 USD

The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized nanny, the selfless nurse, and the gangster youth. On one hand, these narratives concentrate
... Read more
Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption

by Hong Kong University Press ...

South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film ... Read more

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South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged Japanese female fandom of actor Bae Yong-Joon, the Western online cult fandom of the thriller film
... Read more

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