Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic

Contributors

CHUA Beng-Huat is Professor of Sociology at National University of Singapore. His current research interest is in East Asia popular culture, for which he has delivered the Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture, ‘The Making of an East Asian Popular Culture’, at the Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2003. He is a co-founding executive editor of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal. Annette HAMILTON is an anthropologist and currently Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She has a long record of research in indigenous Australian communities, and since 1986 in Southeast Asia, especially Thailand. She has worked on local and national media, on tourism, and on culture and identity in the far southern Thai border zones. She has also written on everyday life in Bangkok and on tribal minorities and internal colonialism. Her recent work has focussed on the contemporary role of ritual in the expression of ethnic identity in Thailand. Koichi IWABUCHI teaches media and cultural studies at the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University in Tokyo. Iwabuchi has written extensively on cultural globalization and transnationalism in East Asian contexts, both in English and Japanese. His major publications include Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002) and Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption of Japanese TV dramas (ed., Hong Kong University Press, 2003). Contributors Michael KEANE is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Creative Industries Research and Application Centre (CIRAC) at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Current research interests include television trade in Asia and creative industries internationalisation in East Asia. He is co-editor of Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis (2002), Television Across Asia: Television Industries, Programme Formats and Globalization (2003) and coauthor of Out of Nowhere: Television Formats and the East Asian Cultural Imagination (2005, forthcoming). Tony MITCHELL is a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is the author of Dario Fo: People’s Court Jester (Methuen, 1999) and Popular Music and Local Identity: Rock, Pop and Rap in Europe and Oceania (University of Leicester Press, 1996), and editor of Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). He is a former chairperson of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM). Meaghan MORRIS is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She has written widely on cinema, popular historiography and cultural theory. Her books include ‘Race’ Panic and the Memory of Migration, co-edited with Brett de Bary (Hong Kong University Press, 2001); Too Soon, Too Late: History in Popular Culture (Indiana University Press, 1998); Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader, co-edited with John Frow (Allen & Unwin, 1993); and The Pirate’s Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (Verso, 1988). Stephen MUECKE is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Recent books are Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, with Gay Hawkins) and Les Aborigènes d’Australie (Paris: Gallimard, 2002, with Adam Shoemaker). He is now working on Contingency in Madagascar, with photographer Max Pam. Lise SKOV is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology, Copenhagen University. Her research focuses on fashion and dress in East Asia, and in particular on the transnational connections of the global fashion business. She is one of the editors of the ConsumAsiaN book series and is the co-editor of Women, Media and Consumption in Japan (Curzon and University of Hawaii Press, 1995, with Brian Moeran). Mandy THOMAS, an anthropologist, is currently Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts, Australian Research Council. Prior to this she x Contributors was Deputy Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. She has written extensively on the global traffic of ideas, aesthetics, objects and bodies around the globe, focusing particularly on Asian/ Australian interconnections and migration. Recent books include Moving Landscapes: National Parks and the Vietnamese Experience (Pluto Press, 2002); Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, co-edited with Lisa Drummond); and Ingenious: Emerging Youth Cultures in Urban Australia (Pluto Press, 2003, co-edited with Melissa Butcher). C. J. Wan-ling WEE teaches literature in English and cultural theory at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include issues of modernity, urban culture and contemporary artistic production in Southeast Asia, and post-colonial cultural concerns...