Contributors
- Contributors
Cho Hae-joang is professor emeritus at Yonsei University, Seoul. She is the author of Women and Men in South Korea (1988), Reading Texts, Reading Lives in the Postcolonial Era I-III (1992–1994), Reflexive Modernity and Feminism (1998), and Back to the Classroom: Reading Text and Reading Everyday Lives in Neo-liberal Era (2009). Cho is the founding director of the Haja Center (The Seoul Youth Factory for Alternative Culture).
Jennifer Jihye Chun is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and director of the Centre for the Study of Korea. Her current research projects focus on the affective and cultural politics of labor struggles in South Korea and Canada and immigrant women workers and community organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (2009).
Mark Driscoll is associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research primarily focuses on the East Asia region between 1895 and 1945. He explores colonially inflected transformations in political and economic organization, philosophy, psychology, and literature. He focuses on gender, sexuality, and ethnicity to carefully situate Japan’s rise to power. His most recent book is Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan’s Imperialism, 1895–1945 (2010). [End Page 595]
Michael Fisch is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on the human relationship with technology, paying particular attention to the body within structures of technological mediation. He is currently working on a book entitled “An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network,” which examines the lived experience of the commuter train network in Tokyo from the postwar to the present as an instantiation of a contemporary technosocial condition.
Ju Hui Judy Han is assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is writing a book about Korean/American missionary mobilities, evangelical capitalism, and the cultural politics of travel, faith, and development. Her writings and comics have been published in numerous edited volumes and journals.
Anita Koo is associate professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests revolve around the relations between social inequalities and educational opportunities. Her current research focuses on the educational experiences and life chances of vocational school students in China.
Gabriella Lukacs is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on television, digital media, labor, and gender in contemporary Japan. Her first book is titled Scripted Affects, Branded Selves: Television, Subjectivity, and Capitalism in 1990s Japan (2010). Her current book project focuses on net idols, cell phone novelists, Internet traders, “girly” photographers, and bloggers to examine how women seek “meaningful” work in the digital economy and how this economy harnesses their unwaged labor as the motor of its own development.
Pun Ngai is professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and deputy director of the China Social Work Research Center at Peking University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include labor, gender, socialist theory, and history. Her first book is titled Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (2005).
Xia Zhang is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University. Her research concerns labor, migration, urbanization, the Internet, youth, and gender in contemporary China. She is currently working on a book project based on her dissertation research that investigates the issues of radical urbanization, labor migration, and the (re)making of Chinese masculinities in Southwest China. [End Page 596]
