Ien Ang

Beyond Unity in Diversity: Cosmopolitanizing Identities in a Globalizing World

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 02-2014

DOI: 10.1177/0392192113519739

Abstract: The greater interconnectivity and interdependence unleashed by globalization are not creating a more harmonious, cosmopolitan humanity. On the contrary, the more global the world becomes, the more insistent particular differences, especially of the nationalist kind, are being articulated around the world, often leading to tension and conflict. This seeming paradox cannot be reconciled through simple mantras of ‘unity in ersity’. Rhetorical references to ‘a single humanity’ to overcome structurally entrenched isions (as institutionalized in the world system of nation-states) are not sufficient for the attainment of greater pan-human solidarity. In response to this predicament this paper argues for a cosmopolitan perspective, in which a humanistic universalism should not be seen as a static moral ideal, but as a social and political horizon that must be worked towards, but probably never achieved, through a painstaking and continuing process of cosmopolitanization against the grain of powerful modes of particularist closure.

I’m a feminist but… “other” women and postnational feminism

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 29-07-2013

DOI: 10.4324/9780203825235

Museums and cultural diversity: A persistent challenge

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 07-12-2018

DOI: 10.4324/9781315560168-26

The curse of the smile: Ambivalence and the ‘Asian’ woman in Australian multiculturalism

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 03-1996

DOI: 10.1057/FR.1996.5

Abstract: This article critiques Australia's official discourse of multiculturalism, with its rhetoric of ‘celebrating cultural ersity’ and tolerance, by looking at the way in which this discourse suppresses the ambivalent positioning of ‘Asians’ in Australian social space. The discourse of multiculturalism and the official, economically motivated desire for Australia to become ‘part of Asia’ has resulted in a relatively positive valuation of ‘Asia’ and ‘Asians’, an inversion from the racist exclusionism of the past. Against the self-congratulatory stance of this discourse, this article signals the operation of ambivalence at two levels: at the structural level, insofar as it points to the inherent contradictions in the idea of the ‘multicultural nation’ and its fantasy of a harmonious ‘unity-in- ersity’, and at the subjective level, in the sense that the ethos of multiculturalism doesn't erase the ambivalent relations of acceptance/rejection between majority and minority subjects. Several instances of such ambivalence pertaining to the positioning and representation of the ‘Asian’ woman are given.

Doing cultural studies at the crossroads: Local/global negotiations

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 1998

DOI: 10.1177/136754949800100102

Abstract: This article reflects on the difficulties of practising cultural studies in a transnational, cross-cultural context by interrogating the popular metaphors of the 'crossroads' and the 'borderlands' as the spaces for trangression, heteroglossia and radical openness. The article argues that despite the increased intensity of communication and exchange of ideas across national, cultural, and geographical borders (both within cultural studies and in the social world at large), distinctions between the 'local' and the 'non-local' remain crucial in determining the specific and variegated meanings accrued to general or 'global' concepts such as 'race', 'nation' and 'identity'. The article concludes that our crossroads encounters would be more productive if we recognize the moments of actual disconnection rather than hold on to the utopian ideal of connectedness so bound up with celebrations of the 'borderlands'.

Beyond Chinese groupism: Chinese Australians between assimilation, multiculturalism and diaspora

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-12-2014

DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2014.859287

Sylvania waters and the spectacular exploding family

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 03-1994

DOI: 10.1093/SCREEN/35.1.1

Together-in-difference: beyond diaspora, into hybridity

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-2003

DOI: 10.1080/10357820308713372

State/Nation/Transnation

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 05-05-2004

DOI: 10.4324/9780203497340

New Chinese Migrations

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 07-11-2017

DOI: 10.4324/9781315163239

Beyond the crisis: transitioning to a better world?

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 15-03-2021

DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1898013

Stalking the wild viewer

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1991

DOI: 10.1080/10304319109388197

A cultural studies without guarantees: Response to Kuan-Hsing Chen

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1996

DOI: 10.1080/09502389600490461

Introduction

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1996

DOI: 10.1080/02560049685310101

Symposium on 11 September 2001 Terrorism, Islam and the West: Observations on the Terrorist Attacks in New York and Washington

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 06-2002

DOI: 10.1177/1468796802002002654

Shanghai Expo

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 02-10-2012

DOI: 10.4324/9780203101889

Popular Fiction and Feminist Cultural Politics

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 11-1987

DOI: 10.1177/026327687004004005

To Be or Not to Be Chinese: Diaspora, Culture and Postmodern Ethnicity

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 1993

DOI: 10.1163/030382493X00017

Creative Production Synergies in Penrith and the Blue Mountains

Publisher: Western Sydney University

Date: 2020

DOI: 10.26183/3P8B-X436

Claiming Chinatown: Asian Australians, Public Art and the Making of Urban Culture

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-07-2017

DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2017.1343252

Cultural studies matters (does it?): Engaging inter/disciplinarity

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-2013

DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2013.801614

Beyond Self-Reflexivity

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 07-1989

DOI: 10.1177/019685998901300205

Ethnicity and cultural consumption in Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 21-03-2018

DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1453464

Dismantling 'Cultural Studies'? (By Way of Introduction)

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-1992

DOI: 10.1080/09502389200490201

Ethnicity and cultural consumption in Australia

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 21-03-2018

DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1453464

Globalisation and culture

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1994

DOI: 10.1080/10304319409365684

Etnnograpny and radical contextualism in audience studies

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 08-10-2018

DOI: 10.4324/9780429496813

Mayonnaise culture and other European follies

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 05-1989

DOI: 10.1080/09502388900490091

The Predicament of Diversity: Multiculturalism in Practice at the Art Museum

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 09-2005

DOI: 10.1177/1468796805054957

Abstract: Mainstream cultural institutions such as museums are increasingly called upon to increase their accessibility to culturally erse communities and audiences, including migrant groups who do not generally visit museums. This essay discusses the challenges experienced by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the largest art museum in Sydney, Australia, in mounting an exhibition of Buddhist art in 2001, and in its efforts to use the exhibition as a vehicle for drawing new audiences in, especially Asian Buddhist groups. The case study raises important questions about possibilities and limits of engaging cultural ersity in the art museum. The biases inherent in the operations of the art museum, especially its non-negotiable reliance on a Western concept of ‘art’, are at the heart of the predicament of ersity for art museum practice.

Cultural research and refugee studies: New knowledge, methodologies, and practical implications; a panel commentary

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Date: 2004

DOI: 10.3167/015597704782352311

Guest editorial: The predicament of difference

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 09-2005

DOI: 10.1177/1468796805054956

Intertwining histories: Nation, migration and heritage

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 05-2003

DOI: 10.1179/AULLA.2003.003

Unsettling the national: Heritage and diaspora

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Date: 2011

DOI: 10.4135/9781446250839.N5

Asianing Australia: Notes toward a critical transnationalism in cultural studies

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1996

DOI: 10.1080/09502389600490441

Stuart Hall and the tension between academic and intellectual work

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 24-08-2016

DOI: 10.1177/1367877915599609

Abstract: Throughout his long career Stuart Hall has personified a shifting range of political-intellectual positionalities, responding to the changing historical conjuncture in the West since the late 1950s. From his engagement with the New Left to the generation of new spaces for critical intellectual intervention in the 1970s (as embodied by the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) to the tightening up of such spaces as a consequence of the neoliberal ascendancy (which Hall himself theorized through his analysis of Thatcherism) from the 1980s onwards, the role of the intellectual/academic has changed significantly throughout this period, as universities have become increasingly corporatized. This article tracks this evolution by tracing the paradoxical fate of cultural studies as an intellectual project and academic formation, and Hall’s ultimate distancing from it at the end of his life.

Desperately seeking the audience

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 28-06-2006

DOI: 10.4324/9780203133347

At home in Asia? Sydney’s Chinatown and Australia’s ‘Asian Century’

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 12-03-2016

DOI: 10.1177/1367877915573763

Abstract: It is widely recognised that the 21st century is seeing a geopolitical shift in global power relations towards Asia, particularly China. This has led Australia to officially embrace Asia as its regional home. But the neoliberal economic logic underpinning this embrace leads to a narrowly transactional conception of Australia’s relationship to Asia, governed by an opportunity/threat dichotomy. By contrast, this article describes Sydney’s Chinatown today as an increasingly hybrid, porous and transnational space of uneven and mixed-up, embodied Asian-Australianness. Juxtaposing the dynamic on-the-ground reality of this contemporary Chinatown with government discourse on Australia’s relationship to Asia, as exemplified by the 2012 White Paper Australia in the Asian Century, illuminates that Australia is not yet at home in Asia.

Between asia and the west: The cultural politics of food

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2004

DOI: 10.1080/10408340308518248

Australia, China, and Asian regionalism: Navigating distant proximity

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 2010

DOI: 10.17953/AMER.36.2.VN438432L842V608

On cultural studies, again

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 14-02-2020

DOI: 10.1177/1367877919891732

Abstract: This article reflects on the state of cultural studies today. It asks to what extent cultural studies can move with the times, now that we live in a radically altered world dominated by global challenges such as climate change, the rise of China, and technological transformation. It points to the importance of focusing on cultural studies’ institutional and material conditions of possibility if it is to continue to exist as a distinct intellectual field.

Inhabiting the diasporic habitus: on Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-01-2018

DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2017.1412140

Multicultural imagined communities: Cultural Difference and National Identity in Australia and the USA

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 1994

DOI: 10.1080/10304319409365672

Cultural Studies

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Date: 2008

DOI: 10.4135/9781848608443.N11

What are museums for? The enduring friction between nationalism and cosmopolitanism

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 28-11-2017

DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2016.1260019

Making the University Matter

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 29-03-2012

DOI: 10.4324/9780203813027

Culture and Communication: Towards an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 06-1990

DOI: 10.1177/0267323190005002006

Abstract: The irresistible march of transnational media has given rise to widely experienced problems concerning cultural autonomy and identity. The research tradition of `cultural studies' offers a very appropriate and distinctive way of analysing these questions, especially by means of a critical ethnography of reception. The tendency in some recent reception research to celebrate `the popular' as a source of resistance to `the hegemonic' is criticized.

Ethnicities and our precarious future

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 03-2011

DOI: 10.1177/14687968110110010205

Cultural Diplomacy: Beyond the national interest

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 23-06-2015

DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2015.1042474

Navigating complexity: From cultural critique to cultural intelligence

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 29-11-2011

DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2011.617873

Chinatowns and the Rise of China

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 10-12-2020

DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X19000179

Abstract: In the early twentieth century, Chinatowns in the West were ghettoes for Chinese immigrants who were marginalized and considered ‘other’ by the dominant society. In Western eyes, these areas were the no-go zones of the Oriental ‘other’. Now, more than a hundred years later, traditional Chinatowns still exist in some cities but their meaning and role has been transformed, while in other cities entirely new Chinatowns have emerged. This article discusses how Chinatowns today are increasingly contested sites where older diasporic understandings of Chineseness are unsettled by newer, neoliberal interpretations, dominated by the pull of China's new-found economic might. In particular, the so-called ‘rise of China’ has spawned a globalization of the idea of ‘Chinatown’ itself, with its actual uptake in urban development projects the world over, or a backlash against it, determined by varying perceptions of China's global ascendancy as an amalgam of threat and opportunity.

Murdoch University

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Western Sydney University

Location: Australia

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University Of Amsterdam

Location: Netherlands

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Cultural Research For The 21st Century: Building Cultural Intelligence For A Complex World

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 2010

Funder: Australian Research Council

Civic Sinoburbia: New Chinese Migrants And Everyday Citizenship In Sydney

Start Date: 2020

End Date: 2024

Funder: Australian Research Council

Diversity Of Cultural Expression (DICE)

Start Date: 2012

End Date: 2013

Funder: Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Government

Global Cultural Futures: A Digital Knowledge Management And Exchange Platform

Start Date: 2010

End Date: 2015

Funder: University of Western Sydney

Global Digital Atlas For Cultural Diversity, Pluralism And Intercultural Dialogue In Asia

Start Date: 2007

End Date: 2008

Funder: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LASP03002

Start Date: 2003

End Date: 12-2003

Amount: $95,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170101200

Start Date: 2017

End Date: 12-2021

Amount: $298,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0668261

Start Date: 05-2006

End Date: 07-2009

Amount: $274,623.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559667

Start Date: 07-2005

End Date: 07-2010

Amount: $737,303.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0453777

Start Date: 04-2004

End Date: 10-2007

Amount: $263,240.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP200301481

Start Date: 07-2021

End Date: 06-2025

Amount: $571,407.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0988547

Start Date: 06-2009

End Date: 09-2012

Amount: $369,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP200100063

Start Date: 07-2021

End Date: 07-2024

Amount: $338,927.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP120200311

Start Date: 10-2012

End Date: 09-2015

Amount: $254,553.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200102072

Start Date: 2020

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $392,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354600

Start Date: 01-2004

End Date: 01-2005

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455478

Start Date: 01-2005

End Date: 01-2010

Amount: $220,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage - International - Grant ID: LX0668626

Start Date: 05-2006

End Date: 06-2009

Amount: $28,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354802

Start Date: 12-2003

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $40,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Networks - Grant ID: RN0460310

Start Date: 07-2004

End Date: 06-2009

Amount: $1,500,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Networks - Grant ID: RN0459928

Start Date: 09-2004

End Date: 12-2010

Amount: $1,750,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354670

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $40,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council