Fran Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5044-5169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unsettling
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration
This article aims to unpack discourses of 'race' and racializations associated with White Western foreign residents in China amid pandemic politics. China's proposal to loosen visa regulations for non-citizens during the pandemic (February 2020) sparked many racist and nationalistic sentiments online. Since then, exposés of the 'special treatment' foreigners apparently demand during quarantine in China have met significant online backlash. Anti-f…
Sexuality and the Rise of China
Understanding gendered transnational education mobility
In this interview, Fran Martin discusses gendered transnational education mobility in relation to research methodology, the contradictions of neoliberal ideology, and the social implications of ethnographic research. Challenging stereotypical and often biased portrayals of Chinese international students in the Anglosphere, Martin argues for the importance of attending to the irreducible details of individual life experiences and explains how to e…
Enterprising self and bohemian nomad
This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 56 young women who moved from China to Australia for university, the article focuses on two of their stories to illustrate how education mobility mediated their negotiation of available understandings of gendered personhood and co…
Dreams of Flight
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and f…
Internationalisation of higher education
This article reports the findings of a study on the intercultural dimension of internationalisation at two universities, located in China and Canada, as evidenced through their visiting scholar (VS) programme. Andreotti and her research team identified three articulations of internationalisation in higher education that are located in a modern/colonial imaginary. They propose a fourth articulation, relational trans‐localism, that is located outsi…
Introduction
Although it has long been considered a non-Asian country located in Asia, Australia is increasingly linked to Asian media circuits, and the rise of the Asian media industries is changing Australian media culture. At the level of consumption, Asian media content – from Bollywood film to Japanese TV to Chinese online video to Korean social media and K-pop – is now more readily accessible than ever to media users in Australia due to broadband connec…
Gender, Mobility Regimes, and Social Transformation in Asia
This special issue, which grows out of an international symposium that the editors hosted at the University of Melbourne in November 2016, explores the interrelations among gender, human mobilities
Australian cultural studies in an 'Asian century
The organizers of this Colloquium provided a number of prompts to help shape our conversation. These included a theoretical question—which agendas are most promising for the future development of the discipline?—and some political ones: What political concerns— within Australia, and internationally—shaped cultural studies’ practical engagements in the late 1990s? How have these changed? And which are now the most pressing? This short article atte…
Overseas Study as Zone of Suspension
This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic research with a group of Chinese women students in Australia to consider how time studying abroad functions as a temporal and geographic ‘zone of suspension’ for these mobile youth, through which they reconfigure the meanings of both youth and feminine gender. Vis-à-vis life course, on one hand this generation of young women is subject to the fairly rigid normative life-stage model of the elder gene…
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Angelwings
Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this new genre was a defining feature of Taiwan's literary scene in the 1990s. Queer fiction was also instrumental in forming self-identifying subcultural ga…
Towards Decolonising Teacher Education
This paper critically examines two studies that investigated pre- service teacher learning in contrasting contexts: an international study visit and a local service-learning experience. We argue that it is useful to conceive of these experiences as intercultural, and propose that how 'intercultural' is theorised in the western academy is object-based with roots in colonialism. We contrast this with a relational logic described by Burbules [1997. …
"Australia's "Asian Century
In late September 2013, Australian news media reported on two very different events related to journeys across the ocean straits that separate Australia from Indonesia. On the evening of September 26th, an Indonesian fishing boat carrying eighty refugees from northern Lebanon who intended to seek asylum in Australia foundered off a West Java beach. The boat sank the following day. Thirty-one people who had been onboard drowned. Some of those who …
Relating to the ‘Other’
In this paper we use Transformative Learning Theory as a lens for making sense of teachers’ learning from study visits to the Global South. Transformative Learning theory is made up of two main elements: the form of transformations and the processes that support transformations. ‘Life changing’ experiences as expressed by study visit participants have been interpreted as transformational, but questions about who and what are transformed, and whet…
Lifestyle Media and Social Transformation in Asia
Across Asia, the past three decades have been marked by shared experiences of hyper-accelerated social, cultural and economic transformation. Consumer culture plays an increasing role in countries once dominated by socialism, and neo-liberal economic and social policies increasingly are being adopted by authoritarian statist regimes. More and more, governments address their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with reflexive 'choices' …
Mapping the Minor
A review of Francoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih's (Eds) Minor Transnationalism (Duke University Press, Durham, 2005
Power and representation
This paper critically analyses the neo‐liberal discourse informing global education policy and practice. We use postcolonial theory to deconstruct the contexts for global educational partnerships, highlighting how issues of power and representation are central to their development and the learning that takes place within them. Teacher development through North—South study visits is one way of challenging teachers’ worldviews, but these are not al…
Ethnogeography
In the context of education in England, an argument is put forward that Geography, as it is conceptualised in the National Curriculum, does not connect to either primary school pupils or their teachers. Reasons for this are explored and a proposal is made for a new paradigm for primary geography: ethnogeography. This proposal parallels work on ethnomathematics, which provides a political agenda to the study of maths and itself draws from Paulo Fr…
Syncretism and Synchronicity
Surface Tensions
Research Article| January 01 2000 SURFACE TENSIONS: Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan Fran Martin Fran Martin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (1): 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-1-61 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Dreams of Flight
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and f…
Overseas Study as Zone of Suspension
This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic research with a group of Chinese women students in Australia to consider how time studying abroad functions as a temporal and geographic ‘zone of suspension’ for these mobile youth, through which they reconfigure the meanings of both youth and feminine gender. Vis-à-vis life course, on one hand this generation of young women is subject to the fairly rigid normative life-stage model of the elder gene…
Surface Tensions
Research Article| January 01 2000 SURFACE TENSIONS: Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan Fran Martin Fran Martin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (1): 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-1-61 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Towards Decolonising Teacher Education
This paper critically examines two studies that investigated pre- service teacher learning in contrasting contexts: an international study visit and a local service-learning experience. We argue that it is useful to conceive of these experiences as intercultural, and propose that how 'intercultural' is theorised in the western academy is object-based with roots in colonialism. We contrast this with a relational logic described by Burbules [1997. …
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Relating to the ‘Other’
In this paper we use Transformative Learning Theory as a lens for making sense of teachers’ learning from study visits to the Global South. Transformative Learning theory is made up of two main elements: the form of transformations and the processes that support transformations. ‘Life changing’ experiences as expressed by study visit participants have been interpreted as transformational, but questions about who and what are transformed, and whet…
Gender, Mobility Regimes, and Social Transformation in Asia
This special issue, which grows out of an international symposium that the editors hosted at the University of Melbourne in November 2016, explores the interrelations among gender, human mobilities
Unsettling
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration
This article aims to unpack discourses of 'race' and racializations associated with White Western foreign residents in China amid pandemic politics. China's proposal to loosen visa regulations for non-citizens during the pandemic (February 2020) sparked many racist and nationalistic sentiments online. Since then, exposés of the 'special treatment' foreigners apparently demand during quarantine in China have met significant online backlash. Anti-f…
Power and representation
This paper critically analyses the neo‐liberal discourse informing global education policy and practice. We use postcolonial theory to deconstruct the contexts for global educational partnerships, highlighting how issues of power and representation are central to their development and the learning that takes place within them. Teacher development through North—South study visits is one way of challenging teachers’ worldviews, but these are not al…
Enterprising self and bohemian nomad
This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 56 young women who moved from China to Australia for university, the article focuses on two of their stories to illustrate how education mobility mediated their negotiation of available understandings of gendered personhood and co…
Lifestyle Media and Social Transformation in Asia
Across Asia, the past three decades have been marked by shared experiences of hyper-accelerated social, cultural and economic transformation. Consumer culture plays an increasing role in countries once dominated by socialism, and neo-liberal economic and social policies increasingly are being adopted by authoritarian statist regimes. More and more, governments address their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with reflexive 'choices' …
Understanding gendered transnational education mobility
In this interview, Fran Martin discusses gendered transnational education mobility in relation to research methodology, the contradictions of neoliberal ideology, and the social implications of ethnographic research. Challenging stereotypical and often biased portrayals of Chinese international students in the Anglosphere, Martin argues for the importance of attending to the irreducible details of individual life experiences and explains how to e…
Internationalisation of higher education
This article reports the findings of a study on the intercultural dimension of internationalisation at two universities, located in China and Canada, as evidenced through their visiting scholar (VS) programme. Andreotti and her research team identified three articulations of internationalisation in higher education that are located in a modern/colonial imaginary. They propose a fourth articulation, relational trans‐localism, that is located outsi…
Ethnogeography
In the context of education in England, an argument is put forward that Geography, as it is conceptualised in the National Curriculum, does not connect to either primary school pupils or their teachers. Reasons for this are explored and a proposal is made for a new paradigm for primary geography: ethnogeography. This proposal parallels work on ethnomathematics, which provides a political agenda to the study of maths and itself draws from Paulo Fr…
Surface Tensions
Research Article| January 01 2000 SURFACE TENSIONS: Reading Productions of Tongzhi in Contemporary Taiwan Fran Martin Fran Martin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2000) 6 (1): 61–86. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-6-1-61 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Si…
Syncretism and Synchronicity
Ethnogeography
In the context of education in England, an argument is put forward that Geography, as it is conceptualised in the National Curriculum, does not connect to either primary school pupils or their teachers. Reasons for this are explored and a proposal is made for a new paradigm for primary geography: ethnogeography. This proposal parallels work on ethnomathematics, which provides a political agenda to the study of maths and itself draws from Paulo Fr…
Power and representation
This paper critically analyses the neo‐liberal discourse informing global education policy and practice. We use postcolonial theory to deconstruct the contexts for global educational partnerships, highlighting how issues of power and representation are central to their development and the learning that takes place within them. Teacher development through North—South study visits is one way of challenging teachers’ worldviews, but these are not al…
Relating to the ‘Other’
In this paper we use Transformative Learning Theory as a lens for making sense of teachers’ learning from study visits to the Global South. Transformative Learning theory is made up of two main elements: the form of transformations and the processes that support transformations. ‘Life changing’ experiences as expressed by study visit participants have been interpreted as transformational, but questions about who and what are transformed, and whet…
Lifestyle Media and Social Transformation in Asia
Across Asia, the past three decades have been marked by shared experiences of hyper-accelerated social, cultural and economic transformation. Consumer culture plays an increasing role in countries once dominated by socialism, and neo-liberal economic and social policies increasingly are being adopted by authoritarian statist regimes. More and more, governments address their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with reflexive 'choices' …
Mapping the Minor
A review of Francoise Lionnet and Shu-Mei Shih's (Eds) Minor Transnationalism (Duke University Press, Durham, 2005
"Australia's "Asian Century
In late September 2013, Australian news media reported on two very different events related to journeys across the ocean straits that separate Australia from Indonesia. On the evening of September 26th, an Indonesian fishing boat carrying eighty refugees from northern Lebanon who intended to seek asylum in Australia foundered off a West Java beach. The boat sank the following day. Thirty-one people who had been onboard drowned. Some of those who …
Towards Decolonising Teacher Education
This paper critically examines two studies that investigated pre- service teacher learning in contrasting contexts: an international study visit and a local service-learning experience. We argue that it is useful to conceive of these experiences as intercultural, and propose that how 'intercultural' is theorised in the western academy is object-based with roots in colonialism. We contrast this with a relational logic described by Burbules [1997. …
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Angelwings
Lesbian and gay--or queer--fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories presented here. Indeed, the meteoric rise of this new genre was a defining feature of Taiwan's literary scene in the 1990s. Queer fiction was also instrumental in forming self-identifying subcultural ga…
Overseas Study as Zone of Suspension
This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic research with a group of Chinese women students in Australia to consider how time studying abroad functions as a temporal and geographic ‘zone of suspension’ for these mobile youth, through which they reconfigure the meanings of both youth and feminine gender. Vis-à-vis life course, on one hand this generation of young women is subject to the fairly rigid normative life-stage model of the elder gene…
Gender, Mobility Regimes, and Social Transformation in Asia
This special issue, which grows out of an international symposium that the editors hosted at the University of Melbourne in November 2016, explores the interrelations among gender, human mobilities
Australian cultural studies in an 'Asian century
The organizers of this Colloquium provided a number of prompts to help shape our conversation. These included a theoretical question—which agendas are most promising for the future development of the discipline?—and some political ones: What political concerns— within Australia, and internationally—shaped cultural studies’ practical engagements in the late 1990s? How have these changed? And which are now the most pressing? This short article atte…
Internationalisation of higher education
This article reports the findings of a study on the intercultural dimension of internationalisation at two universities, located in China and Canada, as evidenced through their visiting scholar (VS) programme. Andreotti and her research team identified three articulations of internationalisation in higher education that are located in a modern/colonial imaginary. They propose a fourth articulation, relational trans‐localism, that is located outsi…
Introduction
Although it has long been considered a non-Asian country located in Asia, Australia is increasingly linked to Asian media circuits, and the rise of the Asian media industries is changing Australian media culture. At the level of consumption, Asian media content – from Bollywood film to Japanese TV to Chinese online video to Korean social media and K-pop – is now more readily accessible than ever to media users in Australia due to broadband connec…
Dreams of Flight
In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and f…
Understanding gendered transnational education mobility
In this interview, Fran Martin discusses gendered transnational education mobility in relation to research methodology, the contradictions of neoliberal ideology, and the social implications of ethnographic research. Challenging stereotypical and often biased portrayals of Chinese international students in the Anglosphere, Martin argues for the importance of attending to the irreducible details of individual life experiences and explains how to e…
Enterprising self and bohemian nomad
This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 56 young women who moved from China to Australia for university, the article focuses on two of their stories to illustrate how education mobility mediated their negotiation of available understandings of gendered personhood and co…
Pandemic politics and the rise of immigration
This article aims to unpack discourses of 'race' and racializations associated with White Western foreign residents in China amid pandemic politics. China's proposal to loosen visa regulations for non-citizens during the pandemic (February 2020) sparked many racist and nationalistic sentiments online. Since then, exposés of the 'special treatment' foreigners apparently demand during quarantine in China have met significant online backlash. Anti-f…
Sexuality and the Rise of China
Unsettling
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works)