J N Erni
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5757 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J N Erni |
| NOMBRES | J N |
| APELLIDO | Erni |
| FIRMA | ERNI J N |
| AFILIACIONES | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0609-7512 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Exploring transcultural translanguaging strategies in English literature of a bilingual Chinese author
Translanguaging, though widely studied in spoken language pedagogy, remains under-explored in written texts produced by bilingual or multilingual authors. This study introduces a new framework grounded in translanguaging practice and transcultural creativity to conceptualize “transcultural translanguaging strategies.” Using this framework, the bilingual Chinese author Qiu Xiaolong’s novel Enigma of China is analyzed to uncover how literary device…
Between consciousness and conscience
Introduction
Theory, culture, care
Care is a multifaceted and contentious terrain, as amply exemplified by the post-COVID landscape that underscores pervasive social and economic vulnerabilities. Engaging in interdisciplinary work spanning Environmental Humanities, Art, Literary Studies, Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, the collection of papers in this Special Issue engages in the rapidly expanding worldwide discourse on the necessity of critically reassessing ‘care and caring’ in t…
Re-articulating care and carelessness in precarious times
Care is a contradictory terrain, as seen in the persistence of both socioeconomic vulnerabilities and the wide range of compassionate discourses and practices in society, including in the education landscape. The pandemic has laid bare the fault lines embedded within healthcare systems, schools, and biopolitical frameworks, unveiling important challenges that permeate the institutional, emotional, and relational dimensions of care provision and r…
Negative justice
This article analyzes the role of human rights museums in fostering a common public understanding of rights at the grassroots level. It explores how these museums engage with societal contradictions through museological techniques, exhibition narratives, and intense interactions with communities. The study also discusses how human rights museums form communities to create a ‘legal common sense’ around questions of marginality and disputes. By exa…
The Cultural Politics of Covid-19
Wild hopes
In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill resistance movement, Hong Kong netizens used a popular digital platform known as LIHKG (連登) as a communicative center to exchange time-based information, express outrage or solidarity, and assemble decentered actions of agitation. There was an implied sense that LIHKG was facilitating a “wild” mode of politics oriented toward agitation, disturbance, and chaos. This paper examines its “wild politics”…
Introduction
The global COVID-19 pandemic has robbed us of normal life, however 'normal' may be defined. Yet it has also (re)activated certain strands of cultural research that attempt to steer a path parallel to that of biomedical research. Why do we need Cultural Studies in the midst of this nightmarish period? Aside from reactivating and thinking with disciplinary specificities, the COVID crisis has fairly quickly prompted a realization from the early days…
Toward a Juris-cultural Studies of Human Rights
This special issue grew out of an advanced seminar on Cultural Studies that I guest-taught at the National University of Singapore in 2018, where there has been a long-time engagement with interdisciplinary teaching and learning in the field of Cultural Studies through NUS’s Asian Research Institute (and more recently through the university’s Department of Communication and New Media). The essays collected here represent a collection of sincere e…
(Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific
If on a global scale, our late-modern era is marked by intensifying mobilities of many kinds, then Asia as a geo-cultural region exemplifies this trend in particularly forceful ways, with large mobile populations including permanent migrants, refugees, international students, labour migrants, young travelers, as well as well-developed cross-border networks of mobile media technologies, products, talents, and finances. Our starting point in this a…
The dilemma of mobility
In this essay, we ask whether there has been a revival of ‘youthful aspirations’ in the age of precarity, by examining youth groups’ transnational civic participation in the form of ‘volunteer tourism’ (hereafter, VT). Mobility is central to VT practice, yet is often tainted to various degrees by an associated complex of commercial, extractive, neoliberal, and even racialized interests. Understanding the ‘perils of mobility’, we argue, helps us c…
Transgendering the Law
Citizenship management
Many in Hong Kong have identified the city as ‘half-sovereign’ or ‘conditionally sovereign’, as postcoloniality has brought about new ruptures and shifting boundaries of citizenship in economic, cultural and legal terms. The work of deciphering questions of belonging is still ongoing, and has in fact intensified in recent times. Increasingly, who qualifies as a citizen and where their sense of home is have become vital questions for two visible g…
Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong
People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong's population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups—Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese—Erni and Leung explore the cultural histories of South Asians in Hong Kong and their experiences at school and at work. The book then discusses how far South Asians' lega…
Legitimating Transphobia
Transgender persons are strangers to the law; or put more accurately, the legal imagination is so deeply entrenched in normative gender binarism as to effectively render transsexuals a 'freakish' anomaly to law. This essay attempts to offer a reflection on transgenderism, law and sexual crime from a human rights and criminal law perspective. It focuses on one of the most violent types of institution in society - the prison - and asks: what are th…
Cultural Studies Meets Rights Criticism
I would like to use this occasion to ask how thinking about law and human rights would affect the way we do cultural studies, and vice versa. The truth is that the consideration of the effectivity of many different kinds of political mobilizations around issues of rights, from transnational NGOs’ strategies of anti-imperial politics to UN's education to rethink critical legal methods and practices, have not been seriously charted or assessed in c…
Cultural clusters and cultural industries in China
Through examining the development and the nature of the new cultural districts in China, namely, "clusters of Beijing," this paper attempts to identify the characteristics of, and critically evaluate, the existing models of culture clusters in China. Obviously, these cultural clusters are seen as a united and state effort to assist, develop and boost the so-called cultural industries, including game, animation, comic, software, science and techno…
Reframing Cultural Studies
Human Rights in the Neo-Liberal Imagination
'The end of sovereignty': this has been an ominous refrain in the chorus of global political and human rights analyses aimed at reformulating a post-Cold War configuration of world power. In cultural studies, the same pronouncement is more likely made through a mix of theoretical exuberance and ambivalence toward a post-nationalist and cosmopolitan imaginary. This essay takes as a point of departure the rise of 'new sovereignties' – a fractured W…
War, ‘incendiary media’ and international human rights law
In numerous major military conflicts of the past twenty years, of which the second Gulf War is the most recent, there has been an increased focus by observers concerned with international law on the use and abuse of the media to incite violence, ethnic hatred and even genocide. Radio, print, television and the internet have all been identified as significant political tools for mass manipulation by dictatorial governments to drive deep-seated ani…
Enchanted
“Pottermania”, or the crazed transnational consumption of the most popular children's fantasy fiction series in publishing history, has swept across urban China. It took place along with the rapid emergence of the country's middle‐class culture since the 1990s, marked primarily by a robust consumer revolution constructed as both reality and global dream. Even before China's official membership in the World Trade Organization began, Harry Potter (…
Almost under the same sky
This essay deals with the social and political after-shock introduced by SARS, which is considered here as both a public health outbreak and an urban cultural crisis. In Hong Kong, several years after the epidemic episode, the people's voice regarding urban spatial politics, governance, and the media has not only grown louder, but has also been profoundly transformed into collective effervescence. This essay is based on over 50 interviews of ordi…
Gender and everyday evasions
In this paper, gender negotiations in the production, musical forms, and consumption of Cantopop are taken as a cultural exemplar for a social and political imagination of ambivalence, which seems to be shaping popular life in Hong Kong. It has three focal points – musical forms and expressions of Cantopop (style, lyrics, iconography, affect), gender politics, and ‘everyday‐ness’ – which converge to mark a notable cultural logic performing an enl…
Epidemic Imaginary
This article is a narrative experiment written in the hope of illuminating “Third World AIDS” less as a geographically situated pandemic than as dispersed and dispersing encounters of mobile figurations. Using HIV/AIDS in Thailand as a case, the author argues that to move beyond the dominant understanding of “Third World AIDS” today—influenced mainly by epidemiology and anthropology—we need to attend to a mobile mediascape that manages to bypass …
Cultural clusters and cultural industries in China
Through examining the development and the nature of the new cultural districts in China, namely, "clusters of Beijing," this paper attempts to identify the characteristics of, and critically evaluate, the existing models of culture clusters in China. Obviously, these cultural clusters are seen as a united and state effort to assist, develop and boost the so-called cultural industries, including game, animation, comic, software, science and techno…
Gender and everyday evasions
In this paper, gender negotiations in the production, musical forms, and consumption of Cantopop are taken as a cultural exemplar for a social and political imagination of ambivalence, which seems to be shaping popular life in Hong Kong. It has three focal points – musical forms and expressions of Cantopop (style, lyrics, iconography, affect), gender politics, and ‘everyday‐ness’ – which converge to mark a notable cultural logic performing an enl…
Run Queer Asia Run
Citizenship management
Many in Hong Kong have identified the city as ‘half-sovereign’ or ‘conditionally sovereign’, as postcoloniality has brought about new ruptures and shifting boundaries of citizenship in economic, cultural and legal terms. The work of deciphering questions of belonging is still ongoing, and has in fact intensified in recent times. Increasingly, who qualifies as a citizen and where their sense of home is have become vital questions for two visible g…
Glossy Subjects
The burgeoning cultural practices among gays and lesbians in Taiwan in the 1990s provide an important context for considering broader questions about what has been called `weak group' ( ruoshi tuanti) identity politics, family life and modernity in Taiwan. This article examines the construction of gay and lesbian identities in Taiwan as expressed in their cultural consumption of an enormously popular magazine G&L (1996 - present). Through a quali…
Like a Postcolonial Culture
Wild hopes
In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill resistance movement, Hong Kong netizens used a popular digital platform known as LIHKG (連登) as a communicative center to exchange time-based information, express outrage or solidarity, and assemble decentered actions of agitation. There was an implied sense that LIHKG was facilitating a “wild” mode of politics oriented toward agitation, disturbance, and chaos. This paper examines its “wild politics”…
"Where Is the "Audience
Epidemic Imaginary
This article is a narrative experiment written in the hope of illuminating “Third World AIDS” less as a geographically situated pandemic than as dispersed and dispersing encounters of mobile figurations. Using HIV/AIDS in Thailand as a case, the author argues that to move beyond the dominant understanding of “Third World AIDS” today—influenced mainly by epidemiology and anthropology—we need to attend to a mobile mediascape that manages to bypass …
Of desire, theFarang, and textual excursions
This article documents and discusses the neo-orientalist tendencies in the First World's sporadic coverage of ‘Asian AIDS’, with a particular focus on the localized context of Thailand. It takes the problem of ‘Asian AIDS’ as a critical point of articulation between a health crisis and the specific geopolitical movements of capital, tourism, and desire within the processes of globalization. In order to highlight the episodic nature of the First W…
"Where Is the "Audience
Aids science
On the limits of "wired identity" in the age of global media
Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes, and Cultural Boundaries. David Morley and Kevin Robins. London: Routledge, 1995.257pp.; $55.00 (cloth) $17.95 (paper). Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events. McKenzie Wark. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.253 pp.; $29.95 (cloth) $14.95 (paper)
Of desire, theFarang, and textual excursions
This article documents and discusses the neo-orientalist tendencies in the First World's sporadic coverage of ‘Asian AIDS’, with a particular focus on the localized context of Thailand. It takes the problem of ‘Asian AIDS’ as a critical point of articulation between a health crisis and the specific geopolitical movements of capital, tourism, and desire within the processes of globalization. In order to highlight the episodic nature of the First W…
Queer figurations in the media
This essay examines the discourse of stigmatization set off by the 1993 child molestation scandal implicating Michael Jackson, and reflects on the implications of the scandal for the political possibilities and limits of non‐normative identity constructions in the media, and of queerness specifically. After a brief overview of queer theory and its significance to media studies and a discussion of the “queering” of Jackson by the media long before…
Glossy Subjects
The burgeoning cultural practices among gays and lesbians in Taiwan in the 1990s provide an important context for considering broader questions about what has been called `weak group' ( ruoshi tuanti) identity politics, family life and modernity in Taiwan. This article examines the construction of gay and lesbian identities in Taiwan as expressed in their cultural consumption of an enormously popular magazine G&L (1996 - present). Through a quali…
Like a Postcolonial Culture
Run Queer Asia Run
Towards queer cultural rights
Epidemic Imaginary
This article is a narrative experiment written in the hope of illuminating “Third World AIDS” less as a geographically situated pandemic than as dispersed and dispersing encounters of mobile figurations. Using HIV/AIDS in Thailand as a case, the author argues that to move beyond the dominant understanding of “Third World AIDS” today—influenced mainly by epidemiology and anthropology—we need to attend to a mobile mediascape that manages to bypass …
Gender and everyday evasions
In this paper, gender negotiations in the production, musical forms, and consumption of Cantopop are taken as a cultural exemplar for a social and political imagination of ambivalence, which seems to be shaping popular life in Hong Kong. It has three focal points – musical forms and expressions of Cantopop (style, lyrics, iconography, affect), gender politics, and ‘everyday‐ness’ – which converge to mark a notable cultural logic performing an enl…
Enchanted
“Pottermania”, or the crazed transnational consumption of the most popular children's fantasy fiction series in publishing history, has swept across urban China. It took place along with the rapid emergence of the country's middle‐class culture since the 1990s, marked primarily by a robust consumer revolution constructed as both reality and global dream. Even before China's official membership in the World Trade Organization began, Harry Potter (…
Almost under the same sky
This essay deals with the social and political after-shock introduced by SARS, which is considered here as both a public health outbreak and an urban cultural crisis. In Hong Kong, several years after the epidemic episode, the people's voice regarding urban spatial politics, governance, and the media has not only grown louder, but has also been profoundly transformed into collective effervescence. This essay is based on over 50 interviews of ordi…
Human Rights in the Neo-Liberal Imagination
'The end of sovereignty': this has been an ominous refrain in the chorus of global political and human rights analyses aimed at reformulating a post-Cold War configuration of world power. In cultural studies, the same pronouncement is more likely made through a mix of theoretical exuberance and ambivalence toward a post-nationalist and cosmopolitan imaginary. This essay takes as a point of departure the rise of 'new sovereignties' – a fractured W…
War, ‘incendiary media’ and international human rights law
In numerous major military conflicts of the past twenty years, of which the second Gulf War is the most recent, there has been an increased focus by observers concerned with international law on the use and abuse of the media to incite violence, ethnic hatred and even genocide. Radio, print, television and the internet have all been identified as significant political tools for mass manipulation by dictatorial governments to drive deep-seated ani…
Reframing Cultural Studies
Legitimating Transphobia
Transgender persons are strangers to the law; or put more accurately, the legal imagination is so deeply entrenched in normative gender binarism as to effectively render transsexuals a 'freakish' anomaly to law. This essay attempts to offer a reflection on transgenderism, law and sexual crime from a human rights and criminal law perspective. It focuses on one of the most violent types of institution in society - the prison - and asks: what are th…
Cultural Studies Meets Rights Criticism
I would like to use this occasion to ask how thinking about law and human rights would affect the way we do cultural studies, and vice versa. The truth is that the consideration of the effectivity of many different kinds of political mobilizations around issues of rights, from transnational NGOs’ strategies of anti-imperial politics to UN's education to rethink critical legal methods and practices, have not been seriously charted or assessed in c…
Cultural clusters and cultural industries in China
Through examining the development and the nature of the new cultural districts in China, namely, "clusters of Beijing," this paper attempts to identify the characteristics of, and critically evaluate, the existing models of culture clusters in China. Obviously, these cultural clusters are seen as a united and state effort to assist, develop and boost the so-called cultural industries, including game, animation, comic, software, science and techno…
Understanding South Asian Minorities in Hong Kong
People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong's population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups—Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese—Erni and Leung explore the cultural histories of South Asians in Hong Kong and their experiences at school and at work. The book then discusses how far South Asians' lega…
Citizenship management
Many in Hong Kong have identified the city as ‘half-sovereign’ or ‘conditionally sovereign’, as postcoloniality has brought about new ruptures and shifting boundaries of citizenship in economic, cultural and legal terms. The work of deciphering questions of belonging is still ongoing, and has in fact intensified in recent times. Increasingly, who qualifies as a citizen and where their sense of home is have become vital questions for two visible g…
Transgendering the Law
(Im)mobile precarity in the Asia-Pacific
If on a global scale, our late-modern era is marked by intensifying mobilities of many kinds, then Asia as a geo-cultural region exemplifies this trend in particularly forceful ways, with large mobile populations including permanent migrants, refugees, international students, labour migrants, young travelers, as well as well-developed cross-border networks of mobile media technologies, products, talents, and finances. Our starting point in this a…
The dilemma of mobility
In this essay, we ask whether there has been a revival of ‘youthful aspirations’ in the age of precarity, by examining youth groups’ transnational civic participation in the form of ‘volunteer tourism’ (hereafter, VT). Mobility is central to VT practice, yet is often tainted to various degrees by an associated complex of commercial, extractive, neoliberal, and even racialized interests. Understanding the ‘perils of mobility’, we argue, helps us c…
Introduction
The global COVID-19 pandemic has robbed us of normal life, however 'normal' may be defined. Yet it has also (re)activated certain strands of cultural research that attempt to steer a path parallel to that of biomedical research. Why do we need Cultural Studies in the midst of this nightmarish period? Aside from reactivating and thinking with disciplinary specificities, the COVID crisis has fairly quickly prompted a realization from the early days…
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