Nadine Attewell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadine Attewell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Attewell |
| SIGNATURE | ATTEWELL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5103-1307 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War
This article thinks with and against photographs taken by British military photographers in Hong Kong at the end of World War II, during the transition from Japanese back to British colonial rule. Building on Lisa Yoneyama's account of the “postwar settlements” through which “the war's meaning” was defined and contained, I situate the photographs as part of a broader British effort to reassert the legitimacy of colonial rule at a crisis point for…
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting
In Catherine Chan's first monograph, she focuses on Hong Kong's Macanese diasporic community: the product of sustained patterns of interracial intimacy among European, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Malay people in Portuguese colonies like Macau, Goa, and Timor. Focusing on the first century of Hong Kong's history as a British colony, The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong joins a rich body of recent scholarship illuminating Hong Kong's histo…
Sweating for Their Pay: Gender, Labor, and Photography across the Decolonizing Pacific
In recent years, scholars have drawn attention to the participation of Asian and Asian diasporic laborers in American Cold War–era projects of war-making throughout Southeast Asia. However, those dimensions of wartime logistics work that were undertaken primarily by Southeast Asian women, including cooking, cleaning, and entertaining, remain understudied. In this essay, we reflect on the gendered forms of reproductive labor that sustained and als…
Between Asia and empire: Infrastructures of encounter in the archive of war
In this essay, we stage a conversation about our experiences researching everyday histories of encounter between Asian and Asian diasporic subjects during the Pacific and Vietnam Wars. Through readings of materials from the archives of two empires, Britain and the United States, with bloody records of military intervention in east and south-east Asia, we show how wartime inter-Asian, Afro-Asian, and Asian diasporic geographies of relation overlap…
Looking in Stereo: School Photography, Interracial Intimacy, and the Pulse of the Archive
This article examines the visual genre of the school photograph in order to reflect on the promise of transcolonial methodologies for thinking about the history of race and belonging in Canada. It focuses on four photographs of schoolchildren taken at around the same time in a range of locations across the British Empire. All feature Chinese children in close proximity to black, South Asian, or white peers. Seeking to understand how the photograp…
Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire
Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor
Research Article| September 01 2016 Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor Nadine Attewell Nadine Attewell McMaster University [email protected] Nadine Attewell is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University whose articles have appeared in TOPIA, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Postcolonial Text, and Contemporary Literature. Her first book, Better Britons: Repr…
In/Security in Our Times
Sweating for Their Pay: Gender, Labor, and Photography across the Decolonizing Pacific
In recent years, scholars have drawn attention to the participation of Asian and Asian diasporic laborers in American Cold War–era projects of war-making throughout Southeast Asia. However, those dimensions of wartime logistics work that were undertaken primarily by Southeast Asian women, including cooking, cleaning, and entertaining, remain understudied. In this essay, we reflect on the gendered forms of reproductive labor that sustained and als…
Better Britons: Reproduction, National Identity, and the Afterlife of Empire
Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor
Research Article| September 01 2016 Not the Asian You Had in Mind: Race, Precarity, and Academic Labor Nadine Attewell Nadine Attewell McMaster University [email protected] Nadine Attewell is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University whose articles have appeared in TOPIA, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Postcolonial Text, and Contemporary Literature. Her first book, Better Britons: Repr…
In/Security in Our Times
Looking in Stereo: School Photography, Interracial Intimacy, and the Pulse of the Archive
This article examines the visual genre of the school photograph in order to reflect on the promise of transcolonial methodologies for thinking about the history of race and belonging in Canada. It focuses on four photographs of schoolchildren taken at around the same time in a range of locations across the British Empire. All feature Chinese children in close proximity to black, South Asian, or white peers. Seeking to understand how the photograp…
Between Asia and empire: Infrastructures of encounter in the archive of war
In this essay, we stage a conversation about our experiences researching everyday histories of encounter between Asian and Asian diasporic subjects during the Pacific and Vietnam Wars. Through readings of materials from the archives of two empires, Britain and the United States, with bloody records of military intervention in east and south-east Asia, we show how wartime inter-Asian, Afro-Asian, and Asian diasporic geographies of relation overlap…
Sweating for Their Pay: Gender, Labor, and Photography across the Decolonizing Pacific
In recent years, scholars have drawn attention to the participation of Asian and Asian diasporic laborers in American Cold War–era projects of war-making throughout Southeast Asia. However, those dimensions of wartime logistics work that were undertaken primarily by Southeast Asian women, including cooking, cleaning, and entertaining, remain understudied. In this essay, we reflect on the gendered forms of reproductive labor that sustained and als…
Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War
This article thinks with and against photographs taken by British military photographers in Hong Kong at the end of World War II, during the transition from Japanese back to British colonial rule. Building on Lisa Yoneyama's account of the “postwar settlements” through which “the war's meaning” was defined and contained, I situate the photographs as part of a broader British effort to reassert the legitimacy of colonial rule at a crisis point for…
The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong: A Century of Transimperial Drifting
In Catherine Chan's first monograph, she focuses on Hong Kong's Macanese diasporic community: the product of sustained patterns of interracial intimacy among European, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Malay people in Portuguese colonies like Macau, Goa, and Timor. Focusing on the first century of Hong Kong's history as a British colony, The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong joins a rich body of recent scholarship illuminating Hong Kong's histo…
History (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Empire (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works)