Lisa Rofel
Biographic Data
| ID | 186428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Rofel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Rofel |
| SIGNATURE | ROFEL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 481 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
New World Orderings: China and the Global South
The contributors to New World Orderings demonstrate that China’s twenty-first-century rise occurs not only through economics and state politics but equally through the mutual entanglements of overlapping social, economic, and cultural worlds in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. They show how the Chinese state has sought to reconfigure the nation’s position in the world and the centrality of trade, labor, religion, migration, gender, race…
Contact, Communication, Imagination, and Strategies of Worldmaking
On Twenty-First-Century Postcolonialism
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank is a sobering ethnography about the current and possibly future situation in Palestine or
Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism
Priti Ramamurthy, Attiya Ahmad, Judith Gardiner, Bibiana Obler, Lisa Rofel, Megan Sweeney, Ashwini Tambe, Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Feminism and Capitalism (2021), pp. 479-491
Global Intimacies: China and/in the Global South
Feminist Studies 47, no. 2. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 251 7 preface 8 In recent years, people all over the world have become ever more aware of being drawn into intimate—and unequal—relations with one another, whether through environmental crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic commodity chains, violent conflicts, forced displacements , or political protests and social movements. This special issue features China’s so-called rising…
After the Post–Cold War: The Future of Chinese History
In After the Post-Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus f…
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion
In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion…
Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, by Petrus Liu
A View of Women's Studies from Afar and Near
396 Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Lisa Rofel A View of Women’s Studies from Afar and Near As a member of the editorial collective of Feminist Studies, I have had the pleasure of reading the submissions to this special issue on the state of women’s, gender, feminist, and sexuality (WGFS) studies programs . All the accepted articles highlight why WGFS studies programs have been, and continue to be, a vital part of int…
Inextricable relationships
A Conversation with Ericka Huggins
236 Feminist Studies 42, no. 1. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Lisa Rofel and Jeremy Tai A Conversation with Ericka Huggins This interview with Ericka Huggins, a former member of the Black Panther Party, was conducted in May 2015 by Lisa Rofel, a member of the Feminist Studies editorial collective.1 This interview is abridged for purposes of space. Huggins requested that we not review parts of her life that have been well documented elsewhere. …
Ethnographies of Encounter
Ethnographies of encounter are one response to calls to decolonize anthropology. These ethnographies explore how culture making occurs through unequal relationships involving two or more groups of people and things that appear to exist in culturally distinct worlds. The term encounter refers to everyday engagements across difference. Ethnographies of encounter focus on the cross-cultural and relational dynamics of these processes. They consider h…
Queer positions , Queering Asian Studies
What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space for a queer Marxism within Asian studies. The journal enabled scholars to bring together questions of desire with critiques of capitalism and of racialized geopolitics
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. This volume provides an introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. The chapters here examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new spac…
I Am Aids”: Living with HIV/Aids in China
This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who are HIV-positive is the result of a form of pastoral care, or governmentality, on the part of medical and health experts as well as the media. Language use is central to this exper…
The Traffic in Money Boys
This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia and dilemmas about the proper ways to challenge it are framed by the tremendous transformations, often called neoliberalism, that have occurred in China over the last twenty…
An Interview with Shi Tou
In this interview, Shi Tou recounts her experience as a queer artist and activist in Beijing. She explains her view of the relationship between queer politics and art, how Chinese critics have received her works, and how globalization has shaped her art
Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics
In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing that the volume is not merely a scholarly reflection on the changing meanings of transnational Chinese queer politics, but the result of an effort to build such transnational connectio…
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. In a study at once ethnogra…
Queering Euro-American Jews
Book Review| June 01 2005 QUEERING EURO-AMERICAN JEWS Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ix + 413 pp. Lisa Rofel Lisa Rofel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (3): 476–478. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-3-476 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Society for Cultural Anthropology: Reminder: SCA Spring 2004 Meeting on “Sovereignty
The Outsider Within: Margery Wolf and Feminist Anthropology
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. In a study at once ethnogra…
Ethnographies of Encounter
Ethnographies of encounter are one response to calls to decolonize anthropology. These ethnographies explore how culture making occurs through unequal relationships involving two or more groups of people and things that appear to exist in culturally distinct worlds. The term encounter refers to everyday engagements across difference. Ethnographies of encounter focus on the cross-cultural and relational dynamics of these processes. They consider h…
Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China
Research Article| October 01 1999 Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China Lisa Rofel Lisa Rofel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1999) 5 (4): 451-474. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-5-4-451 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Rofel; Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China. GLQ 1 October 1999; 5 (4): 451-474. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/106426…
Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China
Yearnings: Televisual love and melodramatic politics in contemporary China
To trace the complex "passion for meaning" (Barthes) that animated the consumption and interpretation of Yearnings, a television melodrama that aired in China just a year and a half after the Tiananmen demonstrations, requires moving beyond a dichotomy between "the political" and "the popular." This article argues that Yearnings became a nationwide controversy because it allegorizes post-Tiananmen dilemmas of national identity in relation to soci…
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
The Traffic in Money Boys
This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia and dilemmas about the proper ways to challenge it are framed by the tremendous transformations, often called neoliberalism, that have occurred in China over the last twenty…
Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics
In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing that the volume is not merely a scholarly reflection on the changing meanings of transnational Chinese queer politics, but the result of an effort to build such transnational connectio…
Discrepant Modernities and Their Discontents
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2001
Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace
Queer positions , Queering Asian Studies
What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space for a queer Marxism within Asian studies. The journal enabled scholars to bring together questions of desire with critiques of capitalism and of racialized geopolitics
I Am Aids”: Living with HIV/Aids in China
This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who are HIV-positive is the result of a form of pastoral care, or governmentality, on the part of medical and health experts as well as the media. Language use is central to this exper…
Where Feminism Lies: Field Encounters in China
We were enjoying the midday break for cadres. Yu Shifu, Tang Shan, and I had gathered in our customary spot, the cramped reception office of Zhenfu Silk Weaving Factory in Hangzhou, historically the silk capital of China. It was the winter of 1985, and I was in the midst of two years of anthropological research on economic reform as an imaginary, or symbolic, politico-economic vision that was shaping new subjectivities for women workers.2 Tang Sh…
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank is a sobering ethnography about the current and possibly future situation in Palestine or
Sexuality, Class, and Conflict in a Lesbian Workplace
Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China
Where Feminism Lies: Field Encounters in China
We were enjoying the midday break for cadres. Yu Shifu, Tang Shan, and I had gathered in our customary spot, the cramped reception office of Zhenfu Silk Weaving Factory in Hangzhou, historically the silk capital of China. It was the winter of 1985, and I was in the midst of two years of anthropological research on economic reform as an imaginary, or symbolic, politico-economic vision that was shaping new subjectivities for women workers.2 Tang Sh…
Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State
Yearnings: Televisual love and melodramatic politics in contemporary China
To trace the complex "passion for meaning" (Barthes) that animated the consumption and interpretation of Yearnings, a television melodrama that aired in China just a year and a half after the Tiananmen demonstrations, requires moving beyond a dichotomy between "the political" and "the popular." This article argues that Yearnings became a nationwide controversy because it allegorizes post-Tiananmen dilemmas of national identity in relation to soci…
Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism
In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1…
Other ModernitiesGendered Yearnings in China after Socialism: Gendered yearnings in China after socialism
"In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in …
Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China
Research Article| October 01 1999 Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China Lisa Rofel Lisa Rofel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (1999) 5 (4): 451-474. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-5-4-451 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Rofel; Qualities of Desire: Imagining Gay Identities in China. GLQ 1 October 1999; 5 (4): 451-474. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/106426…
Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism
Guide to Women's Studies in China
Discrepant Modernities and Their Discontents
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 9, Number 3, Winter 2001
Society for Cultural Anthropology: Reminder: SCA Spring 2004 Meeting on “Sovereignty
The Outsider Within: Margery Wolf and Feminist Anthropology
Queering Euro-American Jews
Book Review| June 01 2005 QUEERING EURO-AMERICAN JEWS Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. ix + 413 pp. Lisa Rofel Lisa Rofel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2005) 11 (3): 476–478. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-11-3-476 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture
Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. In a study at once ethnogra…
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. This volume provides an introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. The chapters here examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new spac…
I Am Aids”: Living with HIV/Aids in China
This essay addresses how and why people in China create an identity out of their medical status of having HIV/AIDS. The essay argues that contrary to the idea that “coming out” as HIV-positive might be liberating, the experience of being “pushed out” by many people who are HIV-positive is the result of a form of pastoral care, or governmentality, on the part of medical and health experts as well as the media. Language use is central to this exper…
The Traffic in Money Boys
This essay addresses the anxiety that many urban gay men in China express about “money boys”—a term used in English to refer to male sex workers who have sex with other men for money. The essay argues that money boys are a pressing issue for Chinese gay men because homophobia and dilemmas about the proper ways to challenge it are framed by the tremendous transformations, often called neoliberalism, that have occurred in China over the last twenty…
An Interview with Shi Tou
In this interview, Shi Tou recounts her experience as a queer artist and activist in Beijing. She explains her view of the relationship between queer politics and art, how Chinese critics have received her works, and how globalization has shaped her art
Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics
In the introduction to the special issue, the guest editors examine the key issues in the current dialogue on Chinese politics and transnational queer formations. The editors explain the origins of the special volume in a transnational queer conference, emphasizing that the volume is not merely a scholarly reflection on the changing meanings of transnational Chinese queer politics, but the result of an effort to build such transnational connectio…
Queer positions , Queering Asian Studies
What does it mean to say that positions opened up a space for queer intellectual work? How do we delineate that space? How does this space work in articulation with queering Asian studies more broadly? This essay addresses how the journal positions created the intellectual space for a queer Marxism within Asian studies. The journal enabled scholars to bring together questions of desire with critiques of capitalism and of racialized geopolitics
Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis
Research Article| January 01 2012 Queer Studies, Materialism, and Crisis: A Roundtable Discussion Christina Crosby; Christina Crosby Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lisa Duggan; Lisa Duggan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick Ferguson; Roderick Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kevin Floyd; Kevin Floyd Search for other works by this author on: This Site G…
Ethnographies of Encounter
Ethnographies of encounter are one response to calls to decolonize anthropology. These ethnographies explore how culture making occurs through unequal relationships involving two or more groups of people and things that appear to exist in culturally distinct worlds. The term encounter refers to everyday engagements across difference. Ethnographies of encounter focus on the cross-cultural and relational dynamics of these processes. They consider h…
A Conversation with Ericka Huggins
236 Feminist Studies 42, no. 1. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Lisa Rofel and Jeremy Tai A Conversation with Ericka Huggins This interview with Ericka Huggins, a former member of the Black Panther Party, was conducted in May 2015 by Lisa Rofel, a member of the Feminist Studies editorial collective.1 This interview is abridged for purposes of space. Huggins requested that we not review parts of her life that have been well documented elsewhere. …
Inextricable relationships
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Law (20 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · China (17 works) · History (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (9 works)