I Ang
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 23627 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | I Ang |
| NOMBRES | I |
| APELLIDO | Ang |
| FIRMA | ANG I |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4877-0026 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 531 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
On the perils of racialized Chineseness
This paper discusses how ideas of “race” and racial identification have, in different ways, been central in the construction of modern nation-states, both in East Asia and in postcolonial Southeast Asia, helping to entrench notions of racial difference as a fundamental element in nation-building. Processes of human racialization – and consequently, the homogenization of racialized identities and essentialization of human inequality – are thus per…
Sydney as ‘Sinoburbia’
‘Chinese Sydney’ has shifted away from its inner-city Chinatown towards new residential suburban concentrations with varied histories of progressive diversification. In some of these suburbs, where 40% or more of residents report Chinese heritage, older generations of diaspora Chinese intermingle with a substantial recent wave of China-born middle-class professionals – often distinguished as the ‘new Chinese’. This paper situates the localised, i…
Beyond the crisis
The COVID-19 crisis of 2020 is not just a short-term public health emergency. Instead, it has laid bare a broader and deeper organic crisis, produced by the intrinsic tensions and contradictions of the hegemonic neoliberal capitalist order. I discuss this organic crisis in terms of its active amplification of human divisiveness at various levels – class, racial, national, cultural – which impedes the generation of solidarity and cooperation in th…
Surviving Supergentrification in Inner City Sydney
Artists and creative workers have long been recognized as playing an important role in gentrification, being often portrayed as forerunners of urban change and displacement in former industrial and working-class suburbs of 'post-Fordist' cities. However, as is well represented by recent research, the relationship between the arts, gentrification and displacement has been called into question. The purpose of this article, which draws on 30 case st…
On cultural studies, again
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 intellectua…
Chinatowns and the Rise of China
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 dis…
Museums and cultural diversity
In the past few decades, contemporary liberal democratic societies are faced with the dilemmas posed by the increasing cultural diversity of their populations as a consequence of intensifying flows of transnational migration. Museums are often called upon to play a role in managing the impact of this increasing cultural diversity through exhibition strategies that communicate multicultural messages and by reaching out to migrant groups as museum …
Inhabiting the diasporic habitus
This reading of Stuart Hall’s memoir Familiar Stranger highlights the connection between Hall’s unique intellectual voice with the historical specificity of his personal experience as a diasporic subject, growing up at the cusp of the moment of decolonisation, before the solidification of what we now call ‘identity politics’
Ethnicity and cultural consumption in Australia
This paper explores the consequences of increasing ethnic diversity for practices of cultural consumption and the distribution of taste in Australia. Changing migration patterns and generational changes have produced a diversification of goods, sites and audiences, and an increasing transnationalization of practices and relations over several decades. Drawing on survey data from the Australian Cultural Fields project examining knowledge, taste an…
The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism
What are museums for? The enduring friction between nationalism and cosmopolitanism
This response to Peggy Levitt’s book Artifacts and Allegiances argues that, as cultural institutions, museums are too deeply embedded within the nation state to be able to present cosmopolitan narratives that go beyond the biased particularities of the nation. Rather than conceiving nationalism and cosmopolitanism as a continuum, the relationship between the two should be seen as one of enduring friction, creating a major challenge for museums ar…
Claiming Chinatown
Chinatowns have traditionally functioned as ethnic enclaves that were despised by the dominant Western culture, while functioning for Chinese immigrants as a refuge from the hostile white society they were surrounded by. In today’s globalised world, the meaning of Chinatowns has been transformed, as they have become more open, hybrid and transnational urban spaces, increasingly interconnected within the broader Asia-Pacific region. For Asian Aust…
Stuart Hall and the tension between academic and intellectual work
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 …
At home in Asia? Sydney’s Chinatown and Australia’s ‘Asian Century’
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…
Cultural diplomacy
The field of cultural diplomacy, which looms large in present-day cultural policy and discourse, has been insufficiently analysed by the cultural disciplines. This special issue engages with the task of filling the gap. The present essay sets out the terms in which the authors have taken up this engagement, focusing principally on Australia and Asia. Distinguishing between cultural diplomacy that is essentially interest-driven governmental practi…
Not yet post-Asia
We live in transitional times, in which the weight of global power is markedly shifting towards Asia. In this context the meaning of the category ‘Asian’ is thoroughly in flux, negotiated and contested across multiple dimensions. In this light, is it possible, or even desirable, to speak about post-Asia? If so, what could it mean? Or is such talk perhaps premature? In this article, I consider three ways of thinking about the notion of post-Asia: …
Beyond Chinese groupism
This essay argues that the tension between 'ethnic' and 'national' identity is not contingent, but structurally embedded in the workings of the contemporary nation state. Through an analysis of 'the Chinese' in 'Australia' it aims to demonstrate that seemingly unambiguous concepts such as assimilation (the ethnic is absorbed by the national), multiculturalism (the ethnic coexists with the national) and diaspora (the ethnic transcends the national…
Watching Dallas
Wanted
Since its publication in 1980, The “Nationwide” Audience has played an important role in media studies, especially in Britain, western Europe, and Australia, not so much because of its inherent “informational” value, but because of its strategic position in the field of qualitative empirical research on media audiences — a field that has gone through a rapid development in the 1980s. The meaning and politics of Morley's turn toward empirical rese…
Dépasser l'unité dans la diversité
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 diversity’. Rhetorical ref…
Cultural studies matters (does it?)
Beyond Unity in Diversity
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 diversity'. Rhetorical ref…
Television fictions around the world
O livro Watching Dallas, publicado na década de 1980 estuda as discussões sobre a recepção da novela norte-americana Dallas. Décadas depois, parece adequado olhar para esses anos que separam o lançamento do livro e o momento atual e pensar sobre o que mudou na cultura televisiva, especialmente no que se refere à série televisiva dramática. A ironia com que os telespectadores veem as novelas desde então nos Estados Unidos e alguns melodramas produ…
Navigating complexity
That the world is terribly complex is now a vital part of global cultural experience, a structure of feeling which has grown more pervasive in the 21st century. How do we find ways of navigating the complex challenges of our time? And what role can we, as cultural researchers, play in this task? Much humanities and social science scholarship in the past few decades has embraced complexity, so much so that the pursuit of complexity (e.g. in schola…
Ethnicities and our precarious future
Culture and Communication
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
Together‐in‐difference
(2003). Together‐in‐difference: beyond diaspora, into hybridity. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 141-154
Beyond Chinese groupism
This essay argues that the tension between 'ethnic' and 'national' identity is not contingent, but structurally embedded in the workings of the contemporary nation state. Through an analysis of 'the Chinese' in 'Australia' it aims to demonstrate that seemingly unambiguous concepts such as assimilation (the ethnic is absorbed by the national), multiculturalism (the ethnic coexists with the national) and diaspora (the ethnic transcends the national…
Multicultural imagined communities
(1994). Multicultural imagined communities: Cultural difference and national identity in Australia and the USA. Continuum: Vol. 8, Critical Multiculturalism, pp. 124-158
Cultural diplomacy
The field of cultural diplomacy, which looms large in present-day cultural policy and discourse, has been insufficiently analysed by the cultural disciplines. This special issue engages with the task of filling the gap. The present essay sets out the terms in which the authors have taken up this engagement, focusing principally on Australia and Asia. Distinguishing between cultural diplomacy that is essentially interest-driven governmental practi…
The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism
This paper traces symbolic significance of Singapore's policy of multiracialism by bringing it in connection with city-state's postcolonial problematic of national identity. Against currently dominant, nativist rhetoric which aims to construct Singapore as an authentically Asian nation diametrically opposed to its counterparts, this paper stresses necessary and inevitable hybridity of Singaporean identity. Like other successful dragons of East As…
Navigating complexity
That the world is terribly complex is now a vital part of global cultural experience, a structure of feeling which has grown more pervasive in the 21st century. How do we find ways of navigating the complex challenges of our time? And what role can we, as cultural researchers, play in this task? Much humanities and social science scholarship in the past few decades has embraced complexity, so much so that the pursuit of complexity (e.g. in schola…
Television Fictions around the World
Th e book Watching Dallas, published in the 1980s studies the discussions on the reception of the american soap opera Dallas.Decades later, it seems appropriate to look at those years between the release of the book and the present moment and think about what has changed in television culture, especially referring to dramatic television series.Th e irony with which viewers see the soap operas since then in the United States and some melodramas pr…
Asianing Australia
This paper attempts to develop a critical transnationalist perspective in cultural studies from the localized cultural and political context of contemporary ‘Australia’. It takes the Australian nation-state's current geo-economic and geo-political preoccupation with a so-called ‘push into Asia’ as a starting point for a questioning of dominant discourses of international relations and the place of ‘Australia’ within it. In particular, the paper a…
At home in Asia? Sydney’s Chinatown and Australia’s ‘Asian Century’
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…
Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm
Ien Ang, Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm, boundary 2, Vol. 25, No. 3, Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Autumn, 1998), pp. 223-242
The Curse of the Smile
This article critiques Australia's official discourse of multiculturalism, with its rhetoric of ‘celebrating cultural diversity’ 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…
From Cultural Studies to Cultural Research
Is, or should cultural studies be, a discipline or not? What exactly is its object? Should cultural studies be focused on influencing policy or be an agent of critique? What is the role of theory? What kind of theory? Should textual analysis or ethnography predominate? The regular reiteration of such questions reveals an ongoing sense of crisis, a general apprehensiveness over the question whether cultural studies is able to live up to its own se…
The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism
The predicament of diversity
Mainstream cultural institutions such as museums are increasingly called upon to increase their accessibility to culturally diverse 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 v…
To Be or Not to Be Chinese
Ethnicities and our precarious future
Chinatowns and the Rise of China
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 dis…
Popular Fiction and Feminist Cultural Politics
Sydney as ‘Sinoburbia’
‘Chinese Sydney’ has shifted away from its inner-city Chinatown towards new residential suburban concentrations with varied histories of progressive diversification. In some of these suburbs, where 40% or more of residents report Chinese heritage, older generations of diaspora Chinese intermingle with a substantial recent wave of China-born middle-class professionals – often distinguished as the ‘new Chinese’. This paper situates the localised, i…
Claiming Chinatown
Chinatowns have traditionally functioned as ethnic enclaves that were despised by the dominant Western culture, while functioning for Chinese immigrants as a refuge from the hostile white society they were surrounded by. In today’s globalised world, the meaning of Chinatowns has been transformed, as they have become more open, hybrid and transnational urban spaces, increasingly interconnected within the broader Asia-Pacific region. For Asian Aust…
Symposium on 11 September 2001 Terrorism, Islam and the West
Culture et communication
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
Stalking the wild viewer
Beyond Self-Reflexivity
Desperately guarding borders
Este artigo explora a mobilização de um conceito de ‘asiedade’ (‘Asianness’) dentro do contexto da emergência de uma indústria de TV por satélite, dominada pelo ocidente naquela região no início dos anos 90. Enquanto muitos governos asiáticos responderam às ansiedades resultantes dos desafios trazidos por este processo de globalização midiática projetando uma identidade cultural asiática comum, empresas privadas, como a Star TV de Murdoch, têm ca…
From Cultural Studies to Cultural Research
Is, or should cultural studies be, a discipline or not? What exactly is its object? Should cultural studies be focused on influencing policy or be an agent of critique? What is the role of theory? What kind of theory? Should textual analysis or ethnography predominate? The regular reiteration of such questions reveals an ongoing sense of crisis, a general apprehensiveness over the question whether cultural studies is able to live up to its own se…
Popular Fiction and Feminist Cultural Politics
Beyond Self-Reflexivity
Mayonnaise culture and other European follies
Culture and Communication
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
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Stalking the wild viewer
Dismantling ‘cultural studies’
Desperately Seeking the Audience
To Be or Not to Be Chinese
Culture et communication
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
The Differential Politics of Chineseness
Globalisation and culture
Review of Elizabeth Jacka ed., Continental Shift: Globalisation and Culture, Double Bay, Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1992. pp.162. ISBN 0 949793 24 8 (pbk), $24.95
Multicultural imagined communities
(1994). Multicultural imagined communities: Cultural difference and national identity in Australia and the USA. Continuum: Vol. 8, Critical Multiculturalism, pp. 124-158
Sylvania Waters and the spectacular exploding family
Sylvania Waters and the spectacular exploding family Jon Stratton, Jon Stratton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ien Ang Ien Ang Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 35, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/35.1.1 Published: 01 March 1994
The Singapore Way of Multiculturalism
This paper traces symbolic significance of Singapore's policy of multiracialism by bringing it in connection with city-state's postcolonial problematic of national identity. Against currently dominant, nativist rhetoric which aims to construct Singapore as an authentically Asian nation diametrically opposed to its counterparts, this paper stresses necessary and inevitable hybridity of Singaporean identity. Like other successful dragons of East As…
A cultural studies without guarantees
This article is a short response to Chen's critique of our article ‘Asianing Australia: notes toward a critical transnationalism in cultural studies’. It is argued that Chen's attack on our article is misdirected. Furthermore, we are in substantial agreement with Chen on many issues, most importantly that the nation-state should not be the uninterrogated site for the development of a ‘local’ cultural studies. However, we find Chen's politics, and…
The Curse of the Smile
This article critiques Australia's official discourse of multiculturalism, with its rhetoric of ‘celebrating cultural diversity’ 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…
Asianing Australia
This paper attempts to develop a critical transnationalist perspective in cultural studies from the localized cultural and political context of contemporary ‘Australia’. It takes the Australian nation-state's current geo-economic and geo-political preoccupation with a so-called ‘push into Asia’ as a starting point for a questioning of dominant discourses of international relations and the place of ‘Australia’ within it. In particular, the paper a…
Comment on Felski's "The Doxa of Difference"
Le culte de Lü Dongbin sous les Song du Sud
Le present texte traite de l'immortel Lu Dongbin, poete, devin et taoiste expert en alchimie interieure. C'est sous les Song du Sud, dans la seconde moitie du XIe siecle, que l'on mentionne l'existence d'un culte a ce personnage. Les sources les plus documentees a ce sujet sont d'une part le Yi Jian zhi de Hong Mai, histoires rapportees en majorite par des informateurs n'appartenant pas a la classe des lettres, d'autre part l'hagiographie du mait…
Doing cultural studies at the crossroads
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 t…
Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm
Ien Ang, Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm, boundary 2, Vol. 25, No. 3, Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field (Autumn, 1998), pp. 223-242
Desperately guarding borders
This article explores the mobilisation of a concept of 'Asianness' in the context of the emergence of the Western-dominated satellite TV industry in that region in the early 90's.While many Asian governments responded to the anxieties resulted from the challenges brought by this process of media globalisation by projecting a common Asian cultural identity, private enterprises, such as Murdoch's Star TV, have capitalized on intra-Asian cultural di…
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