Elmo Gonzaga
Biographic Data
| ID | 453935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elmo Gonzaga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elmo |
| FAMILY NAME | Gonzaga |
| SIGNATURE | GONZAGA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6671-1927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia
Decoloniality roundtable from Hong Kong
This roundtable discussion is a response to the article “Decoloniality and Language Scholarship” by academics from the interdisciplinary Department of Cultural & Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) who share its discomfort towards normative modes of decolonization. The respondents work in different fields of critical theory, religious studies, science & technology studies, and public humanities. The roundtable opens by…
Regionalism as anti-colonialism: Imaginaries of area in South East Asian omnibus film and database art
This article responds to debates about the complicity or outdatedness of regionalism in Area Studies by analyzing creative works by local artists that reimagine South East Asia as 'area': Ho Tzu Nyen's interactive database The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (CDOSEA) (2012–present); and two omnibus films – the Asian Film Archive's Fragment (2015) and the former Luang Prabang Film Festival's Mekong 2030 (2020), which feature acclaimed South …
Supply Chain Capitalism in the Planetary Network Blockbuster
Drawing on the scholarship on how infrastructures facilitate the borderless mobility of transnational flows across commodity supply chains in a time of dispersed sovereignty, this essay analyzes spatial depictions of interlinked nodes for finance, extraction, and logistics, which define the operations of a capitalist world system centred in metropolitan areas in the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at the emergent genre of the planetary network block…
Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
Monsoon Marketplace uncovers the entangled vernacular cultures of capitalist modernity, mass consumption, and media spectatorship in two understudied postcolonial Asian cities across three important historical moments. Juxtaposing Manila and Singapore, it analyzes print and audiovisual representations of popular commercial and leisure spaces including night markets, amusement parks, main streets and high streets, department stores, supermarkets, …
City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice
Reviewed by: City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice Elmo Gonzaga (bio) City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice. Duke University Press. 2021. 328 pages. $104.95 hardcover; $27.95 paper; also available in e-book. Jasmine Nadua Trice's City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture is an eloquent, thought-prov…
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, essays and memes likened its social and temporal conditions to the zombie apocalypse visualized in popular media. Circulating through Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, dystopian photos and videos of abandoned streets, plazas, and malls resonated with harrowing scenes of attacking hordes of zombies in the Netflix series Kingdeom (2019-2020), whose second season premiered when most Southeast Asian cities exper…
Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia
60 A & Q Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia Elmo Gonzaga If connectivity is indeed the key engine of the global economy (Khanna 2016), then infrastructure has become one of the primary mechanisms for governments, businesses, citizens, and migrants to negotiate flows, interchanges, and transplantations of images, knowledge, technologies, and money. International and intraregional organizations like the G20 (Oxford Economics 20…
Precarious nostalgia in the tropical smart city: Transmedia memory, urban informatics, and the Singapore Golden Jubilee
The memory of loss in Asia's leading global cities has been shaped by recurrent projects of urban renewal, which have sought to deliver economic prosperity and social order at the expense of longstanding spaces and practices. Singapore's Golden Jubilee in 2015, which commemorated its triumphant postcolonial development, was accompanied by the proliferation of public expressions of nostalgia across a variety of media platforms. Amid the rise of th…
Consuming Capitalist Modernity in the Media Cultures of 1930s and 1960s Manila's Commercial Streets
Tracing the entangled genealogies of spaces of media spectatorship, modes of visual perception, and practices of capitalist consumption, this article explores how the shift in Manila's main commercial street from Calle Escolta in the 1930s to Avenida Rizal in the 1960s reveals changes in the imagination and experience of capitalism and modernity. Previously embodied in the infrastructure, architecture, and technology of the cityscape, which only …
Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia
60 A & Q Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia Elmo Gonzaga If connectivity is indeed the key engine of the global economy (Khanna 2016), then infrastructure has become one of the primary mechanisms for governments, businesses, citizens, and migrants to negotiate flows, interchanges, and transplantations of images, knowledge, technologies, and money. International and intraregional organizations like the G20 (Oxford Economics 20…
Precarious nostalgia in the tropical smart city: Transmedia memory, urban informatics, and the Singapore Golden Jubilee
The memory of loss in Asia's leading global cities has been shaped by recurrent projects of urban renewal, which have sought to deliver economic prosperity and social order at the expense of longstanding spaces and practices. Singapore's Golden Jubilee in 2015, which commemorated its triumphant postcolonial development, was accompanied by the proliferation of public expressions of nostalgia across a variety of media platforms. Amid the rise of th…
Consuming Capitalist Modernity in the Media Cultures of 1930s and 1960s Manila's Commercial Streets
Tracing the entangled genealogies of spaces of media spectatorship, modes of visual perception, and practices of capitalist consumption, this article explores how the shift in Manila's main commercial street from Calle Escolta in the 1930s to Avenida Rizal in the 1960s reveals changes in the imagination and experience of capitalism and modernity. Previously embodied in the infrastructure, architecture, and technology of the cityscape, which only …
Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia
60 A & Q Infrastructure as Method in Archipelagic Southeast Asia Elmo Gonzaga If connectivity is indeed the key engine of the global economy (Khanna 2016), then infrastructure has become one of the primary mechanisms for governments, businesses, citizens, and migrants to negotiate flows, interchanges, and transplantations of images, knowledge, technologies, and money. International and intraregional organizations like the G20 (Oxford Economics 20…
Zombie capitalism and coronavirus time
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, essays and memes likened its social and temporal conditions to the zombie apocalypse visualized in popular media. Circulating through Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, dystopian photos and videos of abandoned streets, plazas, and malls resonated with harrowing scenes of attacking hordes of zombies in the Netflix series Kingdeom (2019-2020), whose second season premiered when most Southeast Asian cities exper…
City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice
Reviewed by: City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice Elmo Gonzaga (bio) City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture by Jasmine Nadua Trice. Duke University Press. 2021. 328 pages. $104.95 hardcover; $27.95 paper; also available in e-book. Jasmine Nadua Trice's City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila's Alternative Film Culture is an eloquent, thought-prov…
Supply Chain Capitalism in the Planetary Network Blockbuster
Drawing on the scholarship on how infrastructures facilitate the borderless mobility of transnational flows across commodity supply chains in a time of dispersed sovereignty, this essay analyzes spatial depictions of interlinked nodes for finance, extraction, and logistics, which define the operations of a capitalist world system centred in metropolitan areas in the Asia-Pacific region. Looking at the emergent genre of the planetary network block…
Monsoon Marketplace: Capitalism, Media, and Modernity in Manila and Singapore
Monsoon Marketplace uncovers the entangled vernacular cultures of capitalist modernity, mass consumption, and media spectatorship in two understudied postcolonial Asian cities across three important historical moments. Juxtaposing Manila and Singapore, it analyzes print and audiovisual representations of popular commercial and leisure spaces including night markets, amusement parks, main streets and high streets, department stores, supermarkets, …
Regionalism as anti-colonialism: Imaginaries of area in South East Asian omnibus film and database art
This article responds to debates about the complicity or outdatedness of regionalism in Area Studies by analyzing creative works by local artists that reimagine South East Asia as 'area': Ho Tzu Nyen's interactive database The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (CDOSEA) (2012–present); and two omnibus films – the Asian Film Archive's Fragment (2015) and the former Luang Prabang Film Festival's Mekong 2030 (2020), which feature acclaimed South …
Roundtable on alternative modernities and alternative methodologies in Southeast Asia
Decoloniality roundtable from Hong Kong
This roundtable discussion is a response to the article “Decoloniality and Language Scholarship” by academics from the interdisciplinary Department of Cultural & Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) who share its discomfort towards normative modes of decolonization. The respondents work in different fields of critical theory, religious studies, science & technology studies, and public humanities. The roundtable opens by…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Capitalism (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works)