Volume 10 Number 1 March 2009
Editorial statement
Essays
'Pedestrian crosses': sites of dislocation in ‘post-colonial’ Jamaica
Shifting spaces, frozen frames: trajectories of queer politics in contemporary India
From boot camp to bu-bu? IT surveillance, patriarchal familism, and labor control: a South Korean case study
Daejanggeum as ‘affective mobilization’: lessons for (transnational) popular culture and civil society
Populist cosmopolitanism: the predicament of subjectivity and the Japanese fascination with overseas
Translation of ‘America’ during the early Cold War period: a comparative study on the history of popular music in South Korea and Taiwan
Visual Essay
Tamasha
Rethinking Movement
Confronting dictatorship, democratization, and post-democratization—personal reflection on intellectual and social practices in the context of dictatorship, democratization and post-democratization
Seniors’ organizations in China’s new rural reconstruction: experiments in Hubei and Henan
Translocal Reading
'Of lost fathers and broken sons’: Farish Noor on the politics of love and the new thought in Malaysia
Dispute
Revisiting Kuen Cheng High School dispute: contestation between gender equality and ethnic nationalism discourses
Volume 10 Number 2 June 2009
'Neo-liberal conditions of knowledge'
Editorial introduction
Essays
Domination by ‘money power’: one year after the corporatization of national universities
'State-guided’ university reform and colonial conditions of knowledge production
Knowledge production in the era of neo-liberal globalization: reflections on the changing academic conditions in Taiwan
College rank and neo-liberal subjectivity in South Korea: the burden of self-development
The deception of the ‘idea of self-responsibility’ and ‘individualization’: neo-liberal rhetoric as revealed in the corporatization of Japan’s national universities
Local interpretation of global management discourses in higher education in Hong Kong: potential impact on academic culture
Knowledge production in a latecomer: reproducing economics in Taiwan
Science as ideology: SSCI, TSSCI and the evaluation system of social sciences in Taiwan
A critical study on the university and academic assessment system in Korea
Visual Essay
The photography about ‘children’/ This is not art—‘petitioners’
Translocal Readings
Body shops: where cultures meet
Continental contemporaries: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
The club and the carrot of China’s globalization
Bridging pop culture and advertising research
Our history, large and small
Volume 10 Number 3 September 2009
Editorial statement
Essays
Tai/kuso/camp: ‘new opeila’ and the structure of sensibility
Markets, media, and magic: Thailand’s monarch as a ‘virtual deity’
The lyrics of laborious life: popular music and the reassertion of migrant manhood in Northeastern Thailand
Beyond colonialism: osmotic reconstruction of gender/sexual justice in Hong Kong
Romantic semblance and prohibitive presence: Green Forest, My Home as a case-study of Taiwan’s Occidental myth and its discontents
The ‘truth politics’ of anti-North Koreanism: the post-ideological cultural representation of North Korea and the cultural criticisms of Korean nationalism
Visual Essay
Volume 10 Number 4 December 2009
'Popular music'
Editorial introduction
Inter-Asia popular music studies: cultural studies of popular music in Asia
Essays
J-pop: from the ideology of creativity to DiY music culture
Contesting the digital economy and culture: digital technologies and the transformation of popular music in Korea
Have you ever seen the Rain? And who’ll stop the Rain?: the globalizing project of Korean pop (K-pop)
'Democratic entertainment' commodity and unpaid labor of reality TV: a preliminary analysis of China’s Supergirl
Me and the dragon: a lyrical engagement with the politics of Chineseness
Taike rock and its discontent
Vedic metal and the South Indian community in Singapore: problems and prospects of identity
Visual Essay