scholarly journals Remembering Romit Dasgupta

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Christine Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
The University

Romit Dasgupta lectured in Japanese Studies at the University of Western Australia until his untimely passing in 2018. He was posthumously awarded the Philippa Maddern Award in 2019 by the University of Western Australia Academic Staff Association. The citation described him as ‘[p]rofessional, highly organised and respectful to all, …proactive and willing to help others in regard to any issues, consistently demonstrating his passion in supporting his colleagues and students’. In the essays collected here, Romit’s friends and colleagues reflect on Romit’s qualities and his academic contributions. Romit Dasgupta’s work ranged over gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, cultural studies, cultural history, Asian Studies and Asian-Australian Studies. Each of the author's discusses the inspiration they received from Romit Dasgupta's work in these fields.

Queer Theory and Heteronormativity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Page Valentine Regan ◽  
Elizabeth J. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Lgbtq Youth ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Queer Pedagogy

The concepts of queer theory and heteronormativity have been taken up in educational research due to the influence of disciplines including gender and sexuality studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory. Queer theory seeks to disrupt dominant and normalizing binaries that structure our understandings of gender and sexuality. Heteronormativity describes the belief that heterosexuality is and should be the preferred system of sexuality and informs the related male or female, binary understanding of gender identity and expression. Taken together, queer theory and heteronormativity offer frames to interrogate and challenge systems of sex and gender in educational institutions and research to better support and understand the experiences of LGBTQ youth. They also inform the development of queer pedagogy that includes classroom and instructional practices designed to expand and affirm gender and sexual diversity in schools.

scholarly journals Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 026327642096740
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Seely
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Feminist And Queer Theory

Within the context of questions raised by gender and sexuality studies about the relationship between sex and technics, I develop a theory of sexuation derived from Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation. First, I provide an overview of Simondon’s philosophy of individuation, from the physical to the collective. In the second section, I turn to the question of sexuality, outlining an ontogenetic account in which sexuation is conceived as a process of both individuation and relation that is fundamental to certain living beings. Then, drawing on Simondon’s theorization of technics in its mediating function between humans and the world, I resituate understandings of the relation between sex and technics. While each section – Individuation, Sexuation, Technicity – argues for the significance of these concepts to feminist and queer theory, overall the essay uses Simondon’s work as a new paradigm for gender and sexuality studies and calls for the invention of a sexuate culture.

The State and Ideology in Meiji Japan—A Review Article

1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuko Hirai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
World History ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Vast Area

In his presidential address at the 1977 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Marius Jansen pointed out that the relationship between monarchy and modernization in Japan is a significant subject of research for Western scholars specializing in Japanese studies. Specifically, Jansen emphasized the need to investigate the popular perceptions of the monarch usually overlooked by Japanese historians. He noted that a study of Japanese mentalité must cover a vast area, including “imagery, iconography, and ritual.” Until we “get at” this level of the social and cultural history of modern Japan, Jansen feared, we will fail to gain “a better understanding of modernization, of Japan, in world history” (1977:612–22).

scholarly journals Introduction to the JAS at AAS Roundtable on “Sexuality and the State in Asia”

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 919-927
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Remick
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Sexuality Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
Current State ◽  
Social Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asking Questions

Attendees of the 2012 Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference in Toronto were treated to two extraordinary speeches at the presidential address and awards ceremony. First, Charlotte Furth's acceptance of the AAS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies was a primer in the history of China-related gender studies (Furth 2012). Then, as Rachel Leow discusses in her paper in this forum, outgoing AAS President Gail Hershatter followed up with an inspirational critique (reprinted in this issue) of the current state of gender and sexuality studies in China. Taken together, these two speeches showed how far gender and sexuality studies in Asia have come in the last forty years, but also suggested that it is time for some fresh approaches. For example, Furth explained that when the Cambridge History of China volumes on Republican China were commissioned, she and others argued strenuously for the inclusion of a chapter on gender; but in the end, one could not be written because no one had yet done the scholarship on which such a chapter could be based. Fortunately, all of this has changed: the scholarship is there now. But Hershatter quite rightly pointed out that it is time to rethink many of the categories of analysis we have been using, because they are preventing us from asking questions we should be asking, and therefore making us miss the meanings of crucial social events and phenomena.

scholarly journals Going Places: Praxis and Pedagogy in Australian Cultural Studies

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Rey ◽  
Golnar Nabizadeh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
University Climate ◽  
Pedagogical Innovations ◽  
The University

This article considers the pedagogical value of praxis in maintaining the relevance of cultural studies in the Australian academic environment. Following its highly politicised beginnings at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, we consider whether traditional classroom practices are commensurate with the contemporary expectations of students and staff. As a working model of the current Australian university climate, we consider the discipline group of English and Cultural Studies (ECS) at the University of Western Australia. After evaluating data gathered from interviews and surveys across the undergraduate, postgraduate and staff population, we suggest potential pedagogical innovations to be implemented in cultural studies at UWA, as a case study within Australia. Our findings show that students are calling for practical activities that would benefit their studies as a complement to theory in the classroom. As a result, we argue that praxis is not only important, but vital, in the teaching of cultural studies as an enabling activity that encourages the use of new teaching methods.

THE ASIAN STUDIES “CRISIS”: PUTTING CULTURAL STUDIES INTO ASIAN STUDIES AND ASIA INTO CULTURAL STUDIES

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
Traditional Area ◽  
The Cold War

This paper explores the link between globalization, as the source of contemporary crises in representation, and the academic crisis in Asian Studies. The situation of Japanese Studies in Australia is used as a case study to illustrate these links. I argue that traditional area studies, as a colonial structure rooted in the (Cold) War, has become anachronistic. It is suggested that one strategy through which conventional area studies may be reconfigured and revitalized is by more fully and warmly embracing those movements or networks such as cultural studies that can be seen as responses to global changes.

Navigating normativities: Gender and sexuality in text and talk

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Hall ◽  
Erez Levon ◽  
Tommaso M. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Sexuality Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Initial Attempt ◽  
Biannual Meeting

This special issue was born out of a conversation initiated at a panel organized by two of us at the ninth biannual meeting of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA), held at City University of Hong Kong in May 2016. The principal goal of the panel was to stimulate an academic discussion on the role of normativity and antinormativity in language, gender, and sexuality research in response to a series of critical interventions in cultural studies regarding some of the tenets underpinning queer theory (see Wiegman 2012; Penney 2014; Wiegman & Wilson 2015). It was our belief that sociolinguistics—with its focus on situated interpretations of social practice—has much to contribute, both theoretically and empirically, to these debates within cultural studies. This special issue is an initial attempt at articulating what such a contribution would be.

The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey’s Clock

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Sarah Winter
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Thing Theory ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
Sentimental Fiction ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Popular Novel

Charting the publication history of Dickens’s weekly periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock (April 1840 to December 1841), this chapter focuses on the enormously popular novel The Old Curiosity Shop, which appeared within the Clock’s framing narrative as an extended tale told by Master Humphrey to his reading circle. Setting aside its reputation as an outmoded sentimental fiction, the chapter shows that Shop drew the attention of two prominent twentieth-century critics, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, who viewed Dickens’s novel as an illuminating allegory of modern capitalist culture. Exploring the rich critical response to Shop and its illustrations, the chapter opens up new avenues for interpreting the novel’s ‘mysterious’ depiction of modernity, including: the multiple meanings of curiosity; the history of capitalism; legal satire; allegorical readings; Victorian thing theory; the novel’s relationship to didactic genres and children’s literature; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies and queer theory; and comparative studies.

scholarly journals BAER, Brian James and KAINDL, Klaus. Queering Translation, Translating the Queer. Theory, Practice, Activism. New York & London, Routledge, 2018, 234 pp., ISBN: 9780367365677

Hikma ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-450
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Iturregui Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cross Fertilization ◽  
Shed Light

This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives through fifteen contributions from both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field to demonstrate the interconnectedness between translation and queer aspects of sex, gender, and identity. The book begins with the editors’ introduction to the state of the field, providing an overview of both current and developing lines of research, and builds on this foundation to look at this research more closely, grouped around three different sections: Queer Theorizing of Translation; Case Studies of Queer Translations and Translators; and Queer Activism and Translation. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to not only shed light on this promising field of research but also to promote cross fertilization between these disciplines towards further exploring the intersections between queer studies and translation studies, making this volume key reading for students and scholars interested in translation studies, queer studies, politics, and activism, and gender and sexuality studies.

The Ghosts of Anticommunism and Neoliberalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 445-464
Author(s):  
Michael K. Bourdaghs
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter revisits the critiques of area studies carried out in the 1980s and the 1990s. Area studies programmes during the Cold War were dominated by social scientists, but today’s programmes are almost exclusively the domain of the humanities. The US government and allied foundations sharply reduced budgetary support for Asian studies, with the void being filled by state and state-related entities from East Asia pursuing so-called ‘soft power’ strategies. Today the majority of dissertations in the field claim some measure of critical politicality, whether in terms of postcolonialism, gender and sexuality studies, or environmentalism. Many of the direct targets of the original critique of area studies of the 1980s and the 1990s have seemingly dissolved—and yet area studies continues to thrive as an institution underwriting American power. The chapter explores how we can renew and reenergize the critique of area studies in its latest guise.

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