[csaa-forum] CFP - REMINDER - SPECIAL ISSUE of Amerasia (2010) - "Asian Australia and Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational Geographies"

Tseen Khoo Tseen.Khoo at arts.monash.edu.au
Mon Nov 24 15:02:35 CST 2008


*Call for Papers: / Amerasia Journal's/ Special Issue for 2010 on*
/*"Asian Australia & Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational 
Geographies"*/
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*Co-editors*:
/*Jacqueline Lo, School of Humanities, The Australian National University
Tseen Khoo, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Dean Chan, School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan Universit*/*y*
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/*Amerasia Journal*/* Editors:*
/*Russell C. Leong, Editor, University of California, Los Angeles*/
/*Stephanie Santos, Assistant Editor, University of California, Los 
Angeles*/

This special issue of/ Amerasia Journal/ on Asian Australia situates 
sociocultural analysis of Asian diasporas within a broader transnational 
framework, deploying comparisons with the U.S. to illuminate the ways in 
which localized concepts of belonging and nation are intricately and 
inextricably influenced by global forces.

Asian diaspora studies in Australia and the U.S. share similarities in 
their developmental trajectory and representational politics. 
Nevertheless, while Asian American Studies is an important reference 
point both politically and theoretically for the development of Asian 
Australian Studies, there are significant distinctions based on 
different histories of settlement, race relations and immigration, as 
well as shifting agentive prerogatives and community politics that have 
inflected the modes of diasporic Asian studies at these locales. These 
considerations will be highlighted in this special issue, forming the 
basis for new comparative and contextual knowledge about diasporic and 
transnational Asian cultures.

The editors of this issue invite contributions to discussions about 
Asian transnationalism with particular attention to the relations 
between Asian Australia and Asian America.  We are keen to include a 
range of disciplinary perspectives including history, anthropology, 
sociology, community politics, education, cultural studies, literature, 
and popular culture analysis, as well as creative practices. The aim of 
the issue is to represent the depth and diversity of Asian Australian 
communities and cultures, and illuminate the many points of connection 
to, and divergence from, Asian American paradigms.

The questions we are seeking to address include but are not limited to 
the following:
o     How are conventional ways of understanding transnationalism being 
re-imagined in an Asian Australian context?
o   How do specific national histories of racialization impact on the 
ways in which diasporic Asians in Australia and the U.S. negotiate 
systems of power, knowledge, and representation?
o   To what extent does creative and cultural production in Asian 
Australia and Asian America exemplify differential modes of diasporic 
Asian agency and empowerment?
o       What are the possibilities for developing a transnational 
framework for comparative or inter-diasporic Asian studies?
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Please send 2-page proposals by November 30. 2008 by e-mail to:*
Russell Leong <rleong at ucla.edu>
Jacqueline Lo <jacqueline.lo at anu.edu.au>
Tseen Khoo <tseen.khoo at arts.monash.edu.au>
Dean Chan <d.chan at ecu.edu.au>

The editors will review proposals and contact authors about developing 
essays for publication consideration. All submitted essays will be 
reviewed by the two journal editors and two consulting guest editors, 
plus a blind reviewer. If your proposal is accepted, we will send you a 
stylesheet with format and length requirements.

The planned publication date of this special issue is August 2010.


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