[csaa-forum] New book: Chinatown Unbound

Mon Mar 4 16:56:20 ACST 2019

Hi all

Please find here some info about my latest, co-authored book: 

Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China, 
By Kay Anderson; Ien Ang; Andrea Del Bono; Donald McNeill and Alexandra Wong 

Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786608987/Chinatown-Unbound-Trans-Asian-Urbanism-in-the-Age-of-China

Only in hardback for now I'm afraid, but if you order directly from the publisher you get 30% off with discount code RLIJAN19

Description

'Chinatowns' are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of 'the East' in 'the West'. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chinatown was no longer that of an abject ethnic ghetto: rather, Chinatown was now seen as a positive expression of multicultural heritage and difference.

By the early 21st century, however, these spatial and cultural constructions of Chinatown as an 'other' space - whether negative or positive - have been thoroughly destabilised by the impacts of accelerating globalisation and transnational migration. This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in this regard, through an in-depth case study of Sydney's Chinatown. It speaks to the growing multilateral connections that link Australia and Asia (and especially China) together; not just economically, but also socially and culturally, as a consequence of increasing transnational flows of people, money, ideas and things. Further, the book elicits a particular sense of a place in Sydney's Chinatown: that of an inter-connected world in which Western and Asian realms inhabit each other, and in which the orientalist legacy is being reconfigured in new deployments and more complex delimitations. As such, Chinatown Unbound engages with, and contributes to making sense of, the epochal shift in the global balance of power towards Asia, especially China.

Reviews

Sydney's Chinatown has emerged from an ethnic enclave of internal exclusion to become a major hub mediating Australia-Asia relations. We learn in fascinating detail how state racialization of Chinese identity is giving way to a flexible deployment of all things Chinese in a transnational milieu of trade, culture, and politics. China Unbound explodes old models of Asian urbanism.
- Aihwa Ong, Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; author of Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life

Instead of dwelling on the simplistic dichotomy between majority and minority, East and West, sameness and difference, and viewing Chinatowns as fixed and essentialised, authors in Chinatown Unbound have done an admirable job in unpacking the layers of tensions, complexity, and ongoing socioeconomic changes in Sydney's Chinatown as a case study. The work is particularly relevant today with the rise of racial and ethnic tensions around the world and contestations over identities, migration, and belonging.
- Jeffrey Hou, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle

As China races to become the world's largest economy, the view of western Chinatowns as inward-looking ethnic enclaves, decimated by poverty and pervasive racism, has become anachronistic. In this superb interpretation of Sydney's Chinatown, a team of top scholars of China overseas provide a sophisticated view of the identities of the new Chinatown, a view where diversity and transnational mobility provide the new normal, provoking substantial theoretical and empirical recalibration.
- David Ley, Professor, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

Chinatown Unbound is a welcome and extremely timely refresh for this dynamic area of study. The book's nuanced, incisive research presents us with a beautifully informed focus on the sociocultural contours of Sydney's Chinatown. The sophisticated texture of this study will be relevant to many fields of research, from trans-Asian studies and cultural geography to Australian Studies, public culture, and migration and mobility studies.
- Tseen Khoo, Founding Convenor, Asian Australian Studies Research Network, La Trobe University

Table of Contents

1.            Introduction: Chinatown Unbound
2.            Chinatown in Australia's Asian Century: From Enclave to Global Hub
3.            Building Chinatown: Commercial Vernaculars, Urban Governance and Asian Spatial Templates
4.            China's Town? Chinatown's Shifting Demography
5.            Towards 'Asia-Town'? Chinatown's Cultural Diversity
6.            Doing Business in Chinatown: Beyond the 'Ethnic Sub-Economy'
7.            Branding Chinatown: From Flexible Chineseness to Multi-Asianness
8.            Consuming Chinatown: The Rise of a Trans-Asian Urban Youth Culture 
9.            Curating Chinatown: Public Art beyond Orientalism
10.          Conclusion: Chinatown's Future and the Prefiguration of an Australian Trans-Asian Metropolis

About the Authors

Kay Anderson, Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Andrea Del Bono, PhD Graduate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Donald McNeill, Professor of Urban and Cultural Geography, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.
Alexandra Wong, Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia. 

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Dear fellow CSAAers ,

just a brief note to add to the conversation that having been a CSAA mentor several times in the past I can attest to what a terrific experience it is to meet with emerging cultural studies practitioners.

It is a great initiative, and I heartily recommend anyone to consider taking it on.

best wishes

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Dear Catherine and all,

Thank you for raising this important point (and Anna and Andrew for your echoing comments). The imbalance certainly struck me too and I should have made the same call for more men to put up their hands. Two men (three, but I didn?t want to list myself before) and ten women simply isn?t a just distribution of labour.

To that end, I would very much welcome more men in CSAA who?d like to sign on as mentors. Please do email me directly if you?re willing and I?ll gladly add you to the list.

Best,
Michael

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Thanks for this news, Michael. I will certainly be recommending the scheme to postgrads and ECRs.

Can I note, however, how overwhelmingly the people who have volunteered their time for this scheme are women? Come on, men-who-are-my-peers? what?s up with this?

I hope that if at least a couple of the men are prepared to put their hand up we might get an updated list so we can credit them as we right now should credit Andrew Hickey and Rob Garbutt for being exceptions. And, of course, all the women who have made themselves available as mentors despite everything else they have to do.

All the best,
Catherine
(who has surely spent too many hours in airports this past week and so might be a little tetchy)

From: csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au <csaa-forum-bounces at lists.cdu.edu.au> On Behalf Of Michael Richardson
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Dear Colleagues,

The CSAA is now calling for applicants for its Mentorship Scheme for 2019.

I?m thrilled to report that we have had a remarkable response from established colleagues who are willing to mentor. My sincere thanks on behalf of the CSAA Exec to Lisa Slater, Andrew Hickey, Holly Randell-Moon, Michelle Phillipov, Amanda Third, Anna Hickey-Moody, Elspeth Probyn, Tanja Dreher, Amy Dobson, Rob Garbutt, Catherine Driscoll and Angi Buettner. All mentors have significant and varied demands on their time, so it speaks to their commitment to our scholarly community that they would make time to support emerging scholars. There is a wealth of experience and knowledge in the group and I?ve no doubt each will be able to offer much wisdom and support to whoever they are paired with.

The Mentoring Scheme is designed to provide professional guidance and support to CSAA members who are early career academics, independent scholars, in non-continuing positions, or regional locations. Applicants should already have their PhD, although if you have submitted and are awaiting you may also apply.

Successful applicants will be matched with a senior colleague, with whom they will have approximately 6 mentoring meetings over the course of the year. Meetings can take place in person or via phone, skype or email, as mutually convenient.

If you would like to participate in this scheme and be mentored by an amazing cultural studies scholar, please send an application of no more than one page containing the following information:

1.       Brief details of your research background and current circumstances
2.       Your goals for the next twelve months
3.       What support you are seeking from the scheme: ie, advice on publishing, job applications, grant writing etc.

Please note applicants must be members of the CSAA (see http://www.csaa.asn.au/join/index.shtml<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1gZ5QOCgG2gNCjirl2CovNaVbflFm8CljIR3KYTpUua0tkGmEhO2CLIQAUdAiuIe9ys-wfnCeayjagWuHm3oMosDnKrnrdPYK_7JHpZDhVUw5D__JcXq1D6FLzDUvvFkxTsohSzYBF23YqL4Y47g8u2_q9SlY_QBgNc8FJuXcp9mHcix3gsnV_OZEiI4iA_oOdLWMh6t2OzbNSvXe6PCRV5-0u0eX5ja9fxmKgv77vvRQrNNx9cMU2OmrATPqZsRKkpQzCpbJKVn9Xn4Ls_nju_lAGuJOjFna5DcFm8B_VKxkyWXejaaIa__Zl5kiHsfVytAmIdOK4huGvf99P7HfLtM8dHUbud9gyuAkeeB9JcxpGVmMp7xTBT6WbbdG7Ux403QOXkE5cXHAjtkYdeVHq2kO8p7XCq37hS3fm96QTMdFfsj_9kr16_JMaDzWof_Ws_RjgXsNfdAQIAjDRF4nwjAqpmxpgX69SUQPL7lUNLjKQ1CuTAVWv7aIXcNeF83PQll7vE8cf7fKNq7_M3VfCQ/https%3A%2F%2Fprotect-au.mimecast.com%2Fs%2FMZksCoVzGQiAKvKgu1tk3Z%3Fdomain%3Dcsaa.asn.au>).

Applications should be sent to michael.richardson at unsw.edu.au<mailto:michael.richardson at unsw.edu.au> by Friday 16 March.

Best,
Michael

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