Strong Culture' 'Rebel Warrior'; and Hustlers HC, 'Big Trouble in Little Asia',

A study of the politics representation, this book explores discursive construction a ‘city intensities‘. The author analyses representations Calcutta in wide variety discourses: gossip and travellor-lore backpackers volunteer charity workers; writing - from classic literature to travel guides; cinema, photography maps. The shows how rumours westerners contribute elaboration an imaginary city; doing so, circulate ways fundamental maintenance international order. A provocative original...

This exploration of hybridity begins by offering a description the term and its uses in divergent related fields, then critique assumptions (those purity, marginality identity). A discussion cultural creativity, syncretism, diffusion, race biology (the history migration, language, culture, 'blood') leads on to consideration how syncretism seem do duty as terms for management more esoteric aspects colonialism global market. The argument focuses creativity – innovation authenticity, ownership...

ABSTRACT This paper considers a course on critical thinking in Vietnam with case study focus historical prisons as they are represented museums. Reflections prison narratives history and literature, texts, film excerpts, museum visits were used classes for students of anthropology sociology. In Ho Chi Minh City (hereafter HCMC), series museums tell versions the wider colonial military story part turn that into one pedagogical resistance today history. That is, is remembered presented—to...

(1998). Adorno at Womad: South Asian crossovers and the limits of hybridity-talk. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 401-426.

This article discusses the photograph and souvenir together as relics of a trinketizing touristic countenance. It argues that reified image memorializes exotic other, romanticized view childhood, in midst war deprivation. Charity memory are bound here with geo-politics. An analysis similarities differences ways photographs souvenirs trace encounters ‘photogenic poverty’ is urgent. A critical political response would aim to do more than infantilizing gestures charity aid now favoured by...

In the university system today, co-research may be a decolonising strategy. We evaluate teaching ‘Modernization and Social Change’ course in Vietnam as an experiment anthropology training. If for visitors, idea of ‘Vietnam’ is nurtured by Hollywood action cinema, 1960s–1970s protest movements documentary television, process collective research can rearrange orientations students teachers. The essay describes making ‘model’ film tool international faculty, evaluation general practice. A...

(1999). Hybridity Saves? Authenticity and/or the Critique of Appropriation. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 39-58.

This is an introduction to the section on Music and Politics including a description of context these essays, their individual contributions thematic interrelations.

ABSTRACTTourism Studies cannot rely upon studies of tourism alone to cover its range. While the anthropology had once sustained a revival, disciplinary inertia suggests renewal is again overdue and might justify reconstruction. The possibilities as ‘study’ perhaps remain unfulfilled, despite significant antecedents in Malcolm Crick’s work, where exactly glosses travel plus study. This builds desire know worlds, contribute human togetherness across differences, economic disparity, languages,...

Culture is considered as a key term in anthropology, now critical mode, and to be worked through powerful tropes that lead issues politics, interpretation, translation, stereotype racism. Anthropology described cultural system itself, with large supporting institutional apparatus, not unlike the culture industry critiqued by Adorno Frankfurt School. The high mass culture/high distinction some distortions explained (away). Street (development) resource are evaluated, leading an assessment of...

This essay takes up the work of Bernard Stiegler to evaluate and critique his use Marx Engels' notion proletarianization in context new media, television, education activism.The impact technology general intellect is measured against Stiegler's worry about a 'short circuit' that threatens humanity requires 'new critique'.Talk an 'attention economy' might be better understood if we deploy wider Marxist relation class consciousness struggle.Rather than forlorn complaint 'conspiracy imbeciles'...

The recent work of the Sri-Lankan-British musician and sonic ‘curator’ known as M.I.A. (real name: Mathangi Arulpragasam) is considered a commentary on atrocity read alongside well essay ‘The Storyteller’ by Walter Benjamin comments Auschwitz Theodor Adorno. storytelling here updated for contemporary context where global war impacts us all, more or less visibly, more, less, acknowledged. It argued that controversy over M.I.A.'s Romain Gavras video Born Free exemplary predicament art in face...

What is Empire? not? Where it? it The most general backand- forth questions to begin. We could start by asking whether there now anything outside the Empire of capital. Hardt and Negri declare as their initial task “to grasp constitution order being formed today” (2000, 3). It undoubtedly helpful see an increased arsenal concepts available for difficult naming the conjuncture at which contemporary capitalism currently sits, but a deft handling of requires careful contextualization...