First Book Review on the subject of Indigenous Performance Studies! Check it out:
ASAP/Review@asapjournal.bsky.social · 3w agoChengbao Seong-Bo Jin (@seongbokim.bsky.social) writes Critical Dreaming “makes its sharpest intervention not by inaugurating anticolonial critique w/in feminist performance studies...by reorganizing that conversation along 2 axes the field has only begun to inhabit.“ asapjournal.com/review/other...
The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective is proud to publish our first thematic issue: PALESTINE AS COMMUNICATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/19/1
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem
eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2y ago“Imagine an iron house, with absolutely no windows, indestructible, with many people asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation…Would you think you are doing them a good turn [by waking them before they perish]?” “But if a few awake, you can’t say there is no hope.” Lu Xun
Join us for a roundtable reflecting on the decade since Feminism Reboot (2015), a turning point in feminist and queer politics and scholarship in South Korea. Together, we’ll reflect on what has shifted, what has stalled, and what futures we might imagine. Register here: bit.ly/46jg871
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: DKSC Reflecting 10 Years of Feminism Reboot in Korean Studies. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: DKSC Reflecting 10 Years of Feminism Reboot in Korean Studies. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
bit.ly
Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective@dksc.bsky.social · last yr.DKSC presents a roundtable discussion on the 10th anniversary of “Feminism Reboot,” on 9/26 (Fri) at 8PM EST. We will reflect on a decade of feminist and queer politics, activism, and scholarship in Korean Studies in both North America and South Korea. Register here: bit.ly/46jg871
“Old white dude gets young Black woman to do unpaid labour for him” is “innovation” now cool cool cool.
Blayne Haggart@bhaggart.bsky.social · last yr.Senior white male AI researcher "designs" a computer program to simulate a young Black woman. That will answer student's questions and debate with students (all TA roles) but won't be a TA. Right. Tell me you don't understand the social implications of this tech without etc etc
UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
this sociology lecturer's account of how the "crisis" of social subjects (文科) in Chinese higher edu is changing the way of teaching evaluation is absolutely chilling. have you heard of AI monitoring "head-raise rate" - how often students will look up during a lecture mp.weixin.qq.com/s/98wVbe8hc0...
一所大学如何「改造」它的文科
“请证明你的思想有用”
mp.weixin.qq.com
In "‘I’m an androgynous tomboy with tattoos’: Amber and (re)imaginations of gender and Koreanness in K-pop", @michellehsho.bsky.social explores how Taiwanese American singer-songwriter Amber challenges gender and sexuality norms in South Korea. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Professor Siyuan Yin recently published a new book, "Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labour Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China". Learn more about the process of writing this book and her research in our feature story! www.sfu.ca/communicatio...
Chinese Workers in Capitalist Globalization: Professor Siyuan Yin’s New Book on Migrant Worker Labour Activism in China
sfu.ca
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.
Michael Burawoy, consummate sociologist, influential thinker, theorist, exemplary scholar, professor & fierce advocate of students, principled activist, former ASA president, a shockingly cruel tragedy has taken you too soon.😔 Your legacy is long and deep. May you rest in peace and power. 🙏🏾🕊️
Join us for our DKSC workshop, “Bridging Korean and Korean American Studies,” on Fri, Feb 21. Where does Korean American Studies fit within different disciplines? Is it part of Korean Studies' efforts to globalize the field? We invite three interdisciplinary scholars to explore these questions.
As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.
Engaging with Xiaohongshu (RED/REDnote/LittleRedBook): A Reading List
In the mold of other reading lists and bibliographies that have inspired us (see Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List, TikTok Researcher Network, and Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic), and given t...
qianxeniahuang.super.site
Qian Huang 黄倩@qianhuang.bsky.social · 2y agoRespect, acknowledge, refer to, and share the spotlight with Chinese (and some non-Chinese) researchers’ expertise and past publications. While the phenomenon is new, the platform has existed for 11 yrs and there has been a rich literature. (I will make a list of relevant literature & researchers)
Stayed up all night, anxiously following the news. Yet, the motion to impeach President Yoon failed because the ruling party boycotted the vote. Unacceptable and outrageous. Yoon must be impeached immediately and the People Power Party must be dissolved. A long and difficult battle lies ahead.
