Asianing Australia: Notes toward a critical transnationalism in cultural studies

Ang, Ien; Stratton, Jon

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“…The Asian EPL fan base discussed above exists within a peculiarly post-modern sociocultural space in which global or Western-inspired capitalist modernity is indigenized within Asian contexts -with the global -local dialectic reflected in hypercommercialized, deeply consumerist and increasingly affluent and urbanized lifestyle modes (Ang and Stratton 1996;Kahn and Kellner n.d.). Within a space undergoing transformation through accelerated economic growth (somewhat stalled in 2008 and for the immediate future) and rapid socio-cultural transition, the highly mediated and merchandized cultural form of the EPL provides an accessible outlet for the practice of a decidedly visual form of engagement with 'thick cosmopolitanism':…”

Section: Epl Consumption and Aspirational Cosmopolitanism In The Modementioning

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Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

Rowe

Gilmour

2009

Continuum

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As sport has circulated around the globe, its practice and expression have both replicated its established (and substantially Western-dominated) power formation, and to varying degrees challenged and modified it. The growing popularity of these sportsentertainment cultures reflects emergent media and leisure economies combining global aspirational cosmopolitanism with local cultural identities and histories. These multiple modes of cultural adaptation are evident in various Asian contexts in relation to the English Premier League (EPL) (and association football (soccer) in general), and hybridized local forms of global sport such as the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket and the J-League (Japanese professional soccer). This article examines, in reference to these cases, the ways in which global sport culture is constrained by its historical inheritance yet also making new, multi-faceted cultural histories. It argues that the trajectory of sport's global cultural development is not subject to a simple logic of adoption and imitation, but is created out of multiple, intersecting correspondencesand non-correspondences -between histories, sites and social formations. The cultural complexion of sport -not least in the vibrantly performative sphere of fandom -is undergoing profound, culturally adaptive change, and analytical frameworks foregrounding sporting cultural importation and pale imitation require a concomitant re-consideration and adaptation.

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Section: Epl Consumption and Aspirational Cosmopolitanism In The Modementioning

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Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

Rowe

Gilmour

2009

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“…This claim led to scholarly critiques of purportedly distinctive "Asian modernities" or the "Asian turn" (e.g. Ang and Stratton, 1996;Chen, 1996, p. 41). Of these, Nonini and Ong's (1996, pp.…”

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“Middling” Chinese Returnees or Immigrants from Canada? The Ambiguity of Return Migration and Claims to Modernity

Ley

2013

Asian Studies Review

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This paper investigates the conceptual overlaps between transnational return migration and immigration by drawing on a qualitative study of Mainland Chinese return migration from Canada. The paper argues that reframing return migration as a distinct type of immigration draws attention to the citizenship vulnerabilities experienced by "middling" returnees who are not privy to the preferential treatment given to highly skilled returnees. They come to be considered as "foreigners" in their homeland because they have naturalised elsewhere. The paper also explores the double diasporic identifications of Mainland Chinese returnees from Canada; it highlights the tensions and fissures manifested in secondary diasporas, particularly in light of China's growing prominence in international business, foreign diplomacy and cultural exchanges. The paper suggests that social encounters that marginalise such migrants in Canada are reproduced in China. The returnees navigate such encounters by mobilising their transnational affiliations to different national contexts.

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“…For critical race and ethnicity studies, see Anzaldúa (1991), Gray (1993), Gilroy (1996) and Hall (1997). For postcolonial studies, see Said (1979), Wolf (1982), Chatterjee (1986), Spivak (1987, Clifford (1989Clifford ( , 1992, Min-ha (1989), Morris (1989Morris ( , 1992, Ahmad (1992), Amin (1992), Chakrabarty (1992), Grossberg (1993Grossberg ( , 1996aGrossberg ( , 1996b, Hall (1993Hall ( , 1996Hall ( , 1997, Viswanathan (1993), Ang and Stratton (1996), Chambers and Curti (1996), Chen (1996) and Gilroy (1996). For postmodernist philosophy, see Foucault (1970), Lyotard (1984), Baudrillard (1983), Deleuze and Guattari S PAT I A L M AT E R I A L I S M 8 7…”

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Wiley¹

2005

Cultural Studies

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Asianing Australia: Notes toward a critical transnationalism in cultural studies

Cited by 73 publications

References 17 publications

Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

Global sport: Where Wembley Way meets Bollywood Boulevard

“Middling” Chinese Returnees or Immigrants from Canada? The Ambiguity of Return Migration and Claims to Modernity

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