New formations in Asian‐Australian cultural politics

Lo, Jacqueline; Khoo, Tseen; Gilbert, Helen

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“…Western stereotypes of Asian men have typically been either the nerdy wimp or the ninja warrior (Lo et al . : 9). The fight club (which was stopped when one member tripped and broke his leg), may have been an attempt to embody the coolest of these two stereotypes but may also have been influenced by Sam's father regaling his sons with stories of his prowess in muay thai: ‘When I was young, I was so strong, I used to kick all day.’…”

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Boy Interrupted – Biographical disruption during the transition to adulthood

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Sociology Health & Illness

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Most studies on the gendered aspects of biographical disruption are predicated on adult experiences of chronic illness, often based on heterogeneous samples. This paper goes beyond typologies by analysing the life‐history case study of ‘Sam’, a 23‐year‐old Australian man raised in a refugee family, who developed a disabling chronic health condition at 15 years of age. The analysis illustrates how critical contextual factors like life‐phase, combine with powerful social structures like ethnicity and gender to shape Sam's experiences of, and responses to, biographical disruption. Even before the onset of any symptoms, Sam was railing against the marginal position he occupied in the Australian gender order as a young Asian man. With little guidance on how to adapt his biography to integrate his new differently functioning body, Sam's transition to adulthood stalls, and he becomes in effect, a boy interrupted.

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“…Asian men are often defined as a feminine Other in opposition to a normalised Western masculinity (Ayres , Lo et al . , Luke ). Assuming a hyper‐masculine identity available to non‐White men, was Sam's way of eschewing the marginal position to which Asian men are relegated in the Australian gender hierarchy.…”

Section: Identity and Belonging In High Schoolmentioning

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Boy Interrupted – Biographical disruption during the transition to adulthood

Wedgwood

Smith

Hendl

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Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Moira Gatens has explored this very logic of selective bodies standing for the body politic in relation to sexed embodiment (1996) and the insights also pertain to diasporic bodies in Western polities. As noted by Lo et al (2000), Leong's work destabilises conventional assumptions about distinctions between Asian art and Western portraiture. The face and body of Leong do not appear as signifiers designed to reflect the inner truth of Leong (a viewing assumption associated with Western visual productions of subjects).…”

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“…Having noted this, there is increasingly evidence to the contrary, with developments such as the newly constituted field of Asian-Australian Studies (Lo et al, 2000) as exempla. Colonial discourse analysis has drawn attention to the historically specific ways in which a vast range of texts and discourses have fashioned a colonial gaze and scopic regime which simultaneously constitutes, objectifies and denigrates the 'others' of Western cultures-including those living in the non-West, indigenous populations in colonised or formerly colonised nations and migrant groups in Western societies.…”

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Diaspora, cultural practice and syncretic visuality

McFarlane

2004

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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This paper offers an investigation of the relationship between diaspora, cultural practices and the field of visuality studies. Since the groundbreaking work of Edward Said, there have been ample studies on the formation of a colonial Western gaze which has objectified people living in the non-West, indigenous populations in colonised or formerly colonised nations and migrant groups in Western societies. More attention needs to be given, however, to the visualities produced by these very subjects. Such visualities demonstrate transculturation and autoethnography in the context of global visual politics and are often a contestation of both colonial and exclusionary nationalist visualities. This paper specifically explores the syncretic quality of visualities produced by subjects of the postmodern diasporic experience-in this case, the photographers Hou Leong and Yean Leng Lim who have experienced the Chinese diaspora in the Australian context. It argues that such syncretism is produced through an intercultural mixing of visual regimes and that diasporic visuality often exhibits an ironic and critical dimension (i.e. a critical syncretism) that challenges norms of nationalist subjectivity and culture.The research on both visuality and diaspora has dramatically increased in the past decade and a significant relation between these fields exists. Visualities constructed in the context of the diasporic experience are syncretic and mix the values and aesthetics of once culturally distinct formations of vision and visualisation. The photography of both Hou Leong and Yean Leng Lim, subjects who have experienced the Chinese diaspora in the Australian context, exemplify the construction of diasporic visuality and the quality of critical syncretism that characterises such visuality. Diasporic visuality involves the deployment of tactics such as syncretism, irony, juxtapositioning and intercultural aesthetic cross-hatching which operate collectively to enact both the specificities of diasporic cultural identity and a cultural politics which challenges exclusionary norms of nationalist subjectivity and culture.While many studies, post-Said's (1978) well-known critique of the Western construction of the Orient he terms Orientalism, have attempted to unmask the assumptions governing the construction of the 'Other' within the cultural practices

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“…627-28. 10 N. Yuval-Davis 1999 11See, for instance, Ang 2001;Ang 2000a;Butcher and Thomas 2003; Castles et al 1988;Joshi 2000;Julian 2004;Lo 2001a;Lo, Khoo and Gilbert 2000;Matthews 2002;Thomas 2003a;Thomas 2003b.…”

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Asian Perspectives. Asian Studies in “Crisis”: Is Cultural Studies the Answer?

Clark

2006

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This article explores some of the benefits and limitations of Cultural Studies in Asian studies with particular reference to the expression of Asian-Australian identity in diaspora. It has been suggested that the influence of Cultural Studies – a discipline that is viewed as more globally relevant – may be an answer to the Asian studies “crisis”. In relation to the Cultural Studies approach to Asian-Australian identity, I argue that the discourse and rhetoric of Cultural Studies is highly beneficial in breaking down stereotypes and rebuilding the national narrative of identity. However, as a methodology it is not without limitations.

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New formations in Asian‐Australian cultural politics

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Boy Interrupted – Biographical disruption during the transition to adulthood

Boy Interrupted – Biographical disruption during the transition to adulthood

Diaspora, cultural practice and syncretic visuality

Asian Perspectives. Asian Studies in “Crisis”: Is Cultural Studies the Answer?

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