Professor Ien Ang
Professor of Cultural Studies, Director, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney
Current ARC Projects
Museums, Cultural Diversity and Audience Development: Realms of the Buddha - A Case Study (ARC SPIRT, 2001-2003, with Judith Snodgrass)
Partnerships in Humanities Research (ARC Special Project, 2003, with the Australian Academy of the Humanities)
The Special Broadcasting Service and Australian Cultural Democracy: Evolution, Uses and Innovation (ARC Linkage, 2004-2006, with Gay Hawkins and Julie Eisenberg)
Publications
Books
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West. London: Routledge, 2001
Chapters in Books
"From White Australia to Fortress Australia: the Anxious Nation in the New Century", in Laksiri Jayasuriya, Jan Gothard and David Walker (eds.), Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation, Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2003, pp.
"Trapped in Ambivalence: Chinese Indonesians, Victimhood and the Debris of History", in: Meaghan Morris & Brett de Bary (eds.), "Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration. Vol 2 of Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2001, pp. 21-48.
"Desperately Guarding Borders: Media Globalization, 'Cultural Imperialism', and the Rise of 'Asia'", in: Yao Souchou (ed.), House of Glass: Culture, Modernity and the State in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2001, pp. 27-45.
"Introduction: Alter/Asian Cultural Interventions for 21st Century Australia", in: I. Ang, S. Chalmers, L. Law & M. Thomas (eds.), Alter/Asians. Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture. Sydney: Pluto Press, 2000, pp. xiii-xxx.
"Identity Blues", in: Paul Gilroy, Lawrence Grossberg, and Angela McRobbie (eds.), Without Guarantees. In Honour of Stuart Hall. London: Verso, 2000, pp. 1-13.
"Asians in Australia: A Contradiction in Terms?" in: John Docker & Gerhard Fischer (eds), Race, Colour, Identity: Constructing the Multicultural Subject in Australia and New Zealand. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag and Sydney: UNSW Press, 2000, pp. 115-130.
"On Not Speaking Chinese: Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora", in: Morag Shiach (ed.), Feminism and Cultural Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 540-564 (reprint)
"Der Fluch des Lächelns. Die Ambivalenz der 'asiatischen' Frau im australischen Multikulturalismus", in: Mark Terkessidis & Ruth Mayer (Hrg.), Globalkolorit. Multikulturalismus und Populärkultur. Köln: Verlag Hannibal, 1998, pp. 273-288.
"Multicultural Imagined Communities: Cultural Difference and National Identity in the USA and Australia", in: David Bennett (ed.), Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity. London: Routledge,1998 (co-authored with Jon Stratton), pp. 135-162.
"Eurocentric Reluctance: Notes for a Cultural Studies of 'The New Europe'", in: Kuan-Hsing Chen (ed.), Trajectories: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 87-108.
"The Performance of the Sponge: Mass Communication Theory Enters the Postmodern World", in: Kees Brants, Joke Hermes & Liesbet van Zoonen (eds.), The Media in Question. London: Sage, 1998, pp. 77-88.
Refereed Articles
"Representing Social Life in a Conflictive Global World", in: Hong Kong Journal for Sociology, forthcoming, December 2003.
"Together-in-difference: Beyond Diaspora, into Hybridity" in: Asian Studies Review, forthcoming, June 2003.
"After '911': Defending the Global City", in: Ethnicities, vol 2 no 2, 2002: 160-162.
"Intertwining Histories: Heritage and Diversity", Australian Humanities Review, Nov/Dec 2001; http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-December-2001/ang.html
"Hybrid Life", Metro: Film, Television, Radio, Multimedia, no 127/128, Autumn/Winter 2001: 14-22.
"Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm", boundary 2: International Journal of Literature and Culture, vol 25 no 3, 1998: 223-242.
"Globalisation and the Politics of National Fear: Australia Confronts its Asian future", The Eastern Anthropologist, Vol 51, No 3, 1998: 237-248.
"Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia", Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, no 2, Spring 1998: 22-41 (co-authored with Jon Stratton)
"Doing Cultural Studies at the Crossroads: Local/Global Negotiations", European Journal for Cultural Studies, Vol 1, No 1, 1998: 13-32.
Current Research Interests
cultural diversity and difference
transnationalism and cultural globalisation
urban and community development
race, ethnicity and migration
changing cultural institutions
collaborative cultural research