Dr Mandy Thomas
Deputy Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
Current ARC Projects
2003 'Migration memories: an analysis of representations of Australian migration histories'
2004 'Migration and its socio-economic and cultural consequences in Australia'
Publications
Books
2004 co-edited with Stephen Muecke and Koichi Iwabuchi, Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic, Hong Kong University Press (forthcoming).
2003 co-edited with Lisa Drummond, Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam. New York and London: Routledge/Curzon
2003 co-edited with Melissa Butcher, Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia, Melbourne: Pluto Press.
2002 Moving Landscapes: National Parks and the Vietnamese experience. Sydney: Pluto Press.
2000 co-editor with Ien Ang, Lisa Law and Sharon Chalmers, Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture. Sydney: Pluto Press.
1999 Dreams in the Shadows: Vietnamese-Australian lives in transition. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.
Chapters in Books
2004 'Proscribing desire: the Vietnamese state and East Asian popular culture' in Iwabuchi, K, Muecke, S. and Thomas, M (eds), Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic, Hong Kong University Press (forthcoming).
2004 'Needlepoints of labour: Vietnamese women, the garment industry and transnational space' in LBW Drummond and H Rydstrom, Practicing Gender in Contemporary Vietnam. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
2003 'Introduction' (with Lisa Drummond) in Drummond, L. and Thomas, M (eds), Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 1-17.
2003 'Spatiality and political change in contemporary Vietnam' in Drummond, L. and Thomas, M (eds), Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Pp. 170-188.
2003 (with Melissa Butcher), 'Situating Youth Cultures' in M. Butcher and M. Thomas (eds), Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia. Melbourne: Pluto Press.
2003 (with Melissa Butcher), 'Being in-between' in M. Butcher and M. Thomas (eds), Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia. Melbourne: Pluto Press.
2003 'Hanging out in Westfield Parramatta' in M. Butcher and M. Thomas (eds), Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia. Melbourne: Pluto Press.
2003 (with Melissa Butcher, 'Cruising' in M. Butcher and M. Thomas (eds), Ingenious: emerging youth cultures in urban Australia. Melbourne: Pluto Press.
2001 'The Vietnamese in Sydney' in James Jupp (ed) The Australian People. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000 'Fantasia: transnational flows and Asian popular culture in Australia' in Ien Ang, Lisa Law Mandy Thomas and Sharon Chalmers (eds), Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian identities in art, media and popular culture. Sydney: Pluto Press.
2000, 'Stars in the Shadows: Celebrities, media and the state in contemporary Vietnam', in Yao Souchou (ed), House of Glass: Modernity and the State in Southeast Asia. Singapore:ISEAS.
Refereed Articles
2004 'Transitions in taste in Vietnam and the diaspora' in (edited by Roberta James, Mandy Thomas and Kalissa Alexeyeff, 'Taste this: an anthropological examination of food' , Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. (forthcoming)
2002 'Out of control: emergent cultural landscapes and political change in urban Vietnam', Urban Studies. 39 (9): 1611-1624.
2002 'Re-orienting east Asian popular culture in Vietnam' Asian Studies Review Vol 26 (2): 189-204.
2001 'Stitching at the boundaries: Vietnamese garment industry workers in transnational spaces', Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections, no. 5.
2001 (co-authored with Allan Snyder) 'The Paradox of Autistic Art', Artlink. Vol 21(2):48-50).
2001 'Frontiers of Belonging: home-based garment industry workers and the nation-state', UTS Review 7(1):125-134.
2001 'Public Spaces/Public Disgraces: crowds and the state in contemporary Vietnam', Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. Vol 16(2) pp. 306-330.
1999 'Dislocations of Desire: the transnational movement of gifts within the Vietnamese diaspora', Anthropological Forum, Vol 9:2: 145-161.
1999 'The handover of rebels' (Review article of R. Lilley's 'Staging Hong Kong: Gender and Performance in Transition', UTS Review, Vol 5:2, pp209-212.
1998 'Estranged bodies and Vietnamese identities' in 'Diaspora, Identity and Cultural Politics', M. Thomas (ed), special issue, The Australian Journal of Anthropology 9(1): 74-88.
1998 'Introduction' in 'Diaspora, Identity and Cultural Politics', M. Thomas (ed), special issue, The Australian Journal of Anthropology 9(1):1-10.
Current Research Interests
migration
multiculturalism
youth cultures
social and political change in Vietnam
cultural traffic in Asia-Pacific
food and cultural diversity
kinship and family
embodiment
the senses