13 Nov 2009

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements e-journal
Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies Center, Graduate Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, also known as the Movements project, is a transborder collective undertaking to confront Inter-Asia cultural politics. The question of culture is among the most important yet difficult facing Inter-Asia today. Prolonged histories of feudal ideology, patriarchy, heterosexism, and, within as well as between countries, racism and discrimination against subjugated peoples continue to block struggles for popular democracy. Long term complex-antagonisms generated by the uneven histories of global capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, the imposed nation-state structure and regressive forms of nationalist identity politics have rendered meaningful dialogues within the region very difficult. At the same time, the globalization and regionalization of technology, economy, and cultural production, and the recent breakdown of the Cold War structure, have opened up a unique moment for dialogues within Asia and internationally. [...] This new situation has brought political economy, culture and politics together in different ways, and forced us to create new ways of thinking and acting. For this reason the project is more interested in generating new questions or finding ways of asking questions differently, than providing fixed answers. [...]"
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* About IACS (Editorial Statement, Editorial Body, Affiliating Journals, Submissions, Discussions About Us, Copyrights);
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* Issues Vol 1~9;
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* Alliances and Links (IACS Society, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Movement's Links, Journals);
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* Inter-Asia Cultural Typhoon 2009
[Any questions (regardless of them being posed overtly, indirectly, or entirely differently) whether the Movements project itself is, or is not a cold-blooded (albeit nuanced and indirect) parody of mannerisms and fixations of post-modern social research and cultural studies, are more likely than not to render any meaningful dialogue with those who are more interested in generating new questions or finding ways of asking questions differently, than providing fixed answers, considerably less than utterly meaningless if not entirely surreal yet not without a potential scope for the eventual emergence of a number of obscurantism-busting meta-narratives. - ed.]
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