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Books by Meaghan Morris
Vol 2, Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation , 2001
Introduction to an issue of the multilingual journal *Traces* co-edited by Meaghan Morris and Bre... more Introduction to an issue of the multilingual journal *Traces* co-edited by Meaghan Morris and Brett de Bary. Issue devoted to the relationship between between racism and memories of past experiences of displacement in Asian contexts.
Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it t... more Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than institutionalised education, but goes beyond the notion of public pedagogies in two ways: it includes spaces which are not so public, and it includes an emphasis on material and non-human actors.
This collection foregrounds this broader understanding of pedagogy by framing enquiry through a series of questions and across a range of settings. How, for example, are the processes of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ realised within and across the pedagogic processes specific to various social sites? What ensembles of people, things and practices are brought together in specific institutional and everyday settings to accomplish these processes?
This collection brings together researchers whose work across the interdisciplinary nexus of cultural studies, sociology, media studies, education and museology offers significant insights into these ‘cultural pedagogies’ – the practices and relations through which cumulative changes in how we act, feel and think occur. Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct opens up debate across disciplines, theoretical perspectives and empirical foci to explore both what is pedagogical about culture and what is cultural about pedagogy.
his collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity i... more his collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity intersect in media produced in the Asia-Pacific region. It spans different ideas about modernity in the region, different approaches to cultural analysis, and different media forms: from Taiwanese lifestyle television to avant-garde Indian cinema, from the emergence of a Chinese youth culture in online social networks to the alienation of country girls as imagined by Australian soap opera, and from the fantastic politics of migrating bodies in Korean cinema to the masculine mimicry of fighting women in South-East Asian action movies. Together, these essays explore the ways that media both records and helps produce images and experiences of modernity and the integral role gender plays in those processes.
Papers by Meaghan Morris
Australian Humanities Review, 2009
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2021
ABSTRACT Tejaswini Niranjana is one of the important Indian cultural theorists. In Musicophilia i... more ABSTRACT Tejaswini Niranjana is one of the important Indian cultural theorists. In Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious, she examines the emergence of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai, bringing together the notion of sociality and subjectivity to throw light on an important aspect of how publics are formed in the non-western metropolis. The roundtable joined by Professor Niranjana and the other five scholars touches upon issues such as the metropolitan unconscious, musicophilia, and migratory cultures, while also discussing the question of teacher-student relationship, the importance of inter-referencing and the possibility of creating new spaces of discussion.
T he 1994 centenary of the birth of one of Canada's most influential intel- lectuals, econom... more T he 1994 centenary of the birth of one of Canada's most influential intel- lectuals, economic historian and communication theorist Harold Innis, has stimulated scholars from many regions and disciplines to enter into dia-logue with his work and with one another. For those of us writing about cul-ture, revisiting Innis has also been informed by the emergence of a major body of writing in critical cultural theory which focuses on the cultural and spatial strategies of European colonisation, and their ongoing effects in the subsequent trend termed 'globalisation. ' Among the significant works in this euvre, which began to appear in the late 1970s and which continues today with no signs of diminishing, we might include, roughly in chronological order and with no
Cultural Studies of Transnationalism, 2013
1. An Introduction to Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Handel Kashope Wright & Meaghan M... more 1. An Introduction to Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Handel Kashope Wright & Meaghan Morris 2. Postcolonial reflections on the 'internationalization' of cultural studies Raka Shome 3. Higher Education "Reform," Hegemony, and Neo-Cold War Ideology: Lessons from Eastern Europe Allaine Cerwonka 4. Interpreting Transnational Cultural Practices: Social Discourses on a Korean Drama in Japan, Hong Kong, and China Sujeong Kim 5. Negotiating a Common Transnational Space: Mapping Performance in Jamaican Dancehall and South African Kwaito Sonjah Stanley Niaah 6. Beyond Ethnicity, Into Equality: Re-thinking Hybridity and Transnationalism in a local play from Hawai'i Ming-Bao Yue 7. Translating the Transnational: Teaching the "Other" in Translation Shouleh Vatanabadi 8. Transgeographical Practices of Marronage in some African Films: Peck, Sissako and Teno, the New Griots of New Times? Boulou Ebanda de B'beri
Cultural Studies Review, 2014
This article introduces the following one by Ross Chambers, with a personal and intellectual appr... more This article introduces the following one by Ross Chambers, with a personal and intellectual appreciation of Chambers' work and contribution to the field of cultural studies.
The Humanities in Asia, 2017
When this rollback [of untransformed Western values] takes place, we must have our own cultural v... more When this rollback [of untransformed Western values] takes place, we must have our own cultural values. And yet perhaps those values do not already exist, in substantive form. Rather I suspect that they are possible as method, that is to say, as the process of the subject's self-formation. This I have called "Asia as method", and yet it is impossible to definitively state what this might mean. Takeuchi, Yoshimi, "Asia as Method" 1 It is in its imaginative aspect, rather than its success or failure, that [the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement] needs discussion, for it is also on this plane that Hong Kong becomes conceptually unique. … Hong Kong's struggles for self-determination appear to be taking us into a political zone for which there may well be no historical equivalent for the questions raised. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, "Hong Kong from the Outside" 2 1.1 Tight Spots: Golden Chicken Historiography On the last day of June in 2046, an elderly woman with startlingly smooth, radiant skin struggles up an incline through the lush foliage of Victoria Peak. She is escorted by two police officers and all three are dressed in white. We soon see that everyone in this future wears white. This will be the last day of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and the end of the historical era of "one country two systems" that began on July 1st, 1997. Yet the scene is peaceful and
Vol 2, Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation , 2001
Introduction to an issue of the multilingual journal *Traces* co-edited by Meaghan Morris and Bre... more Introduction to an issue of the multilingual journal *Traces* co-edited by Meaghan Morris and Brett de Bary. Issue devoted to the relationship between between racism and memories of past experiences of displacement in Asian contexts.
Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it t... more Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than institutionalised education, but goes beyond the notion of public pedagogies in two ways: it includes spaces which are not so public, and it includes an emphasis on material and non-human actors.
This collection foregrounds this broader understanding of pedagogy by framing enquiry through a series of questions and across a range of settings. How, for example, are the processes of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ realised within and across the pedagogic processes specific to various social sites? What ensembles of people, things and practices are brought together in specific institutional and everyday settings to accomplish these processes?
This collection brings together researchers whose work across the interdisciplinary nexus of cultural studies, sociology, media studies, education and museology offers significant insights into these ‘cultural pedagogies’ – the practices and relations through which cumulative changes in how we act, feel and think occur. Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct opens up debate across disciplines, theoretical perspectives and empirical foci to explore both what is pedagogical about culture and what is cultural about pedagogy.
his collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity i... more his collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity intersect in media produced in the Asia-Pacific region. It spans different ideas about modernity in the region, different approaches to cultural analysis, and different media forms: from Taiwanese lifestyle television to avant-garde Indian cinema, from the emergence of a Chinese youth culture in online social networks to the alienation of country girls as imagined by Australian soap opera, and from the fantastic politics of migrating bodies in Korean cinema to the masculine mimicry of fighting women in South-East Asian action movies. Together, these essays explore the ways that media both records and helps produce images and experiences of modernity and the integral role gender plays in those processes.
Australian Humanities Review, 2009
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2021
ABSTRACT Tejaswini Niranjana is one of the important Indian cultural theorists. In Musicophilia i... more ABSTRACT Tejaswini Niranjana is one of the important Indian cultural theorists. In Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious, she examines the emergence of Hindustani classical music in Mumbai, bringing together the notion of sociality and subjectivity to throw light on an important aspect of how publics are formed in the non-western metropolis. The roundtable joined by Professor Niranjana and the other five scholars touches upon issues such as the metropolitan unconscious, musicophilia, and migratory cultures, while also discussing the question of teacher-student relationship, the importance of inter-referencing and the possibility of creating new spaces of discussion.
T he 1994 centenary of the birth of one of Canada's most influential intel- lectuals, econom... more T he 1994 centenary of the birth of one of Canada's most influential intel- lectuals, economic historian and communication theorist Harold Innis, has stimulated scholars from many regions and disciplines to enter into dia-logue with his work and with one another. For those of us writing about cul-ture, revisiting Innis has also been informed by the emergence of a major body of writing in critical cultural theory which focuses on the cultural and spatial strategies of European colonisation, and their ongoing effects in the subsequent trend termed 'globalisation. ' Among the significant works in this euvre, which began to appear in the late 1970s and which continues today with no signs of diminishing, we might include, roughly in chronological order and with no
Cultural Studies of Transnationalism, 2013
1. An Introduction to Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Handel Kashope Wright & Meaghan M... more 1. An Introduction to Transnationalism and Cultural Studies Handel Kashope Wright & Meaghan Morris 2. Postcolonial reflections on the 'internationalization' of cultural studies Raka Shome 3. Higher Education "Reform," Hegemony, and Neo-Cold War Ideology: Lessons from Eastern Europe Allaine Cerwonka 4. Interpreting Transnational Cultural Practices: Social Discourses on a Korean Drama in Japan, Hong Kong, and China Sujeong Kim 5. Negotiating a Common Transnational Space: Mapping Performance in Jamaican Dancehall and South African Kwaito Sonjah Stanley Niaah 6. Beyond Ethnicity, Into Equality: Re-thinking Hybridity and Transnationalism in a local play from Hawai'i Ming-Bao Yue 7. Translating the Transnational: Teaching the "Other" in Translation Shouleh Vatanabadi 8. Transgeographical Practices of Marronage in some African Films: Peck, Sissako and Teno, the New Griots of New Times? Boulou Ebanda de B'beri
Cultural Studies Review, 2014
This article introduces the following one by Ross Chambers, with a personal and intellectual appr... more This article introduces the following one by Ross Chambers, with a personal and intellectual appreciation of Chambers' work and contribution to the field of cultural studies.
The Humanities in Asia, 2017
When this rollback [of untransformed Western values] takes place, we must have our own cultural v... more When this rollback [of untransformed Western values] takes place, we must have our own cultural values. And yet perhaps those values do not already exist, in substantive form. Rather I suspect that they are possible as method, that is to say, as the process of the subject's self-formation. This I have called "Asia as method", and yet it is impossible to definitively state what this might mean. Takeuchi, Yoshimi, "Asia as Method" 1 It is in its imaginative aspect, rather than its success or failure, that [the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement] needs discussion, for it is also on this plane that Hong Kong becomes conceptually unique. … Hong Kong's struggles for self-determination appear to be taking us into a political zone for which there may well be no historical equivalent for the questions raised. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, "Hong Kong from the Outside" 2 1.1 Tight Spots: Golden Chicken Historiography On the last day of June in 2046, an elderly woman with startlingly smooth, radiant skin struggles up an incline through the lush foliage of Victoria Peak. She is escorted by two police officers and all three are dressed in white. We soon see that everyone in this future wears white. This will be the last day of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and the end of the historical era of "one country two systems" that began on July 1st, 1997. Yet the scene is peaceful and
What does it mean to “share” thought and experience in contexts enabled by new media platforms?1 ... more What does it mean to “share” thought and experience in contexts enabled by new media platforms?1 In a usage dominant on social network services that “spread” existing media content (Jenkins et al. 2013), sharing blurs into a gesture of display for mostly unspecified friends who may easily miss or ignore it. In contrast, this chapter exists because three women shared time, ideas and activities in the practical sense of developing a five-year project (2009-2014) shaped by a more or less equal division of labor and an ethic of reciprocity when circumstances allowed. Our focus was the Zynga games (Farmville, Cityville, Castleville, Farmville 2) that we played together during those years. However, with Meaghan Morris living in Hong Kong for much of that time while Elaine Lally and Catherine Driscoll worked at different universities in Sydney, our collaboration was made materially possible by the affordances of Facebook (Inbox and a closed group page where we posted materials, ideas and chat about our gaming), supplemented by email, SMS, Dropbox and a sporadic use of Pinterest as well as of pubs, cafés and conference presentations
Cultural Studies Review, 1970
When the first joint workshop on cultural research between the University of Western Sydney’s Cen... more When the first joint workshop on cultural research between the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Cultural Research (CCR) and the Department of Cultural Studies at Hong Kong’s Lingnan University (LU) began in July 2002, I had to admit to a little uncertainty in opening the proceedings. It was a novel experience for me to speak in Sydney as a member of a foreign delegation, and I spent an anxious moment wondering how to pitch my remarks: should I be telling old friends from UWS about what we do at Lingnan, or introducing new friends from Hong Kong to the Sydney—no, the Parramatta-based environment where we would spend the next few days?
The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin ... more The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin life, Narrative Con/Texts in "Dubliners" creatively widens the definition of "context" to include networks of theme and symbol. By treating Dubliners as an expanding document of lives in the process of being lived and by paying attention to how the boundaries between stories break down, Benstock is able to notice how characters and situations come uncannily to resemble each other. There are several innovative approaches here (for example, the thorough inspection of the economic conditions of Joyce's Dublin, down to the halfpenny) as well as new twists on established ideas. Benstock attempts a global, integrated reading of the stories, substituting his more holistic "con/texts" for the current fashion of context-hunting. His is an old ambition (for full coverage) in a new, upbeat format.
The second volume of the Traces series, "Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration, explo... more The second volume of the Traces series, "Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration, explores complex relations between violence, historical memory, and the production of "ethnicity" and "race." Some essays analyze the panicked "othering" that has led to violence against Chinese Indonesians, and to the little-known massacres of Hui Muslims in nineteenth century China and of Cheju Islanders in Korea in 1948. Others examine the fraught discourses surrounding colonialism, immigration, citizenship, and nation-building in Australia, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and Ireland. What new modes of inscribing experience might counter prejudice against migrant subjectivities? How can one articulate links between diverse subaltern struggles around the global movement of capital? Can shared memories of domination provide the basis for a cosmopolitanism more attentive to local identities?
Journal of the Sociey for Asian Humanities (JOSAH), 2020
Cultural Studies, 1996
I've made a humiliating discovery. The world is full of people who believe in alien abductio... more I've made a humiliating discovery. The world is full of people who believe in alien abductions, Satanic conspiracies, and the ineffable evil of government; people who believe that Aborigines are privileged in our society, and that minorities have too much power; people ...
Public Culture, 1999
Public Culture tional and cultural matters and in which there is no guarantee of a future for hum... more Public Culture tional and cultural matters and in which there is no guarantee of a future for humanities scholarship as we know it today. Unlike the United States, Australia does not have a developed system of well-endowed private ...
Contribution to a panel, "Academically Speaking" (with John Frow and Stephen Muecke) to the Austr... more Contribution to a panel, "Academically Speaking" (with John Frow and Stephen Muecke) to the Australasian Universities Languages and Literatures Assocation (AULLA) conference on "Love and the Word", Victoria University, Footscray, Dec. 2016
Talk for *Grabbing the Bull by the Horns*. Public event of festivities and discussion about “Pica... more Talk for *Grabbing the Bull by the Horns*. Public event of festivities and discussion about “Picasso: the Vollard Suite” exhibition, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Feb. 1, 2019.