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Panel II |
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Gender and Affects: Diversity, Dislocation, and Decolonization
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Chair |
Dr Penn Tsz Ting IP
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Description |
Mobilizing affect theory, this panel will explore how gender has been constantly and intensely shaped and reshaped in the wake of decolonization in 21st-century global China. How can indigenous mental health issues reflect the political economy of our time? How do rural women experience and imagine their affective lives when staying in the villages in China? What kind of challenges will rural women endure when they opt for migrant work in the cities? Lastly, how can migration create agencies and potentiality of change, especially for the gender minorities and the queer communities? Focusing on gender across various social classes and stratifications, this panel discuss topics related to indigenous psychology, queer mobility, rural women, and rural-to-urban migrant women workers in tandem with the affective experiences and encounters of love and care. |
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Keynote Speaker |
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Professor Jie YANG, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Topic: Decolonizing Art-centered Aesthetics and Euro-American Psychology through the Xin/Heart: Gender, Aesthetic Attunement, and Affective Governing in China's Bureaucracy URL: https://www.sfu.ca/sociology-anthropology/people/faculty/jie-yang.html
Short Bio: Jie Yang is professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She was trained in sociolinguistics at Beijing Language and Cultural University in China and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her current research focuses on critical studies of mental health and (non-)indigenous psychology in China. She is editor of the Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia (2014, Routledge) and a forthcoming special issue on the therapeutic and aesthetic dimension of the xin/heart/kokoro in Japan and China (Review of General Psychology). She has written two monographs: Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance (2015, Cornell University Press) and Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition, and Therapeutic Governance (2018, Polity Press). Currently she is working on two projects: one examines the social phenomenon of guan xinbing “officials' heartache,” troubling double binds and widespread distress among Chinese officials in the context of anti-corruption campaigns. She is completing a monograph entitled Guanchang Meixue “Bureaucratic Aesthetics”: Heart Distress, Aesthetic Attunement, and the Art of Governing in China. The other project delves into Chinese classics of philosophy, literature and medicine to investigate indigenous Chinese knowledge and modes of care for sanity and wellbeing imbricated in these classic texts as well as their implications for contemporary psychological practice. |
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Panelists |
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Professor Esther PEEREN, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Topic: Leaving the Village/Staying in the Village: Migration, Gender and Affect. URL: https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/p/e/e.peeren/e.peeren.html
Short Bio: Esther Peeren is Professor of Cultural Analysis at the University Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her research focuses on processes of marginalization and center-periphery relations, including in the context of migration. Currently, Esther leads the European Research Council-funded project “Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World.” With a team of PhD students and postdocs, she explores what aspects of contemporary rural life, as globalized, do and do not become visible in cultural imaginations of the rural in literature, film and television, and how this affects the way people make sense of the rural. The project compares five countries: the UK, the US, the Netherlands, China and South Africa. Esther's publications include the monographs Intersubjectivity and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2008) and The Spectral Metaphor: Living Ghosts and the Agency of Invisibility (Palgrave, 2014), and the co-edited volumes Global Cultures of Contestation (Palgrave, 2018), Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization (Palgrave, 2019), and Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care (Palgrave, 2023).
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Dr Hongwei BAO, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham, UK.
Topic: Passion of the Rabbit God: Imagining Queer Asian Heritage in the Diaspora URL: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/people/hongwei.bao
Short Bio: Dr Hongwei Bao is an Associate Professor in Media Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK, where he co-directs the Centre for Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (NIAS Press, 2018), Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), Queer Media in China (Routledge, 2021) and Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge 2022). He also coedits Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender and Sexuality (Routledge, forthcoming in 2024). He co-edits two book series: Oyster: Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, Cultures, and Genders (de Gruyter) and Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities (Bloomsbury). |
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Dr Lucetta Yip Lo KAM, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Topic: Leaving Hong Kong After 2014: Experiences of Queer Women Emigrants URL: https://hmw.hkbu.edu.hk/people/dr-kam-yip-lo-lucetta/
Short Bio: Lucetta Y. L. Kam is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the author of Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (HKU Press, 2013; Chinese edition 2015). Her publications on gender and sexuality in China, queer studies of Hong Kong, queer migration of Chinese women, and Sinophone queer female fandom in East Asia are included in various journals and edited books. Her current projects are the transnational mobility of queer women from China and Hong Kong, and queer Asian popular culture.
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Dr Penn Tsz Ting IP, Department of Humanities, Language and Translation, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
Topic: Gendering Home-Sweat-Home Narratives: Rural Migrant Women Laboring in the Service Industry in Shanghai URL: https://www.hkmu.edu.hk/hlt/pennip/
Short Bio: Dr Penn Tsz Ting Ip is Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts and Social Sciences (A&SS) at Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU). Before joining HKMU, she worked as Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Industry Management, School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019–2023). Trained as an urban cultural studies scholar, Ip received her PhD and rMA in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam, earned her MA in Intercultural Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her BA in Humanities (minor in Communication Arts) with honors from Hong Kong Baptist University. Since 2018, Ip works as the Shanghai Research Team Lead of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded partnership project “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network” (GenUrb). Her research interests include gender and women's studies, migration studies, urban cultural studies, and affect theory. Her research has been published in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, and Urban Affairs. Ip is the first author of The Ordinary Women: Qualitative Research on Workers' New Villages in Shanghai (2021, in Chinese, with Zhang Yu and Liu Xi). Collaborated with professors and students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ip is the director of the feminist research platform “HEResearch.”
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