亞際文化研究導論
Introduction to
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
2018 秋
劉紀蕙
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交通大學社會與文化研究所
星期一下午13:30-16:30
教室：人社二館 F106A

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課程宗旨 Objectives

The aim of this seminar is to orient students toward re-thinking the problematics of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS). Bearing in mind the complex relations and geopolitics of East/Southeast and South Asian societies, this seminar delimits its scope in order to foreground the questions and formations of present conditions shaped by the residues of the colonial past and the process of decolonization, the Cold War regime and the post-Cold War aftermath, the shadow of Pax Americana and the shuffling of new powers with the rise of China, as well as new tensions in the age of globalization and neoliberalism.

This course will also address several fundamental questions: “What is Cultural Studies?” “What is the objective of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies?” “Is there any particular disciplinary methodology or theoretical framework that we need to adopt in doing Inter-Asia cultural Studies?”

Questions such as race, class, nation, gender, migration, citizenship, border, modernity, capitalism, neoliberalism, cannot be dealt with through any conventional disciplinary. Also, the inter-connected, inter-influencing and inter-conflicting historical processes in this area obliges Inter-Asia Cultural Studies to go beyond national boundaries.

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies therefore needs to be transdisciplinary, transnational and trans-local. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies would not take “Asia” as a totality of any pre-existing entity to retrieve or a future utopia to arrive at. Inter-Asian perspective offers an emergent mode of complex thinking, acknowledging the inter-relational conflicts and tensions in the past histories that have left their traces and are still functioning in contemporary societies. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies therefore needs to be comparative, improvisational and critical so as to expose and to dismantle the apparatus of socio-cultural formation behind the scene that is still shaping the uneven and unequal partitions within the societies.