Very recently, I was very privileged but also highly relieved to be part of an editorial team that launched a new journal. Named Transitions: Journal…
Ada: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology
A new journal specially addressing new media, gender and technology, Ada, according to the Fembot collective who published it is: a feminist, multimodal, peer reviewed…
Teaching Asia to Australia: Face-to-Face and First-Hand
The one measure outlined in the White Paper, Australia in the Asian Century, that seems to have caught the public’s imagination is the access…
Teaching Asia to Australia
Most recent co-authored piece on The Conversation, republished here by Creative Commons: Teaching Asia to Australia: it’s not just about languages By Susan Leong, Queensland…
Macquarie University’s Soft Power Advocacy and Research Group
Macquarie University has recently established a Soft Power Advocacy and Research Group (SPARC). Their aims are to: “Pursue a broad agenda of research and analysis…
Discussion on Diaspora – Robin Cohen & Khachig Tölölyan
A couple of videos recently discovered put together by the Oxford Diaspora Programme. My interest in them is clear. I’ll try and post some notes…
Chutneyfying English – Hinglish
A current research interest due to work on Chetan Bhagat’s novels. Very interesting parallels with the debate over Singlish in Singapore, another ex-British colony of…
Ethnic Tensions in China – 2009
A belated find but still useful I think, about how ethnic differences are being managed within China and how they are likely to affect the…
Workers’ Strikes in India
According to Reuters: “Millions of Indian workers to strike on Tuesday NEW DELHI – Millions of workers of all political hues will go on strike…
Middle India and Corruption
Bollywood finds new muse in anti-graft protests Reuters report: “MUMBAI – A hapless bank clerk who makes an enemy of a local politician and…