Diasporic Agents and Trans-Asian Flows in the Making of Asian Modernity: The Case of Thailand
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2007-11-15
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How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of â everyday' actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology.
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Ara Wilson
In my scholarly work, I am especially interested in two combinations: interpreting empirical research through theoretical reflection and connecting economic systems to sex/gender systems and sexuality. I've taken these bridging projects in a few directions:
- ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, Thailand, with interest in the Southeast Asian region (on hiatus since Covid19);
- Science & Technology Studies (STS), e.g., projects on medical tourism, infrastructure, and standardization;
- a political economy of sex/gender, or queer political economy (QPE)
- rigorous conceptualization of keywords, such as intimacy, infrastructure, or the history of gender itself.
- histories of the scholarly fields of Anthropology and Women's Studies
- transnational networks relevant to sex/gender, e.g., the UN-NGO orbit and the World Social Forum.
I have taught a range of undergraduate courses in Gender Studies and regularly teach Money/Sex/Power and for many years team-taught Nature/Nurture-Sex/Gender with a neurobiologist. I co-ran a project on Transgender Studies and helped initiate GSF's courses on Introduction to Transgender Studies and Digital Feminism.
At the graduate level, I have led seminars in core feminist areas (feminist theory; transnational feminist theory; research design; sexuality studies) as well as topical courses on Infrastructure; The 1970s; and Care Economies (team taught). When serving as the DGS for GSF, I enjoyed mentoring graduate students from various departments on dissertation writing and entering the unnerving market for jobs and fellowships.
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