Globalisation and East Asian Cultures Research Group

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The Globalisation and East Asian Cultures research group is made up of scholars specialising in Asian Media and Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University.

The term 'East Asia' has often been associated with countries including China (including Hong Kong and Macau), South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Mongolia. The region has for a long time been imagined as a coherent geographical and cultural entity: despite their differences, the different countries in East Asia share many historical experiences in common, especially in their processes of modernisation in the nineteenth and twentieth century: colonialism, revolution, war, negotiation with communist and capitalist ideologies, economic liberalisation and cultural nationalism.

In recent decades, the region also celebrates rapid economic growth and its distinct East Asian cultural styles. In this sense, Asia can be used as Method to talk about these countries' shared experiences in colonialist and imperialist encounters and capitalist globalisations. The region can also be imagined as contact zones with borders and crossings, as dynamic networks with nodes, and as a thousand plateau with lines of flight. All these metaphors point to minor transnationalisms, alternative globalisations or other modernities which are intricately linked to, but also divergent from, the Eurocentric model of capitalist and neo-liberal globalisations.

The group is made up of scholars specialising in Asian Media and Cultural Studies in School of Arts and Humanities. The scholars' research areas cover journalism and new media, gender, sexuality and identity in Asia, transnational Asian media and popular culture; globalisation and East Asian film and culture industries. The research group recognises the heterogeneity of the region and celebrates the cultural diversity of the region.

While it focuses on the impact of globalisation on the region, it also pays meticulous attention to the specific histories and cultural traditions of the divergent political and geographical entities in the region, together with their internal dynamics, interactions, relations, connections and transformations. In doing so, the group aims to produce intellectually-vigorous, theoretically-nuanced, methodologically-grounded, context-specific, historically-sensitive, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary scholarship in Asian Media and Cultural Studies.

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Nottingham Trent University
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