Australian cultural studies in an ‘Asian century’

Abstract

The organizers of this Colloquium provided a number of prompts to help shape our conversation. These included a theoretical question—which agendas are most promising for the future development of the discipline?—and some political ones: What political concerns— within Australia, and internationally—shaped cultural studies’ practical engagements in the late 1990s? How have these changed? And which are now the most pressing? This short article attempts to respond to these two clusters of questions with reference to Asia-related cultural studies work.