Critical Asian Studies: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (Part 2)
In addition to Part 1 in Critical Asian Studies 45:4 (December 2013), Part 2 of Reframing North Korean Human Rights… more
Geek Tip: Menubar Countdown, Mac voices
From Facebook. Grading, writing, lots to do, and so many ways to procrastinate. Here’s one. I set Menubar Countdown to… more
AAG2014: The People, Place, and Space Reader
As part of the Authors Meets Critics Book Discussion at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in… more
‘If you build it, they will come’ – McGill talk on Friday, April 4
I’m giving a talk at McGill this Friday. ‘If you build it, they will come’? Protestant megachurches and contentious religious… more
Critical Asian Studies: Reframing North Korean Human Rights (Part 1)
The following articles in the thematic issue of Critical Asian Studies on Reframing North Korean Human Rights (part 1) are free to… more
CFP: Conference on “cultures of Yushin,” University of Michigan
Moving beyond the era’s political economy, the conference on “Cultures of Yushin†seeks to explore the remarkably rich and varied cultural production of the Yushin period in its dynamic, and often ambivalent, relationship to state power. Cultural production is broadly conceived to include literature, film, television, theater, music, art, architecture, animation, comics, advertising, fashion, and sports. We welcome innovative research that complicates familiar terms of opposition between coercion and consent, collaboration and resistance, and high art and popular culture.… more
New Publication: “Beyond safe haven: a critique of Christian custody of North Koreans in China”
I’m happy to share a new essay of mine that was just published in Critical Asian Studies. It kicks off… more
CFP: AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop on Dispossession, Capital, and the State
The Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science Research Council are pleased to announce the third jointly organized AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, which will… more
Job: Assistant Professor of Korean American Studies at UC Riverside
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, announces a Assistant Professor position in Korean American Studies, beginning July 1, 2014. PhD degree in a field related to theories and principles of Korean American Studies is required. The candidate should be a scholar with demonstrated record of commitment to research, grant writing, fundraising, teaching excellence, and community service.… more
Job: Web Editor for geography department, Toronto
The Department of Human Geography and City Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough is seeking a detail-oriented and tech-savvy… more