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Volume 5, Number 1 (April 1, 2002)

  • Refugees: the Tampa case - Julian Burnside
  • Reflections on the Tampa 'crisis' - Robert Manne
  • Witnessing death: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni crisis - Marion Campbell
  • Race and racialisation: some thoughts - Patrick Wolfe
  • 'You been coverem up me gotem big swag. Government been coverem up me': the hauntings of settler economies - Tanya Dalziell
  • Gandhi's integrity: the philosophy behind the politics - Akeel Bilgrami
  • Gandhi's tiger: multilingual elites, the battle for minds, and English Romantic literature in colonial India - Ruth Vanita
  • Staging the Postcolonial - Rachel Fensham
  • Neighbours pp. - Jane Landman

Volume 4, Number 3 (November 1, 2001)

  • Editorial - Leela Gandhi, Michael Dutton, Sanjay Seth
  • The culture peddlers - Anne Freadman
  • Self and similitude: translating difference (modern colonialism and renaissance conquests) - Vanita Seth
  • '(Hand)Made in China': the curious return of the footbinding shoe - Kaz Ross
  • The Golden Bough and Apocalypse Now: an-other fantasy - Jojada Verrips
  • An American Empire? - Tim Watson
  • Banality for postcolonial studies - Amanda MacDonald
  • Utopianism and its discontents - Marcus Breen
  • Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India - Sanjay Seth

Volume 4, Number 2 (July 1, 2001)

  • Editorial - Sanjay Seth, Michael Dutton, Leela Gandhi  
  • A report on the present state of health of the gods and goddesses in South Asia - Ashis Nandy  
  • Dancing with Ga(y)nesh: rethinking cultural appropriation in multicultural Australia - Selvaraj Velayutham, Amanda Wise  
  • History's unwanted surplus: Japan and the irreducible remainder of everyday life - Harry Harootunian  
  • Ousting the 'prostitute': retelling the story of the Karayuki-san - Bill Mihalopoulos  
  • Huziki Hayato, the storyteller: comedy, practice and the politics of everyday life in Okinawa - Christopher T. Nelson  
  • Simulacra and subversion in the everyday: Akasegawa Genpei's 1000-yen copy, critical art, and the State - William A. Marotti  
  • The eurocentrism of history - Michael Hardt  
  • Settler colonialism and the transformation of anthropology - Deborah Bird Rose

Volume 4, Number 1 (April 1, 2001)

  • Negotiating Difference - Michael Dutton, Michele Grossman, Sanjay Seth, Leela Gandhi  
  • Dominion and dishonour: a treaty between our nations? - Marcia Langton  
  • Clothing the political man: a reading of the use of khadi/white in Indian public life - Dipesh Chakrabarty  
  • Footprints on The Beach : traces of colonial adventure in narratives of independent tourism - Alex Tickell 
  • George Eliot and the drama of otherness - Pauline Nestor  
  • Liberalism and the politics of (multi)culture: or, plurality is not difference - Sanjay Seth  
  • Leftist criticism and the political impasse: response to Arif Dirlik's 'How the grinch hijacked radicalism: further thoughts on the postcolonial' - Prasenjit Duara  
  • The 'Real Lesson of an Education in Visual Culture' - Heather Kerr  
  • Said's paradoxical identities - Alvin Koh

Volume 3, Number 3 (November 1, 2000)

  • Editorial - Stephen Cairns, Sanjay Seth, Michael Dutton, Leela Gandhi  
  • The Jean-Paul Gaultier theory of world peace - Joanne Finkelstein  
  • Postcolonial sites, global flows and fashion codes: a case-study of power cheongsams and other clothing styles in modern Singapore - Chua Beng-Huat
  • Fashioning change: nationalism, colonialism, and modernity in Hong Kong - Annie Hau-nung Chan  
  • Fashion orientalism and the limits of counter culture - Hiroshi Narumi  
  • Some thoughts on 'primitive' body decoration - Llewellyn Negrin  
  • In the tiger's lair: socialist everdayness enters post-Mao China - Harry D. Harootunian  
  • Promises unfulfilled: the struggle to move outside the North Atlantic range of vision - John Sinclair  
  • Arrested development or the queerness of savages: resisting evolutionary narratives of difference - Neville Hoad

Volume 3, Number 2 (July 1, 2000)

  • On Reflection 
  • Arrested development or the queerness of savages: resisting evolutionary narratives of difference - Neville Hoad  
  • 'Maidenly and well nigh effeminate': constructions of Hindu masculinity and religion in seventeenth-century English texts - Kate Teltscher  
  • Talking sex - Dennis Altman  
  • Subject to translation: Shakespeare, Swahili, Socialism - Faisal Fatehali Devji  
  • Colonialism's law, professionalism's discipline - Ian Duncanson  
  • Diplomacy, grotesque realism, and Ottoman historiography - Costas M. Constantinou  
  • Who's Place? A review of Indigenous Australian Voices - Philip Morrissey
  • Response to Philip Morrissey - Jennifer Sabbioni, Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith
  • Fellow Travelers - Cherry Clayton

Volume 3, Number 1 (April 1, 2000)

  • Editorial - Leela Gandhi, Sanjay Seth, Michael Dutton  
  • The medieval in manga - Rajyashree Pandey  
  • Global/postcolonial horror: Introduction - Ken Gelder  
  • Monster Island: Godzilla and Japanese sci-fi/horror/fantasy - Philip Brophy
  • Tracking the vamp: Irma Vep and postclassical cinematic anxiety - Brett Farmer  
  • ‘Suri suri masuri’: the magic of the Korean horror film: a conversation - Kim So-Young, Chris Berry  
  • Bad Taste and antipodal inversion: Peter Jackson’s colonial suburbs - Barbara Creed  
  • The floating life of fallen angels: unsettled communities and Hong Kong cinema - Dominic Pettman  
  • The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - I. Q. Hunter    
  • Postcolonial voodoo - Ken Gelder  
  • Shakespeare—postcoloniality—Adelaide, 1999 - Heather Kerr  
  • White Aborigines: identity politics in Australian art - Fiona Nicoll

Volume 2, Number 3 (November 1, 1999)

  • Watch this space - Michael Dutton, Leela Gandhi, Sanjay Seth  
  • The place of place in sociology - Joanne Finkelstein  
  • The hotel lobby - Siegfried Kracauer  
  • Crowds - Claude Levi-Strauss  
  • The invisible holocaust and the journey as an exodus: the poisoned village and the stranger city - Ashis Nandy  
  • When the sheep had wings - Paul Magee  
  • Of cargo and satellites: imagined cosmopolitanism - Louisa Schein  
  • Consuming the other: the fetish of the western woman in Chinese advertising and popular culture - Perry Johansson
  • Ethnography and Oliver Sacks: the anthropologist on Mars - John Wiltshire
  • Discipline and colony: The English Patient and the crow's nest of post coloniality - Qadri Ismail

Volume 2, Number 2 (July 1, 1999)

  • The toolbox of postcolonialism - Michael Dutton; Leela Gandhi; Sanjay Seth
  • Postcoloniality's unconscious/area studies' desire - H D Harootunian
  • How the grinch hijacked radicalism: further thoughts on the postcolonial - Arif Dirlik
  • The black hole art of Zhang Hongtu
  • Introduction: more problems and more -isms - Sylvia Chan
  • Debating 'Chinese postmodernism' - Zhang Longxi
  • Postcolonial studies in Taiwan: issues in critical debates - Ping-Hui Liao
  • Politics of othering and postmodernisation of the Cultural Revolution - Guo Jian
  • Anxiety of translation and abdication of the translator: a case of Sino-postcolonialism in the 1990s - Ben Xu
  • In-between and in evasion of so much: Third World literatures, international relations and postcolonial analysis - Christine Sylvester
  • Beyond 'race thinking' - Sudeep Dasgupta

Volume 2, Number 1 (April 1, 1999)

Volume 1, Number 3 (November 1, 1998)

  • Jive talking, or, how to have fun and influence people - Michael Dutton  
  • The twilight of certitudes: secularism, Hindu nationalism and other masks of deculturation - Ashis Nandy 
  • Nandy: intimate enemy number one - Don Miller 
  • Theses on subalternity, representation, and politics - John Beverley 
  • The dilemmas of a multicultural nomad caught up in (post)colonialism- Sneja Gunew 
  • Introduction- Virinder S. Kalra 
  • Brimful of agitation, authenticity and appropriation: Madonna's 'Asian Kool' - Virinder S. Kalra 
  • Desis reprazent : bhangra remix and hip hop in New York City - Sunaina Maira  
  • What is real about 'keeping it real'?- Dipa Basu
  • Sonic diaspora and its dissident footfalls - Koushik Banerka 
  • Adorno at Womad: South Asian crossovers and the limits of hybridity-talk- John Hutnyk
  • Cosmopolitan Contraries - Peter Hitchcock
  • Colonialism and its forms of knowledge - Roger Knight

Volume 1, Number 2 (July 1, 1998) 

  • Editors' introduction- Leela Gandhi, Michael Dutton, Sanjay Seth 
  • The migrant's time - Ranajit Guha 
  • The postcolonial difference: lessons in cultural legitimation - Rey Chow 
  • Professing postcoloniality: the perils of cultural legitimation - Gloria Davies
  • Building, dwelling, drifting: migrancy and the limits of architecture. Building Hong Kong: from migrancy to disappearance - Ackbar Abbas 
  • Architecture and the scene of evidence - Catherine Ingraham 
  • Postcolonial architectonics - Stephen Cairns 
  • Re-imagining land ownership in Australia - Helen Verran 
  • Beg, borrow or steal: the politics of cultural appropriation- Denise Cuthbert
  • Time and the other: how modernity (re)makes its mothers - Helen Johnson

Volume 1, Number 1 (April 1, 1998)

  • Postcolonial studies: a beginning. . .  
  • Minority histories, subaltern pasts - Dipesh Chakrabarty 
  • Postcolonialism and globalisation: a dialectical relation after all? - Simon During 
  • Postcolonialism: between nationalitarianism and globalisation? A response to Simon During - Bart Moore-Gilbert 
  • Parks, mines and tidy towns: enviro-panopticism, 'post' colonialism, and the politics of heritage in Australia - Suvendrini Perera and Joseph Pugliese 
  • Aboriginality and corporatism - Phillip Morrissey 
  • Resisting aboriginalities - Michese Grossman and Denise Cuthbert 
  • After midnight: the Indian novel in English of the 80s and 90s - Jon Mee
     
     

 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 


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