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Lowie distinguished chair in anthropology at the university of california, berkeley, where she is the chair of the center of southeast asian studies. Factory women in malaysia 1987, and the editor of ungrounded empires. The cultural logics of transnationality and neoliberalism as exception. The cultural logics of transnationality, winner of the association for asian american studies. Sage video bringing teaching, learning and research to life. Borrowing from the french philosopher michel foucault. Flexible citizenship is an excellent example of a book that speaks to many fields of social science. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Explaining how intensified travel, communications, and mass media have created a transnational chinese public, aihwa ong argues that previous studies have mistakenly viewed transnationality as necessarily detrimental to the nationstate and have ignored individual agency in the largescale flow of people, images, and cultural forces across borders. Buddha is hiding by aihwa ong paperback university of.
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