Forthcoming in Cultural Studies Review

Engagements

September 2006 issue on cultural research edited by John Frow and Katrina Schlunke with Fiona Allon and Meaghan Morris as guest editors.

Included are essays by Meaghan Morris, From ‘criticism’ to research: the textual in the academy; Fiona Allon, Between Sydney and Hong Kong: doing cultural research without guarantees; Kimburley Wing Yee Choi, Consumption: why does it matter in cultural research?; Sarah Redshaw, Driving cultures: cars, young people and cultural research; Tanja Dreher, From Cobra Grubs to Dragons: negotiating the politics of representation in cultural research; Shun-hing Chan, Iam-chong Ip, and Lisa Y.M. Leung, Negotiating culture, economics and community politics: the practice of Lei Yue Mun tourism in postcolonial Hong Kong; Kit-ling Luk, The mask of ageing: doing cultural research for a ‘social problem’; Brett Neilson, Anti-ageing cultures, biopolitics and globalisation; Po-keung Hui and Stephen C.K. Chan, Contextual utility and practicality: cultural research for the school community in Hong Kong and Ien Ang, From cultural studies to cultural research: engaged scholarship in the twenty-first century.

The issue also features book reviews by Jean Duruz of Carolyn Korsmeyer (ed), The taste culture reader, book review article by Lelia Green ofAlan McKee, The public sphere: an introduction and Graeme Turner, Understanding celebrity, Mary Zournazi’s review of Elspeth Probyn, Blush — faces of shame ...