How did you end up here? Did you find meet us IRL? Did you find our musings somewhere such as at AAS in Asia, in Verge, online. Can you share with us your musings, your responses, can we be in gentle, slow conversation?
Write to Us: Musings, Dreams, Collaborations
Archive of our Troubles
The Beginnings
AAS in Asia Roundtable, Daegu South Korea 2023 http://mis-reading.com/troublingnarratives/
Us
Theresa de Langis, PhD (she/her) is the Director for the Center of Southeast Asian Studies and Professor of Global Affairs and Literature at American University of Phnom Penh.
Nicole Yow Wei (they/them) is a PhD student in History and Early Modern Studies at Yale University, specialising in the intellectual history of Southeast Asia and the Malay world.
Tara Tran (she/her) is a historian and designer of decolonizing and feminist projects that turn on historical and contemporary iterations of hospitality. She is an adjunct professor in the School of International Relations at the University of New York in Prague, and hosts Sala, a community roundtable for unlearning histories. https://www.taratran.com/
Cindy Anh Nguyen (she/her) is an artist-historian situated between global Southeast Asian studies, digital humanities, library and information studies. Her forthcoming book, Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in VietnamShe bridges academia and the public through multimedia arts practices, multilingual poetry, and community platforms. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. Follow her work at cindyanguyen.com and mis-reading.com.
A Reader
Ahmed, Sara. Living a Feminist Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.
Caswell, Michelle. Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work. London: Routledge, 2021.
Daegu Roundtable, 2023. [anonymized]
Electric Marronage. https://www.electricmarronage.com.
Feminist Art Coalition. https://feministartcoalition.org. Particularly the vibrant resources page and the series “Notes on Feminisms” such as Saidiya Hartman’s “The Plot of Her Undoing” and Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s “The Walk of Multiplicity”
Fujii, Lee Ann. Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach. New York: Routledge, 2018.
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Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, 3rd Edition. Zed Books Kindle Edition, 2023.
Stoler, Ann Laura. “Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in (Post) Colonial Studies.” Itinerario 27, Special Issue 3-4: An Apartheid of Souls (November 2003): 263-284.
Trinh, T. Minh-Ha, “Speaking Nearby:” A Conversation with Trinh T. Minh-Ha.” By Nancy N. Chen. Visual Anthropology Review, 8, 1, (Spring 1992): 82-91.
Troeung, Y-Dang. “‘A Gift of a Theft Depends on Who Is Holding the Pen:’ Postcolonial Collaborative Autobiography and Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt.” Modern Fiction Studies, Spring 2010, Vol. 56, No. 1: 113-135.
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–. Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022.
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