日期 : 2022-09-06

Wednesday Gender Seminar (Sept 14)

Title: The Cultural Politics of Intimacy: A Methodological Experiment

Time:12:30 - 14:00

Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)

Speaker: Prof. SUN Wanning (Professor, Media and Communication Studies, University of Technology Sydney)

Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Abstract:

It is difficult to conduct ethnographic inquiries into how China’s rural migrant individuals make decisions about their bodies and their sexual capital. We therefore have little knowledge about how inequality impacts on the intimate lives of those who live in poverty and in the socio-economic margins. This presentation seeks to address this problem by examining the contradictions, connections, and coalitions between a range of discursive positions in media, popular culture, and public commentary. In doing some it identifies some useful ways in which cultural texts may be mined for valuable ethnographic insights. 

Speaker’s Biography:

Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at University of Technology Sydney. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she is currently a member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2022). She is best known for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Wanning Sun has produced a significant body of research on the cultural politics of inequality in China. Her work includes Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural Practices (2014), and her edited volume Love Stories in China: The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century (2020). Her monograph Love Troubles: Inequality and Its Intimate Consequences will be published soon by Bloomsbury.

Language: English

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13654820&done=1