Rethinking East Asia
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2021 - 2022
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This cluster will bring together graduate students from different academic departments and programs to explore various aspects of East Asia, especially boundary-breaking, cross-disciplinary approaches that challenge conventional and dominant mappings and theoretical frameworks. By examining East Asia as a cultural construction, participants critically analyze how cross-border movements, transnational encounters, and minor interactions make, shape, and transgress boundaries. Critical feminist consciousness informs participants' approach by paying particular attention to gender, power, difference, everyday practice, and resistance.
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