Asian Canada Is Burning

Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, and Praxes

Rose Ann Torres, Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004711785 (ISBN)

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Asian Canada is Burning is an invitation to trouble the mobilization of “anti-Asian hate” in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions that make theorizing “Asian Canadian” feasible. Grounded in a transnational queer and feminist lens, this book also aims to envision possible futures and solidarities. Ultimately, this collection is concerned with moments and places of tensions, confrontations, relations, and solidarity. We offer stories of insurgent encounters as people who identify as “Asian” navigate and implicate settler colonial nation-state to make new dreams, histories and intimacies.

Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. is the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Algoma University. Dr. Torres pioneered the creation of a Master of Social Work at Algoma University. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled “Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario” and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled “Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University”. She has published numerous co-edited books, peer reviewed articles and book chapters. Ian Liujia Tian is an Assistant Professor of Global Equity Studies in the Department of Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University. Their research focuses broadly on the political economy of gender and sexuality in transnational contexts. They situate their research in queer Marxism, queer/trans of color critique, transnational feminism, and Asian Canadian/Asian studies. Coly Chau has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. They are interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres

Part 1

Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism

2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide

Shelly Ikebuchi

3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?

Rajni Mala Khelawan

4 Seeking Pappy’s Approval

Krystal Jagoo

5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context

Hyejung Jessie Yum

6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging

Jose Miguel Esteban

Part 2

Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies

7 The Bee

Elisha Lim

8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada

Ian Liujia Tian

9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen

Sam Yoon

10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production

David Ng and Jenn Sungshine

11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers

Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner

Part 3

Building Solidarities

12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice

Coly Chau and Elene Lam

13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance

Anna Liu

14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures

Janey Lew

15 Dumpster Fires, Burning Affects

Malissa Phung

16 Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds, and the Struggle against Normalization

Boycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto

17 Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living Labour

Ian Liujia Tian

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 299
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9789004711785 / 9789004711785
Zustand	Neuware