2004 Crossroads in Cultural Studies FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE June 25-28, 2004 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.crossroads2004.org CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS The Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies is organized by the College of Communications, the Institute of Communications Research and the Interdisciplinary Program in Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with the Association for Cultural Studies. CONFERENCE PROGRAM This conference program and abstract book was compiled and produced by the conference organizing committee. The program was printed by the Office of Printing Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CONFERENCE SPONSORS Asian American Studies · Blackwell Publishers · Center for Advanced Study Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society · Center for Global Studies College of Communications · Educational Policy Studies · Ford Foundation Gender & Women’s Studies · International Affairs Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Institute of Communications Research · Kinesiology · Latin American Studies Latino/a Studies · Russian East European Center · Sociology South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies · Speech Communication Sage Publications · Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory ii General information Table of Contents Preface from the chair ...................................................... iv Preface from the ACS president ........................................ v Conference organizers...................................................... vi Conference welcome ...................................................... vii Keynote addresses .......................................................... viii Plenary sessions ................................................................ x Spotlight sessions ............................................................ xi Schedule overview .......................................................... xii Campus map ................................................................ xvii Illini Union maps ........................................................ xviii General information........................................................ xx Friday sessions ..................................................................1 Saturday sessions................................................................4 Sunday sessions................................................................29 Monday sessions..............................................................45 Panel abstracts ................................................................ 55 Individual abstracts ........................................................ 89 Index ............................................................................ 277 General information iii Preface from the chair The University of Illinois, the Institute of Communications Research, the College of Communications and the cites of Urbana and Champaign welcome you to the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference. We have more than 500 papers in more than 140 sessions, including three spotlight sessions, three plenary sessions and two keynote addresses. The theme of Crossroads 2004 focuses on cultural studies in a time of global uncertainty. Presenters from more than 42 different nations have accepted the invitation to gather together in common purpose to collectively imagine new pedagogical, political and performative ways of doing critical cultural studies, a new politics of resistance and hope. I hope that you find this conference inspiring. I hope that your time in the Illinois prairie is pleasant. Yours sincerely, Norman K. Denzin Conference Director iv General information Preface from the ACS president On behalf of the Association for Cultural Studies, I welcome you to the Fifth International Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference. The mission of the Crossroads conference is to provide an open forum for all topics that interest the diverse international cultural studies community; generate lively, critical debate about contemporary society; foster contacts and the exchange of ideas; and, ultimately, draw inspiration from each other. I hope you enjoy your time at what is sure to be a landmark event. Pertti Alasuutari, Association for Cultural Studies President General information v Conference organization CONFERENCE DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL Norman K. Denzin ADVISORY BOARD Institute of Communications Research Pertti Alasuutari, ACS President, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR University of Tampere, Finland Michael D. Giardina Joke Hermes, Department of Kinesiology, Program for ACS Vice-President, University of Amsterdam Cultural Studies and Interpretive Research Ann Gray University of Lincoln, UK ORGANIZING STAFF Aisha Durham SPECIAL THANKS Kevin Dolan Mary Blair, Grant Kien Conference Coordinator, Illini Union David Monje Mary Susan Britt James Salvo Conference Consultant Institute of Communications Research Bob Conrad, Technical Services, Illini Union LOCAL ADVISORY BOARD Melinda Craig, Pedro Cabán Associate Director, Krannert Center Center for Democracy James Onderdonk, in a Multiracial Society David Ward, CL Cole Conferences and Institutes Gender &Women’s Studies, Ben Byrne Kinesiology Crossroads Logo Designer Daniel T. Cook Advertising VOLUNTEERS Antonia Darder Ulaunda Adams · Elise Ahn Educational Policy Studies Mohammed Ali · Jillian Baez James Hay Amanda Beer · Ryan Blum Speech Communications Jeana Bracey · Diem-My Bui Cameron McCarthy, Joan Chan · Jennifer Chung Institute of Communications Research Dannielle Davis · Gerardo Diaz Lou Miron Rachel Dubrofsky · Charles Elavsky Educational Policy Studies Laura Engel · Nichole Evans Cary Nelson Joseph Feria-Galicia · Alice Filmer English Laura Galicia · Dorie Geissler Kent Ono Cathy Glenn · Jennifer Guiliano Asian/Asian American Studies Susan Harewood · Batoul Hassan · Jia Jia Melissa Orlie I-chung Ke · Soochul Kim · Kevin Lam Political Science Joyce Lee · Miguel Malagreca Sarah Projansky Jennifer McCann · Sasha Mobley Cinema Studies Triny Molina Villegas · Victor Perez Fazal Rizvi Maritza Quinones · Celiany Rivera Educational Policy Studies David Rutkowski · Leslie Rutkowski Paula A. Treichler, Maria Silva · Laura Stengrim Institute of Communications Research Franscisco Vivoni · Ching Wan James Yang · Desiree Yomtoob vi General information Conference welcome Friday, 10 a.m. to noon, Krannert Center Center 1) Norman Denzin, Institute of Communications Research Director’s welcome 2) Richard Herman, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University welcome 3) Perrti Alasuutari, Association for Cultural Studies President President’s welcome 4) Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Keynote address: Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Conjunctural — Determinations/Possibilities/Responsibilities — of Cultural Studies General information vii Keynote address Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Conjunctural — Determinations/Possibilities/Responsibilities — K1 of Cultural Studies Friday, 10 a.m. to noon Krannert Center Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This paper will pose some questions emerging from the (reluctant) acknowledgment of cultural studies’ contextuality. How far can we take that commitment? Where is that commitment taking us? In response to the challenges implicit in these questions, I want to pose four hypotheses: 1. The emergence of cultural studies in the postwar context had determining effects in the ways cultural studies posed its questions, defined its central concepts, located itself academically and sought out its political and theoretical grounding. 2. In North Atlantic and Anglo-influenced cultural studies, Policing The Crisis (and the work that followed it, including The Empire Strikes Back, and the work of Hall, Clarke, Gilroy, etc.) presaged a new direction and shape for cultural studies at multiples levels: history and politics, disciplines, analysis and theory. 3. The leading edge of cultural studies already is shifting its ground in response to changing contexts. The question is whether it will pull along a resistant center and how that center can reorganize itself. Cultural studies is “taking up” questions of political science, economics and political economy in new ways, in what might be called “the political-economy turn” in the broader “cultural sciences.” This turn has significant theoretical, analytic and political consequences. 4. Some of these developments had already shaped the practice of cultural studies in other parts of the world; in the North Atlantic and Anglo-influenced spaces of cultural studies, the new context is partly the result of the leap into “globalization,” both in the academy and politics. The impact of this new geography of cultural studies has hardly begun to be felt. viii General information Keynote address Heroes: Geopolitics, Community and the Uses K2 of Aesthetics Sunday, 5:30-7 p.m. Krannert Center Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University, Hong Kong In May 2004, the Chinese central government ordered the seizure of all pirated copies of the new Hong Kong gangster movie Jiang Hu, confirming that the film would br denied a legitimate mainland release because of its "dark and negative" theme. At same time, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television forbade mainland TV presenters to appear with dyed hair, use English words in their sentences or to imitate Hong Kong and Taiwanese