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| Koichi Iwabuchi currently lectures Media & Cultural Studies
in International Studies Division of International Christian University, Tokyo and will be moving to the School of International Liberal Studies of Waseda University in April 2004. He received a Ph.D. at University of Western Sydney. His doctorate thesis, which multilaterally analyzes Japan's "return to Asia" in the 1990s in terms of popular cultural flows that have been activated under globalizing forces, was awarded the best Ph.D. dissertation prize from Australian Association of Asian Studies. He has published many articles on cultural globalization, transnationalism, multicultural politics both in English and Japanese, which include Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (Duke Univeristy Press, 2002) and Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas (ed. Hong Kong University Press, 2004). |
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