ABSTRACT
IEN ANG teaches in the School of Humanities at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication. Her latest book is Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World (Routledge, 1995)… TONY BENNETT is Professor of Cultural Studies and Founding Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia… JIM COOK worked for ten years in the Education Department of the British Film Institute and is now a freelance writer and lecturer… KUAN-HSING CHEN is with the Center for Cultural Studies, National Tsing Hua University, Taipei. He is the author of Media/Cultural Criticism: A Popular-Democratic Line of Flight (Taipei, 1992), Intellectual Moods and Geo-Colonial Sites: Cultural Studies from the Postmodern to Decolonization (Taipei, 1996), and the co-editor of Cultural Studies: the Implosion of MacDonalds (Taipei, 1992), (with David Morley) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues (Routledge, 1996) and Trajectories: Towards a New Internationalist Cultural Studies (forthcoming)… STUART HALL is Professor of Sociology at The Open University… HENRY KRIPS is Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, where he coordinates the area of rhetoric of science. He has published extensively in the foundations of physics, including a booklength study of The Metaphysics of Quantum Theory. Recently, he has worked on connections between social theory, cultural studies and theories of the subject… SMADAR LAVIE is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Poetics of Military Occupation (University of California Press, 1990) and co-editor of Creativity/Anthropology Identity (Duke University Press, in press). She is working on a book about Third World (Palestinian and Mizrahim) Israeli writers… JOHN LYNE is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. During the 1994-95 academic year, when he wrote his essay, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh… SABA MAHMOOD works on issues of modernity, gender and politico-religious movements. She is currently doing field work in Egypt as part of the doctoral program in anthropology at Stanford University… JIM McGUIGAN is co-editor of Studying Culture and teaches Communication and Cultural Studies at Coventry University, UK… JON STRATTON is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Curtin University of Technology and, at present, Visiting Associate Professor in the Communications Program at Murdoch University. His most recent book is The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption (Manchester University Press, 1996)… TED SWEDENBURG is Assistant
Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) and co-editor of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (Duke University Press, in press). He is currently investigating how diaspori ethnic and national identities are articulated through various genres of Arab-Islamic musics.
