Becoming and unbecoming Asian in Sydney

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dc.contributor.author	Otsuji, E https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3318-0995
dc.contributor.author	Pennycook, A
dc.contributor.editor	Lee, JW
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-18T02:06:52Z
dc.date.available	2022-05-18T02:06:52Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-10
dc.identifier.citation	The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias, 2022, 1st edition
dc.identifier.isbn	9780367646912
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/157483
dc.description.abstract	This paper focuses on moments of global Asianness by looking at the ways people of Asian background “become Asian” in Sydney. Our interest is in the ways in which being Asian is both an inscription into a racialized identity (it is not a self-evident identity nor one that is taken up outside certain contexts) as well as a space in which a commonality can be found. With data from both our metrolingualism project and another looking at Vietnamese students studying in Sydney, we examine the ways they take on or shed Asian identities. We also draw attention to the importance of assemblages of people, objects, and language in particular places at particular times, and how these produce and re-semiotize cultural inferences and identifications. Global Asianness, therefore, is only partly about a new and resurgent Asia replacing Europe as the axis of the world; it is also about a longer history of people, places, and things, about spoons, vegetables, and fish sauce, and the affordances they bring for being Asian. It is a multivocal and multilayered push and pull between predefined notions of otherness and possibilities of affiliation that might not otherwise have existed.
dc.format.extent	14
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110101014
dc.relation.ispartof	The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.title	Becoming and unbecoming Asian in Sydney
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.citation.edition	1st edition
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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utslib.copyright.embargo	2023-12-10T00:00:00+1000Z
dc.date.updated	2022-05-18T02:06:50Z
pubs.edition	1st edition
pubs.place-of-publication	New York
pubs.publication-status	Published
dc.location	New York

Abstract:

This paper focuses on moments of global Asianness by looking at the ways people of Asian background “become Asian” in Sydney. Our interest is in the ways in which being Asian is both an inscription into a racialized identity (it is not a self-evident identity nor one that is taken up outside certain contexts) as well as a space in which a commonality can be found. With data from both our metrolingualism project and another looking at Vietnamese students studying in Sydney, we examine the ways they take on or shed Asian identities. We also draw attention to the importance of assemblages of people, objects, and language in particular places at particular times, and how these produce and re-semiotize cultural inferences and identifications. Global Asianness, therefore, is only partly about a new and resurgent Asia replacing Europe as the axis of the world; it is also about a longer history of people, places, and things, about spoons, vegetables, and fish sauce, and the affordances they bring for being Asian. It is a multivocal and multilayered push and pull between predefined notions of otherness and possibilities of affiliation that might not otherwise have existed.

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