Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong (simplified Chinese: 王爱华; traditional Chinese: 王愛華; pinyin: Wáng Ài Huá) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biography

Ong was born in Penang, Malaysia to a Straits Chinese family. She was educated in the Convent Light School, Penang. She attended Barnard College, where she received her B.A in anthropology (honors, 1974). She then went on to graduate with a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1982. She was visiting lecturer at Hampshire College. (1982–84), before joining the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley (1984 – present).^[1]

Academic work

She has written on globalization, transformations in citizenship, neoliberalism, science studies, gender, labor, biotechnology, and immigration. Her work draws from field studies conducted in Malaysia, the United States, China, and Singapore. Her work focuses on contemporary practices of citizenship, governance, and globalization in the Asia Pacific region.^[2]

Publications

• Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (2006) ^[3] As neoliberal transformations, ranging from special economic enclaves in China to the market valuation of the skill sets and knowledge of citizens across Asia, are coming to pass, Ong demonstrates how sovereignty, citizenship, rights, and the contours of the nation-state are undergoing reconfiguration.^[4]
• Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003) ^[5]
• Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987),^[6] Th
• Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logic of Transnationality in 1999.^[7][8] The book was warded the Cultural Studies Book Award by the Association of Asian American Studies in 2001.^[9]

Affiliations

She has also been Chair, US National Committee for Pacific Science Association, (2009–2011), Visiting Professor, Yonsei University, (2010), Visiting Senior Researcher, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (2009), Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong, (2001).and Chair, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley, (1999–2001).

References

1. "Personal Page". Retrieved 6 August 2012.
2. "Most-cited Articles". positions Asia Critique. Duke University Press. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
3. Stevens, Maila (May 2007). "Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review)". Intersections: Gender, History, and Culture in the Asian Context (15).
4. Choy, Timothy (November 2008). "Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review)". Political and Legal Anthropology Review 31 (2): 338–342. doi:10.1111/j.1555-2934.2008.00027_4.x.
5. Rhee, Young Ju (2004). "Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, and the New America (Review)". Journal of Refugee Studies 17 (4): 477–478. doi:10.1093/jrs/17.4.477.
6. Hathaway, Donna (1989). "Review of "Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia."". Signs 14 (4): 945–947. doi:10.1086/494558.
7. Karam, John (January 2001). "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Review)". Anthropological Quarterly 74 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1353/anq.2001.0006.
8. Douglas, Christopher (Summer 2000). "Review of "Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality."". Brwn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature 2 (1).
9. "Book Awards". Association of Asian American Studies. Retrieved 2 August 2012.

External links

• University of California, Berkeley Faculty Page http://anthropology.berkeley.edu/users/aihwa-ong

Personal Page http://www.aihwaong.info