Aihwa Ong. Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley


"Ambiguities of Borders: the Implications for American Citizenship"
February 15, 2002
3:30-5:30 pm
Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall

Biographical site

Latest book:
Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality (Duke University Press, 1999)

Suggested Readings Related to the Talk:
Gupta, Akhil, and James Ferguson 1992 "Beyond 'Culture,' Space, Identity and the Politics of Difference," Cultural Anthropology 7 (1):6-23.

Kaplan, A., "'Left Alone With America': The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture," in Cultures of United States Imperialism, A. Kaplan & D.E. Pease, eds. (Duke U Press, 1993), 3-21.

Ong, Aihwa 1999 "Introduction," and Chapter 4, "The Pacific Shuttle: Family, Kinship, and Capital Circuits" in Flexible Citizenship. Durham: Duke University Press.