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Asian Canada Is Burning
Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, and Praxes
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 299
Asian Canada is Burning is an invitation to trouble the mobilization of “anti-Asian hate” in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions that make theorizing “Asian Canadian” feasible. Grounded in a transnational queer and feminist lens, this book also aims to envision possible futures and solidarities. Ultimately, this collection is concerned with moments and places of tensions, confrontations, relations, and solidarity. We offer stories of insurgent encounters as people who identify as “Asian” navigate and implicate settler colonial nation-state to make new dreams, histories and intimacies.
Rose Ann Torres, Ph.D. is the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at
Algoma University. Dr. Torres pioneered the creation of a Master of Social Work at Algoma University. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled “
Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario” and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled “
Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University”. She has published numerous co-edited books, peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Ian Liujia Tian is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the political economy of gender, sexuality, and labour in the Asia-Pacific and its diasporas. He practices queer ethnography to bridge Asian and Asian Canadian studies through the lens of pleasure.
Coly Chau (she/they) has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. Coly is interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.
Ian Liujia Tian is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the political economy of gender, sexuality, and labour in the Asia-Pacific and its diasporas. He practices queer ethnography to bridge Asian and Asian Canadian studies through the lens of pleasure.
Coly Chau (she/they) has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. Coly is interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.
"This compelling anthology gathers vital perspectives on why solidarity matters, and how it offers us ways to live ethically, placing love and respect at the heart of our lifeworlds. In sharing stories, perspectives, and values that challenge and resist unjust, oppressive structures, the contributors light a path for us to think and act towards the worlds we need, worlds joyfully and tearfully built together through struggle, study and stamina."
- Rita Wong, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
"Burning with passion and intelligence, this anthology showcases a new generation of scholars and activists working in Asian Canadian Studies. Combining strong academic rigour with deeply personal perspectives, the book examines the complexity of colonial and diasporic histories, the intimate relationality amongst racial, sexual, and gendered embodiments, and the challenges and joy of building solidarity across identities. Asian Canada Is Burning shines both as an inspired reexamination of the field and a handbook of praxis in organizing for a more just future."
- Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Professor, Simon Fraser Univeristy
- Rita Wong, Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
"Burning with passion and intelligence, this anthology showcases a new generation of scholars and activists working in Asian Canadian Studies. Combining strong academic rigour with deeply personal perspectives, the book examines the complexity of colonial and diasporic histories, the intimate relationality amongst racial, sexual, and gendered embodiments, and the challenges and joy of building solidarity across identities. Asian Canada Is Burning shines both as an inspired reexamination of the field and a handbook of praxis in organizing for a more just future."
- Helen Hok-Sze Leung. Professor, Simon Fraser Univeristy
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres
Part 1
Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism
2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide
Shelly Ikebuchi
3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?
Rajni Mala Khelawan
4 Seeking Pappy’s Approval
Krystal Jagoo
5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context
Hyejung Jessie Yum
6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging
Jose Miguel Esteban
Part 2
Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies
7 The Bee
Elisha Lim
8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada
Ian Liujia Tian
9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen
Sam Yoon
10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production
David Ng and Jenn Sungshine
11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers
Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner
Part 3
Building Solidarities
12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice
Coly Chau and Elene Lam
13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
Anna Liu
14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures
Janey Lew
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres
Part 1
Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism
2 Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide
Shelly Ikebuchi
3 Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?
Rajni Mala Khelawan
4 Seeking Pappy’s Approval
Krystal Jagoo
5 Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context
Hyejung Jessie Yum
6 Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging
Jose Miguel Esteban
Part 2
Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies
7 The Bee
Elisha Lim
8 Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada
Ian Liujia Tian
9 The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen
Sam Yoon
10 Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production
David Ng and Jenn Sungshine
11 Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers
Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner
Part 3
Building Solidarities
12 The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice
Coly Chau and Elene Lam
13 Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
Anna Liu
14 Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures
Janey Lew
This book is for graduates, undergraduates, and post-graduates of social sciences and humanities studies, women and gender, history, ethnicity, race, transnational studies, social work, political science, sociology, education, government and non-profit organizations, and social services practitioners. This book is also for communities with disabilities, for those incarcerated by the state, for those unhoused, for migrant workers or those with precarious migration status and for frontline workers.