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How do young women understand and experience intimacy in the age of social media, and are their experiences qualitatively different after the millennial turn and the rapid expansion of digital technologies? What impact do these digital experiences have on how millennial subjects experience, understand, and negotiate social relations in globalising Asia? Here are some preliminary findings from a multi-sited ongoing research project which looks at college-going women in Bangalore, Singapore, Hong Kong and Guangzhou to understand how their lives in these aspiring "smart" cities are being shaped by the phenomenal growth of digital technology use in Asia in the past ten years. Our findings thus far suggest that social institutions such as family and marriage are being redefined through digital mediation, a process that includes boundary-drawing, creating zones of intimacy, and the reconfiguration of relationships in the digital domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Like the rest of the world, Asians have been living through extraordinary times in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic is still raging in many parts of the region, disrupting entire economies, families, public as well as private life, and schooling. The inter-Asia cultural studies project fundamentally depended on actual connections between scholars and activists across the region, made possible by easier boundary-crossings under globalisation. In the new contactless world, our knowledge projects have to be re-imagined, our methodologies remade. While we are not yet on the path to doing that, this piece offers some experiential reflections about the pandemic world across Asian time-zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the criticism of feminism across Asia. It mentions the conferences related to cultural studies where feminist panel discussions were held. Feminism is stated to be one of the most volatile domains in Asia. The article presents the views on feminist scholars on the same issue and focuses on culture in gender theory in India. It further discusses the Pink Chaddi Campaign (PCC).

This paper marks significant moments in the trajectory of cultural studies in Asia in relation to feminism. It begins by contrasting the relationship of feminism and cultural studies in Western contexts such as Britain, where feminism disrupted a prior field, to feminism's foundational relationship to cultural studies in many Asian contexts, including India. The paper goes on to speculate on the nature of the unique link between culture, the nation and women in Asian historical contexts, which has made for a selective naming of feminism in particular as Western and inauthentic, with consequences for the already difficult relationship between women and modernity. Such shared problematics across countries with different histories and political trajectories extend to questions of translation and contemporary shifts from prior conceptions of feminist politics. The last part of the paper looks at the confluence of cultural studies and women's studies in India, contrasting the rich legacies of women's studies for cultural studies with more recent pedagogical challenges to feminism in the cultural studies classroom. At issue in the paper as whole, therefore, is the debt that cultural studies owes to feminism in non-Western contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on feminism in Asia. Global history of modernity; International solidarity of feminism in nineteenth century; Investigation of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies on feminist in Asia.