Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong

Aihwa Ong ( Chinese  王愛華 , Pinyin Wáng Ài Huá ; * 1950 in Penang , Malaysia ) is a Baba Nyonya-American anthropologist. She is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley .

biography

Ong was born in Penang, Malaysia to a Baba Nyonya family. She went to the Convent Light School in Penang. She then attended Barnard College in New York City , where she received her Honors Bachelor in Anthropology in 1974 . In 1982 she graduated from Columbia University with her Ph.D. in anthropology. Ong was visiting professor at Hampshire College in Amherst , Massachusetts from 1982 to 1984 . Since 1984 she has worked and researched in the Department of Anthropology in Berkeley.

Research work

Aihwa Ong wrote on globalization , citizenship transformations , neoliberalism , science studies , gender , labor , biotechnology, and immigration in the Asia-Pacific region . Her work draws on field studies in Malaysia, the United States, China, and Singapore.

Works

• Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty . In: Development and Change . tape 39 , no. 1 , 2008, p. 184-186 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1467-7660.2008.00473_7.x (English).
  • Maila Stivens: Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review) . In: Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context . No. May 15 , 2007 (English, intersections.anu.edu.au ).
  • Timothy Choy: Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Review) . In: Political and Legal Anthropology Review . tape 31 , no. 2 , November 2008, p. 338–342 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1555-2934.2008.00027_4.x (English).
• Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, The New America . University of California Press, Berkeley 2003, ISBN 978-0-520-23824-4 (English).
  • Young Ju Rhee: Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, The New America (Review) . In: Journal of Refugee Studies . tape 17 , no. 4 , 2004, p. 477–478 , doi : 10.1093 / jrs / 17.4.477 (English).
• Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality . Duke University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8223-2250-4 (English). The book received the 2001 Cultural Studies Award from the Association for Asian American Studies

Web links

• Website at the Anthropology Department at the University of California Berkeley
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Website of Dr. Aihwa Ong - Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. aihwaong.info, accessed February 2, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Awards. In: aaastudies.org. Retrieved February 2, 2017 .