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Ph.D, professor Koichi Iwabuchi, Waseda University, Japan:
Undoing cool Japan: Beyond international fandom, into transnational dialogue

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Koichi Iwabuchi is a Professor in the School of International Liberal Studies at Waseda University. He received a Ph.D from University of Western Sydney and his Ph.D thesis,?Return to Asia?: Japan in the cultural dynamics of globalization, regionalization and localization? won the best thesis prize for the year 2000 from Asian Studies Association of Australia.

His main current research interests are media and cultural globalization in East Asia, especially in terms of political economy and critique of soft power policy discourses and multicultural questions, transnationalism and cultural citizenship. His English publications include; Recentering Globalization: Popular culture and Japanese transnationalism (Duke University Press, 2002), Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas (ed. Hong Kong University Press, 2004) and; Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian cultural traffic (co-ed. with S. Mueke and M. Thomas, Hong Kong University Press, 2004). A co-edited book with Chua Beng Huat: East Asian Pop Culture: Analysing the Korean Wave was published in 2008 (Hong Kong University Press).

He is currently writing up a book on the critique of national cultural border administration and the project of cultural citizenship that fosters socio-cultural inclusion and public dialogue in the age of neoliberalism and re-nationalization.