Dr Jane Ferguson
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Lecturer, Mainland Southeast Asia, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories |
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Qualifications
- Ph.D. Anthropology (Cornell University)
- M.A. (Cornell University)
- B.A. (Antioch College)
Research Interests
- Mainland Southeast Asia Burma/Thai/Shan
- Borderlands
- Insurgency
- Ethnic politics
- Popular Culture
- Digital media
- Musical genres
- Passenger Aviation
Present Appointment
- Lecturer, Mainland Southeast Asia, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Courses
- Burma/Myanmar: A Country in Crisis
- Borders and their Transgressions in Mainland Southeast Asia
- Mainland Southeast Asia
- Commercial Passenger Aviation: An Anthropological Approach
Publications
- (forthcoming) Ferguson, Jane M. “Rock your religion: Shan merit-making ritual and stage-show revelry at the Thai-Burma border” in Marston, John, ed. Asian Legacies and Inscriptions of the State. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
- (forthcoming) Ferguson, Jane M. “Slipping Discs: Stateless Shan People and VCD Consumption at the Thai-Burma Border” in Wanning Sun, Krishna Sen, and Denise Woods, eds. Peripheral Communities and Marginal Media: Politics and Voices in the Asia Pacific. Sussex Press.
- Ferguson, Jane M. 2008 “Revolutionary Scripts: Shan Insurgent Media Practice at the Thai-Burma Border” in Sen, Krishna and Terence Lee, eds. Political Regimes and the Media in Asia: Continuities, Contradictions and Change. London: Routledge.
- Ferguson, Jane M. 2007. “Watching the Military’s War Movies: (de)Constructing the Enemy of the State in a Contemporary Burmese Soldier Drama” in Khoo and Harvey, eds, special issue of Journal of Asian Cinema. 18(2). Fall/Winter.
- Ferguson, Jane M. 2007. “Just Dropping By…..” Anthropology News. April.
- Ferguson, Jane M. 2005. “Bronislaw’s Laptop Dance: How Cyborg Pirates Plundered the Gated Community in the Ether” Anthropology News. December.
- Linn, P; Ferguson, J; and Egart, K. 2004. "Career Exploration via cooperative education and lifespan occupational choice." Journal of Vocational Behavior. 65 pp 430-447.
- (statistical survey preparation and analysis) in Webber, E. 2001 Addressing Population Movements and Displacement in Southern Shan State. Burma Ethnic Research Group (BERG)
- Linn, P. L., & Ferguson, J. 1999. “A lifespan study of cooperative education graduates: Quantitative aspects”. Journal of Cooperative Education, 34(3), 30–41.
Book Reviews
- (forthcoming) Ferguson, Jane M. Review of McGee, Patrick. Rethinking the Western: From Shan to Kill Bill.
- (forthcoming) Ferguson, Jane M. Review of Dorsey, Margaret. Pachangas: Borderlands Music, US Politics, and Transnational Marketing. Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Ferguson, Jane M. 2004. Review of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons and Avon Ladies in the Global City. Political and Legal Anthropology Review 27(2) pp132-135.
Selected Conference Presentations
- “Blasting the Past; Or what happens when the silver screen promotes Burman-centric history amongst ethnically diverse viewers” to present at the Burma Studies Conference, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, October 2008.
- “Rock your religion: Shan merit-making ritual and stage-show revelry at the Thai-Burma border” presented at the Conference on Shan Buddhism, University of London, December 6, 2007.
- “Shan Ordinations in the Context of the Thai and Burmese National Gaze” presented at the Charles Keyes honorary retirement conference, Seattle WA, October 3, 2007.
- “A Bureaucratic Language Deferred: Shan Print Media and its contestations of Burmese ethno-national narratives” presented at the EuroSEAS conference, Naples, Italy, September, 2007.
- “Gender Insurgency: Women’s Labor in the Politics of Shan National Resistance to the Burmese State” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual meeting, Boston, March, 2007.
- “From Starving Poets to Rock Stars: Tracking the Industrial Production of the Ubiquitous Cover Song in Burma” presented at the Northern Illinois University Southeast Asian Studies conference. February, 2007.
- “Watching the Military's War Movies: (de)Constructing the Enemy of the State in Contemporary Burmese Soldier Dramas” presented at the 3rd Annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December, 2006.
- “Print Media Torn Between Two Nations: Shan Media Production in the Periphery of Thailand and Burma” presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings, San Jose, CA, November, 2006.
- “Kan Sueksa Chueng Chaatpan Wittaya Wattanatham Khon Chan Klaang Nai Muang” presented at Chulalongkorn University History Department, Bangkok, Thailand, November 10th, 2006.
- “Waiting for iTV” presented at the Burma studies conference, Singapore, July 2006.
- “Albino Tiger, Alligator Reincarnate: Shan Comic Books as Vehicles for Ersatz Nostalgia In Southeast Asia” presented at the Asian Studies Japan conference, Tokyo, Japan, June 2006.
- “Jaak Trenchtown Su Chai Daen Thai-Pamaa: Reggae Twa Lok Suntriyasaat Khong Rastafari Lae Dontri Kan Muang Nai Asia Ta Wan Ok Chiang Tai” Invited lecture for the Social Sciences department, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, January 6, 2006.
- “Sublime Rock: Burmese Popular Music, Language Code Switching and Sentimentalism among Shan Migrants at the Thai-Burma Border” presented at Southeast Asia Regional Exchange Program (SEASREP) conference, Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 2005.
- “Htun Eindra Bo Meets the Shan State Army: Shan Migrants, Burmese Stars and Political Discord at the Thai-Burma Border” presented at the conference, Southeast Asian Cinema at the Borders, Thammasat University, Bangkok, August 2005.
- “Media and the Stateless: Electronic Capitalism, Migration, and Culture Jams Across the Thai-Burma Border”, presented at the conference “Anthropology of the State; The State of Anthropology” Stanford University, April 2005.
- “Wild/Domestic Pollution: Popular Media, Urban Lore, and Local Practice among Middle Class Homeowners in Northern Thailand” presented at the International Thai Studies Conference. Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL. April 2005.
- “Siam Reggae: Rasta Aesthetics and Tribal Counter Culture in Northern Thailand” presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. March 2005.
- “Cosmopolitan Country: Language, Regionalism, and the Aesthetics of Bluegrass Music in Northern Thailand” presented at the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference. Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. April 2004.
- “The Sign, the Bridge, and the Wargraves: Orbital Nationalism and Military History Tourism to Kanchanaburi, Thailand” presented at Crossing the Boundaries, Identity and Space Conference, SUNY, Binghamton, NY, May, 2003.
Affiliations
- American Anthropological Association
- American Ethnological Assocation
- Association for Asian Studies
- Society for Visual Anthropology