Trajectories assembles cultural critics not only from countries with a known cultural studies tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. A critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial coordinates of north and south, east and west, Trajectories presents cultural studies as an internationalist and decolonizing project, linking critical energies to chart the future direction of the discipline. Topics  include Japanese colonial discourse, cultural studies out of Europe, Chinese nationalism in the context of global capitalism, white panic, stories from East Timor, queer life in Taiwan and new social movements in Korea.

Contributors: Ien Ang, Chua beng Huat, Leo Ching, Renato Constantino, Ken Dean, Stuart Hall, Yung Ho-Im, Ding-Tzann Lii, Meaghan Morris, Stephen Muecke, Ashia Nandy, Cindy Patton, Mark Reid, Naoki Sakai, Ubonrat Siriyuvasak, Law Wing-san.