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Staging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. In less than fifty years, locally written and produced English language theatre has managed to shrug off its colonial shackles to become an important site of community expression. This groundbreaking comparative study discusses the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions. It argues that certain forms of theatre can be read as emerging oppositional cult

Since its inception in the late 1990s, Asian Australian studies has been slowly gaining momentum and critical mass, to a point where it can now be considered a legitimate field of academic and cultural production. This essay addresses the current state of play in Asian Australian studies in relation to the changing national and global political climate. A genealogy of Asian Australian studies will be mapped in order to explore the politics of discipline formation within the Australian academy. In particular, the shift from positioning Asian cultural production within discourses of migrancy in Multicultural studies to the invocation of diaspora and hybridity in Asian Australian studies will be interpreted as specific acts of remapping the national imaginary. Consideration will also be given to how this reconfiguration has impacted on the adjacent fields of Asian and Australian studies.

Since its inception in the late 1990s, Asian Australian studies has been slowly gaining momentum and critical mass, to a point where it can now be considered a legitimate field of academic and cultural production. This essay addresses the current state of play in Asian Australian studies in relation to the changing national and global political climate. A genealogy of Asian Australian studies will be mapped in order to explore the politics of discipline formation within the Australian academy. In particular, the shift from positioning Asian cultural production within discourses of migrancy in Multicultural studies to the invocation of diaspora and hybridity in Asian Australian studies will be interpreted as specific acts of remapping the national imaginary. Consideration will also be given to how this reconfiguration has impacted on the adjacent fields of Asian and Australian studies.

Most discussions of Fiona Tan's work focus on the artist's migrant and mixed-race identity. Tan has an Indonesian-Chinese father and Anglo-Australian mother; she was born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, spent her formative years in Melbourne, Australia, and has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands. She is rarely described as merely a Dutch or European artist but rather designated as a global citizen whose works draw critical connections between these places and their cultures. This article offers a reading of Tan's deployment of temporality as demonstration of her engagement with the changing ethno-politico landscape in the Netherlands. Deploying Rothberg and Yildiz's concept of acts of citizenship, the author reads Tan's The Changeling (2006) and Provenance (2008) as politicized acts of migrant citizenship in Europe.

Most discussions of Fiona Tan's work focus on the artist's migrant and mixed-race identity. Tan has an Indonesian-Chinese father and Anglo-Australian mother; she was born in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, spent her formative years in Melbourne, Australia, and has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands. She is rarely described as merely a Dutch or European artist but rather designated as a global citizen whose works draw critical connections between these places and their cultures. This article offers a reading of Tan's deployment of temporality as demonstration of her engagement with the changing ethno-politico landscape in the Netherlands. Deploying Rothberg and Yildiz's concept of acts of citizenship, the author reads Tan's The Changeling (2006) and Provenance (2008) as politicized acts of migrant citizenship in Europe.

Complex and tall buildings have been constructed in many cities recently. Fire safety should be a major concern of building designers, engineers, and governments. Previous fire experience has made us understand the importance of acquiring fire-ground information to facilitate firefighting operations, evacuation processes, rescues, etc. Recently, the rapid advancement in Information Technology, Data Analytics, and other detection and monitoring systems has provided the basis for fire safety researchers to re-think fire safety strategies in the built environment. Amongst all fire safety studies, evacuation in tall buildings, including elevator evacuations, has attracted much attention. IoT-aided building fire evacuation is a new concept of the building evacuation mode, which improves the building evacuation process by making decisions of escape based on the real-time fire-ground information, such as the fire environment and occupant situations. Focusing on IoT applications in building fire evacuation, this paper explores the advantages and insufficiencies of current smart building fire evacuation systems. A conceptual design of an IoT-aided building fire evacuation control system is described. The system is introduced in the sequence of information needs, information sources and data transmission, and potential services and applications. Finally, new insights into promising 5G technologies for future building fire evacuations are discussed.

The making of memory has been controversial in Australia, as evidenced by the recent so-called 'history wars' focusing on the representation of settler occupation of indigenous land. Within this context, memory-work, and especially the making of monuments to commemorate
the past, cannot be disengaged from larger issues about the politics of reproach and culpability that tends to slide into discourses about victors and vanquished, victimizers and victims. This performative photo-essay asserts that such totalizing paradigms cannot accommodate the tangled web
of living history that the site-specific performance work, 'In Repose', which deals with early Japanese presence in Townsville dating back to 1883, seeks to invoke. Instead, the performance project might be more suitably considered as a contra-memorial that challenges hegemonic
forms of history and memory-work but which is not necessarily in binary opposition to these forms