Dr Gaik Khoo
Ph.D (Interdisciplinary Studies), University of British Columbia
Visiting Fellow
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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Areas of expertise
- Migrant Cultural Studies 200208
- Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross Cultural Studies 200209
- South East Asian Literature (Excl. Indonesian) 200519
- Consumption And Everyday Life 200203
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Studies Of Asian Society 169903
- Social And Cultural Geography 160403
- Film And Television 190204
- Cinema Studies 190201
- Film, Television And Digital Media 1902
Research interests
My research interests revolve around food, film and culture
1. Food and identity: what is "modern Malaysian" cuisine? And separately, what are the factors for the existence or lack of ethnic Malay vegetarians and vegans in Malaysia?
2. Film: comparative views of trends, socio-cultural and political effects on cinemas in Southeast Asia in the period between the end of WW2 and before the 1997 financial crisis.
3. Culture: currently I am interested in exploring questions of South Korean identity and migrant/transnational adaptation to living, working and studying in a multicultural society like Malaysia. How does this wave of Korean migrants differ from earlier waves of Korean diasporas in other parts of the world?
Biography
Gaik grew up in Malaysia which accounts for her interest in food and
multiculturalism. Her love for film developed out of watching clips of Hollywood
classics from That's Entertainment as a child, then later from exposure to world
cinema as an undergraduate in Austin, Texas and a graduate student in Vancouver.
Researcher's projects
1. Book on Korean migrants/transnationals in Malaysia.
2. A political economy of the Malaysian durian.
3. Essays on what is "modern Malaysian cuisine" and on Malay vegetarians in Malaysia.
Publications
- Khoo, G 2017, 'The Cheapskate Highbrow and the Dilemma of Sustaining Penang Hawker Food', Sojourn, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 36-77pp.
- Khoo, G 2015, 'Tasting Singapore', Cultural Studies Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 247-252pp.
- Duruz, J & Khoo, G 2015, EATING TOGETHER: Food, Space, and Identity in Malaysia and Singapore, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., London.
- Khoo, G 2015, '"We keep it local" - Malaysianising "Gangnam Style": a question of place and identity', in JungBong Choi and Roald Maliangkay (ed.), K-pop: The international rise of the Korean music industry, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, UK and New York, USA, pp. 146-163.
- Khoo, G 2015, 'Bersih dan Ubah: citizenship rights, intergenerational togetherness, and multicultural unity in Malaysia', in Daniel P. S. Goh (ed.), Worlding Multiculturalisms: The politics of inter-Asian dwelling, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 109-126.
- Khoo, G & Lee, J, eds, 2015, Malaysia's New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging, Routledge, Abingdon and New York.
- Khoo, G 2015, 'Syiok Sendiri? Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia', in Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson (ed.), Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, pp. 213-235.
- Khoo, G 2014, 'The Politics of Reformasi: Independent filmmakers re-imagine citizenship in Malaysian Gods and Project 15 Malaysia', in S Lemière (ed.), Misplaced Democracy: Malaysian Politics and People, Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, Malaysia, pp. 151-174.
- Khoo, G 2014, 'Introduction: theorizing different forms of belonging in a cosmopolitan Malaysia', Citizenship Studies, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 791-806.
- Khoo, G 2014, 'Imagining hybrid cosmopolitan Malaysia through Chinese kung fu comedies: Nasi Lemak 2.0 (2011) and Petaling Street Warriors (2011)', Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 57-72pp..
- Khoo, G 2014, 'Lawak educated or lawak pakai tie, the political satirist', in Joshua Barker, Erik Harms, and Johan Lindquist (ed.), Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, USA, pp. 185-187 pp.
- Khoo, G 2014, 'The Rise of Constitutional Patriotism in Malaysian Civil Society', Asian Studies Review, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 325-344.
- Khoo, G 2013, 'Where the Heart Is: Cinema and Civic Life in Singapore', in Martin Dines and Timotheus Vermeulen (ed.), New Suburban Stories, Bloomsbury Academic, United Kingdom, pp. 97-108.
- Khoo, G 2013, 'Of Diminishing Memories and Old Places: Singaporean Films and the Work of Archiving Landscape', Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 31-52.
- Khoo, G 2012, '"Here In My Home": exploring space, identity and belonging in independent Malaysian films', in Jean-Pierre Gimenez (ed.), Southeast Asian Cinema, Asiexpo Edition, France, pp. 343-353.
- Khoo, G 2011, 'Smoking, Eating and Desire: A Study of Alienation in the Films of James Lee', in May Ingawanij, Benjamin McKay (ed.), Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia, Cornell University Press, Southeast Asia.
- Khoo, G 2011, 'From Second Cinema to Third Cinema? Malaysian Filmmakers and Activism Then and Now', Busan Cinema Forum, ed. Sun Young Park, Busan Cinema Forum, Busan South Korea, pp. 282-287.
- Khoo, G & Barker, T, eds, 2011, Mau Dibawa ke Mana Sinema Kita? Beberapa Wacana Seputar Film Indonesia (Translation of Asian Cinema Vol. 21 No. 2, Fall/Winter 2010), Penerbit Salemba, Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Khoo, G 2011, 'Taking liberties: independent filmmakers representing the tudung in Malaysia', in Andrew N Weintraub (ed.), Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon and New York, pp. 195-211.
- Khoo, G 2010, 'Spotlight on the Films of Indonesian Filmmaker Edwin', Asian Cinema, vol. Vol. 21, no. No. 2, pp. 135-149.
- Khoo, G 2010, 'Through Our Own Eyes: Independent Documentary Filmmaking in Malaysia', in Yeoh Seng Guan (ed.), Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, pp. 137-159.
- Khoo, G 2010, 'Filling the gaps of history: Independent Documentaries Re-Present the Malayan Left', in Tony Day and Maya H.T. Liem (ed.), Cultures at War: The Cold War and Cultural Expression in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications, Ithaca, pp. 247-264.
- Khoo, G 2010, 'A Minority Within a Minority? Analysis of Short fiction by Che Husna Azhari and Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof', in Rick Hosking, Susan Hosking, Noritah Omar and Washima Che Dan (ed.), Reading the Malay World, Wakefield Press, South Australia, pp. 111-126.
- Khoo, G & Barker, T 2010, 'Indonesian Cinema: A Symposium Introduction', Asian Cinema, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 3-6.
- Khoo, GC & Thomas A. Barker, eds, 2010, Asian Cinema special issue: Indonesian Cinema, vol. 21 no. 2, Introduction, pp. 1, 3-6.
- Khoo, GC 2010, Cinema: Films made by Women: Malaysia, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Brill.
- Khoo, GC 2010, 'Gendering Old and New Malay through Malaysian auteur filmmaker U-Wei Haji Saari's literary adaptations, The Arsonist (1995) and Swing My Swing High, My Darling (2004)', South East Asia Research, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 301-324.
- Khoo, GC 2010, 'Gendering Old and New Malay through Malaysian auteur filmmaker U-Wei Haji Saari's literary adaptations, The Arsonist (1995) and Swing My Swing High, My Darling (2004)', South East Asia Review vol. 8 no. 2, pp. 301-324.
- Khoo, GC 2010, 'Spotlight on the films of Indonesian filmmaker Edwin', Asian Cinema, Vol. 21 no. 2, pp. 135-149.
- Khoo, G 2009, 'Cinema: Films Made by Muslim Women: Malaysia', in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Supplement I), Brill Academic Publishers, on line, pp. online.
- Khoo, G, ed., 2007, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements.
- Goh, D, Gabrielpillai, M, Holden, P et al, eds, 2009, Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York.
- Khoo, GC 2009, 'Book Review: Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia', Senses of Cinema, vol. 2009, no. 51, pp. na.
- Khoo, GC 2009, 'Kopitiam: Discursive Cosmopolitan Spaces and National Identity in Malaysian Culture and Media', in Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham (ed.), Everyday Multiculturalism, Palgrave MacMillan, United Kingdom, United States of America, pp. 87-104.
- Khoo, GC 2009, 'Reading the films of independent filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad: Cosmopolitanism, Sufi Islam and Malay subjectivity', in Daniel P.S. Goh, Mathilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden, Gaik Cheng Khoo (ed.), Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, pp. 107-123.
- Khoo, GC 2009, 'What is Diasporic Chinese cinema in Southeast Asia?', Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 69-71.
- Khoo, GC 2008, 'Urban Geography as Pretext: Sociocultural Landscapes of Kula Lumpur in Independent Malaysian Films', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 34-54.
- Khoo, GC & Siddique Harvey, S, eds, 2007, Asian Cinema special issue: Film of Southeast Asia symposium proceedings, 1.
- Khoo, GC 2007, 'Just-Do-It-(Yourself): independent filmmaking in Malaysia', Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 227-247.
- Khoo, GC 2007, 'Malaysian Independents Cinema of the Everyday', in Pusan International Film catalogue (ed.), Three Colors of New Malaysian Cinema, Unknown, unknown, pp. 18-25.
- Khoo, GC 2007, 'The Politics of Love: Malaysia's Yasmin Ahmad', Metro, vol. December 2007, no. 155, pp. 52-57.
- Khoo, GC 2006, Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature, UBC Press, Canada.
- Khoo, GC 2006, ''You've come a long way, baby' Erma Fatima, film and politics', South East Asia Research, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 179-209.
- Khoo, GC 2005, 'Recuperating Malay Custom/Adat in Female Sexuality in Malaysian Films', in John Nguyet Erni and Siew Keng Chua (ed.), Asian Media Studies: Politics of Subjectivities, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, USA, pp. 207-224.
- Khoo, GC 2003, 'Shuhaimi Baba and the Malaysian New Wave: Negotiating the Recuperation of Malay Custom (Adat)', in Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, and Valerie Raoul (ed.), Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, UBC Press, Canada, pp. 229-239.
- Khoo, GC 2003, 'Strangers within the (imagined) community: a study of modern Malay identity in U-Wei Hj. Saari's Jogho and Sabri Zain's Face Off', RIMA: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 81-114.
- Khoo, GC 2001, 'Nationalism and Homoeroticism: A Feminist Reading of the Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat Debate', in Maznah Mohamad and Wong Soak Koon (ed.), Risking Malaysia: Culture, Politics and Identity, Penerbit UKM, Malaysia.
- Khoo, GC 2000, The Ungrateful Guest, Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 21 no.3, pp 309 - 318.
- Khoo, GC 2000, 'What is it to be a Man? Hypermasculinity in Contemporary Malaysian Cinema', West Coast Line, vol. 32-34/2, no. Fall 2000, pp. 43-60.
