Asian Canada Is Burning
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
979-8-88890-784-9 (ISBN)
Description
Asian Canada is Burning invites us to trouble the mobilization of "anti-Asian hate" in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic.
Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions that make theorizing "Asian Canadian" feasible. Grounded in a transnational queer and feminist lens, this book also aims to envision possible futures and solidarities. Ultimately, this collection is concerned with moments and places of tensions, confrontations, relations, and solidarity. We offer stories of insurgent encounters as people who identify as "Asian" navigate and implicate settler colonial nation-state to make new dreams, histories and intimacies.
Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions that make theorizing "Asian Canadian" feasible. Grounded in a transnational queer and feminist lens, this book also aims to envision possible futures and solidarities. Ultimately, this collection is concerned with moments and places of tensions, confrontations, relations, and solidarity. We offer stories of insurgent encounters as people who identify as "Asian" navigate and implicate settler colonial nation-state to make new dreams, histories and intimacies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88890-784-9 (9798888907849)
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Persons
Rose Ann Torres is the Director and Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Algoma University. Dr. Torres pioneered the creation of a Master of Social Work at Algoma University. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC Insight Development Grants research project entitled "Examining Access to Mental Health Care Service: The Impact of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers in Northern Ontario" and co-principal investigator of the SSHRC Institutional Grants project titled "Effects of COVID-19 on Teaching and Learning: Stories of Indigenous and Black and Asian Faculty Members and Students at Algoma University". She has published numerous co-edited books, peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Coly Chau has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. They are interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.
Coly Chau has a Master of Education in Social Justice Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research interests include race, gender, sexuality, migration, anti-colonial thought and spirituality. They are interested in the unearthing and reclamation of knowledges for the purposes of imagining and working toward decolonial and liberatory futures. They are often working, organizing and learning in their communities.
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction
??Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres
Part 1
Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism
2?Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide
??Shelly Ikebuchi
3?Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?
??Rajni Mala Khelawan
4?Seeking Pappy's Approval
??Krystal Jagoo
5?Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context
??Hyejung Jessie Yum
6?Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging
??Jose Miguel Esteban
Part 2
Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies
7?The Bee
??Elisha Lim
8?Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada
??Ian Liujia Tian
9?The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen
??Sam Yoon
10?Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production
??David Ng and Jenn Sungshine
11?Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers
??Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner
Part 3
Building Solidarities
12?The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice
??Coly Chau and Elene Lam
13?Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
??Anna Liu
14?Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures
??Janey Lew
15?Dumpster Fires, Burning Affects
??Malissa Phung
16?Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds , and the Struggle against Normalization
??Boycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto
17?Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living Labour
??Ian Liujia Tian
Index
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction
??Ian Liujia Tian, Coly Chau and Rose Ann Torres
Part 1
Situating Asia(ns) beyond Settler Canadian Nationalism
2?Tearing Down Walls: Rethinking White Domesticity in the Context of Cultural Domicide
??Shelly Ikebuchi
3?Unpacking the Festival of Diwali in Canada: Where Have Rama, Sita, and Lakshman Gone?
??Rajni Mala Khelawan
4?Seeking Pappy's Approval
??Krystal Jagoo
5?Vulnerable Resisters: Decolonizing Voices of Asian Migrants in a Settler Colonial and Religious Context
??Hyejung Jessie Yum
6?Unboxing Our Narrative of Space and Place: An Unsettling Dance of (Un)Belonging
??Jose Miguel Esteban
Part 2
Gender, Sexuality and Other Intimacies
7?The Bee
??Elisha Lim
8?Labour, Intimacy and Diaspora: Queer Asian Studies in Canada
??Ian Liujia Tian
9?The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen
??Sam Yoon
10?Love Intersections: Queer Sensibilities and Relationality in Art and Cultural Production
??David Ng and Jenn Sungshine
11?Emergent Asian-Canadian Feminisms: Insights from Young Filipina/x Feminist Scholar-Organizers
??Monica Batac, Julia Baladad, Psalmae Tesalona, Chloe Rodriguez and France Clare Stohner
Part 3
Building Solidarities
12?The Butterfly Effect: Asian Massage Parlour and Sex Workers and Historical Chinese Laundries Fighting By-Laws and Organizing Towards Justice
??Coly Chau and Elene Lam
13?Asian Canadian Workers Organizing: The Making of the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
??Anna Liu
14?Love Letters to Asian Canadian Studies: On Ethical Solidarities and Decolonial Futures
??Janey Lew
15?Dumpster Fires, Burning Affects
??Malissa Phung
16?Internationalist Solidarity: Palestinian Liberation, bds , and the Struggle against Normalization
??Boycott, Divest and Sanction Toronto
17?Conclusion: Asian Futurism as Living Labour
??Ian Liujia Tian
Index