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 Peter A. Jackson is Fellow in Thai History in the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He was formerly head of the Thai National Curriculum Project in Canberra and Executive Officer of the ANU's National Thai Studies Centre. His research focuses on modern Thai cultural history, with emphases on religion and sexuality. Current projects include a history of gay Bangkok and a study of the impact of Thailand's economic boom and bust on Buddhism and other aspects of Thai religion. Peter Jackson's books include Buddhadasa: A Buddhist Thinker for the Modern World (1988), Buddhism, Legitimation and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism (1989), Dear Uncle Go: Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1995), Genders and Sexualities in Modern Thailand (1999, ed. with Nerida Cook), Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives (1999, ed. with Gerard Sullivan), and Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand (1999, ed. with Gerard Sullivan). He has also published in the electronic journal Intersections. |
 Mark McLelland is a post-doctoral fellow in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Mark wrote his Ph.D. thesis on representations of male homosexuality in the Japanese media which was later published as Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan: Cultural Myths and Social Realities, Curzon Press (2000). His papers on homosexuality in Japan have appeared in The New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, The U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, The Journal of Gender Studies, Intersections and Culture, Health and Sexuality. His current research focuses on the interface between homosexuality, gender and new technologies in Japan and he has published on this topic in The Journal of Communication Inquiry, Convergence and Continuum. He also has a chapter on Japanese queer uses of the Internet in the forthcoming book Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia edited by Chris Berry, Fran Martin and Audrey Yue (Duke University Press) and is co-editor (with Nanette Gottlieb) of Japanese Cybercultures (forthcoming). |
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