Contributors
Mamoru Amemiya is Associate Professor at the Division of Policy and Planning
Sciences, the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of
Tsukuba. After receiving a PhD degree in Policy and Planning Sciences from
University of Tsukuba in 2007, he managed to develop his academic career
as post-doctoral fellow at the National Research Institute of Police Science
(2007–2010); assistant professor at the Center for Spatial Information Science,
The University of Tokyo (2010–2014); and associate professor at University of
Tsukuba (since 2014). His research interest is in social benefits of community
gardening activities for social safety and security.
Devleena Ghosh is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has published widely on global
and South Asian environmental issues and is currently working on a project
on coal mining in Australia, Germany, and India funded by the Australian
Research Council. She is the author of Colonialism and Modernity (with Paul
Gillen; UNSW Press, 2007) and co-editor of Water, Borders and Sovereignty
in Asia and Oceania (Routledge, 2008).
Larissa Hjorth is an Artist, Digital Ethnographer, and Professor in the School
of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne. Hjorth studies
the socio-cultural dimensions of mobile media and play in the Asia–Pacific
as outlined in her books, Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific (2009); Games &
Gaming (2010); Online@AsiaPacific (with M. Arnold, 2013); Understanding
Social Media (with S. Hinton, 2013); and Gaming in Locative, Social and
Mobile Media (with I. Richardson, 2014).
Chris Hudson is Associate Professor of Asian media and culture in the School
of Media and Communication and co-director of the Research Centre for
Communication, Politics and Culture at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is
the author of Beyond the Singapore Girl: Discourses of Gender and Nation
in Singapore (NIAS Press, 2013) and co-author of Theatre and Performance
in the Asia-Pacific (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), which arose out of a project
funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. She has published
extensively on the politics of gender and nationhood in Singapore as well as
cultural politics and urban development.