Lisa Lau's Outputs (2)

Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower. cultural geographies, 147447401987165 - 147447401987165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019871653

Drawing on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s film Aquarius (2016) and Aravind Adiga’s novel Last Man in Tower (2011), this article is concerned with the impact on individuals and communities of forms of impersonal, systemic violence resulting from neoliberal a... Read More about Urban redevelopment, the new logics of expulsion, and individual precarity in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius and Aravind Adiga’s Last Man in Tower.

India through re-Orientalist Lenses (2014)
Journal Article
Lau, & Mendes, A. (2014). India through re-Orientalist Lenses. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 706-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2014.984619

Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a discourse which comes out of and is inescapably informed by postcolonial and diasporic legacies. The investigation of re-Orientalism has revealed new... Read More about India through re-Orientalist Lenses.