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About Ann Choi

Da In Ann Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include care labor and migration, reproductive justice, social movement, citizenship theory, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu.

Da In Ann Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include care labor and migration, reproductive justice, social movement, citizenship theory, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ann:

Asian American Studies October 4, 2023

Warring Genealogies

Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

Joo Ok Kim

Hosted by Ann Choi
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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In her book, Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship …
Asian American Studies May 23, 2022

Archipelago of Resettlement

Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi

Hosted by Ann Choi
“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water with an idea of “home.” Through …
Gender Studies May 18, 2022

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea

Hyaeweol Choi

Hosted by Ann Choi
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era …
Gender Studies May 4, 2022

Vulgar Beauty

Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium

Mila Zuo

Hosted by Ann Choi
Yi’s eyes soften as he watches Jiazhi sing a Chinese folk song with subtle, feminine movements in the film, Lust, Caution. The room fills with laughter when Ali Wong unabashedly enacts …
Gender Studies March 11, 2022

An Empire of Touch

Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal

Poulomi Saha

Hosted by Ann Choi
Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak, the question interrogates the in-built assumption about the locatable agency in an individual. Postcolonial studies …
General History October 13, 2021

Urgent Archives

Enacting Liberatory Memory Work

Michelle Caswell

Hosted by Ann Choi
Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021).What is the place of archives in our society? In archival studies, an answer to …
Sociology September 8, 2021

Home Care Fault Lines

Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances

Cynthia J. Cranford

Hosted by Ann Choi
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we think about care. Care work has long been devalued – the daily labors of sustaining the well-being of individuals and community members were …
Gender Studies August 18, 2021

Tastes Like War

A Memoir

Grace M. Cho

Hosted by Ann Choi
The US military camptowns were established shortly after the Second World War in 1945, appropriating the Japanese comfort stations. The Korean government actively supported the creation of camptowns for its …
Science, Technology, and Society May 12, 2021

Freezing Fertility

Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

Lucy van de Wiel

Hosted by Ann Choi
How does egg freezing reshape our conception of time, aging and fertility? In her new monograph, Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging (NYU Press, 2020) Dr. Lucy van …
East Asian Studies January 13, 2021

Seeing Like a Child

Inheriting the Korean War

Clara Han

Hosted by Ann Choi
Intertwining autobiography and ethnography, Clara Han’s touching new book Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2020) asks how scholarship can be transformed from a child’s …
Gender Studies January 7, 2021

Traffic in Asian Women

Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Hosted by Ann Choi
Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color academics be heard in this process? This is one …
East Asian Studies December 16, 2020

The Cost of Belonging

An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown

Sharon J. Yoon

Hosted by Ann Choi
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their businesses than entrepreneurs from Korea who often …
Gender Studies November 25, 2020

Embodied Reckonings

“Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress

Elizabeth Son

Hosted by Ann Choi
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every Wednesday is an iconic sight, testifying to the …
Asian American Studies November 9, 2020

A Violent Peace

Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific

Christine Hong

Hosted by Ann Choi
The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A …
Gender Studies October 23, 2020

Elusive Belonging

Marriage Immigrants and 'Multiculturalism' in Rural South Korea

Minjeong Kim

Hosted by Ann Choi
Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions among female migrant workers, the tendency to conflate marriage migration with …