ONGOING PROJECT: Marginalized creative labour and production geopolitics

This is a collection of publications from an ongoing project exploring the implications of the bifurcation of media globalisation for Southeast Asia's media industries in the age of competing global hegemonies, how media workers liminal to the ‘two globalisations’ carve out spaces for creative insubordination and engagement, and how these pluralize the frameworks we use to think about media work and labour.

Articles include:
Fong, S. Y., & Lim, T. (2025). Regional partnerships and media policy in the age of China’s rise: the case of Singapore-China film co-productions. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 31(2), 178–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2333860

Fong, S. Y. (2024). ‘They don’t need us’: Affective precarity and critique in transnational media work from the margins of ‘Cultural China’. Media, Culture & Society, 46(7), 1327-1343. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221140478

Fong, S. Y. (2023). Transnational media production from the margins of “Cultural China”: the case of Singapore’s media producers. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 24(5), 744–760. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2023.2242140