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Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Dr Kevin Latham

BA(OXON) MA PHD(LONDON)

Overview

Kevin Latham
Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Centre of Chinese Studies

Member, Centre of Chinese Studies

Centre for Media and Film Studies

Associate Member, Centre for Media and Film Studies

Name:
Dr Kevin Latham
Email address:
Telephone:
020 7898 4423
Address:
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office No:
565
Office Hours:
All Year - Tuesdays 2-4pm (during term time)

Biography

Anthropology of Media, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, postmodernism and poststructuralist theory, Chinese philosophy.  Dr Kevin Latham is also a visiting professor at Beijing City University

Teaching

Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
PhD Students supervised

Research

My recent research has been focused on Chinese media with particular attention to journalists working in newspapers and television in Guangzhou. I am also working on the importance of new media and communications technologies including the Internet and telecommunications.

In addition to my interests in media production, my earlier research on Chinese theatre (Cantonese opera in particular) dealt extensively with audiences, practices of appreciation and the production of different kinds of knowledge. Combined with my more recent media research this has also led me to work on practices of consumption, consumerism and popular culture.  I am currently also developing an additional new research project looking at media use among Chinese immigrants in Italy.

My research has raised theoretical issues of knowledge, performance, consumption, governmentality and mediated citizenship. Much of my work on media has also sought to question and complicate dominant stereotypical representations of Chinese media centred around the issue of propaganda and political control.

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Regional Expertise
  • East Asia
Country Expertise
  • China
  • Hong Kong
Languages

Publications

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Authored Books

Latham, Kevin (2007) Pop Culture China! Media, Arts and Lifestyle. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio.

Edited Books

Latham, Kevin and Thompson , Stuart and Klein , Jakob, eds. (2006) Consuming China: approaches to cultural change in contemporary China. London; New York: Routledge.

Book Chapters

Latham, Kevin (2009) 'Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China.' In: West, Harry G. and Raman, Parvathi, (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation. New York: Berghahn Books.

Latham, Kevin (2008) 'SMS, Communication, And Citizenship in China's Information Society.' In: Murphy, Rachel and Fong, Vanessa L., (eds.), Media, Identity, and Struggle in Twenty-First-Century China. Routledge.

Latham, Kevin (2006) 'Powers of Imagination: The Role of the Consumer in China's Silent Media Revolution.' In: Latham, K. and Thompson, S. and Klein, J., (eds.), Consuming China. Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China. London: Routledge, pp. 82-103.

Latham, Kevin (2002) 'Rethinking Chinese Consumption: Social Palliatives and the Rhetorics of Transition in Postsocialist China.' In: Hann, C.M., (ed.), Postsocialism. Ideals, Ideologies and Practices in Eurasia. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 217-237.

Articles

Latham, Kevin (2009) 'Media, the Olympics and the Search for the “Real China”.' The China Quarterly, 197 . pp. 25-43.

Latham, Kevin (2007) 'SMS, Communication, and Citizenship in China's Information Society.' Critical Asian Studies, 39 (2). pp. 295-314.

Latham, Kevin (2004) 'Channel specialisation viewed from the perspective or provincial level television [in China]. (cong shengji dianshi kan pindao zhuanyehua).' South China Television Journal, vol. Issue 1 (no. 45) . pp. 43-47.

Latham, Kevin (2000) 'Nothing but the Truth: News Media, Power and Hegemony in South China.' The China Quarterly, no. 163 . pp. 633-654.

Latham, Kevin (2000) 'Consuming Fantasies: Mediated Stardom in Hong Kong Cantonese Opera and Cinema.' Modern China, 26, no. 3 . pp. 309-347.

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