The Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies is a global platform for publishing multi-disciplinary monographs on current issues and debates related to Asia and the Pacific.
The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) in the University of Nottingham Ningbo China has been recognized as one of the global institutes of conducting and publishing world class research on the Asia and Pacific region. This series, published by Springer Nature, was launched by Prof May Tan-Mullins in 2016, and is now edited by Dr Filippo Gilardi. It has since seen 13 books published on topics ranging from BRI, energy, media, environment, culture and heritage. The series invite proposals from all researchers and academics focusing on the Asia and Pacific region on a wide range of topics.
Prof May Tan-Mullins said: "Springer Nature is a top global academic publisher and housing this series under the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies will put us on the global stage of academic publishing. Having this series based in UNNC also means academic staff and PhD students at UNNC will have a direct avenue for publishing their research findings or PhD monographs, and promote international networking and collaboration between the UNNC community and global scholars."
Dr. Filippo Gilardi said: "It is a great pleasure to be the editor of this multi-disciplinary series as I have the opportunity to be exposed to research at the cutting edge of very different areas in the Asia and Pacific region: from Politics to Media, Environmental, or Cultural Studies. This is incredibly enriching and motivating
Dr Filippo Gilardi (Editor)
Dr Filippo Gilardi is Associate Professor in Creative Industries and Transmedia and is currently the Head of the School of International Communications and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His main research interests include Media convergence, Creative Industries, and Digital Business Models.
International Editorial Board
Dr Melissa Brown
Melissa Shani Brown is affiliated with East Asian Politics at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Her research interests include the conceptualization of ‘silence’ in critical theory, the discursive formation of identities in various contexts, popular media and texts. She is interdisciplinary in both interests and training, informing a variety of projects concerned with the articulation and representation of identities: the delimiting of national or ethnic identities in museums, tourist sites, or popular media; the representation of animals and other non/human figures; the defining or disruption of sexual or gendered identities
Prof Adam Knee
Adam Knee is Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries at Singapore’s Lasalle College of the Arts. He was previously Head of the School of International Communications at University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and has held appointments at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Ohio University (USA). He has also been a Fulbright grantee (in Thailand) and a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. His scholarship has focused in particular on Southeast Asian and US popular film.
Dr Gianluigi Negro
Gianluigi Negro is Assistant Professor at the University of Siena (Department of Education, Human Sciences and Intercultural Communication) After his PhD at China Media Observatory (CMO), Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) he has been Post Doctoral Researcher Fellow at the School of Communication of Tsinghua and Peking Universities. He is member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (Giga-Net) as well as the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (AISC). His research focuses on Chinese media history and the Chinese Internet governance.
Andrea Střelcová
Andrea Střelcová is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and a PhD student at the Faculty of Management and Business at the Tampere University in Finland. She is also an associate lecturer at the China Center at the Technical University Berlin.