Tommy Tse
@tommytse.bsky.social
Asso Prof @ UvA Media Studies || PI of ERC Research - China Africa Fashion Power (2022-27) || Editor of Int’l Journal of Fashion Studies || IIAS Board Member
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Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc
#FashionStudies #IIAS
#FashionStudies #IIAS
October 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc
#FashionStudies #IIAS
#FashionStudies #IIAS
📚 Book Launch | Thinking Through Fashion🌟Join editors Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik in conversation w/ Tommy Tse, Roberto Filippello, Diego Semerene, and Jane Tynan. Expect lively dialogue on fashion, theory & culture.
🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
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🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
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October 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
📚 Book Launch | Thinking Through Fashion🌟Join editors Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik in conversation w/ Tommy Tse, Roberto Filippello, Diego Semerene, and Jane Tynan. Expect lively dialogue on fashion, theory & culture.
🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
shorturl.at/59QIn
🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
shorturl.at/59QIn
Over 2 days we hosted Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen at UvA - Packed workshop on turning a PhD into a book, leaving young scholars energised; Lecture on the “Southern interregnum” - elites reanimate neoliberalism, while protests reshape futures across the Global South. #ERC #CAFP #ASCA #GlobalAfrica
September 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Over 2 days we hosted Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen at UvA - Packed workshop on turning a PhD into a book, leaving young scholars energised; Lecture on the “Southern interregnum” - elites reanimate neoliberalism, while protests reshape futures across the Global South. #ERC #CAFP #ASCA #GlobalAfrica
🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of China-Africa Fashion Trade and Cons
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant Postdoc position as part of the ERC-funded research project Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creat...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served!
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
@uvahumanities.bsky.social
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
@uvahumanities.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served!
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
@uvahumanities.bsky.social
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
@uvahumanities.bsky.social
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✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here!
Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.
Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com
#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.
Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com
#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Digital Intimacies 11
The Love of Machines
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July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here!
Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.
Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com
#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.
Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com
#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
📣New Pub! Pls share 🗯️ What do forgotten clothes say about us—and fashion’s future? In #EJCS, we explore 21 HK men’s “limbo wardrobes” to rethink waste, value & fashion competence.🍀 What if sustainability not begins with buying less, but knowing what we keep? ⬇️👇🏻
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June 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📣New Pub! Pls share 🗯️ What do forgotten clothes say about us—and fashion’s future? In #EJCS, we explore 21 HK men’s “limbo wardrobes” to rethink waste, value & fashion competence.🍀 What if sustainability not begins with buying less, but knowing what we keep? ⬇️👇🏻
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✨ That’s a wrap on our #ASCA #GlobalAfrica book salon with Dr. Andrea Pollio’s “Silicon Elsewhere” and Dr. Maria Repnikova’s “China’s Image-Making in Africa”, moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris. We ended with Hangfeng Chen’s poetic film “I Swam to Africa in My Dream”. #ERC #UvA #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
✨ That’s a wrap on our #ASCA #GlobalAfrica book salon with Dr. Andrea Pollio’s “Silicon Elsewhere” and Dr. Maria Repnikova’s “China’s Image-Making in Africa”, moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris. We ended with Hangfeng Chen’s poetic film “I Swam to Africa in My Dream”. #ERC #UvA #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
Our #ChinaAfricaFashionPower team had such a great experience at the Africa-Asia 3 ConFest at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. Salute to the amazing #IIAS team who spent over a year to put these meaningful collaborations together. #ERC #ASCA #UvAMediaStudies
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
June 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Our #ChinaAfricaFashionPower team had such a great experience at the Africa-Asia 3 ConFest at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. Salute to the amazing #IIAS team who spent over a year to put these meaningful collaborations together. #ERC #ASCA #UvAMediaStudies
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #4 | CAPF
The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our fourth and final seminar event for this academic semester. For our final session, we will be having a book salon. This ...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
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In "The cloak of creativity", Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
March 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
In "The cloak of creativity", Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In today’s #ASCA #GlobalAfrica 3rd research seminar, Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) and Dr. Wei Wang’s (UvA) talks offered a nuanced exploration of Afro-Sino technological entanglements, urging a critical reassessment of dominant tech narratives and their implications for global futures.
#ERC #CAFP
#ERC #CAFP
April 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
In today’s #ASCA #GlobalAfrica 3rd research seminar, Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) and Dr. Wei Wang’s (UvA) talks offered a nuanced exploration of Afro-Sino technological entanglements, urging a critical reassessment of dominant tech narratives and their implications for global futures.
#ERC #CAFP
#ERC #CAFP
The 3rd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Afro-Sino Tech Futures” will be held on 11 Apr 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CEST). Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) & Jupiter Wei Wang (UvA) will present in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC #CAFP
April 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The 3rd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Afro-Sino Tech Futures” will be held on 11 Apr 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CEST). Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) & Jupiter Wei Wang (UvA) will present in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC #CAFP
The 2nd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Global Africa/Global China” will be held on 28 Mar 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CET). Miriam Driessen (Oxford) & Nicholas Loubere (Lund) will come to Ams in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC
March 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The 2nd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Global Africa/Global China” will be held on 28 Mar 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CET). Miriam Driessen (Oxford) & Nicholas Loubere (Lund) will come to Ams in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC
See you all this summer at our panel “Interdependence, autonomy and friction in inter-Asian fashion, craft and design economies”, in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from July 23 to 25 2025!
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#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat
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#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat
Program – IACS2025
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February 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
See you all this summer at our panel “Interdependence, autonomy and friction in inter-Asian fashion, craft and design economies”, in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from July 23 to 25 2025!
iacs2025.com/program/
#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat
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#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat
Wrapping up this extraordinary journey to Naples, where we have experimented all the creative twists & thrills of academic writing together. Not only calming our monkey mind, the unique writing space also reworks its contours: the triangles and squares, circles and holes, lines and dots. #ERC #CAFP
February 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🌟💡Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus” (In-person only)!
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP
January 30, 2025 at 6:08 PM
🌟💡Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus” (In-person only)!
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP
It’s been an awesome year in different cities, with so many of you. Will hold these memories dear to my heart, and keep creating more in 2025. 🙂🌸🎄
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25
December 26, 2024 at 9:29 AM
It’s been an awesome year in different cities, with so many of you. Will hold these memories dear to my heart, and keep creating more in 2025. 🙂🌸🎄
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25
Thank you International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)! It’s my pleasure being part of the IIAS Board and in particular, joining the ICAS 13 Conf-Fest in Surabaya, Indonesia this summer. See you all in Dakar, Senegal next June! #MerryChristmas #IIAS #Africa–AsiaANewAxisofKnowledge #11-14June2025
December 21, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Thank you International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)! It’s my pleasure being part of the IIAS Board and in particular, joining the ICAS 13 Conf-Fest in Surabaya, Indonesia this summer. See you all in Dakar, Senegal next June! #MerryChristmas #IIAS #Africa–AsiaANewAxisofKnowledge #11-14June2025
This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue
#ERCResCue
December 11, 2024 at 12:15 PM
This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue
#ERCResCue
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Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong
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The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair
To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...
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December 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM
Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong
spui25.nl/programma/th...
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The 2nd article is featured in a landmark special issue on platforms & cultural production:
Tse et al. (2024) “China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Tse et al. (2024) “China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
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December 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
The 2nd article is featured in a landmark special issue on platforms & cultural production:
Tse et al. (2024) “China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Tse et al. (2024) “China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms”, International Journal of Cultural Studies.
2024 has been a rewarding year so far, marked by the publication of two articles I’m particularly proud of & would like to share them here:
Tse & Pun (2024). “Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture & three infrastructural mechanisms,” Global Media and China.
Tse & Pun (2024). “Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture & three infrastructural mechanisms,” Global Media and China.
Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture and three infrastructural mechanisms - Tommy Tse, Ngai Pun, 2024
Contrasting existing scholarship in ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’, this article builds on the theorisation of infrastructural capitalism as an emergi...
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December 8, 2024 at 3:23 PM
2024 has been a rewarding year so far, marked by the publication of two articles I’m particularly proud of & would like to share them here:
Tse & Pun (2024). “Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture & three infrastructural mechanisms,” Global Media and China.
Tse & Pun (2024). “Infrastructural capitalism in China: Alibaba, its corporate culture & three infrastructural mechanisms,” Global Media and China.
2 years ago, I promised to be back again to share my ERC project’s work-in-progress - here I am, having great conversations with my ex-colleagues & current postgraduate students at #HKUSociology 📖📕
#MasterofMediaCulture&CreativeCities #SpeakerSeries
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower #UvAMediaStudies
#MasterofMediaCulture&CreativeCities #SpeakerSeries
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower #UvAMediaStudies
November 23, 2024 at 10:31 AM
2 years ago, I promised to be back again to share my ERC project’s work-in-progress - here I am, having great conversations with my ex-colleagues & current postgraduate students at #HKUSociology 📖📕
#MasterofMediaCulture&CreativeCities #SpeakerSeries
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower #UvAMediaStudies
#MasterofMediaCulture&CreativeCities #SpeakerSeries
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower #UvAMediaStudies