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'This issue of Cultural Studies Review features a number of outstanding essays and a special section concerned with ‘Media, Mobilities and Identity in East and Southeast Asia’. Ben Highmore’s essay is a future directed and poetic evocation of a more peripatetic cultural studies. Although he re-stages the serendipity of wandering, Highmore also wants to return to familiar places. The ‘Birmingham’ of this piece is one that he hopes is foreign and unfinished. It’s a compelling exploration because it addresses a need to locate collective resources that might help build emotional and practical bulwarks against instrumentality. It’s also an essay arising from an engagement with everydayness which hopes to explore how that particularity might connect with other imaginaries and open up forms of generality and connection. In this sense, the resonance of peripatetic calls up the non-institutionalised meanderings of activists, non-human actants and the precariat that also enliven cultural studies.' (Chris Healy, Katrina Schlunke, Editorial introduction)