Over the last forty years, cultural studies has persistently questioned cultural relations of power and has been a major force in the critical intellectual tradition. As the twentieth-century draws to a close, cultural studies is undergoing a critical phase of transformation at local, national, regional and international levels. Trajectories brings together cultural theorists, not only from countries such as America, Canada and Australia, which have a known critical cultural studies tradition, but from the East, South-East and South Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, The Philippines, India and Thailand. Trajectories constitutes a critical confrontation between the imperial and colonial co-ordinates of north and south, east and west. Without rejecting the Anglo-American practice of cultural studies, the contributors present critical cultural studies as an internationalist and decolonizing project. Trajectories links critical energies together and charts the future possible direc.