my guess, given the use of "imbrications" was that it was someone inspired by the french theorists. maybe bourdieu or barthes. this doesn't sound like bourdieu, though. i don't know barthes tho.
the phrase "complex imbrications" pulls up Aihwa Ong (berkeley) in a paper entitled, "Strategic Sisterhood or Sisters In Solidarity? Questions of Communitarianism and Citizenship in Asia."
in a footnote she has written this as well: "Colonialism and Modernity: Feminist Re-presentations of Women in Non-Western Societies, 3/4 Inscriptions (1988) ( I argued that First World feminists defined themselves in opposition not to First World men, but to Third World women, who are viewed as their social inferiors. We cannot talk about gender inequality in non-Western countries without situating our analyses in the context of cultural imperialism and geopolitical ranking of nations in the world.) at: http://www.law.indiana.edu/glsj/vol4/no1/ongpgp.html
Also authored: _Flexible Citizenship, The Cultural Logics of Transnationality_ http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/anth/books.html#FLEXIBLE CITIZENSHIP
SPIRITS OF RESISTANCE AND CAPITALIST DISCIPLINE Factory Women in Malaysia Aihwa Ong http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/ongspirits.html
she must have some kind of relationship to HAraway, she keeps coming up. Her diss advisor, perhaps?
also turns up: a web page on hong kong cinema and sexuality.
a paper cites: Ong, Aihwa, 1993. "On the Edge of Empires: Flexible Citizenship among Chinese in Diaspora", Positions 3(1): 745-778. at http://faculty.washington.edu/kmitch/diffdias.htm
then there's Homi Bhahba, which seems also likely: http://www.ags.uci.edu/~clcwegsa/revolutions/Lucas.htm
>>The multiple processes that constitute economic globalization inhabit and
>>shape specific structurations of the economic, the political, the
>>cultural, the subjective. In so doing, new spatialities and temporalities
>>are produced. These new spatialities and temporalities of the global do
>>not stand outside the national. They are partly inserted in the national
>>and hence evince complex imbrications with the latter. This is especially
>>so because, in my reading, the global is itself partial, albeit
>>strategic. The global cannot (at least for now) fully encompass the lived
>>experience of actors or the domain of institutional orders and cultural
>>formations; it remains a partial condition. As a result the outcome of
>>these multiple imbrications between the national and the global is
>>overlap and interaction rather than mutual exclusivity. The extent to
>>which there is overlap and interaction is perhaps one of the marking
>>features of the current era.