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Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Minorities and Marginality, Class and View Online Conflict in Japan (Semester 1) 272 items Recommended books (11 items) Japan's minorities: the illusion of homogeneity - Michael Weiner, 2009 Book | Some of the articles in Weiner 1997 and 2009 are different. Please check the references on the reading list carefully for which edition is referred to. Hegemony of homogeneity: an anthropological analysis of "Nihonjinron" - Harumi Befu, 2001 Book Multicultural Japan: palaeolithic to postmodern - Donald Denoon, 1996 Book Multiculturalism in the new Japan: crossing the boundaries within - Nelson H. H. Graburn, John Ertl, R. Kenji Tierney, 2008 Book Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands - Mark Hudson, c1999 Book Multiethnic Japan - John Lie, 2001 Book Diversity in Japanese culture and language - Gaynor Marilyn Macdonald, John Christopher Maher, 1995 Book Re-inventing Japan: time, space, nation - Tessa Morris-Suzuki, c1998 Book Genealogy of Japanese self-images - Eiji Oguma, 2002 Book Transcultural Japan: at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity - David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 2008 Book Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: a sociological enquiry - Kosaku Yoshino, 1992 Book 1/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Journals (7 items) Japan forum Journal Japanese studies Journal Journal of Japanese studies Journal Social science Japan journal - University of Tokyo Journal Journal of Asian studies Journal Ethnology Journal Japan quarterly Journal Internet Resources (5 items) Japan Focus Website | Substantive, politically informed discussion, often by academics, can be found on many social topics in Japan Focus The Japan Times | News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More Website | For recent news, you could check the Japan Times online NHK, the national broadcaster Webpage | NHK, the national broadcaster, has live feeds NHK’s English language reports Webpage Japan, the Japan Institute of Labour Website | For major statistical reports on labour issues in Japan. This website gives you recent statistics, government white papers, and also an on line monthly journal, which contains articles by leading Japanese experts and academics. Week 1 : Introduction to module : the hegemony of homogeneity and alternative models for understanding the status of minorities in Japan (47 items) Key Readings (27 items) 2/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Hegemony of homogeneity: an anthropological analysis of "Nihonjinron" - Befu, Harumi, 2001 Chapter | Essential | Befu, H. - Premises, Models and Ideologies The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Essential | Sugimoto, Y. - Japanese culture : An overview Maneuvers of Multiculturalism: International Representations of Minority Politics in Japan - Joseph Doyle Hankins, 2012-05 Article | Essential Minority issues in recent news (4 items) NHK and “Black Lives Matter”: Structural Racism in Japan | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Webpage Black in Japan: Shifting the Narrative | Nippon.com Webpage Is Japan becoming a country of immigration? | The Japan Times Webpage | Recommended Naomi Osaka reflects on challenges of being black and Japanese - Guardian sport, 2020-08-25 Article Further Readings (20 items) Self and 'other' in imperial Japan - Weiner, Michael Chapter | Recommended | Weiner, M. - 'Self' and 'other' in imperial Japan Transcultural Japan: at the borderlands of race, gender, and identity - Willis, David Blake, Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen, 2008 Chapter | Essential | Goodman, R. - Afterword : Marginals, minorities, majorities and migrants - studying the Japanese borderlands in contemporary Japan Multiethnic Japan and the Monoethnic Myth - Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, 1993 Article Nationalism in the Abe Era - Kingston, J., 2016 Article Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State - David L. Howell, 1994 Article Deracialised Race, Obscured Racism: Japaneseness, Western and Japanese Concepts of Race, and Modalities of Racism - Yuko Kawai, 2015-01-02 Article 3/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Chapter | Robertson, J. - Biopower : blood, kinship and eugenic marriage Social identities of minority others in Japan: listening to the narratives of Ainu, Buraku and Zainichi Koreans - Tin Tin Htun, 2012-02-06 Article On the margins of empire: Buraku and Korean identity in prewar and wartime Japan - Jeffrey Paul Bayliss, 2013 Book The Making of Imperial Subjects in Okinawa - A. S. Christy, 1993 Article | Not held by Brookes library. Scan available on Moodle. The myth of Japanese uniqueness - Peter N. Dale, 1988 Book The construction of racial identities in China and Japan: historical and contemporary perspectives - Diko ̈ tter, Frank, c1997 Book War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific war - Dower, John W., c1986 Book Japan in war and peace: essays on history, culture and race - Dower, John W., 1996 Book Embracing defeat: Japan in the aftermath of World War II - Dower, John W., 2000 Book Peasants, rebels, and outcastes: the underside of modern Japan - Hane, Mikiso, c1982 Book Nationalisms of Japan: managing and mystifying identity - McVeigh, Brian J., c2004 Book A Descent into the Past: the frontier in the construction of Japanese history - Tessa Morris-Suzuki Chapter | Click on the pdf symbol to view and read the whole chapter. Postwar Japan as history - Gordon, Andrew, c1993 Chapter | Upham, F. - Unplaced persons and movements for place The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 - Walker, Brett L., c2001 Book 4/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists Further Readings (20 items) The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Befu, H. - Concepts of Japan, Japanese culture and the Japanese A history of nationalism in modern Japan: placing the people - Kevin Michael Doak, 2007 Book A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, 2005 Chapter | Goodman, R. - Making Majority Culture A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Chapter | Goodman, R. - Making Majority Culture The Cambridge companion to modern Japanese culture - Sugimoto, Yoshio, 2009 Chapter | Kuwayama, T. - Japan's emic conceptions Family and social policy in Japan: anthropological approaches - Goodman, Roger, Japan Anthropology Workshop, 2002 Chapter | Mackie, V. - Embodiment, citizenship and social policy in contemporary Japan Illness and culture in contemporary Japan: an anthropological view - Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, 1984 Chapter | Chapter 2 Genealogy of Japanese self-images - Oguma, Eiji, 2002 Book A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Robertson, Jennifer Ellen, 2005 Book | Roth, J. - Political and cultural perspectives on 'insider' minorities. [An expanded version of this article is also available on line at : http://japanfocus.org/-Joshua-Roth/1723] A companion to the anthropology of Japan - Jennifer Ellen Robertson, 2005 Book | Roth, J. - Political and cultural perspectives on 'insider' minorities. [An expanded version of this article is also available on line at : http://japanfocus.org/-Joshua-Roth/1723] Political and Cultural Perspectives on Japan's Insider Minorities - Joshua Roth, 2005 Article | An expanded version of article which is in J. Robertson (ed.) A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 Unwrapping Japan: society and culture in anthropological perspective - Ben-Ari, Eyal, Moeran, Brian, Valentine, James, c1990 Chapter | Valentine, J. - On the borderlines : the significance of marginality in Japanese society Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan: a sociological enquiry - Yoshino, Kosaku, 1992 Chapter | Yoshino, K. - Ideas of national distinctiveness : comparative perspectives. pp 39-67 5/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict in Japan | Oxford Brookes Reading Lists The following references give a good general background on anthropological perspectives on community, identity, and nationalism (7 items) Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., 1991 Book Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson, Benedict R. O'G., 2006 Book The symbolic construction of community - Cohen, Anthony P., 1989 Book Ethnicity and nationalism: anthropological perspectives - Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 2010 Book Social identity - Jenkins, Richard, 2008 Book Orientalism - Said, Edward W., 2003 Chapter | Said, E. - Latent and manifest Orientalism Orientalism - Said, Edward W., [2003?] Chapter | Said, E. - Latent and manifest Orientalism Week 2: Tracing class, the "gap society" and the economic crisis (31 items) Key Reading (2 items) An introduction to Japanese society - Yoshio Sugimoto, 2014 Book | Essential Sany ̓ a blues: laboring life in contemporary Tokyo - Fowler, Edward, 1996 Book | Essential | Chapter 1: the setting An introduction to Japanese society - Yoshio Sugimoto, ©2003 Book | Recommended | Chapter 2 : Class and stratification : an overview Media (5 items) 6/24 10/02/21 Minorities and Marginality, Class and Conflict
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