Intercultural Communication in Japan

Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-69937-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan’s culturally diverse groups.

This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan’s homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors, found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, foreign status, nationality, multiculturalism, and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis, the book calls for a complicating of Japan’s homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways, with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan.

Taking a critical intercultural communication perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture and Japanese Society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toyosaki, Satoshi

Eguchi, Shinsuke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Intercultural Communication in Japan

Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body

- The Affective Politics of the Feminine: An Interpassive Analysis of Japanese Female Comedians

- "It’s a Wonderful Single Life.": Constructions and Representations of Female Singleness in Japan’s Contemporary Josei Dorama

- The Shifting Gender Landscape of Japanese Society

Part II: Performance and Queerness

- Japanese Male-Queer Femininity: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Matsuko Deluxe as an One-Kei Talent

- Bleach in Color: Unpacking Gendered, Queered, and Raced Performances in Anime

Part III: Inclusiveness and Otherness

- The Discursive Pushes and Pulls of J-pop and K-pop in Taiwan: Cultural Homogenization and Identity Co-Optation

- ‘Hating Korea’ (Kenkan) in Postcolonial Japan

- Japan’s Internationalization: A Dialectics of Orientalism and Hybridism

Part IV: Media and Movement

- Ishihara Shintaro’s Manga Moral Panic: The Homogenizing Rhetoric of Japanese Nationalism

- mixi and an Imagined Boundary of Japan

Part V: Environment and Movement

- Historicization of Cherry Blossoms: A Study of Japan’s Homogenizing Discourses

- Alternative vs. Conventional: Dialectic Relations of the Organic Agriculture Discourse

Über Autor(innen)

Satoshi Toyosaki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.

Shinsuke Eguchi is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA.