Intercultural Communication in Japan

Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse

Satoshi Toyosaki, Shinsuke Eguchi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-35159-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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 Onē-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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-35159-8 / 1138351598
ISBN-13	978-1-138-35159-2 / 9781138351592
Zustand	Neuware