Nations in shame and art’s shame: towards a radical politics of image and affect around “Okinawa”     

Mayumo Inoue 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2018,19(4):536-550

ABSTRACT

This article first examines the resurgence of popular, semi-academic nationalist discourses that solidify the figures of “Japan” and “Okinawa” within post-1945 U.S.-led formation of nation-states across the Asia-Pacific. It critiques two discourses that are symptomatic of such a return to the figure of the nation: developmental economist Matsushima Yasukatsu’s thesis of “Ryukyu’s independence” and philosopher Takahashi Tetsuya’s call to relocate the U.S. military bases from Okinawa to mainland Japan. These symptomatic instances of the mutually transferential nationalisms in Okinawa and mainland Japan rely upon crudely culturalist assumptions about the self and the others and are thus surprisingly oblivious to how the very nation-forms have been instituted as part of imperial modernity. Their implicit figurations of the exemplary national subjects partake in the biopolitical assumptions as to whose lives must be “made to live” and “made to die” within and outside the border of the national. Ultimately, such nationalist discourses about Japan and Okinawa engage in a zero-sum exchange of imperial shame and colonial shame, a process that further stabilizes the co-operative placement of local nation-forms within the U.S.-led inter-state regime of warfare and biopolitics. But insofar as these discourses require the images of the nations that they seek to represent, their (re)production of what Naoki Sakai calls “a schema of co-figurative” nationalities needs to be critiqued through an exploration of a radical aesthetics and affect that pertain to image production.

The second part of the article presents my interpretation of artist Nema Satoko’s recent book of photography titled Paradigm, a work in which both bodies and objects explore their potential transformations in the midst of their precarious exposure to one another. I argue that Nema’s images of fragile bodies and objects in the present landscape of Okinawa are poised on the cusp between the past that invokes a sense of shame and this past’s potential future that necessitates an ethical posture of humility. In the vicinity of Adorno’s notion of “art’s shame,” Nema’s photographic images illuminate an amorphous realm of fragile beings, whose linkage and exposure to one another opens a space of viability that is obscured by the biopolitical imaginaries of nation-forms.  相似文献   

Queer will: hikikomori as willful subjects     

Rosemary Overell 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2018,19(2):206-219

This article considers hikikomori as willful subjects. The hikikomori are a portion of the Japanese population who withdraw into their homes. These are mostly young people (between the ages of 15 and 35) and mostly young men. The focus of this article is how hikikomori constitute a challenge to dominant national imaginaries of Japan as a “corporate-family system.” This article analyses popular media and psychiatric representations of hikikomori, particularly from Saitô’s work as exemplifying Ahmed’s notion of “willful subjects.” It is argued that the hikikomori’s apparent willfulness produces them as Queer subjects who are out of place and pace with the dominant heteronormative, masculinist culture of contemporary Japan.  相似文献   

谁在主导中日韩的国际科学合作?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

陈悦  左佳  宋超  宋凯 《情报杂志》2021,40(4):155-162

[目的/意义]为了探究中日韩的国际科学合作中的主导地位及变化趋势。[方法/过程]以"中日"、"中韩"和"中日韩"国际论文合著现象为分析对象,通过科学计量的方法和手段,从重要作者、高影响力论文和资助者三个维度来分析近40年来中日韩科学合作背后的主导力量。[结果/结论]研究结果发现中日科学合作呈现出日本主导趋势由强到弱,而中国主导趋势渐强并超过日本;中韩科学合作呈现双方共同主导的特征;在三国合作中,中国主导的论文影响力较强,但随着论文影响力的增大,中国显示出的主导优势却在减弱;中国作为科研资助者极大地推动了三国的科学合作。  相似文献   

论抗战时期张闻天对三民主义的研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

宋进 《江西师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2006,39(2):23-28,34

孙中山的三民主义,在抗战时期成为以国共合作为基础的抗日民族统一战线的政治基础。然而,即使在国民党一大孙中山重新解释的新三民主义中,也还包含有旧三民主义的内容,从而形成新旧内容杂陈、进步交保守并存的现象。这就给他身后的解释者们以各择所需、各唱各调的可能性。毛泽东号召共产党员应该如像他们研究共产主义一样,好好研究三民主义。张闻天关于三民主义发展性、真假三民主义等的研究,是抗战时期思想理论战线和抗日救亡的迫切需要,其研究成果,对以毛泽东为代表的中国共产党人在抗战时期形成关于孙中山三民主义的认识体系做出了重要的贡献。  相似文献   

日本大学评价政策的形成过程     

郭朝红  王彬 《复旦教育论坛》2006,4(3):70-74

2002年修改后的日本《学校教育法》不仅确立了大学的第三方评价制度,而且对现行日本大学制度的改革做了新的规定。这些政策性的变化对日本高等教育产生了重大影响。为了更清晰地理解日本目前的大学评价政策,本文对《学校教育法》修正案通过之前的大学评价政策形成过程进行了回顾与思考。  相似文献   

独立行政法人化改革后日本国立大学财政支援体系研究     

李润华 《比较教育研究》2010,(8)

本文介绍了日本国立大学法人化改革前后的财政支援体系,重点研究了法人化改革后国立大学经费来源的构成情况,阐述了改革给大学财务方面带来的问题,以期为我国高校财务体制改革提供借鉴。  相似文献   

多模态话语分析视阈下的日本婆媳题材影视作品浅析——以《儿媳能使鬼推磨》、《三代厨房》为例     

王莹 《徐州师范大学学报(哲学社会科学版)》2011,37(5):49-52

《儿媳能使鬼推磨》、《三代厨房》等日本婆媳题材的影视作品对家庭伦理关系中最为复杂的关系——婆媳关系进行了多角度、多层面的表现,并对改善婆媳关系的渠道作了积极、有意义的探索。借用多模态话语分析理论,综合分析上述两部作品中图像、文字、音乐、色彩、情景等符号,体察到现今的日本婆媳题材影视剧已经摈弃以往只注重宣传传统美德的模式,而是立足于尊重人性,立意珍惜亲情,否定"以自我为中心"的价值观,倡导"想着他人"的价值观,引导人们实现家庭的和睦、社会的和谐。由此可见,当代日本社会重视推崇重树人文关怀的旗帜,发扬光大"和"的核心理念,努力使之成为全社会宝贵的精神财富。  相似文献   

Creative labor as moral and ethical subjects and its limitation: Creative City Yokohama,Japan     

Changwook Kim 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2019,20(1):39-55

This study aims to reconsider and re-evaluate the rapid circulation of global creative city policy from the viewpoint of its creative workforce by focusing on the case of Yokohama, Japan. To shed light on this workforce’s everyday experiences and labor subjectivity, this investigation draws ideas from recent research trends of “creative labor” from the field of media and cultural studies, sociology of work, and political economy of communication. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observations, this research focuses on how the ethical and moral dimensions of labor subjectivity in creative work are prominently important in explaining Yokohama workers’ everyday living and working experiences as creative labor. Unexpectedly, this study found that these moral and ethical sentiments and actions, which take on the role of retaining their labor motivation, actually limit the development of political subjects who can resist given precarious working conditions and thereby hinder them from building a collective solidarity as “workers.” Thus this investigation concludes that the creative worker’s subjectivity retreats to solely a moral dimension rather than to a political one. Through this finding, this study explores whether the articulation of moral-political and social values in the course of cultural work can evolve from creative workers’ moral and ethical sensitivities and actions.  相似文献   

日本竞技体育发展策略研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

胡启林 《武汉体育学院学报》2017,51(6):95-100

21世纪日本实施了一系列竞技体育发展策略并取得显著成效,基本策略包括运动员训练与比赛补助机制、对举办国际赛事的地方团体资助机制、重视体育指导者的培训和国外进修、构筑运动员培养与选拔的一贯指导系统、发挥科技医学情报信息作用。分析和总结21世纪日本竞技体育发展策略及其优势,对改革转型期的中国竞技体育制定适宜的发展策略有重要参考意义。  相似文献   

‘We Will Try Again,Again, Again to Make It Bigger’: Japan,American Football,and the Super Bowl in the Past,Present, and Future     

Kohei Kawashima 《国际体育史杂志》2017,34(1-2):121-138

Abstract

This study is to analyse how the Japanese have traditionally received and currently perceive the Super Bowl, and for this purpose, it aims to locate the position of American football in Japanese history, society, and culture. It explores the game’s history and then examine the degree of its spread among Japan’s sporting population. A two-dimensional approach of historical study and inter-game comparison gives context to the analyses of reference frequency and contents of news media, followed by speculative discussions of what the near future of Japan’s American football would be like. To conclude, it clarifies the ways the Super Bowl has been received and is now being perceived by two groups: The first group is the general people who see the Super Bowl as the convenient and useful medium by which they could learn effectively about American culture through the one-night mania for ‘conspicuous consumption’. The second group comprises American football experts and enthusiasts, including 13,000 athletes and their OBs, coaches, trainers, and other staff members of the leagues and associations as well as the general sports fans. For this group, the Super Bowl is the apex of their favourite sport to which only a selected talented few could join.  相似文献