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Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget
Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in
Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code
of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association
(AAA) and the dictates of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) when
dealing with messy human realities. The four candidly and
critically explore the existential dilemmas they were forced to
confront with respect to this inadequacy, for the AAA 's code and
IRBs consider neither the vulnerability and powerlessness of
ethnographers nor the wholly unethical (and even criminal)
deportment of some informants. As Jennifer Robertson points out in
her Introduction, whereas the AAA 's Code tends to perpetuate the
stereotype of more advantaged fieldworkers studying less advantaged
peoples, IRBs appear to protect their home institutions (from
possible litigation) rather than living and breathing people whose
lives are often ethically compromised irrespective of the presence
of an ethnographer. In her commentary, Sabine Fr hst ck, who
incurred ample experience with ethical dilemmas in the course of
her pathbreaking ethnographic research on Japan 's Self-Defense
Forces, situates the four articles in a broader theoretical
context, and emphasizes the link between political engagement and
ethnographic accuracy.
This book was previously published as a special issue of
Critical Asian Studies.
Four anthropologists, Elise Edwards, Ann Elise Lewallen, Bridget
Love and Tomomi Yamaguchi, draw on their fieldwork experiences in
Japan to demonstrate collectively the inadequacy of both the Code
of Ethics developed by the American Anthropological Association
(AAA) and the dictates of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) when
dealing with messy human realities. The four candidly and
critically explore the existential dilemmas they were forced to
confront with respect to this inadequacy, for the AAA's code and
IRBs consider neither the vulnerability and powerlessness of
ethnographers nor the wholly unethical (and even criminal)
deportment of some informants. As Jennifer Robertson points out in
her Introduction, whereas the AAA's Code tends to perpetuate the
stereotype of more advantaged fieldworkers studying less advantaged
peoples, IRBs appear to protect their home institutions (from
possible litigation) rather than living and breathing people whose
lives are often ethically compromised irrespective of the presence
of an ethnographer. In her commentary, Sabine Fruhstuck, who
incurred ample experience with ethical dilemmas in the course of
her pathbreaking ethnographic research on Japan's Self-Defense
Forces, situates the four articles in a broader theoretical
context, and emphasizes the link between political engagement and
ethnographic accuracy. This book was previously published as a
special issue of Critical Asian Studies.
Award-winning Yorkshire photographers Jennifer Robertson and Lynne
Fletcher are not only hugely talented, they are also warm, witty
and genuine. In fact we can't imagine anyone else who could have
inspired so many of the county's most high-profile exports to give
up their time to be photographed and to talk about their love of
their home county. This unique book celebrates the inspirational
Yorkshire men and women who are the best in their chosen field -
actors, politicians, athletes, writers, musicians, historians,
educators and medics. From the giants of entertainment to sporting
heroes bringing home Olympic Gold, these photographs tell of
Yorkshire grown achievement and success, on the national and
international stage. What comes across most powerfully is that no
matter how far Yorkshire men and women go, in distance or stardom,
from the place of their birth, they are forever shaped by it,
regularly return, and are intensely proud to belong.
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the
prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese
humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and
schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media
throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson
casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos
that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as
their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and
sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of
human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual
robots-humanoids, androids, animaloids-are "imagineered" in ways
that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and
political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates
the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil
rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how
robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the
"normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of
the Uncanny Valley.
The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its
rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories,
torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically
devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complcated and
complicit performance history. In this historically grounded
analysis, anthropologist Jennifer Robertson draws from over a
decade of fieldwork and archival research to explore how the Revue
illuminates discourses of sexual politics, nationalism, imperialism
and popular culture in 20th-century Japan. The Revue was founded in
1913 as a novel counterpart to the all-male Kabuki theatre. Tracing
the contradictory meanings of Takarazuka productins over time, with
special attention to the World War II period, Robertson illuminates
the web of relationships among managers, directors, actors, fans
and social critics, whose clashes and compromises textured the
theatre and the wider society in colourful and complex ways. Using
Takarazuka as a key to understanding the "logic" of everyday life
in Japan and placing the Revue squarely in its own social,
historical and cultural context, she challenges both the
stereotypes of "the Japanese" and
Japan is arguably the first postindustrial society to embrace the
prospect of human-robot coexistence. Over the past decade, Japanese
humanoid robots designed for use in homes, hospitals, offices, and
schools have become celebrated in the mass media and social media
throughout the world. In Robo sapiens japanicus, Jennifer Robertson
casts a critical eye on press releases and public relations videos
that misrepresent actual robots as being as versatile and agile as
their science fiction counterparts. An ethnography and
sociocultural history of governmental and academic discourses of
human-robot relations in Japan, this book explores how actual
robots-humanoids, androids, animaloids-are "imagineered" in ways
that reinforce the conventional sex/gender system and
political-economic status quo. In addition, Robertson interrogates
the notion of human exceptionalism as she considers whether "civil
rights" should be granted to robots. Similarly, she juxtaposes how
robots and robotic exoskeletons reinforce a conception of the
"normal" body with a deconstruction of the much-invoked Theory of
the Uncanny Valley.
This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native
and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the
past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an
"authentic" Japanese community.
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