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This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of
this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial
and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars
of Solomon Islands. The notion of 'transition' as used to describe
the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission
to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for
considering other transformations - social, political and economic
-under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central
tension between change and continuity, two of the book's key themes
are the contested narratives of changing state-society relations
and the changing social relations around land and natural resources
engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation.
Drawing heuristically on RAMSI's genesis in the 'state- building
moment' that dominated international relations during the first
decade of this century, the book also examines the critical
distinction between 'state-building' and 'state formation' in the
Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and
policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building,
legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and
the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well
beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of
interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development
practitioners. This book was previously published as a special
issue of The Journal of Pacific History.
This book gathers selected peer-reviewed contributions to the 1st
European Congress on Biomedical and Veterinary Engineering,
BioMedVetMech 2022, held on October 1–3, 2022, in Zagreb,
Croatia. It offers a timely snapshot of research findings
and advances technologies in the area of biomechanics,
rehabilitation and surgery. It covers applications of
brain-computer interface, virtual reality and functional electrical
stimulation, among others. Â
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of
internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging
perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into
and out of Japan.
Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book argues that a key
factor behind the changing nature of Japanese popular culture lies
in its engagement with globalization. Essays from a team of leading
international scholars illustrate this crucial interaction between
the flows of Japanese popular culture and the constant development
of globalization. Drawing on rich empirical content, this book
looks at Japanese popular culture as it traverses international
borders flowing out through such forms as manga consumption in New
Zealand and flowing in through such forms as foreigners writing
about Japan in Japanese and how American influences affected the
formation of Japan's gay identity.
Presenting current, confronting and sometimes controversial
insights into the many forms of Japanese popular culture emerging
within this global context, Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan will make essential reading for those working in Japanese
studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of
internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging
perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into
and out of Japan. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the book
argues that a key factor behind the changing nature of Japanese
popular culture lies in its engagement with globalization. Essays
from a team of leading international scholars illustrate this
crucial interaction between the flows of Japanese popular culture
and the constant development of globalization. Drawing on rich
empirical content, this book looks at Japanese popular culture as
it traverses international borders flowing out through such forms
as manga consumption in New Zealand and flowing in through such
forms as foreigners writing about Japan in Japanese and how
American influences affected the formation of Japan's gay identity.
Presenting current, confronting and sometimes controversial
insights into the many forms of Japanese popular culture emerging
within this global context, Popular Culture, Globalization and
Japan will make essential reading for those working in Japanese
studies, cultural studies and international relations.
Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:Â Â Proceedings
of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural
Dynamics, 2022, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference
brings together contributions to this important area of research
and engineering.  The collection presents early
findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the
Dynamics of Coupled Structures, including papers on: Transfer Path
Analysis Blocked Forces and Experimental Techniques Real-Time
Hybrid Substructuring and Uncertainty Quantification in
Substructuring Nonlinear Substructuring
This book provides a rigorous and cross-disciplinary analysis of
this Melanesian nation at a critical juncture in its post-colonial
and post-conflict history, with contributions from leading scholars
of Solomon Islands. The notion of 'transition' as used to describe
the recent drawdown of the decade-long Regional Assistance Mission
to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) provides a departure point for
considering other transformations - social, political and economic
-under way in the archipelagic nation. Organised around a central
tension between change and continuity, two of the book's key themes
are the contested narratives of changing state-society relations
and the changing social relations around land and natural resources
engendered by ongoing processes of globalisation and urbanisation.
Drawing heuristically on RAMSI's genesis in the 'state- building
moment' that dominated international relations during the first
decade of this century, the book also examines the critical
distinction between 'state-building' and 'state formation' in the
Solomon Islands context. It engages with global scholarly and
policy debates on issues such as peacebuilding, state-building,
legal pluralism, hybrid governance, globalisation, urbanisation and
the governance of natural resources. These themes resonate well
beyond Solomon Islands and Melanesia, and the book will be of
interest to a wide range of students, scholars and development
practitioners. This book was previously published as a special
issue of The Journal of Pacific History.
Japanese popular culture has developed in many unexpected and
fascinating ways. From contemporary pop culture's beginnings in the
shadow of the Second World War and the earlier China campaign,
Japan's sense of identity has been contested, challenged,
reconsidered, restructured, and revived through multiple popular
media. Pop culture, though, has always occupied a singular place in
Japan's expression of selfhood and otherness, providing vicarious
experiences of life within Japan. Today, Japanese popular culture's
global influence is felt most keenly in movie culture, animation,
television, the Internet, social media, music, fashion, and comics
(manga), to name but a few fields and technologies. Indeed, visual
culture, specifically television and movies, with a strong emphasis
on animation (anime) and manga, led the first wave of Japanese
pop-culture exports in the second half of the twentieth century.
Since then, academic interest in these exports, both at home in
Japan, and overseas, has developed rapidly. The second wave of
Japanese popular culture followed the digitization of much of the
global media: rapid communications, global connectedness, and the
development of new media have provided platforms on which Japanese
pop culture has been presented and critiqued, engaged, and
transformed. More complex, more hybrid, and more sophisticated, the
relationships between Japan and the rest of the world are often
given voice through new readings and interpretations of the
interconnected popular cultural world. The assembled articles in
Volume I of this new Routledge collection of major works provide a
comprehensive overview of the postwar history of Japanese popular
culture. Topics include the emergence of popular culture as an
academic field in Japan; the genesis of manga and anime; analyses
of various cultural artefacts and phenomena, such as censorship and
popular culture during the postwar occupation; the 1970s origin of
kawaii culture; and street fashion in the 1980s. Volumes II and
III, meanwhile, focus on the twenty-first century. Over the last
decade especially, the transnational presence of Japanese popular
culture has accelerated, and with it scholarship on Japanese
popular culture has grown in depth and diversity. The themes
explored in these volumes include the role of digital technology in
popular culture; esoteric cultural artefacts and activities, such
as loli fashion, maid cafes, otaku culture, and traditional music
reinvented as pop, as well as more conventionally popular products
such as anime, TV drama, and shojo manga. Collectively, the volume
demonstrates the complex and heterogeneous nature of the Japanese
pop-culture landscape in the twenty-first century. The final volume
in the collection addresses broader issues associated with Japanese
popular culture and globalization. As Japan sought to boost its
international 'soft power' via a 'Cool Japan' strategy, the academy
began to pay serious attention to the political-economic
implications of Japan's pop-culture exports. The soft-power
rhetoric has become a significant marker of popular culture in Asia
in particular, and Japan's influence regionally has been explored
from a number of angles. Along with seminal pieces from Nye, Huat,
and Iwabuchi, authors in the first section of Volume IV examine the
rise of Japan's pop-culture industry, and investigate the
socio-economic and political-economic implications of topics such
as 'the Japan Brand', 'Cool Japan', and 'Cute Japan'. In the second
section, case studies of soft power are brought to the fore, and
analyses of the implications for people and culture are developed.
Collectively, the materials gathered in this volume demonstrate the
highly mobile and complex nature of the globalization of Japanese
popular culture.
Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or
information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences,
humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made
contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to
understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to
investigate the social and political changes related to the
internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the
network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet
research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and
outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The
internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It
is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that
simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not
otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some
inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics,
disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws,
borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for
research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of
the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship,
the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for
discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research,
making internet research better for all. These 'limits,' challenges
that constrain the theoretically limitless space for internet
research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the ?eld and
provide us with a particular topography that enables research and
investigation.
Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or
information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences,
humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made
contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to
understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to
investigate the social and political changes related to the
internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the
network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet
research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and
outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The
internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It
is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that
simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not
otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some
inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics,
disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws,
borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for
research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of
the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship,
the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for
discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research,
making internet research better for all. These 'limits, '
challenges that constrain the theoretically limitless space for
internet research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the
?eld and provide us with a particular topography that enables
research and investigation.
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