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HERBIVORE BOYS, ROTTEN GIRLS AND QUEER ROBOTS: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC VIEW FROM JAPAN

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Tutorial Leadership List 12-13

Tutorial Leadership List 13-14

Week 1: Japan after the Olympics: Representation, Imagination and Ethnography

Powerpoint Week 1

Lecture recording week 1

Week 2: Living and Dwelling: Houses, Homes and Atmospheres

Golovina 2019 Skin-to-skin with the house: senses and affect in the relationship of migrant Russian women in Japan with their homes

Daniels 2015 Atmosphere and Intimacy in the Japanese Home

II BA Japan Housing and Dwelling

Week 2 lecture link (please do not share with people not on the course)

Week 3: Japanese Femininities

Ho 2015 ‘License to drink’: White-collar female workers and Japan’s urban night space

Galbraith 2011 Fujoshi: Fantasy Play and Transgressive Intimacy among “Rotten Girls” in Contemporary Japan

III BA Japan Japanese Femininities

III Japanese Femininities

Week 4: Japanese Masculinities

Cook 2016 (Dis)Connections and Silence: Experiences of Family and Part-time Work in Japan

Dasgupta 2010 Globalisation and the Bodily Performance of Cool and Uncool masculinities in Corporate Japan

IV BA Japan Masculinities

Lecture recording Japan IV Masculinities

Week 5: Dolls and Robots: The Non-Human in Japan

Wright 2018 Tactile care, mechanical Hugs: Japanese caregivers and robotic lifting devices

Gygi 2018 Robot Companions book chapter

Hansen 2013 Urban Japan's “Fuzzy” New Families: Affect and Embodiment in Dog–Human Relationships

Japan V Lecture recording

V BA Dolls and Robots The Non-Human in Japan

Week 6: The Commodification of Intimacy: From Cuddling to Sex Work

Koch 2016 Producing iyashi: Healing and labor in Tokyo's sex industry

Takeyama 2010 Intimacy for Sale: Masculinity, Entrepreneurship, and Commodity Self in Japan's Neoliberal Situation

VI BA Japan Commodification of Intimacy

Lecture Recording VI The Commodification of Intimacy

Week 7: Internal Strangers: Minorities in Japan

Bell 2018 Reimagining the Homeland: Zainichi Koreans’ Transnational Longing for North Korea

Inoue 2004 “We Are Okinawans But of a Different Kind” New/Old Social Movements and the U.S. Military in Okinawa

VII BA Japan Internal Strangers

VII Lecture recording Internal Strangers

Week 8: Ageing in a Hyper-ageing Society

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Kavedžija 2015 The good life in balance: Insights from aging Japan

Danely 2016 Affect, infrastructure, and vulnerability: Making and breaking Japanese eldercare

VIII BA Ageing in a Hyper-ageing Society

Lecture recording VIII Ageing in a Hyper-Ageing Society

Week 9: Queer Japan

Yuen 2020 Unqueer queers—drinking parties and negotiations of cultural citizenship by female-to-male trans people in Japan

Suganuma 2010 Ways of Speaking about Queer Space in Tokyo: Disorientated Knowledge and Counter-Public Space

IX BA Queer Japan

IX Lecture recording

Week 10: Decluttering in Japan and beyond

Whitelaw 2016 The Waste Basket- Trailing Expired Food in Japans Konbini

Jolyon Baraka Thomas (2019) Domesticity &amp; Spirituality: Kondo Is Not an Animist

X BA Decluttering in Japan and beyond

X Lecture Recording

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151802081-A21/22 Ethnography of Japan A21/22

Jolyon Baraka Thomas (2019) Domesticity & Spirituality: Kondo Is Not an Animist