Daniel White

Administering Affect

Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety

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Produktbeschreibung

An intimate ethnography of how Japan's state bureaucrats made political anxiety into a target, technique, and consequence of cultural administration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781503632196
• ISBN-10: 1503632199
• Artikelnr.: 62355190

Autorenporträt

Daniel White is Senior Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pop-Culture Japan and the Circuitry of Affect
1. Soft Power: An Affective History of the Politically Possible
2. Nation Branding: The Hypernormalization of Cool Japan
3. Anime Diplomacy: Characterizing Obligatory Nationalism
4. Kawaii Diplomacy: Ambassadors of Cute and the Gendering of Anxiety
5. Administering Affect: Anxiety and the Everyday
Conclusion: Melancholic Belonging and the Future of Pop-Culture Japan