Doing Ethnography in Wake of Displacement of Transnational Sex - Sensuous Remembering

Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers in postcolonial Japan.

List of contents

Introduction: Sensuous Rememberings; PART I; 1 Building History on A Vacant Land; 2 Re-membering Shitamachi Water Trade; 3 Politics of Memory in Koganecho; PART II; 4 Following the Ghost, Entangled with Lives; 5 Along the River, Under the Railway; 6 Across the River; 7 An Opening (By Way of Conclusion); Index

About the author

Ayaka Yoshimizu is Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Summary

Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers in postcolonial Japan.

Product details

• Authors: Ayaka Yoshimizu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367693602
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69360-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Sensory Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour