Politics and Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography - Reflexivity, Responsibility, and Anthropological Ethics

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Robertson is professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. The author of numerous articles! her books include! aseditor! Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell! 2004); andA Companion to the Anthropology of Japan (Blackwell! 2005). Robertson is the general editor of Colonialisms! a new book series from the University of California Press (www.ucpress.edu/books/COL.ser.html)! and is presently completing a book on cultures of Japanese colonialism! eugenics! and humanoid robots. Zusammenfassung The authors of the articles in this book collectively provide insightful reasons as to why ethics has recently emerged as a theoretical and methodological subject as compelling as reflexivity was two decades ago. Inhaltsverzeichnis MEDIA! IDENTITY! AND STRUGGLE IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CHINA IntroductionVanessa L. Fong 1Performing Media-Constructed Images for First-Class Citizenship: Political Struggles of Rural Migrant Hostesses in DalianTiantian Zheng 2Migrant Workers in the Pearl River Delta: Discourse and Narratives about Work as Sites of StruggleEric Florence 3The Paradox of the State-Run Media Promoting Poor Governance in China: Case Studies of a Party Newspaper and an Anticorruption FilmRachel Murphy 4Querying Queer Theory: Debating Male-Male Prostitution in the Chinese MediaElaine Jeffreys5The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society Jens Damm 6SMS! Communication! And Citizenship In China's Information SocietyKevin Latham7The New Chinese Citizen andCETVYingchi Chu

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Robertson
• Assisted by: Jennifer Robertson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138995079
• ISBN: 978-1-138-99507-9
• No. of pages: 110
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Asia, HISTORY / Civilization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General