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| Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology
 Please note: Anne has left the "Asian American Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist who researches the intersection between political economy, everyday life, and the imagination in the context of late capitalist, post-industrial Japan. Her work spans the subjects of sexuality, pornography, and maternal labor to the globalization of Japanese youth products and the precarity of irregular workers. She is the author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press, 1994—an ethnography of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining employees and customers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs; Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (University of California Press 2000)—a collection of essays analyzing the complex desires linking motherhood, pornographic comics, and popular culture; and Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (University of California Press, 2006)—a study of the intermeshing of fantasy, capitalism, and cultural politics in the rise of Japan's brand of "cool" youth-goods on the global marketplace. Her most recent book, Precarious Japan (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2013) looks at the socio-economic shifts in post-corporatist Japan towards precaritization of work, sociality, and everyday security.
- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- CULANTH 341.01, LIFE AND DEATH
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 107, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- (also cross-listed as GLHLTH 353.01, HLTHPOL 341.01, ICS 353.01, SOCIOL 351.01)
- CULANTH 404S.01, ETHICS OF HOPE
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
- (also cross-listed as ETHICS 404S.01, GSF 404S.01, ICS 427S.01)
- Education:
| Ph.D. | The University of Chicago | 1986 |
| MA | University of Chicago | 1979 |
| BA | University of Illinois, Chicago Circle | 1975 |
- Specialties:
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Mass Culture
Gender
Neoliberalism
Asia
Sexuality
Popular Culture
Political Economy
Gender
Globalization of Culture
Marxism
Urban Anthropology
Transnationalism
- Research Interests: youth, labor, desire, capitalism, precarity, sociality, Japan
Current projects:
sociality in precarious times; 21st century Japan Anne Allison is a cultural anthropologist who researches the intersection between political economy, everyday life, and the imagination in the context of late capitalist, post-industrial Japan. Her work spans the subjects of sexuality, pornography, and maternal labor to the globalization of Japanese youth products and the precarity of irregular workers. She is the author of Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (University of Chicago Press, 1994—an ethnography of the Japanese corporate practice of entertaining employees and customers in the sexualized atmosphere of hostess clubs; Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (University of California Press 2000)—a collection of essays analyzing the complex desires linking motherhood, pornographic comics, and popular culture; and Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (University of California Press, 2006)—a study of the intermeshing of fantasy, capitalism, and cultural politics in the rise of Japan's brand of "cool" youth-goods on the global marketplace. Her most recent book, Precarious Japan (forthcoming from Duke University Press, 2013) looks at the socio-economic shifts in post-corporatist Japan towards precaritization of work, sociality, and everyday security.
- Areas of Interest:
- Japan
global culture
youth
precarity/security
sociality
desire/fantasy/sexuality
- Keywords:
- Home • Hope • hope/hopelessness • Japan • Japan - contemporary Japan and Japan in global • mass culture • Political science • Politics • sexuality/desire • temporality/future • transnationalise • Youth • youth culture
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Alyssa Miller
- Patrick Galbraith
- Katharine Frank
- Daniel Hoffman
- Lynssie Bowles
- Tom Martineau
- Macella Szablewicz
- Mara Kaufman
- Heather Settle
- Lia Haro
- Masamichi Inoue
- Arianne Dorval
- Brian Goldstone
- Tami Navarro
- June Hee Kwon
- Netta Bar
- Bianca Williams
- Gabriella Lukacs
- Yu Wang
- Alvaro Jarrin
- Giles Harrison-Conwill
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Allison, A, The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth,
Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 26 no. 3
(Spring, 2009),
pp. 89-111 [repository], [doi] [abs]
- A. Allison, Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture,
in Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization, edited by Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham
(Summer, 2009), School of American Research [PDF]
- Allison, A, Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence,
in Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination
(Summer, 2006),
pp. 163-191, University of California Press [abs] [author's comments]
- Allison, A, Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus,
in Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan
(2000),
pp. 81-104, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Allison, A, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club
(1994), University of Chicago Press
On sabbatical for academic year 2013-4 |
