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%% Books
@book{fds374597,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and
Censorship in Japan},
Pages = {1-206},
Year = {2023},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780520219908},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520923447},
Abstract = {This provocative study of gender and sexuality in
contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular
culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son
incest, lunchboxes—or obentos—that mothers
ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's
cartoons. Anne Allison brings recent feminist psychoanalytic
and Marxist theory to bear on representations of sexuality,
motherhood, and gender in these and other aspects of
Japanese culture. Based on five years of fieldwork in a
middle-class Tokyo neighborhood, this theoretically
informed, accessible ethnographic study provides a
provocative analysis of how sexuality, dominance, and desire
are reproduced and enacted in late-capitalistic
Japan.},
Doi = {10.1525/9780520923447},
Key = {fds374597}
}
@book{fds237516,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Permitted and prohibited desires: Mothers, comics, and
censorship in Japan},
Pages = {1-225},
Publisher = {Westview (HarperCollins)},
Year = {2019},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780367282639},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429301384},
Abstract = {Desire is both of and beyond the everyday. In an ad for
running shoes, for example, the figure of a man jogging at
dawn on the Serengeti Plain both evokes a fantasyof escape
and invokes a disciplinary norm to stay fit. The bottom line
for thead, of course, is to create a desire to consume, the
promise being that with thepurchase of these shoes, the
consumer can realize yet also transcend the daily
exhortationto perform.To say this differently, there is
something both real and phantasmic about desire.Yet this
notion seems contradictory. Isn't there a difference between
the desireto be fit, for example, which is realizable,
realistic, and, in these senses, realand the desire to
escape routine everydayness, which, for most of us, is
inescapablemost of the time? But is exercise real or
phantasmic? Certainly noteveryone works out, and even those
who make exercise a part of their reality maydo so in order
to pursue a fantasy about themselves. And are escapes from
dailyroutines phantasmic or real? An escape from the
everyday is far more realizablefor some people than even
fitness. But here too what is fantasy blends into
(andbecomes indistinguishable from) the real: A vacation
away from work may be ameans of ensuring a higher level of
work performance when one returns.},
Doi = {10.4324/9780429301384},
Key = {fds237516}
}
@book{fds366867,
Author = {Baldwin, F and Allison, A},
Title = {Introduction: Japan’s possible futures},
Pages = {1-10},
Year = {2015},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9781479889389},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479889389.003.0001},
Doi = {10.18574/nyu/9781479889389.003.0001},
Key = {fds366867}
}
@book{fds237518,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Precarious Japan},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {2013},
Month = {October},
Key = {fds237518}
}
@book{fds237517,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Kiku to Pokemon: Guro-barukasuru nihon no
bunkaryouku},
Publisher = {Shinchousha},
Year = {2010},
Key = {fds237517}
}
@book{fds237515,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in
a Tokyo Hostess Club},
Publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
Year = {1994},
Key = {fds237515}
}
%% Published Articles
@article{fds374907,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Scorching the everyday},
Journal = {Anthropology and Humanism},
Volume = {48},
Number = {2},
Pages = {404},
Year = {2023},
Month = {December},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12446},
Abstract = {In this “hundreds” written in honor of Kathleen Stewart,
I consider the scorching pain of lonely death in Japan that
gets quelled, if only a bit, by the prayer offered by a
Japanese worker in cleaning up the mess of the remains left
behind.},
Doi = {10.1111/anhu.12446},
Key = {fds374907}
}
@article{fds371694,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {The (Un)social Smells of Death: Changing Tides in
Contemporary Japan},
Journal = {Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus},
Volume = {21},
Number = {6},
Year = {2023},
Month = {June},
Abstract = {In the face of a high aging population, decline in the rates
of marriage and childbirth, and post-growth economic shifts,
sociality is downsizing in Japan away from the family to
more single lifestyles. The effects of this on the
necro-landscape are examined here in terms of what happens
to those who die all alone, untended by others (“lonely
death”) as well as new practices emerging to replace the
family grave and family caregivers with an alternative
social model (what is called “promiscuous care”). The
essay argues that, at both ends of this spectrum, smell can
be used to register both the unsociality of a bad death, as
well as the shifting sociality of new ways of handling the
dead. (This short article is based on Being Dead Otherwise,
recently published by Duke University Press).},
Key = {fds371694}
}
@article{fds371289,
Author = {Allison, A and Gould, H},
Title = {New life in Japan's ‘endingness’ business},
Journal = {Anthropology Today},
Volume = {39},
Number = {3},
Pages = {7-9},
Year = {2023},
Month = {June},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12812},
Abstract = {The Japanese deathcare and Buddhist goods industry is a
growing field, emerging out of radical shifts in the
socio-economic conditions of everyday life: smaller
households, an ageing population and more irregular
employment/lifestyle patterns. Based on fieldwork, this
article reports tectonic ruptures within Japan’s
household-based mortuary system and Buddhist practice. It
takes readers to ENDEX, the premier convention for Japan’s
‘ending industry’, where new ‘life’ emerges from the
falling away of older death rites that get remixed and
remade into newer experimental practices, businesses and
business subjectivities. Examples range from high-tech
gravestones and drones to competitions for the ‘Hottest
Priest’ and best encoffiner. This article engages with
these new necro-technologies and asks why the old deathcare
system is falling apart. What are the socio-material effects
of its unravelling? And what does the futurity of
necro-praxis look like in Japan (and elsewhere) when the
existential fabric of mortality may be torn
apart?.},
Doi = {10.1111/1467-8322.12812},
Key = {fds371289}
}
@article{fds372253,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in
Japan},
Pages = {145-161},
Booktitle = {New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change,
and Contestation},
Year = {2023},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9781802202380},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802202397.00016},
Abstract = {Urban columbaria that store cremated remains in a warehouse
and deliver them by automation to a grave (only) upon
visitation are one of the newest innovations in mortuary
deathscapes in Japan. Conserving the space needed for a
cemetery and the time required for grave visitation, such
delivery-style columbaria embody convenience. Yet they also
provide a technological solution to the social precarity
facing many Japanese today of being solo in death. With a
high aging population, declining rates of both marriage and
childbirth, and more citizens living and dying alone, what
was once conventional - a family grave to enter with a
successor to tend to one’s spirit after that - is becoming
a thing of the past. Yet, without a grave, the deceased
become “disconnected souls.” That the automated
columbarium offers a home of sorts and grievability of a
kind with a prosthetics of sociality is what this essay
proposes.},
Doi = {10.4337/9781802202397.00016},
Key = {fds372253}
}
@article{fds366856,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered
Economy},
Journal = {JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES},
Volume = {81},
Number = {3},
Pages = {594-596},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
Year = {2022},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021911822000808},
Doi = {10.1017/S0021911822000808},
Key = {fds366856}
}
@article{fds366857,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring
for the dead in Japan},
Journal = {International Journal of Cultural Studies},
Volume = {24},
Number = {4},
Pages = {622-636},
Year = {2021},
Month = {July},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877920950326},
Abstract = {Once dependent on family to bury and memorialize the dead,
caring for the deceased has become increasingly precarious
in the wake of a decreasing and aging population, a trend
towards single households, and downsizing of social
relationality—including the temple parishioner system once
key in mortuary rituals. In the new “ending” marketplace
emerging today to help Japanese manage this precarity,
automated graves offer customers a convenient burial spot in
an urban ossuary where ashes, interred in a deposit box, are
automatically transferred to a grave upon visitation. Based
on ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the
just-in-time delivery system at work in automated graves,
arguing that the mechanism serves as a social prosthesis,
propping up the allure of social caring for the dead, even
for those whose ashes are never visited by human relations.
With over 30 such institutions now operating in Japan,
automated graves are a sign of changing sociality between
the living and the dead.},
Doi = {10.1177/1367877920950326},
Key = {fds366857}
}
@article{fds366858,
Author = {ALLISON, A},
Title = {Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in
Afghanistan. David B. Edwards. Oakland: University of
California Press, 2017. 292 pp.},
Journal = {American Ethnologist},
Volume = {46},
Number = {2},
Pages = {227-228},
Publisher = {Wiley},
Year = {2019},
Month = {May},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/amet.12764},
Doi = {10.1111/amet.12764},
Key = {fds366858}
}
@article{fds366859,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying
Alone in Japan},
Pages = {181-202},
Booktitle = {ETHNOGRAPHIES OF WAITING},
Year = {2018},
ISBN = {978-1-350-12681-7},
Key = {fds366859}
}
@article{fds366860,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Afterword: Reflections on welfare from postnuclear
Fukushima},
Journal = {South Atlantic Quarterly},
Volume = {115},
Number = {1},
Pages = {175-181},
Year = {2016},
Month = {January},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3424808},
Doi = {10.1215/00382876-3424808},
Key = {fds366860}
}
@article{fds366862,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {LONELY DEATH Possibilities for a Not-Yet
Sociality},
Pages = {662-674},
Booktitle = {LIVING AND DYING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: A
COMPENDIUM},
Year = {2016},
ISBN = {978-0-520-27841-7},
Key = {fds366862}
}
@article{fds366863,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editing the times},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {30},
Number = {4},
Pages = {525-530},
Year = {2015},
Month = {November},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca30.4.01},
Doi = {10.14506/ca30.4.01},
Key = {fds366863}
}
@article{fds366864,
Author = {Allison, A and Harootunian, H and Nelson, CT},
Title = {Introduction},
Volume = {42},
Pages = {19-21},
Year = {2015},
Month = {August},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2919468},
Doi = {10.1215/01903659-2919468},
Key = {fds366864}
}
@article{fds366865,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Discounted life: Social time in relationless
Japan},
Journal = {Boundary 2},
Volume = {42},
Number = {3},
Pages = {129-141},
Year = {2015},
Month = {August},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2919540},
Doi = {10.1215/01903659-2919540},
Key = {fds366865}
}
@article{fds237511,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Sailor Moon: Japanese Superherofeosr global
girls},
Pages = {259-278},
Publisher = {Sage Press},
Editor = {Craig, TJ},
Year = {2015},
Month = {April},
Key = {fds237511}
}
@article{fds366866,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Author’s response},
Journal = {Dialogues in Human Geography},
Volume = {5},
Number = {1},
Pages = {124-127},
Publisher = {SAGE Publications},
Year = {2015},
Month = {March},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820614563444},
Doi = {10.1177/2043820614563444},
Key = {fds366866}
}
@article{fds366868,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Precarity and hope: Social connectedness in postcapitalist
Japan},
Pages = {36-57},
Booktitle = {Japan: The Precarious Future},
Year = {2015},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9781479889389},
Key = {fds366868}
}
@article{fds366869,
Author = {Allison, A and Harootunian, H and Nelson, CT},
Title = {Crisis of the Everyday/Everyday Crisis: Across Time in Japan
Introduction},
Journal = {BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND
CULTURE},
Volume = {42},
Number = {3},
Pages = {19-21},
Year = {2015},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2919468},
Doi = {10.1215/01903659-2919468},
Key = {fds366869}
}
@article{fds366870,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editors' farewell},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {29},
Number = {4},
Pages = {599-601},
Year = {2014},
Month = {November},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca29.4.01},
Doi = {10.14506/ca29.4.01},
Key = {fds366870}
}
@article{fds305285,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo
("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese
Youth")},
Volume = {4},
Pages = {129-149},
Booktitle = {Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The
Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In
a World of Flux},
Publisher = {Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha},
Editor = {Sciences, TIOS and University, T and Yuji, G and Uno,
S},
Year = {2014},
Month = {February},
ISBN = {978-4-13-034194-3},
Key = {fds305285}
}
@article{fds305284,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {"Shinjidai no Fuetesshu, Monsuta-, Soshite Tomodachi:
Mireniamu (Shinseki) no Pokemonshihonshugi"},
Booktitle = {Media and Popular Culture},
Editor = {Tsuchiyua, R and Shunya, Y},
Year = {2014},
Month = {February},
Key = {fds305284}
}
@article{fds366871,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editors' note on "neoliberal futures"},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {29},
Number = {1},
Pages = {3-7},
Year = {2014},
Month = {February},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca29.1.02},
Doi = {10.14506/ca29.1.02},
Key = {fds366871}
}
@article{fds366872,
Author = {Alison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editors' introduction: Open access},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {29},
Number = {2},
Pages = {201-202},
Year = {2014},
Month = {January},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14506/ca29.2.01},
Doi = {10.14506/ca29.2.01},
Key = {fds366872}
}
@article{fds366873,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editors' note},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {28},
Number = {3},
Pages = {369-371},
Year = {2013},
Month = {August},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cuan.12009},
Doi = {10.1111/cuan.12009},
Key = {fds366873}
}
@article{fds237506,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies},
Booktitle = {Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Editor = {Mankekar, P and Schein, L},
Year = {2013},
Month = {July},
Key = {fds237506}
}
@article{fds237523,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Ordinary refugees: Social precarity and soul in 21st century
Japan},
Journal = {Anthropological Quarterly},
Volume = {85},
Number = {2},
Pages = {345-370},
Publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press},
Year = {2012},
Month = {June},
ISSN = {0003-5491},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000304501800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Abstract = {In the aftermath of the bursting of the Bubble economy in
1991, a turn to more flexible labor since the late 1980s,
and the recent disaster (of earthquake/tsunami/nuclear
reactor accident) of March 11th, the socioeconomic
equilibrium in Japan has been shaken. In contrast to the
postwar era of high economic growth when lifelong jobs and a
middle-class lifestyle were the norm, today these staples of
"good living" have become undermined or unobtainable for
more and more Japanese. Not only are more workers
irregularly employed (called the "precariat" or precarious
proletariat by activist Amamiya Karin), but there are signs
of a more pervasive precarity-experienced by more than just
the precariat-at the level of an evisceration of social
ties, connectedness with others, and a sense of security.
Taking the example of "net café refugees"-young working
poor who live in net cafés-as paradigmatic of what has been
called the "refugeeization" of Japan as a place no longer
materially or socially secure for many of its citizens, the
essay studies the condition of "social precarity" in post
post-war Japan. This is looked at through the lens of
affect: Not only the state of precarity as it is experienced
affectively (as a pain and longing for what still gets
assumed to be "ordinary"), but also the affects deployed in
practices adopted by the socially disenfranchised and
economically precariat to survive. Seeing in these
extra-economic networks of survival a glimmer of social
change-a recalibration of human life and relationality in a
new direction-I consider them to be a biopolitics of life
from below, constituting new zones of (post post-Fordist)
social possibility for Japan/ese. © 2012 by the Institute
for Ethnographic Research (IFER) a part of the George
Washington University. All rights reserved.},
Doi = {10.1353/anq.2012.0027},
Key = {fds237523}
}
@article{fds366874,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Editors' notes},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {27},
Number = {1},
Pages = {1-2},
Year = {2012},
Month = {February},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01123.x},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01123.x},
Key = {fds366874}
}
@article{fds366875,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Japanese mothers and obentōs: The lunch-box as ideological
state apparatus},
Pages = {154-172},
Booktitle = {Food and Culture: A Reader},
Year = {2012},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780415521031},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203079751-21},
Abstract = {Japanese nursery school children, going off to school for
the first time, carry with them a boxed lunch (obentō)
prepared by their mothers at home. Customarily these
obentōs are highly crafted elaborations of food: a
multitude of miniature portions, artistically designed and
precisely arranged, in a container that is sturdy and cute.
Mothers tend to expend inordinate time and attention on
these obentōs in efforts both to please their children and
to affirm that they are good mothers. Children at nursery
school are taught in turn that they must consume their
entire meal according to school rituals.},
Doi = {10.4324/9780203079751-21},
Key = {fds366875}
}
@article{fds211777,
Author = {A. Allison},
Title = {"A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate
Japan"},
Series = {New Directions},
Booktitle = {Sociality, New Directions},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
Editor = {Henrietta Moore and Nick Long},
Year = {2012},
Key = {fds211777}
}
@article{fds211776,
Author = {A. Allison},
Title = {"A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate
Japan"},
Journal = {Cambridge Anthropology},
Volume = {30},
Number = {1},
Editor = {Nick Long and Henrietta Moore},
Year = {2012},
Key = {fds211776}
}
@article{fds237503,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {A Sociality Of, and Beyond, ’My-Home’ in Post-Corporate
Japan},
Booktitle = {Sociality, New Directions},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
Editor = {Moore, H and Long, N},
Year = {2012},
Key = {fds237503}
}
@article{fds366876,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {HUMAN NO MORE Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and
the End of Anthropology Afterword},
Pages = {231-234},
Booktitle = {HUMAN NO MORE: DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITIES, UNHUMAN SUBJECTS, AND
THE END OF ANTHROPOLOGY},
Year = {2012},
ISBN = {978-1-60732-169-9},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5876/9781607321705.c13},
Doi = {10.5876/9781607321705.c13},
Key = {fds366876}
}
@article{fds366877,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Untitled},
Journal = {CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY},
Volume = {27},
Number = {2},
Pages = {191-192},
Year = {2012},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01139.x},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01139.x},
Key = {fds366877}
}
@article{fds366878,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {New Editors' Greeting},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {26},
Number = {1},
Pages = {1-5},
Year = {2011},
Month = {February},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01077.x},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01077.x},
Key = {fds366878}
}
@article{fds366879,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {Untitled},
Journal = {CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY},
Volume = {26},
Number = {4},
Pages = {511-513},
Year = {2011},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01109.x},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01109.x},
Key = {fds366879}
}
@article{fds366880,
Author = {Allison, A and Piot, C},
Title = {INTRODUCTION},
Journal = {CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY},
Volume = {26},
Number = {2},
Pages = {157-157},
Year = {2011},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01092.x},
Doi = {10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01092.x},
Key = {fds366880}
}
@article{fds167575,
Author = {A. Allison},
Title = {Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo
("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese
Youth")},
Volume = {4},
Series = {Social Sciences of Hope},
Pages = {129-149},
Booktitle = {Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The
Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In
a World of Flux},
Publisher = {Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha},
Editor = {Todaishaken (Institute of Social Sciences and Tokyo
University) and Genda Yuji and Uno, Shigeki},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Summer},
ISBN = {978-4-13-034194-3},
Key = {fds167575}
}
@article{fds154252,
Author = {A. Allison},
Title = {Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom
of Postindustrial Youth Culture},
Booktitle = {Figuring the Future: Youth and Globalization},
Publisher = {School of American Research},
Editor = {Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds154252}
}
@article{fds237524,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese
Youth},
Journal = {Theory, Culture & Society},
Volume = {26},
Number = {3},
Pages = {89-111},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Spring},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7014 Duke open
access},
Keywords = {precariat, youth, activism, branding, J-cool},
Abstract = {Japanese youth goods have become globally popular over the
past 15 years. Referred to as 'cool', their contribution to
the national economy has been much hyped under the catchword
Japan's 'GNC' (gross national cool). While this new national
brand is indebted to youth - youth are the intended
consumers for such products and sometimes the creators -
young Japanese today are also chastised for not working
hard, failing at school and work, and being insufficiently
productive or reproductive. Using the concept of immaterial
labor, the article argues that such 'J-cool' products as
Pokémon are both based on, and generative of, a type of
socio-power also seen in the very behaviors of youth -
flexible sociality, instantaneous communication, information
juggling - that are so roundly condemned in public
discourse. The article examines the contradictions between
these two different ways of assessing and calibrating the
value of youth today. It also looks at the emergence of
youth activism around the very precariousness, for them, of
socio-economic conditions of flexibility.},
Doi = {10.1177/0263276409103118},
Key = {fds237524}
}
@article{fds376589,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {The cool brand, affective activism and Japanese
youth},
Journal = {Theory, Culture and Society},
Volume = {26},
Number = {2-3},
Pages = {89-111},
Year = {2009},
Month = {March},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276409103118},
Abstract = {Japanese youth goods have become globally popular over the
past 15 years. Referred to as 'cool', their contribution to
the national economy has been much hyped under the catchword
Japan's 'GNC' (gross national cool). While this new national
brand is indebted to youth - youth are the intended
consumers for such products and sometimes the creators -
young Japanese today are also chastised for not working
hard, failing at school and work, and being insufficiently
productive or reproductive. Using the concept of immaterial
labor, the article argues that such 'J-cool' products as
Pokémon are both based on, and generative of, a type of
socio-power also seen in the very behaviors of youth -
flexible sociality, instantaneous communication, information
juggling - that are so roundly condemned in public
discourse. The article examines the contradictions between
these two different ways of assessing and calibrating the
value of youth today. It also looks at the emergence of
youth activism around the very precariousness, for them, of
socio-economic conditions of flexibility.},
Doi = {10.1177/0263276409103118},
Key = {fds376589}
}
@article{fds237502,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {The Attractions of the J-Wave for American
Youth},
Booktitle = {Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of
Japan and the United States},
Publisher = {M.E. Sharpe},
Editor = {Yasushi, W and McConnell, D},
Year = {2009},
Month = {Spring},
Key = {fds237502}
}
@article{fds237525,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {J-Cool and the global imagination},
Journal = {Critique Internationale},
Volume = {38},
Number = {1},
Pages = {19-35},
Year = {2008},
Month = {Winter},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/crii.038.0019},
Abstract = {This paper considers the operation of "soft power" in the
currency of made-in-Japan youth goods as they achieve the
popularity of a new fad in US pop culture. This craze of
"J-cool" is mainly a youth phenomenon which, less likely to
be shared or understood by adults, trades in products for
and about youth. Questioned here is what meaning or impact
do these "Japanese" goods have on or for "American" kids. In
other words, what is the construction of "Japan(ese)" in
J-cool and does this stand (or not) for a Japan that
actually exists? © De Boeck Université.},
Doi = {10.3917/crii.038.0019},
Key = {fds237525}
}
@article{fds237519,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom
of Postindustrial Youth Culture},
Booktitle = {Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of
Children and Youth},
Publisher = {School for Advanced Research Press},
Editor = {Cole, J and Durham, DL},
Year = {2008},
Month = {August},
ISBN = {9781934691052},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7339 Duke open
access},
Key = {fds237519}
}
@article{fds366881,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
(review)},
Journal = {The Journal of Japanese Studies},
Volume = {32},
Number = {1},
Pages = {170-173},
Publisher = {Project MUSE},
Year = {2006},
Month = {December},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2006.0001},
Doi = {10.1353/jjs.2006.0001},
Key = {fds366881}
}
@article{fds375390,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Ajase Complex},
Pages = {12},
Booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture},
Year = {2006},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780203996348},
Key = {fds375390}
}
@article{fds375391,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {obentō},
Pages = {367-368},
Booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture},
Year = {2006},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780203996348},
Key = {fds375391}
}
@article{fds375392,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Pokemon},
Pages = {396-397},
Booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture},
Year = {2006},
Month = {January},
ISBN = {9780203996348},
Key = {fds375392}
}
@article{fds237495,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Tamagotchi: The Prosthetics of Presence},
Pages = {163-191},
Booktitle = {Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global
Imagination},
Publisher = {University of California Press},
Year = {2006},
Month = {Summer},
Abstract = {Book abstract, Millennial Monsters Within the past decade,
the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed
in the global marketplace. From sushi and karoke to martial
arts and techno-ware, the globalization of Japanese
“cool” today is being led by youth products: video
games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute
characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to
Canada. What precisely is it about the fantasies enjoined by
these goods and about the conditions of life that inspired
them (and the everyday lives of consumers who adopt them)
that accounts for such global popularity are the issues
taken up in Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the
Global Imagination. Delimiting the scope to two places,
Japan (as producer) and the United States (as a burgeoning
market for Japanese youth goods today) where the author
conducted ethnographic fieldwork, the book examines four
waves of entertainment properties in terms of their
crossover traffic from Japan to the US. These are Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers (a live action television show
featuring a team of high schoolers who morph into
cyber-warriors), Sailor Moon (a comic and cartoon about
female super-morphers), tamagotchi (an electronic toy that
hatches virtual pets), and Pokémon (a media-mix of cartoon,
Game Boy game, movies, comic books, trading cards, and
tie-in merchandise driven by the pursuit to “get”
endless pocket monsters). Arguing that part of the appeal of
such dreamworlds is the polymorphous perversity with which
they scramble identity and mix (up) character constitution
(bodies with recombinant parts, cyber-powers, morphing
capability), the author traces the postindustrial milieu
from which such fantasies have arisen in postwar Japan and
been popularly received in the United States. From
Godzilla—a prehistoric lizard mutated by nuclear
testing—to Pokémon—wild monsters that get
“pocketed” by their owners—Japan has been a
monster-producer, whose commercialized fantasy-fare has gone
from cheesy to cool. Currently infusing national coffers
with much needed capital, both real and symbolic, Japanese
entertainment goods carry a global imagination that,
decentered from Americanization, is imprinted—as this book
argues—with the logic of millennial capitalism. One
sentence book summary By examining the crossover traffic
between Japan and the United States of four waves of youth
goods, Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of
Japanese youth today, questioning the make-up of the
fantasies and the capitalistic conditions of the play
properties involved.},
Key = {fds237495}
}
@article{fds237501,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {New-age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in the Age
of Millennial Capitalism},
Booktitle = {Japan after Japan},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Editor = {Yoda, T and Harootunian, H},
Year = {2006},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds237501}
}
@article{fds237514,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial
Capitalism},
Journal = {Mechademia},
Volume = {1},
Series = {Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga},
Number = {11-22},
Publisher = {University of Minnesota Press},
Editor = {Lunning, F},
Year = {2006},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds237514}
}
@article{fds237508,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Review of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the
World by Theodore Bestor},
Journal = {Monumenta Nipponica},
Volume = {60},
Number = {2},
Pages = {288-290},
Year = {2005},
Month = {Summer},
Key = {fds237508}
}
@article{fds237500,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Cuteness as Japan’s Millennial Product},
Pages = {34-49},
Booktitle = {Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of
Pokemon},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Editor = {Tobin, J},
Year = {2004},
Key = {fds237500}
}
@article{fds237504,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Introduction to Special Issue on Children and
Globalization},
Journal = {Journal of Postcolonial Studies},
Volume = {6},
Number = {3},
Editor = {Allison, A and Grossberg, L},
Year = {2003},
Month = {December},
Key = {fds237504}
}
@article{fds237505,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as
Japan’s New Global Power},
Journal = {Journal of Postcolonial Studies},
Volume = {6},
Number = {3},
Publisher = {Routlege},
Editor = {Allison, A and Grossberg, L},
Year = {2003},
Month = {December},
Key = {fds237505}
}
@article{fds237499,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in
Kids’ Mass Culture},
Pages = {71-92},
Booktitle = {Power and the Self},
Publisher = {Cambridge University},
Editor = {Mageo, JM},
Year = {2002},
Key = {fds237499}
}
@article{fds237526,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Memoirs of the orient},
Journal = {Journal of Japanese Studies},
Volume = {27},
Number = {2},
Pages = {381-397},
Publisher = {JSTOR},
Year = {2001},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {0095-6848},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000170756900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Abstract = {Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha - the fictionalized
memoirs of a geisha set in the Gion district of Kyoto
between the 1930s and 1950s - became a bestseller in the
United States immediately following publication in 1997.
This essay examines two issues: what accounts for the mass
popularity of Memoirs in the United States, and is either
the text or the interest (in Japan/ geisha) it spurs
orientalist? Commonly enjoyed by fans as a "trip to an
exotic land" that is also "authentic" in its
(re)presentation of Japan, the book is widely read as a
fantasy, the essay argues, that engages readers in a world
that is enticingly other. © 2001 Society for Japanese
Studies.},
Doi = {10.2307/3591971},
Key = {fds237526}
}
@article{fds237527,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Cyborg violence: Bursting borders and bodies with queer
machines},
Journal = {Cultural Anthropology},
Volume = {16},
Number = {2},
Pages = {237-265},
Publisher = {WILEY},
Year = {2001},
Month = {January},
ISSN = {0886-7356},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000171546300005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.1525/can.2001.16.2.237},
Key = {fds237527}
}
@article{fds237512,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Ogetti e magia come valuta di scambio: Il Gioco Globale dei
Pokemon},
Journal = {La Bambola e il Robottone},
Series = {Einaudi},
Pages = {263-278},
Editor = {Gomarasca, A},
Year = {2001},
Key = {fds237512}
}
@article{fds237513,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Carne Furente: Bambole Guerriere Attraverso il
Pacifico},
Journal = {La Bambola e il Robottone},
Series = {Einaudi},
Pages = {145-178},
Editor = {Gomarasca, A},
Year = {2001},
Key = {fds237513}
}
@article{fds237494,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological
State Apparatus},
Pages = {81-104},
Booktitle = {Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and
Censorship in Japan},
Publisher = {University of California Press},
Address = {Berkeley, CA},
Year = {2000},
Key = {fds237494}
}
@article{fds237507,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Review of Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local
Singing},
Journal = {Journal of Japanese Studies},
Volume = {26},
Number = {1},
Pages = {169-173},
Editor = {Mitsui, T and Hosokawa, S},
Year = {2000},
Month = {Winter},
Key = {fds237507}
}
@article{fds237522,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland},
Journal = {MONUMENTA NIPPONICA},
Volume = {55},
Number = {2},
Pages = {315-317},
Publisher = {JSTOR},
Year = {2000},
Month = {Summer},
ISSN = {0027-0741},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=000087524400019&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Doi = {10.2307/2668444},
Key = {fds237522}
}
@article{fds237528,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the
US},
Journal = {Japanese Studies},
Volume = {20},
Number = {1},
Pages = {67-88},
Year = {2000},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371390050009075},
Doi = {10.1080/10371390050009075},
Key = {fds237528}
}
@article{fds366882,
Author = {Allison, A and Mitsui, T and Hosokawa, S},
Title = {Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local
Singing},
Journal = {Journal of Japanese Studies},
Volume = {26},
Number = {1},
Pages = {169-169},
Publisher = {JSTOR},
Year = {2000},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/133399},
Doi = {10.2307/133399},
Key = {fds366882}
}
@article{fds366883,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives},
Journal = {American Anthropologist},
Volume = {101},
Number = {3},
Pages = {665-666},
Publisher = {Wiley},
Year = {1999},
Month = {September},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.665},
Abstract = {<jats:p>Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives.
Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland. eds. Richmond Surrey,
UK: Curzon, 1997. 290 pp.</jats:p>},
Doi = {10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.665},
Key = {fds366883}
}
@article{fds237520,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By
Dorinne Kondo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp.
$17.95.},
Journal = {The Journal of Asian Studies},
Volume = {57},
Number = {3},
Pages = {806-809},
Publisher = {Duke University Press},
Year = {1998},
Month = {August},
ISSN = {0021-9118},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658751},
Doi = {10.2307/2658751},
Key = {fds237520}
}
@article{fds237498,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Cyborg Heroes Populate Popular Culture},
Pages = {25-40},
Booktitle = {Popular Culture in Japan and Outside},
Publisher = {University of Hawaii’i Press},
Editor = {Slaymaker, D},
Year = {1998},
Key = {fds237498}
}
@article{fds237497,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese
Obscenity Laws},
Pages = {195-218},
Booktitle = {Hair in Asian Cultures: Context and Change},
Publisher = {SUNY Albany Press},
Editor = {Heitelbeitel, A and Miller, B},
Year = {1997},
Key = {fds237497}
}
@article{fds237496,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Producing Mothers: Production, Motherhood, and Schools in
Japan},
Pages = {135-155},
Booktitle = {Re-imaging Japanese Women},
Publisher = {University of California Press},
Editor = {Imamura, AE},
Year = {1996},
Key = {fds237496}
}
@article{fds237510,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest
in Japanese Popular Culture},
Journal = {Positions},
Volume = {2},
Number = {3},
Pages = {67-499},
Year = {1995},
Key = {fds237510}
}
@article{fds237509,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked
Female Bodies Always Sexual?},
Publisher = {Duke University Working Papers, Asian Pacific Studies
Institute},
Year = {1993},
Key = {fds237509}
}
@article{fds237521,
Author = {Allison, A},
Title = {Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Tokyo
Hostess Club},
Journal = {Genders},
Volume = {16},
Number = {16},
Pages = {1-16},
Publisher = {University of Colorado},
Year = {1993},
ISSN = {1936-3249},
url = {http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=A1993LH13500001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=47d3190e77e5a3a53558812f597b0b92},
Key = {fds237521}
}
%% Book Reviews
@article{fds13576,
Author = {Arthur Golden},
Title = {Memoirs of a Geisha},
Journal = {Education About Asia},
Volume = {5},
Number = {2},
Pages = {42-44},
Year = {2000},
Month = {Fall},
Key = {fds13576}
}
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