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Publications of Anne Allison    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Allison, A, Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan (January, 2023), pp. 1-206, ISBN 9780520219908 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Allison, A, Permitted and prohibited desires: Mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan (January, 2019), pp. 1-225, Westview (HarperCollins), ISBN 9780367282639 (Paperback edition, University of California Press, 2000..) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Baldwin, F; Allison, A, Introduction: Japan’s possible futures (January, 2015), pp. 1-10, ISBN 9781479889389 [doi]
  4. Allison, A, Precarious Japan (October, 2013), Duke University Press
  5. Allison, A, Kiku to Pokemon: Guro-barukasuru nihon no bunkaryouku (2010), Shinchousha (This is the Japanese translation of my book, Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination..)
  6. Allison, A, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994), University of Chicago Press

Published Articles

  1. Allison, A, Queering belonging in death?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 15 no. 1 (March, 2025), pp. 204-206, University of Chicago Press [doi]
  2. Allison, A, ROBOTS WON'T SAVE JAPAN: An Ethnography of Eldercare Automation, PACIFIC AFFAIRS, vol. 97 no. 4 (2024), pp. 888-890
  3. Allison, A, Scorching the everyday, Anthropology and Humanism, vol. 48 no. 2 (December, 2023), pp. 404 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Klass, D; Allison, A, Book Review: Being Dead Otherwise, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, vol. 88 no. 1 (November, 2023), pp. 367-369, SAGE Publications [doi]
  5. Allison, A, The (Un)social Smells of Death: Changing Tides in Contemporary Japan, Asia Pacific Journal Japan Focus, vol. 21 no. 6 (June, 2023)  [abs]
  6. Allison, A; Gould, H, New life in Japan's ‘endingness’ business, Anthropology Today, vol. 39 no. 3 (June, 2023), pp. 7-9 [doi]  [abs]
  7. Allison, A, Foreword, Living with Precariousness (January, 2023), pp. xvii-xix
  8. Allison, A, Mechanical grievability: urban graves for the solo dead in Japan, in New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes Continuity Change and Contestation (January, 2023), pp. 145-161, ISBN 9781802202380 [doi]  [abs]
  9. Allison, A, Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, vol. 81 no. 3 (2022), pp. 594-596, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  10. Allison, A, Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan, International Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 24 no. 4 (July, 2021), pp. 622-636 [doi]  [abs]
  11. ALLISON, A, Caravan of Martyrs: Sacrifice and Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. David B. Edwards. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 292 pp., American Ethnologist, vol. 46 no. 2 (May, 2019), pp. 227-228, Wiley [doi]
  12. Allison, A, Not-Waiting to Die Badly: Facing the Precarity of Dying Alone in Japan, in ETHNOGRAPHIES OF WAITING (2018), pp. 181-202, ISBN 978-1-350-12681-7
  13. Allison, A, Afterword: Reflections on welfare from postnuclear Fukushima, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 115 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 175-181 [doi]
  14. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editing the times, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 4 (November, 2015), pp. 525-530 [doi]
  15. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT, Introduction, vol. 42 (August, 2015), pp. 19-21 [doi]
  16. Allison, A, Discounted life: Social time in relationless Japan, Boundary 2, vol. 42 no. 3 (August, 2015), pp. 129-141 [doi]
  17. Allison, A, Sailor Moon: Japanese Superherofeosr global girls, edited by Craig, TJ (April, 2015), pp. 259-278, Sage Press
  18. Allison, A, Author’s response, Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 5 no. 1 (March, 2015), pp. 124-127, SAGE Publications [doi]
  19. Allison, A, Lonely Death: Possibilities for a Not-Yet Sociality, in Living and Dying in the Contemporary World A Compendium (January, 2015), pp. 662-674, ISBN 978-0-520-27841-7
  20. Allison, A, Precarity and hope: Social connectedness in postcapitalist Japan, in Japan the Precarious Future (January, 2015), pp. 36-57, ISBN 9781479889389
  21. Allison, A; Harootunian, H; Nelson, CT, Crisis of the Everyday/Everyday Crisis: Across Time in Japan Introduction, BOUNDARY 2-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE, vol. 42 no. 3 (2015), pp. 19-21 [doi]
  22. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' farewell, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 4 (November, 2014), pp. 599-601 [doi]
  23. Allison, A, "Shinjidai no Fuetesshu, Monsuta-, Soshite Tomodachi: Mireniamu (Shinseki) no Pokemonshihonshugi", in Media and Popular Culture, edited by Tsuchiyua, R; Shunya, Y (February, 2014)
  24. Allison, A, Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo ("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese Youth"), in Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In a World of Flux, edited by Sciences, TIOS; University, T; Yuji, G; Uno, S, vol. 4 (February, 2014), pp. 129-149, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha, ISBN 978-4-13-034194-3
  25. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' note on "neoliberal futures", Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 1 (February, 2014), pp. 3-7 [doi]
  26. Alison, A; Piot, C, Editors' introduction: Open access, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 201-202 [doi]
  27. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' note, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 28 no. 3 (August, 2013), pp. 369-371 [doi]
  28. Allison, A, American Geishas and Oriental/ist Fantasies, in Media, Transnationalism, and Asian Erotics, edited by Mankekar, P; Schein, L (July, 2013), Duke University Press
  29. Allison, A, Ordinary refugees: Social precarity and soul in 21st century Japan, Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 85 no. 2 (June, 2012), pp. 345-370, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 0003-5491 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  30. Allison, A; Piot, C, Editors' notes, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 27 no. 1 (February, 2012), pp. 1-2 [doi]
  31. Allison, A, Japanese mothers and obentōs: The lunch-box as ideological state apparatus, in Food and Culture A Reader (January, 2012), pp. 154-172, ISBN 9780415521031 [doi]  [abs]
  32. A. Allison, "A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", edited by Nick Long and Henrietta Moore, Cambridge Anthropology, vol. 30 no. 1 (2012)
  33. A. Allison, "A Sociality Of, and Beyond, 'My-Home' in Post-Corporate Japan", in Sociality, New Directions, New Directions, edited by Henrietta Moore and Nick Long (2012), Cambridge University Press
  34. Allison, A, A Sociality Of, and Beyond, ’My-Home’ in Post-Corporate Japan, in Sociality, New Directions, edited by Moore, H; Long, N (2012), Cambridge University Press
  35. Allison, A, HUMAN NO MORE Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology Afterword, in HUMAN NO MORE: DIGITAL SUBJECTIVITIES, UNHUMAN SUBJECTS, AND THE END OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2012), pp. 231-234, ISBN 978-1-60732-169-9 [doi]
  36. Allison, A; Piot, C, Untitled, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 27 no. 2 (2012), pp. 191-192 [doi]
  37. Allison, A; Piot, C, New Editors' Greeting, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 26 no. 1 (February, 2011), pp. 1-5 [doi]
  38. Allison, A; Piot, C, Untitled, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 4 (2011), pp. 511-513 [doi]
  39. Allison, A; Piot, C, INTRODUCTION, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, vol. 26 no. 2 (2011), pp. 157-157 [doi]
  40. A. Allison, Shakaisei no ima, kansei, kazoku, soshite nihon no kodomo ("Sociality Today: Sentiment, Family, and Japanese Youth"), in Kobougaku 4: Kibou no hajimari: ryuudookasuru sekaide: The Social Sciences of Hope, Volume 4: The Beginning of Hope: In a World of Flux, Social Sciences of Hope, edited by Todaishaken (Institute of Social Sciences, Tokyo University); Genda Yuji and Uno, Shigeki, vol. 4 (Summer, 2009), pp. 129-149, Tokyo Daigaku Shuppansha, ISBN 978-4-13-034194-3
  41. 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]
  42. 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]
  43. Allison, A, The cool brand, affective activism and Japanese youth, Theory Culture and Society, vol. 26 no. 2-3 (March, 2009), pp. 89-111 [doi]  [abs]
  44. Allison, A, The Attractions of the J-Wave for American Youth, in Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, edited by Yasushi, W; McConnell, D (Spring, 2009), M.E. Sharpe
  45. Allison, A, J-Cool and the global imagination, Critique Internationale, vol. 38 no. 1 (Winter, 2008), pp. 19-35 [doi]  [abs]
  46. Allison, A, Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture, in Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth, edited by Cole, J; Durham, DL (August, 2008), School for Advanced Research Press, ISBN 9781934691052 [repository]
  47. Allison, A, Godzilla On My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 32 no. 1 (December, 2006), pp. 170-173, Project MUSE [doi]
  48. Allison, A, Ajase Complex, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 12, ISBN 9780203996348
  49. Allison, A, obentō, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 367-368, ISBN 9780203996348
  50. Allison, A, Pokemon, in Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture (January, 2006), pp. 396-397, ISBN 9780203996348
  51. Allison, A, New-age Fetishes, Monsters, and Friends: Pokemon in the Age of Millennial Capitalism, in Japan after Japan, edited by Yoda, T; Harootunian, H (Fall, 2006), Duke University Press
  52. Allison, A, The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism, Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga, edited by Lunning, F, Mechademia, vol. 1 no. 11-22 (Fall, 2006), University of Minnesota Press
  53. 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]
  54. Allison, A, Review of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World by Theodore Bestor, Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 60 no. 2 (Summer, 2005), pp. 288-290
  55. Allison, A, Cuteness as Japan’s Millennial Product, in Pikachu’s Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon, edited by Tobin, J (2004), pp. 34-49, Duke University Press
  56. Allison, A, Introduction to Special Issue on Children and Globalization, edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003)
  57. Allison, A, Portable Monsters and Commodity Cuteness: Pokemon as Japan’s New Global Power, edited by Allison, A; Grossberg, L, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (December, 2003), Routlege
  58. Allison, A, Playing with Power: Morphing Toys and Transforming Heroes in Kids’ Mass Culture, in Power and the Self, edited by Mageo, JM (2002), pp. 71-92, Cambridge University
  59. Allison, A, Memoirs of the orient, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 27 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 381-397, JSTOR, ISSN 0095-6848 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  60. Allison, A, Cyborg violence: Bursting borders and bodies with queer machines, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 16 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 237-265, WILEY, ISSN 0886-7356 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  61. Allison, A, Ogetti e magia come valuta di scambio: Il Gioco Globale dei Pokemon, Einaudi, edited by Gomarasca, A, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 263-278
  62. Allison, A, Carne Furente: Bambole Guerriere Attraverso il Pacifico, Einaudi, edited by Gomarasca, A, La Bambola e il Robottone (2001), pp. 145-178
  63. 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
  64. Allison, A, Review of Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, edited by Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 26 no. 1 (Winter, 2000), pp. 169-173
  65. Allison, A, Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, vol. 55 no. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 315-317, JSTOR, ISSN 0027-0741 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  66. Allison, A, A Challenge to Hollywood? Japanese Character Goods Hit the US, Japanese Studies, vol. 20 no. 1 (2000), pp. 67-88 [doi]
  67. Allison, A; Mitsui, T; Hosokawa, S, Karaoke around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing, Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 26 no. 1 (2000), pp. 169-169, University of California Press [doi]
  68. Allison, A, Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives, American Anthropologist, vol. 101 no. 3 (September, 1999), pp. 665-666, Wiley [doi]  [abs]
  69. Allison, A, About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By Dorinne Kondo. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. $17.95., The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 3 (August, 1998), pp. 806-809, Duke University Press, ISSN 0021-9118 [doi]
  70. Allison, A, Cyborg Heroes Populate Popular Culture, in Popular Culture in Japan and Outside, edited by Slaymaker, D (1998), pp. 25-40, University of Hawaii’i Press
  71. Allison, A, Cutting the Fringes: Pubic Hair at the Margins of Japanese Obscenity Laws, in Hair in Asian Cultures: Context and Change, edited by Heitelbeitel, A; Miller, B (1997), pp. 195-218, SUNY Albany Press
  72. Allison, A, Producing Mothers: Production, Motherhood, and Schools in Japan, in Re-imaging Japanese Women, edited by Imamura, AE (1996), pp. 135-155, University of California Press
  73. Allison, A, Transgressions of the Everyday: Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture, Positions, vol. 2 no. 3 (1995), pp. 67-499
  74. Allison, A, A Male Gaze in Japanese Children’s Cartoons, or, Are Naked Female Bodies Always Sexual? (1993), Duke University Working Papers, Asian Pacific Studies Institute
  75. Allison, A, Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Tokyo Hostess Club, Genders, vol. 16 no. 16 (1993), pp. 1-16, University of Colorado, ISSN 1936-3249 [Gateway.cgi]

Book Reviews

  1. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Education About Asia, vol. 5 no. 2 (Fall, 2000), pp. 42-44
 
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