Table of Contents for Theory and Vocabulary Essays

Theory Essays

Here is JAPAN 1

Visit to a Green Star 7

Kyoto’s sex industry 12

Kyoto genkan 13

Projects of the self/Projects of the state 14

Insurance and festivals 19

Aesthetics, modernity and postmodernity 20

The Street 22

On the Web 24

fear of the foreign 25

Private public sphere 27

We Japanese... 31

Four years of heaven 34

Discourse or dissent? 36

Cybernetic governmentalities 41

The courts 43

the politics and semantics of homogeneity 45

Optimal Experience 49

Imagine the festival as a building. 51

Intimacy is first a connection to the body 55

Intimacy is always shared 57

A festival counters the dominant... 58

A festival is a space of social therapy 60

Domination produces silences 61

Practice creates its place 62

The festival performs what it proposes 64

State-nation modernity 66

Awata Matsuri 88

machiya 103

kone and kane: connections and money 106

Heritage management 110

Institutional reflexivity 129

learning to roudou 131

Madang night 132

civic privacy 135

Vocabulary Essays

atarimae 1

Buraku 2

gonin (tonari) gumi 6

murahachibu (shunning) 8

hinin (outcaste) 9

Domestication 11

dialogic democracy 16

Festival 18

Jinjahoncho 20

body schooling 21

bosozoku 24

ken 25

orthoposture 26

market-state 28

matsuri 29

politics of recognition 40

Nihonjinron 41

Omni-present 47

Overcoding, Coding, and Recoding 48

Public Body 52

Reflexivity 56

Symbolic Violence 59

theory 61

areality 62

civil crowd 64