CAC 14

Political Uses of ‘Culture’: Nihonjinron

Can ‘they’ ever understand ‘us’?

Tasks

Read the reading
Check out the slides.
Prepare to hand in “Reflection Paper 4”
Get ready to hand in that final essay - feel free to get in touch by email if you get stuck or are not sure how to proceed 👍🏻
check here for the deadlines

REFLECTION PAPER 4

How would you describe your identity, and how do you think ‘culture’ affects it/you? Think back to what you wrote at the start of the semester, have your views changed , if so why, if not, why not?

Submit on manaba as usual. Deadline is last day of the semester (19 Jan)

Slides

NB. I know the slides say ‘CAC13’ but these are the correct one for this week.
SPKB 9/1/24

Download slides - PDF

Reading

Burgess, C. (2004) Maintaining identities: Discourses of homogeneity in a rapidly globalizing Japan. electronic journal of contemporary Japanese studies.

Download PDF

Other material

BBC podcast on the idea of “Cultural Imperialism”

(Dale, 1986) (Henshall, 1999) (Sugimoto, 1999) (Kashima et al., 1995) (Nakamaura, 1992)