Witnessing Disappearance in China during the Global Pandemic
The landscape of Islam within China has been changing rapidly during the pandemic. Ethnographic fieldwork can map these erasures and disappearances in everyday life. It was an unusually…
Tag: Society for East Asian Anthropology
Indigenous Survival Politics in the Promotion of a National Discourse
In January 2018, 10 members from an Ainu traditional performance group, Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai (Sapporo Upopo Preservation Society, hereafter SUH), traveled from Sapporo, the capital city of Hokkaido…
Deterritorializing Chinatown in Digital Tokyo
Editors’ Note: This article is part of the series Digital Anthropologies in East Asia. [pquote]The growth in digital forms of sociality and their intersection with new mobilities has ensured…
Garbage, Waste-Products, and Value in Kunming
Since 2009, news outlets across China have repeated the mantra that “two-thirds of China’s cities face besiegement by garbage”—constituting a national crisis. Included is Kunming, the burgeoning capit…
The Absent Crowd
What imagery has come to define political life in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe? In the summer of 2012, a few hundred protesters gathering weekly in front…
Crafting Interactive Journalism
Nico Nico Douga commenters share their opinions during a press conference. Photo courtesy Elizabeth Rodwell To understand the current social movements and protest culture in Japan, it is…
Student Protests Return to Tokyo
Contributing Editors’ Note: Due to recent media attention on the activists of Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy (SEALDS), we have moved up Robin O’Day’s report in this…