Pub Date : 2024-01-30DOI: 10.1017/s1479591424000019
Aiko Ikeo
{"title":"A History of Economic Thought in Japan, 1600–1945 By Hiroshi Kawaguchi and Sumiyo Ishii, translated by Ayuko Tanaka and Tadashi Anno. London: Bloomsbury, 2022, p. 288. Hardback, £85.00 GBP, ISBN: 9781350150133. Paperback, £28.99, ISBN: 9781350198692. Ebook, £26.09, ISBN: 9781350150140","authors":"Aiko Ikeo","doi":"10.1017/s1479591424000019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591424000019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140486070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000578
Eunhee Park
This article uses Mbembe's concept of necropolitics as an analytical category to examine the representations of necropower in Squid Game. In the global “organ economy,” organ sellers decide to supply, and brokers then mediate between them and buyers. In contrast, South Korean loan sharks commodify delinquent debtors' organs by forcing them to sign a body waiver as collateral. Recent South Korean dramas have thematized this distinctive systemization of the black economy. Borrowing Lowenstein's “allegorical moment” concept, this article aims to illuminate representations of fluid necropower through children's games as a hinge between reality and the imaginary that invites viewers to dialectically evaluate death problems. The contestations of money and humanity synthetically emerge as necropower constantly moves among different entities: VIPs, a frontman, players, game rules, and money. This article claims that viewers process numerous allegorical moments created by the iconography of necropower and synthetically realize necropolitics and corporeality in Squid Game. Organ extractions and trade in episode two in particular represent “morbid spectacle” and the culmination of mammonism. This article analyzes scenes of death, games, the technique of killing, and esthetics to connect historical examples of the necropolitics that Mbembe draws on and to discuss representations of the organ trade in this recent Korean drama.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000529
Seung-chul Yoo
{"title":"Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads By Olga Fedorenko. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2023, 298 pages. Hardback, $68.00, ISBN: 9780824890346","authors":"Seung-chul Yoo","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139443479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000554
David T. Johnson
Japan is often said to have one of the lowest rape rates in the world, and Japanese police claim to solve 97 percent of rape cases. But in reality, only 5–10 percent of rape victims report it to police, and police record half or less of reported cases while prosecutors charge about one-third of recorded cases. The result of this process of caseload attrition is that for every 1,000 rapes in Japan, only 10–20 result in a criminal conviction – and fewer than half of convicted rapists are incarcerated. Similar patterns characterize Japan's criminal justice response to other sex crimes. This article shows that impunity for sex offenders is extremely common in Japan, and it argues that patriarchal social and legal norms help explain this pattern.
{"title":"Is rape a crime in Japan?","authors":"David T. Johnson","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000554","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Japan is often said to have one of the lowest rape rates in the world, and Japanese police claim to solve 97 percent of rape cases. But in reality, only 5–10 percent of rape victims report it to police, and police record half or less of reported cases while prosecutors charge about one-third of recorded cases. The result of this process of caseload attrition is that for every 1,000 rapes in Japan, only 10–20 result in a criminal conviction – and fewer than half of convicted rapists are incarcerated. Similar patterns characterize Japan's criminal justice response to other sex crimes. This article shows that impunity for sex offenders is extremely common in Japan, and it argues that patriarchal social and legal norms help explain this pattern.</p>","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139396594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000566
Tingcong Lin, Ping Su
This article studies Western (primarily Anglophone) representations of the Dan people (boat people) and the boat clusters on which they lived, relative to the mainland, in the island city of Guangzhou, focusing on 1842–1900. A change occurred over time, as the Dan went from being in close interaction with Westerners prior to the Opium Wars to being peripheral to Western interests and activities. This shift is evident in Western writings, and negative representations of the Dan came to dominate in the late nineteenth century. This mirrored changing sociospatial power relations between Westerners and the terrestrial Chinese, as Westerners increasingly gained access to the onshore city of Guangzhou itself, in part from the colonial island enclave of Shamian. Changing crosscultural interactions affected how the Chinese Others were perceived and ultimately how the Chinese whole was intertextually constructed in Western colonial discourse.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000542
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
{"title":"Rethinking Interreligious Dialogue: Orality, Collective Memory, and Christian-Muslim Engagements in Indonesia By Izak Y.M. Lattu. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2023. 231 pages. Hardback, €110.28, ISBN: 978-3506790200. Ebook, €110.28, ISBN: 978-3657790203","authors":"Sumanto Al Qurtuby","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138997031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000517
Sidhyendra Sisodia
{"title":"China and the Indo-Pacific: Maneuvers and Manifestations Edited by Swaran Singh and Reena Marwah. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 244 pages. Hardback, ISBN: 978-9811975202. Paperback, ISBN: 978-9811975349. Ebook, ISBN: 978-9811975219.","authors":"Sidhyendra Sisodia","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1017/s1479591423000505
Prem Singh Gill
{"title":"Another India: The Making of the World's Largest Muslim Minority, 1947-77 By Pratinav Anil. London: Hurst, 2023. 432 pages. Hardback, £25.00 GBP, ISBN: 9781787388086.","authors":"Prem Singh Gill","doi":"10.1017/s1479591423000505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479591423000505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51971,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138601895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1017/s147959142300044x
Sujay Biswas
Within the prevailing historiographical tradition of modern India, critics see the Poona Pact as having “disenfranchised” Dalits, which they attribute to the fact that, due to the numerical superiority of caste Hindus, the implementation of joint electorates resulted in the consolidation of power within the Indian National Congress: the party that, critics allege, protected the interests of the caste Hindu community. Critics further argue that Dalit candidates who successfully ran for office under the Congress party’s banner, garnering support mostly from caste Hindu voters, failed to speak for the interests of the Dalit community effectively. This article examines the returns of the provincial assembly elections held in 1936–1937 and 1945–1946, as well as the functioning of the Congress ministries in the provinces of British India between 1937 and 1939 and 1946 and 1947 to challenge the criticisms mentioned above and to argue that the inclusion of reserved seats, primary elections, and cumulative voting mechanisms had a significant role in enhancing the potential of the Poona Pact to ensure genuine descriptive representation of Dalits. The article also finds that the affiliation of Dalit legislators with the Congress party had a beneficial impact on their substantive representation in the provincial legislatures where the Congress formed ministries because Dalit interests and the ideological and programmatic dynamics of the Congress party were congruent. In this context, Gandhi, a member of the caste Hindu community, played the role of a “critical actor” who encouraged the Congress party to undertake measures to advance the interests of the Dalit community. Moreover, a powerful and autonomous anti-untouchability movement led by the Harijan Sevak Sangh played a crucial role in enhancing the institutional capabilities of the Congress governments, enabling them to effectively address the concerns and challenges faced by the Dalit community, which further bolstered the substantive representation of Dalits.
在现代印度盛行的史学传统中，批评者认为《普纳公约》剥夺了达利特人的“公民权”，他们将其归因于这样一个事实:由于种姓印度教徒在数量上的优势，联合选举的实施导致了印度国民大会党(Indian National Congress)内部的权力巩固:批评者声称，这个党保护了种姓印度教徒社区的利益。批评人士进一步指出，在国大党的旗帜下成功竞选公职的达利特候选人，主要获得了种姓印度教选民的支持，未能有效地为达利特社区的利益说话。本文考察了1936-1937年和1945-1946年举行的省议会选举的结果，以及1937年至1939年和1946年至1947年期间在英属印度各省举行的国大党部门的运作，以挑战上述批评，并认为保留席位，初选，累积投票机制在增强《普纳公约》的潜力以确保达利特的真正描述性代表权方面发挥了重要作用。文章还发现，达利特立法者与国大党的隶属关系对他们在省级立法机构中的实质性代表产生了有益的影响，因为达利特的利益与国大党的意识形态和纲领动态是一致的。在这种背景下，甘地作为种姓印度教社区的一员，扮演了一个“关键演员”的角色，鼓励国大党采取措施促进达利特社区的利益。此外，由Harijan Sevak Sangh领导的强大而自主的反贱民运动在提高国大党政府的机构能力方面发挥了至关重要的作用，使他们能够有效地解决达利特社区所面临的问题和挑战，这进一步加强了达利特的实质性代表。
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