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Jennifer Robertson
2023-04-17T22:15:16+00:00
Non, Les Japonais ne vivent pas avec les robots, 2022 (Interview in Tempura, un magazine sur le Japon)
Househusband as an Agent of Pronatalism in Japan, 2022
Technologies of Kokoro: Imagineering Human-Robot Co-Existence. Perspectives from Japan. (Robots, Religion, Emotion), 2022
Glamorized Exploitation: Visual Images of Meiji-period “Factory Girls” (
jokō
), 2022
Imagineerism: Technology, Robots, Kinship. Perspectives from Japan, 2022
From Tiramisù to #MeToo: Triangulations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Heisei Japan (1989-2019), 2022
Robot Theater (Robotto engeki) in Japan: Staging Science Fiction Futures, 2021
Gotai: Corporeal Aesthetics and Robotic Exoskeletons in Japan, 2020
No Place for Robots: Reassessing the Bukimi no Tani (“Uncanny Valley”), 2020
Robots and Religiosity, 2019
Edible Eugenics: Dietary Reform and Nation-building in Modern Japan, 2018
Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals, 2018
Japan’s Gender-Bending History, 2017
An Oscar for Wakamaru: Robots, Gender, and Performance, 2016
Human Rights Vs. Robot Rights: Forecasts from Japan, 2014
From Uniqlo to NGOs: The Problematic “Culture of Giving” in Inter-Disaster Japan, 2012
Hemato-nationalism: The Past, Present, and Future of “Japanese Blood”, 2011
Rubble, Radiation, and Robots, 2011
Gendering Robots: Posthuman Traditionalism in Japan, 2011
Robots of the Rising Sun, 2010
Gendering Humanoid Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan, 2010
The Erotic Grotesque Nonsense of Superflat: “Happiness” as Pathology in Japan Today, 2010
Eugenics in Japan: Sanguinous Repair, 2010
Reveille for Anthropologists. Introduction: Anthropologists and War, 2010
Relentless Presentism: Life and Art in the Superflat Dimension, 2009
Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime Japanese Revue Theatre, 2009
Ema kara yomi sōzō no kyōdōtai: senchūki nihon ni okeru ema to sensōteki niritsuhaihansei, 2009 (Japanese translation of Emaーgined Community)
Ema-gined Community: Votive Tablets (ema) and Strategic Ambivalence in Wartime Japan, 2008
Yūseigakuteki shokuminchishugi: Nihon ni okeru chi no ideorogī (Eugenic Colonialism: Japanese Blood Ideology), 2007
Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Humanoid Robots and the Posthuman Family, 2007
Biopower: Blood, Kinship, and Eugenic Marriage, 2005
Introduction: Sexualizing Anthropology’s Fields (in Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities), 2005
Putting and Keeping Japan in Anthropology, 2005
Dehistoricizing History: The Ethical Dilemma of “East Asian Bioethics”, 2005
Blood Talks: Eugenic Modernity and the Creation of New Japanese, 2002
Reflexivity Redux: A Pithy Polemic on “Positionality”, 2002
Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and Prose, 2002
Japan’s First Cyborg? Miss Nippon, Eugenics and Wartime Technologies of Beauty, Body and Blood, 2001
Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan, 1999
It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan, 1998
Empire of Nostalgia: Rethinking “Internationalization” in Japan Today, 1997
Mon Japon: The Revue Theatre as a Technology of Japanese Imperialism, 1995
Hegemonic Nostalgia, Tourism, and Nation-Making in Japan, 1995
The Politics of Androgyny in Japan: Sexuality and Subversion in the Theater and Beyond, 1992
The “Magic If”: Conflicting Performances of Gender in the Takarazuka Revue of Japan, 1992
Theatrical Resistance, Theatres of Restraint: The Takarazuka Revue and the “State Theatre” Movement in Japan, 1991
The Shingaku Woman: Straight from the Heart, 1991
Gender-Bending in Paradise: Doing “Female” and “Male” in Japan, 1989
Furusato Japan: The Culture and Politics of Nostalgia, 1988
A Dialectic of Native and Newcomer: The Kodaira Citizens’ Festival in Suburban Tokyo, 1987
Japanese Farm Manuals: A Literature of Discovery, 1984
Sexy Rice. Plant Gender, Farm Manuals, and Grass-Roots Nativism, 1984
Rooting the Pine: Shingaku Methods of Organization, 1979