Representing 'cultural otherness' in Japanese media

Workshop @Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna | September 1, 2014

 About the workshop

Japan continues to see itself as a homogeneous society whose members are bound together by a shared ethnicity, culture and language. Those who do not meet at least one of these criteria are considered non-Japanese and therefore as ‘others’. However, even ethnic Japanese can be ‘othered’ if they belong to certain social classes that have historically been discriminated against. This workshop will therefore explore how Japanese media constructs ‘otherness’ in different visual media and thus contribute to reinforcing the distinction between the ‘Japanese’ and the non-Japanese ‘others’. 

 Date

  • Monday, September 1st 2014, 10:00am~6:00pm

 Workshop Programme

Day of the workshop – September 1st, 2014

  • 10:00am~1:00pm: PhD Workshop (Meeting room)
  • 1:45~2:30 pm: Visualizing Empire: Confronting the 'Imperial Past' in Japan and the UK
    Griseldis Kirsch
  • 2:30~3:30pm: Burakumin in the 'reel world': Representations of buraku issues in documentary films
    Christopher Bondy
  • 3:30~4:00pm: Coffee break
  • 4:00~5:00pm: Representations of Okinawa as contact zone: Concepts of cultural blending in literary and media texts
    Ina Hein
  • 5:00~6:00pm:
  • Haafu in Japan: Mixed race, multicultural questions and trans-Asian collaboration
    Kōichi Iwabuchi

 

 

 

 

 

 Publications

Hein, I., & Kirsch, G. (2024). Media representations of ‘Cultural otherness’ in Japan. Routledge. 

 List of Participants in Alphabetical Order

  • Christopher Bondy | International Christian University, Tōkyō
  • Ina Hein | University of Vienna
  • Griseldis Kirsch | School of African and Oriental Studies London
  • Kōichi Iwabuchi | Monash University, Australia