幼稚園/デニム、など(メモ)

David H. Slater先生のEasianth Mlへのメッセージ;


Here is something else that might be of interest to people--hot off the presses!

Yuki Imoto, "Producing the 'international' child: negotiations of language in an international preschool in Japan." in Education and Ethnography: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457823.2011.610580

This article provides an ethnographic account of an ‘international preschool’ in Japan, describing how ideologies of ‘English’ and ‘internationalism’ are produced and consumed among the parents, teachers and directors, in their common goal of socialising an ‘international’ child.


Yuki has also been busy, working with Roger Goodman and Tuukka Toivonen

A Sociology of Japanese Youth will be coming out soon!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415669278/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1/181-3989137-2978145?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_r=1MCNM1VN3WAC3C82P58Z&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_i=041566926X

Over the past thirty years, whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe, it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the country itself. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork, the authors of this volume set these issues in a clearly articulated ‘social constructionist’ framework, and put forth a sociology of Japanese youth problems which argues that there is a certain predictability about the way in which these problems are discovered, defined and dealt with.

また、

Making New Vintage Jeans in Japan: Relocating Authenticity

Author: KEET, PHILOMENA

Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 9, Number 1, March 2011 , pp. 44-61(18)

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tjcc/2011/00000009/00000001/art00004


Japan has become renowned as a site for the production of artisanal-quality denim and jeans, which appeals to increasingly discerning cognoscenti. The usual mass-produced, non-designer “safe” denim has a ubiquitous presence in Japan as it does elsewhere but there are many Japanese for whom a pair of jeans has many more qualities that should be carefully considered before its consumption than the perhaps usual factors of price, brand, cut, wash and color. These include the types of machines the denim was woven on, the presence of certain (sometimes invisible) rivets, the technique of stitching and so on. “Made in Japan” has become the catchphrase for new denim authenticity sought by “denim maniacs” (denimu mania no hito). This paper gives a brief history of jeans in Japan, introduces the area where they are made and examines two jeans companies as well as consumers of these premium jeans. It looks at how expensive Japanese jeans echo the mingei craft movement in their emphasis on method of production over the aesthetics of the final product. It shows that authenticity in Japan can be relocated both geographically and from the “original” to the “copy.”

それから、

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 対象書:田中俊之『男性学の新展開』青弓社、2009
 評 者:渡辺彰規(日本大学ほか講師)
     張江洋直(稚内北星学園大学
     山嵜哲哉(武蔵大学
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