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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838314103321

Autore

White Daniel

Titolo

Administering Affect : Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Redwood City : , : Stanford University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-5036-3220-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 pages)

Disciplina

306.0952

Soggetti

Anxiety - Political aspects - Japan

Cultural diplomacy - Japan

Popular culture - Political aspects - Japan

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Japan Cultural policy

Japan Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Language -- Introduction: Pop-Culture Japan and the Circuitry of Affect -- 1 Soft Power -- 2 Nation Branding -- 3 Anime Diplomacy -- 4 Kawaii Diplomacy -- 5 Administering Affect -- Conclusion: Melancholic Belonging and the Future of Pop-Culture Japan -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

An intimate ethnography of how Japan's state bureaucrats made political anxiety into a target, technique, and consequence of cultural administration.