Hello Everyone,

Here is a notice for a new forum in Cultural Anthropology, a mainstream journal in the US:
http://www.culanth.org/

It is our first attempt to gather some of the treads of post-3.11 cultural politics. Contributors are from a range of disciplines and by putting it in a non-Japan journal, we are hoping our readership will be similarly wide. The format is somewhat distinctive--short, to the point, with related links, designed to be read and debated (rather than filed away in email).

I hope this will be of interest to some on this list.
Links below; please feel free to circulate widely.

David Slater
Sophia U. Tokyo

P. S. I am currently getting ready a similar forum on volunteer relief efforts--notice to follow soon. Please contact me if you are interesting in contributing.

>From the Editors of Cultural Anthropology, Anne Allison
and Charles Piot, Duke University

We're starting a new forum on the CA website to report on current "hot spots" in the world from the perspective of anthropologists—and others—on the scene.
Our first is Japan in the wake of 3.11—the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor incident that has devastated the northeast of the country and infected the entire country (and beyond) with the threat of radiation. We invited David Slater, an anthropologist at Sophia University in Tokyo, to be the guest editor and he has assembled short entries (500 – 700 words) along with images, websites, and statistics from fifteen scholars/activists/students directly involved with the crisis. Our next "hot spot" will be on post-revolution Egypt to be posted sometime in August.
We are open to suggestions of all kinds for future "hot spots." Please contact us directly (aaa@duke.edu,
cpiot@duke.edu) with proposals that should include the name of a guest editor, theme of the hot spot, and a list of possible contributors.

3.11 POLITICS IN DISASTER JAPAN: FEAR AND ANGER, POSSIBILITY AND HOPE Guest Editor: David Slater (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Tokyo) THE FORUM Neoliberal Radio/Activity and Contagion David H. Slater, Sophia University
>From the Ground Up: Implications of 3.11
Kyle Cleveland, Temple University, Japan Campus
>From Shaking Islands, a Nation Divided
Yoshitaka Mōri, Tokyo University of the Arts A Letter from Okinawa Chris Nelson, University of North Carolina Representational Discontent Sharon Hayashi, York University On Exhaustion, Self-Censorship and Affective Community Keiko Nishimura, Sophia University Conjunctural Inventory Harry Harootunian, Duke University Cows and Farmers Ikegami Yoshihiko, former editor of Gendai Shiso and currently an independent scholar in Tokyo Mapping Anxiety David S. Sprague, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

A Movement of the People vs. Elite Panic Shibuya Nozomu, Chiba University Relief Work—On the Ground Anne Allison, Duke University The Politicization of Precarity—Anti-nuke Protests in Japan since the Great Tohoku Earthquake Love Kindstrand, Sophia University The Age of Meta/physical Struggle Kohso Sabu, independent writer and translator from Japan living in New York City

http://www.culanth.org/

--
David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Faculty of Liberal Arts
Sophia University, Tokyo

Please update my email address to "dhslater@gmail.com".

"d-slater@sophia.ac.jp" is no longer functional.
Thanks.