The Japan Fieldwork Workshop (JFW) invites you to an afternoon of ethnographic papers on new politics and social movements.

Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Bldg. 10, room 301
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
3pm-6pm (and we usually go out for a beer afterwards)

Open, free, all welcome

In the quickly shifting context of post 3.11 politics, the shape, goals and tactics of social movements and more autonomous activities have been changing in new and sometimes hopeful ways.

We will hear 4 young scholars talk about their very current data and future research plans.

We are also hoping that this event will give us a chance to meet other scholars working on related topics for future collaboration.

(JFW has now been going for 13 years! For information on how to become a member of JFW, see below.)

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Panel 1: "Organized" Politics in Transition

Vinicius Furie, Tokyo University
"Dressed in Pink: Antinuclear activism in post-Fukushima Japan and the remodeling of an 'old' social movement"

Yoko Wang, University of Hawaii
"Mediating Professional and Unprofessional: social activism in a post-union democracy."

Break

Panel 2: Performing Prefigurative Politics

Julia Obinger, University of Zurich
"Tokyo's Autonomous Zones: Prefigurative politics and the 'Invisible' civil society"

Love Kindstrand, University of Chicago
"The Burden of Legitimacy: Performing insurgent citizenship at the Kantei-mae weekly protests"

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The Japan Fieldwork Workshop (JFW)
We are now in our 13th year, making us one of the
longest running workshop of its kind in Tokyo. Our
focus
is on fieldwork-base research in anthropology,
sociology,
popular culture, political science, media studies and
related fields. The goal is to present work in progress
in
a critical and informal setting.
As a rule, Ph.D. students on up are welcome.

While we have been an open group in the past, due to
large numbers we are currently closed and only very
few of our events are put on the lists (such as this
collective one). In this current iteration, we are
circulating
some sort of paper to regular members prior to our
meetings. One person per meeting.

If you would like to become a regular member,
please contact me directly. (dhslater[at]gmail.com).

--
David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese
Studies
Sophia University, Tokyo