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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “romit dasgupta”
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  • Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan

    Crafting Masculinities

    by Romit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    In Japan, the figure of the suited, white-collar office worker or business executive ‘salaryman’ (or, sarariiman), came to be associated with Japan’s economic transformation following World War Two. The ubiquitous salaryman came to signify both Japanese masculinity, and Japanese corporate culture, and in this sense, the salaryman embodied ‘the archetypal citizen’.This book uses the figure of the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan

    Edited by Tomoko Aoyama, Laura Dales, Romit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    The middle-class nuclear family model has long dominated discourses on family in Japan. Yet there have always been multiple configurations of family and kinship, which, in the context of significant socio-economic and demographic shifts since the 1990s, have become increasingly visible in public discourse. This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Japan's Changing Generations

    Are Young People Creating a New Society?

    Edited by Gordon Mathews, Bruce White ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book argues that 'the generation gap' in Japan is something more than young people resisting the adult social order before entering and conforming to that order. Rather, it signifies something more fundamental: the emergence of a new Japan, which may be quite different from the Japan of postwar decades. It argues that while young people in Japan in their teens, twenties and early thirties are ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Japanese Youth

    From Returnees to NEETs

    Edited by Roger Goodman, Yuki Imoto, Tuukka Toivonen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    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’ ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Feminist Movements in Contemporary Japan

    by Laura Dales ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    In contemporary Japan there is much ambivalence about women’s roles, and the term "feminism" is not widely recognised or considered relevant. Nonetheless, as this book shows, there is a flourishing feminist movement in contemporary Japan. The book investigates the features and effects of feminism in contemporary Japan, in non-government (NGO) women’s groups, government-run women’s centres and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

    Part-time Work in Contemporary Japan

    by Emma E. Cook ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the past two decades, Japan’s socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s. Within this context, "freeters", part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students, emerged into the public arena as a social problem.This book, drawing on six ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Intercultural Communication in Japan

    Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse

    Edited by Satoshi Toyosaki, Shinsuke Eguchi ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan’s ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exploring Japanese University English Teachers' Professional Identity

    by Diane Hawley Nagatomo ...
    Series Book 23 - New Perspectives on Language and Education
    This book contributes to the growing field of EFL teacher identity, which is now recognized to influence numerous aspects of classroom teaching and of student learning. It focuses on an under-researched, and yet highly influential group of teachers that shape English language education in Japan: Japanese university English teachers. In three interrelated narrative studies, it examines how four ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Educational Futures

    Dominant and Contesting Visions

    by Ivana Milojevic ...
    This book provides an overview and analysis of current tensions, debates and key issues within OECD nations, particularly Australia, the USA, Canada and the UK, with regard to where education is and should be going. Using a broad historical analysis, it investigates ideas and visions about the future that are increasingly evoked to support arguments about the imminent demise of the dominant modern ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Culture, Development and Social Theory

    Towards an Integrated Social Development

    by John Clammer ...
    This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Contemporary Urban Japan

    A Sociology of Consumption

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD