Julie Valk
Biographic Data
| ID | 82687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Valk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Valk |
| SIGNATURE | VALK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8227-2349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product
Blockchain imaginaries
Frail hope and new frontiers
This guest editorial takes as its starting point the 2021 guest editorial in ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY on the anthropology of blockchain written by Kosmarski and Gordiychuk, in which they discussed the possibilities of blockchain in terms of a 'frail hope of novel, weird, grassroots, decentralized forms of social life'. They also argued that blockchain brought us to 'new frontiers' in politics, economics, capital, votes and subjective feelings. Two year…
Purity and dangers
Market making is a crucial activity in financial markets, expected to reduce uncertainties related to price and liquidity information, and to enable strategic interactions among traders. Sociologists of finance have recently emphasized the role of automation and calculative devices such as algorithms in market making, highlighting the transition from informal human interactions on the trading floor to multilayered, formalized interactions involvi…
Selling the Kimono
The smell of Shōwa
This article maps the way second-hand kimono pass between different regimes of value as they move out of people's homes and into second-hand shops. Joining recent calls for a greater anthropological focus on the processes of divestment and disposal, the author highlights how kimono move from the inalienable space of the domestic sphere and into the alienable domain of retail, and considers how their materiality - worn fabrics, dated aesthetics an…
The alienating inalienable
Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this article focuses on collections of gifted kimono that have accumulated in the home, which are usually intended to be passed from mother to daughter and thus enable the perpetuation of family history. I argue that the kimono, as an inalienable possession, is now not as often passed down as it was intended to be, and that this causes a sense of alienation to occur: alienation from the k…
Costume in Performance
From Duty to Fashion
In this article, I argue that the role and significance of the Japanese kimono are changing in twenty-first-century Japan. When the Japanese economy prospered after World War Two, the kimono became a prestige item that was worn mainly for ceremonial occasions such as weddings and coming of age ceremonies, and it was also bought to fill the trousseaus of daughters who were about to get married. These kimonos were mainly worn out of a sense of duty…
Research Note
The alienating inalienable
Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this article focuses on collections of gifted kimono that have accumulated in the home, which are usually intended to be passed from mother to daughter and thus enable the perpetuation of family history. I argue that the kimono, as an inalienable possession, is now not as often passed down as it was intended to be, and that this causes a sense of alienation to occur: alienation from the k…
From Duty to Fashion
In this article, I argue that the role and significance of the Japanese kimono are changing in twenty-first-century Japan. When the Japanese economy prospered after World War Two, the kimono became a prestige item that was worn mainly for ceremonial occasions such as weddings and coming of age ceremonies, and it was also bought to fill the trousseaus of daughters who were about to get married. These kimonos were mainly worn out of a sense of duty…
The smell of Shōwa
This article maps the way second-hand kimono pass between different regimes of value as they move out of people's homes and into second-hand shops. Joining recent calls for a greater anthropological focus on the processes of divestment and disposal, the author highlights how kimono move from the inalienable space of the domestic sphere and into the alienable domain of retail, and considers how their materiality - worn fabrics, dated aesthetics an…
Research Note
Blockchain imaginaries
Research Note
From Duty to Fashion
In this article, I argue that the role and significance of the Japanese kimono are changing in twenty-first-century Japan. When the Japanese economy prospered after World War Two, the kimono became a prestige item that was worn mainly for ceremonial occasions such as weddings and coming of age ceremonies, and it was also bought to fill the trousseaus of daughters who were about to get married. These kimonos were mainly worn out of a sense of duty…
Costume in Performance
The smell of Shōwa
This article maps the way second-hand kimono pass between different regimes of value as they move out of people's homes and into second-hand shops. Joining recent calls for a greater anthropological focus on the processes of divestment and disposal, the author highlights how kimono move from the inalienable space of the domestic sphere and into the alienable domain of retail, and considers how their materiality - worn fabrics, dated aesthetics an…
The alienating inalienable
Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork in Japan, this article focuses on collections of gifted kimono that have accumulated in the home, which are usually intended to be passed from mother to daughter and thus enable the perpetuation of family history. I argue that the kimono, as an inalienable possession, is now not as often passed down as it was intended to be, and that this causes a sense of alienation to occur: alienation from the k…
Selling the Kimono
Blockchain imaginaries
Frail hope and new frontiers
This guest editorial takes as its starting point the 2021 guest editorial in ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY on the anthropology of blockchain written by Kosmarski and Gordiychuk, in which they discussed the possibilities of blockchain in terms of a 'frail hope of novel, weird, grassroots, decentralized forms of social life'. They also argued that blockchain brought us to 'new frontiers' in politics, economics, capital, votes and subjective feelings. Two year…
Purity and dangers
Market making is a crucial activity in financial markets, expected to reduce uncertainties related to price and liquidity information, and to enable strategic interactions among traders. Sociologists of finance have recently emphasized the role of automation and calculative devices such as algorithms in market making, highlighting the transition from informal human interactions on the trading floor to multilayered, formalized interactions involvi…
Cultural Literacy as Mission and Product
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works)