Nana Okura Gagné
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 127118 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nana Okura Gagné |
| NOMBRES | Nana Okura |
| APELLIDO | Gagné |
| FIRMA | GAGNÉ N O |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Tokyo |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity
In the postwar period, Japanese workers came to symbolize the economic and cultural prosperity of Japan. In return for their hard work, they were rewarded with life-time employment and various fringe benefits. This postwar social contract of "corporate welfarism" minimized the social risks and personal career uncertainties of a fluid labour market. However, nearly 30 years of economic recession and neo-liberal reforms have undermined the postwar …
Neoliberalism at work
This article analyzes how the Japanese state and corporations promoted neoliberal restructuring and how employees responded to and reflected upon such changes. I show how neoliberal reforms have aimed to produce greater flexibility for corporations and promote a specific mode of control-"self-management"-among employees. However, rather than rationalizing and legitimizing risk and becoming self-regulating "enterprising selves," many employees dis…
Staged Seduction
Reviewed by: Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama Nana Okura Gagné (bio) Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club. By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2016. xvii, 225 pages. $80.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. In September 2004, Akiko Takeyama walked into Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district, and experienced firsthand the district's (in)famous hosts and their aggressive flirtation. Be…
Correcting Capitalism
What have been the processes of economic restructuring occurring inside many Japanese corporations, and what neo-liberal techniques have been used on the ground since the 2000s? By placing Japanese neo-liberalism within the broader historical and socio-cultural dynamics of the ideology of "companyism" since the end of World War II, this article analyses the specific deployment of neo-liberal techniques in the Japanese workplace, and the evolving …
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan
What did the “Lost Decade” mean to Japanese salarymen? While the postwar salaryman image became glorified with Japan’s economic growth, more than 20 years of recession and reforms since 1991 have t
Romance and sexuality in Japanese Latin dance clubs
In urban Japan, it is not just public expressions of affection or touch between adult men and women that are uncommon, but opportunities for dancing among adults are very limited in Japanese daily life. This article explores the choreography of 'parasexuality' - delimited yet intensified sensuality - that is created through sensual touching among salsa dancers. While public expression of intimacy is highly charged and best avoided in Tokyo, I arg…
Tough Choices
In Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan (2009), sociologist Ekaterina Hertog carefully examines the phenomenon, receptions/interpretations, and reactions/reflections of what it is for ‘unwed mothers’ [‘women legally never married to the father of their children’ (p. 9)] to bear a child out of wedlock in contemporary Japan. Based on her extensive interviews between 2004 and 2005 with 68 unwed mothers, 12 divorced moth…
Eating local in a U.S. city
In this article, I explore a particular form of exchange in which food-selling farmers and food-buying urban consumers interact beyond simple economic terms at a U.S. urban farmers’ market. By actively distinguishing their “alternative” exchange from the dominant capitalist exchange, participants objectify processes of production and consumption as well as their own “idealized form of being” (“liberal open-mindedness”) while undermining the domin…
Reexamining the notion of negative face in the Japanese Socio linguistic politeness of request
The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business
The representation of salarymen as hegemonic masculinity still dominates discourse about masculinity and power in Japan despite 20 years of recession and neoliberal economic reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in hostess clubs, where salarymen seemingly perpetuate hegemonic models of masculinity vis-à-vis female hostesses, this article reexamines the gender dynamics of these clubs. Hostess clubs are often thought of as places where women are…
Eating local in a U.S. city
In this article, I explore a particular form of exchange in which food-selling farmers and food-buying urban consumers interact beyond simple economic terms at a U.S. urban farmers’ market. By actively distinguishing their “alternative” exchange from the dominant capitalist exchange, participants objectify processes of production and consumption as well as their own “idealized form of being” (“liberal open-mindedness”) while undermining the domin…
Correcting Capitalism
What have been the processes of economic restructuring occurring inside many Japanese corporations, and what neo-liberal techniques have been used on the ground since the 2000s? By placing Japanese neo-liberalism within the broader historical and socio-cultural dynamics of the ideology of "companyism" since the end of World War II, this article analyses the specific deployment of neo-liberal techniques in the Japanese workplace, and the evolving …
The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business
The representation of salarymen as hegemonic masculinity still dominates discourse about masculinity and power in Japan despite 20 years of recession and neoliberal economic reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in hostess clubs, where salarymen seemingly perpetuate hegemonic models of masculinity vis-à-vis female hostesses, this article reexamines the gender dynamics of these clubs. Hostess clubs are often thought of as places where women are…
Romance and sexuality in Japanese Latin dance clubs
In urban Japan, it is not just public expressions of affection or touch between adult men and women that are uncommon, but opportunities for dancing among adults are very limited in Japanese daily life. This article explores the choreography of 'parasexuality' - delimited yet intensified sensuality - that is created through sensual touching among salsa dancers. While public expression of intimacy is highly charged and best avoided in Tokyo, I arg…
From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity
In the postwar period, Japanese workers came to symbolize the economic and cultural prosperity of Japan. In return for their hard work, they were rewarded with life-time employment and various fringe benefits. This postwar social contract of "corporate welfarism" minimized the social risks and personal career uncertainties of a fluid labour market. However, nearly 30 years of economic recession and neo-liberal reforms have undermined the postwar …
Neoliberalism at work
This article analyzes how the Japanese state and corporations promoted neoliberal restructuring and how employees responded to and reflected upon such changes. I show how neoliberal reforms have aimed to produce greater flexibility for corporations and promote a specific mode of control-"self-management"-among employees. However, rather than rationalizing and legitimizing risk and becoming self-regulating "enterprising selves," many employees dis…
Reexamining the notion of negative face in the Japanese Socio linguistic politeness of request
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan
What did the “Lost Decade” mean to Japanese salarymen? While the postwar salaryman image became glorified with Japan’s economic growth, more than 20 years of recession and reforms since 1991 have t
Reexamining the notion of negative face in the Japanese Socio linguistic politeness of request
The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business
The representation of salarymen as hegemonic masculinity still dominates discourse about masculinity and power in Japan despite 20 years of recession and neoliberal economic reforms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in hostess clubs, where salarymen seemingly perpetuate hegemonic models of masculinity vis-à-vis female hostesses, this article reexamines the gender dynamics of these clubs. Hostess clubs are often thought of as places where women are…
Eating local in a U.S. city
In this article, I explore a particular form of exchange in which food-selling farmers and food-buying urban consumers interact beyond simple economic terms at a U.S. urban farmers’ market. By actively distinguishing their “alternative” exchange from the dominant capitalist exchange, participants objectify processes of production and consumption as well as their own “idealized form of being” (“liberal open-mindedness”) while undermining the domin…
Tough Choices
In Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan (2009), sociologist Ekaterina Hertog carefully examines the phenomenon, receptions/interpretations, and reactions/reflections of what it is for ‘unwed mothers’ [‘women legally never married to the father of their children’ (p. 9)] to bear a child out of wedlock in contemporary Japan. Based on her extensive interviews between 2004 and 2005 with 68 unwed mothers, 12 divorced moth…
Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan
What did the “Lost Decade” mean to Japanese salarymen? While the postwar salaryman image became glorified with Japan’s economic growth, more than 20 years of recession and reforms since 1991 have t
Romance and sexuality in Japanese Latin dance clubs
In urban Japan, it is not just public expressions of affection or touch between adult men and women that are uncommon, but opportunities for dancing among adults are very limited in Japanese daily life. This article explores the choreography of 'parasexuality' - delimited yet intensified sensuality - that is created through sensual touching among salsa dancers. While public expression of intimacy is highly charged and best avoided in Tokyo, I arg…
Correcting Capitalism
What have been the processes of economic restructuring occurring inside many Japanese corporations, and what neo-liberal techniques have been used on the ground since the 2000s? By placing Japanese neo-liberalism within the broader historical and socio-cultural dynamics of the ideology of "companyism" since the end of World War II, this article analyses the specific deployment of neo-liberal techniques in the Japanese workplace, and the evolving …
Staged Seduction
Reviewed by: Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club by Akiko Takeyama Nana Okura Gagné (bio) Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club. By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2016. xvii, 225 pages. $80.00, cloth; $22.95, paper. In September 2004, Akiko Takeyama walked into Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district, and experienced firsthand the district's (in)famous hosts and their aggressive flirtation. Be…
From Employment Security to Managerial Precarity
In the postwar period, Japanese workers came to symbolize the economic and cultural prosperity of Japan. In return for their hard work, they were rewarded with life-time employment and various fringe benefits. This postwar social contract of "corporate welfarism" minimized the social risks and personal career uncertainties of a fluid labour market. However, nearly 30 years of economic recession and neo-liberal reforms have undermined the postwar …
Neoliberalism at work
This article analyzes how the Japanese state and corporations promoted neoliberal restructuring and how employees responded to and reflected upon such changes. I show how neoliberal reforms have aimed to produce greater flexibility for corporations and promote a specific mode of control-"self-management"-among employees. However, rather than rationalizing and legitimizing risk and becoming self-regulating "enterprising selves," many employees dis…
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