Carolyn S Stevens

Biographic Data

ID161606
NAMECarolyn S Stevens
GIVEN NAMESCarolyn S
FAMILY NAMEStevens
SIGNATURESTEVENS C S
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Melbourne
ORCID0000-0002-9213-115X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS55
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT55
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia

    Carolyn S StevensARTICLEThe Journal of Asian Studies2025

  • From beautiful to cute: Shifting meanings in Japanese language and culture

    Open AccessLaura Miller, Carolyn S StevensARTICLEInternational Journal of Language…2021

    Japanese visual aesthetics as represented in traditional arts such as flower arranging, calligraphy and tea ceremony have long been celebrated or even emulated as exemplary expressions of beauty. The Japanese term utsukushii (beautiful) can be used to describe a wide variety of pleasing aspects of daily life, ranging from the human form to nature and even the gustatory experience. This article outlines traditional notions of beauty in the Japanes…

  • Sounding Out Japan: A Sensory Ethnographic Tour

    Richard Chenhall, Tamara Kohn et al.BOOKSounding Out Japan2021

    This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences.This book takes the reader on a sensory ethnographic tour in Japan and describes the many ways sounds seep into everyday experiences. So many ethnographies describe local worlds with a deep attention to what is seen and what people say, but with a limited understanding of the broader sonic environments that enrich a…

  • An Interrogation of Sensory Anthropology of and in Japan

    Hannah Gould, Richard Chenhall et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly2019Cited by: 1References: 18

    Sensory anthropology has quickly become a dynamic and expansive field of contemporary scholarship, with ethnographers increasingly interested in diverse sensory cosmologies as indicative of a "sensory turn" in anthropology. However, there has also been a tendency for these scholars to work in a linguistic silo, and overlook the potential contributions of local knowledge and scholarship. In this article, we begin to address this gap by bringing Ja…

  • Life on the margins in Japan

    Carolyn S StevensCHAPTERRoutledege handbook of Japanese…2015

  • Images of Suffering, Resilience and Compassion in Post 3/11 Japan 3.11

    Open AccessCarolyn S StevensARTICLEJapan focus2015

    In this essay I explore the visual representation of suffering, resilience and compassion as expressed in a Tokyo-based photography exhibition in April 2011. An analysis of the photographs provides an opportunity to re-examine the meaning of disaster and victimhood, and to re-examine a society that responds to tragedy. Of particular note are intertextual references between the 2011 exhibition and other iconic images, some of which represent other…

  • Cute But Relaxed: Ten Years of Rilakkuma in Precarious Japan

    Open AccessCarolyn S StevensARTICLEM/C Journal2014

    Introduction Japan has long been cited as a major source of cute (kawaii) culture as it has spread around the world, as encapsulated in Christine R. Yano’s phrase ‘Pink Globalization’. This essay charts recent developments in Japanese society through the cute character Rilakkuma, a character produced by San-X (a competitor to Sanrio, which produces the famed Hello Kitty). His name means ‘relaxed bear’, and Rilakkuma and friends are featured in co…

  • Debating Human Rights and Prenatal Testing in Japan

    Carolyn S Stevens, Carolyn StevensARTICLEAsian Studies Review2013Cited by: 1References: 8

    1 1. This article originated as a conference presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies and draws on material from my book Disability in Japan (Routledge, 2013). Disability in Japan is often conflated with the problems of an ageing society, but the disability identity is not one merely associated with the ageing process. As diagnostic science inches our understanding of disability further and further back into ev…

  • Touching the Audience: Music and Television Advertising in Japan

    Carolyn S StevensARTICLEJapanese Studies2011References: 7

    Japanese popular music as embedded in television commercials is taken as a point of departure for understanding consumer aesthetics and practices, and how music and image can touch – or, create a lasting impression on – an audience. This phenomenon, called the tai-appu (tie-up), or an alignment between artists and products, results in an imēji songu (image song). These contracts between manufacturers and artist have been ubiquitous in the Japanes…

  • Running risks of gender inequity: Knowledge transfer policy in Australian higher education

    Beth Gaze, Carolyn S Stevens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Education Policy2011Cited by: 1References: 10

    Knowledge transfer (KT), or third stream activities of universities, has attracted attention from funding and regulatory bodies in recent years. While approaches differ from country to country, moves to improve measurement and monitoring of such activities with a view to encourage or better direct it have occurred in several settings. This article analyses some issues arising from moves to define and measure KT in an Australian university. There …

  • Touch: Encounters with Japanese Popular Culture

    Carolyn S StevensARTICLEJapanese Studies2011Cited by: 8References: 11

    1The papers for this special issue are based on a panel presentation at the American Anthropological Association Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 December 2009, with contributors Ian Condry

  • Disability, caregiving and interpellation: Migrant and non‐migrant families of children with disabilities in urban Australia

    Carolyn S StevensARTICLEDisability & Society2010Cited by: 4References: 4

    The process of interpellation (and its opposite, misinterpellation) is taken as a metaphor for understanding the lived experience of personal difference. This research focuses on two interpellative experiences: disability and migrant status. Parents of children with moderate to profound intellectual disabilities were asked about their engagement with the community; their access to support programs; and their sense of well‐being. Responses were di…

  • You Are What You Buy: Postmodern Consumption and Fandom of Japanese Popular Culture

    Carolyn S StevensARTICLEJapanese Studies2010Cited by: 7References: 7

    In recent years, Japanese popular culture has received much attention both inside and outside the academy. Its success overseas has contributed to theories of transnational cultural flow, 'soft power' and 'Gross National Cool'. At the same time, public opinion of fans, both in Japan and overseas, remains low. This article attempts to rescue fandom from its current association with social ostracism, placing it instead in a logical structure of a h…

  • Embracing Scruton's Cultural Conservatism

    Carolyn S Stevens, C StevensARTICLEThe British Journal of Aesthetics2009

    Journal Article Embracing Scruton's Cultural Conservatism Get access Christopher Stevens Christopher Stevens Christopher Stevens, University of Maryland and University of Helsinki Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 49, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 371–388, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayp040 Published: 01 October 2009

  • Globalisation and Body Politics

    Mackie, Vera Mackie et al.ARTICLEAsian Studies Review2009Cited by: 10References: 22

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    New Directions in East Asian AnthropologyCaroline S Stevens

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    A Conversation with Beth Notar and Joshua Roth Jennifer Hubbert

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    The Wedding Banquet Revisited: ?Contract Marriages? Between South Korean Gays and Lesbians John (Song Pae) Cho

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    Conversation with Sonia Ryang Sonia Ryang

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

    A Conversation with Aihwa Ong Shannon May

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Jennifer HubbertARTICLEAnthropology News2008

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    Bridging Asian and Asian-American StudiesChristine R Yano

  • Society for East Asian Anthropology

    Open AccessCarolyn S Stevens, Christine R YanoARTICLEAnthropology News2007

    National Agendas, Local Income and Knotted Knowledge in HuangbaiyuShannon May