Wolfram Manzenreiter
Biographic Data
| ID | 167989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfram Manzenreiter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfram |
| FAMILY NAME | Manzenreiter |
| SIGNATURE | MANZENREITER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Beyond Economic Aspirations in International Student Mobility to Japan: The case of Central European students
Student mobility to Japan from highly developed countries has remarkably increased in recent years, though went largely unnoticed by international student mobility researchers. The framework of ISM and on international students in Japan is dominated by utilitarian models, while non-material aspirations have only recently gained more attention. This paper aims to fill these gaps in understanding students’ aspirations to study in Japan by analyzing…
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
More than any other sport, baseball has received special attention in popular accounts of Japanese culture and society. Foreign writers, as well as Japanese authors, frequently used the sport as magnifying glass to portray the particularities, and sometimes peculiarities, of Japan. Images like samurai baseball, or the Way of Baseball, appeared as keywords in tractates of either cultural colonialization or nativist soul-searching. William W. Kelly…
Németh, Rita: Kyūdō im Wandel. Das japanische Bogenschießen von 1900 bis heute
Anthropos is the international journal of anthropology and linguistics, founded in 1906 by Wilhelm Schmidt, missonary and member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Its main purpose is the study of human societies in their cultural dimension. In honor of Wilhelm Schmidt‘s legacy, the cultivation of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and religious studies remain an essential component oft he Anthropos Institute – the organizational carrier…
Olympics and the media
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the greatest media spectacle of modernity, providing a powerful platform for the host nation to communicate ideas about itself and future visions with domestic and global audiences. This chapter explains why and the crucial role of Japan’s media in framing the Games and forging national consent
Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics
"This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a lens into the city and the country as a whole, the stellar line up of contributors offers hidden"
Japan
Happiness and the Good Life in Japan
Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan
Introduction: Making sense of happiness in unhappy Barbara Holthus and Wolfram Manzenreiter PART I: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH Chapter 1. Tanoshikatta ne? Learning to be happy in Japanese preschools Eyal Ben-Ari Chapter 2. Because I feel happy: Japanese first graders' views about schooling and well-being Yoko Yamamoto Chapter 3. Unhappy and isolated youth in the midst of social change: Representations and subjective experiences of hikikomori in contempo…
Squared diaspora: Representations of the Japanese diaspora across time and space
This introduction to the special issue on the Japanese diaspora sets the background to the theme by summarizing the key components of diaspora theory and pointing out some fallacies and conceptual shortcomings this volume attempts to overcome. The article argues that the complexity of the contemporary diaspora of Japanese emigrants and their descendants at the intersection with the emerging Nikkei diaspora provides peculiar insights into the spat…
Living under more than one sun: The Nikkei Diaspora in the Americas
Currently more than 2.5 million Americans living on the South and North American continents are Nikkei or descendants of Japanese migrants. The history of their forefathers' emigration from Japan and the meaning of ethnicity and citizenship while living in the diaspora has attracted considerable scholarly attention, which was renewed by the recent wave of sojourner migration by Latin Americans of Japanese origin into Japan. Virtually nothing is k…
Kendo: Culture of the Sword
Journal Article Kendo: Culture of the Sword Get access Kendo: Culture of the Sword , by Alexander C. Bennett . Oakland, CA : University of California Press , 2015 , 328 pp., $32.95 (ISBN 978-0-520-28437-1 ) Wolfram MANZENREITER Wolfram MANZENREITER University of Vienna Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 19, Issue 2, Summer 2016, Pages 254–258, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/…
Sport Mega-Events
This chapter focuses on what the available social scientific scholarship on sport mega-events has brought to light on their significance for community building, urban development and the formation of collective identities and global civil society. It draws on the sociological understanding of sport mega-events as collecting points for a variety of aspirations by differing stakeholders. Sport has contributed to processes of nation-building as well…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On culture and political economy
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an influential scholar in the study of sport and nation, Wolfram Manzenreiter, argues in favor of a combination of micro- and macro-sociological approaches to further our understanding of sport as a universal - or anthropogenic - expression and global institution. In his assessment, the hegemonic power of the Western bloc is noted whereby Western cultural sensibilities have been transformed into unive…
Cracks in the Moral Economy of Sumo: Beasts of Burden, Sport Heroes, National Icons and Living Gods in Disgrace
Sumo, Japan's vernacular form of wrestling is so strikingly enmeshed in a distinctive cosmology of symbols, performances and narratives that the association with the traditional and the national seems to come inevitably, if not naturally. Yet many of the eye-catching elements are inventions from early modern or more recent times. Recent scandals demonstrated that the world of sumo is threatened to be torn apart between its conceptualisations as e…
Playing by Unfair Rules? Asia's Positioning within Global Sports Production Networks
The link between global sports brands and the violation of workers' rights in Asia has been a mainstream issue for many years. A ceaseless flow of news reports on the infringement of workers' rights in Asia suggests that neocolonialist dependencies and the ruthless exploitation of sweatshop labor are endemic in the industry. However, Asian corporations standing in the shadow of global brands have recently taken the lead in coordinating global spo…
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle
Olympic Tales from the East
Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup
1. Introduction Section One: Political Economy 2. Staging the Finals 3. Governing Bodies in World Football 4. The Political Economy of the World Cup Section Two: Football in Korea and Japan 5. The Development in Football in Japan 6. The Development of Football in Korea 7. Korean Football at the Crossroads: A View from Inside Section Three: Football Fandom / Contestation 8. Gender and Football Fandom in Japan 9. Japanese Football: Following the Lo…
No pain, no gain: Embodied masculinities and lifestyle sport in Japan
In postmodern society, the field of consumption has replaced the world of production as the main arena in which dominant stereotypes of masculinity and femininity are communicated and reinforced. Previous research findings suggest that deference to male authority, homosociality, hierarchical junior–senior relationships, conformity and control, and the appreciation of pain and violence are characteristic elements which exaggerate masculine traits …
Global Sports Commodity Chains and Asia's New Interregional Division of Labour
The Asian economic region has become centrally important to the sporting goods industry for two main reasons. First, Asia is emerging as an increasingly important sales market for the global sporting goods industry, and second, it is supplying the vast majority of sporting goods to the global athletics market. Using key data combined with case studies of global sporting goods brands positioned centrally in production networks, I will provide quan…
Playing against all odds: Pachinko and the culture of risk-taking in Japan’s crisis economy
The Japanese gambling industry has been badly hit by two decades of economic crises. Shrinking household incomes and shifting consumer preferences have left their marks even on the pachinko business which formerly had been hailed as recession-resistant. This paper situates theory and practice of machine gambling in Japan at the beginning of the twenty-first century into the context of sociological debates on risk. Taking a closer look at recent d…
Monitoring Health and the Body: Anthropometry, Lifestyle Risks, and the Japanese Obesity Crisis
The 2008 introduction of the special health checkup ( tokutei kenkō shinsa ) signaled a major shift in Japan’s health policy away from a high-risk approach toward a population approach based on the epidemiological probability of contracting a disease. This article places the government’s concern with mapping obesity within its longstanding interest in surveying the national physique and sociological debates on risk in late modernity. The empirica…
Governance, citizenship and the new European Football Championships: The European spectacle
For any well‐informed observer of European affairs, the cultural significance of football in Europe is evident to such a degree that football must be appraised as the one ubiquitous exception to th
The Euro 2008 bonanza: Mega‐events, economic pretensions and the sports–media business alliance
Public reports in the media prior to EURO 2008 hailed the economic impact of hosting the event on the national economy. Whereas in the USA spectator sports have been frequently used as a device for drawing public expenditures and subsidies over the greater half of the past century, in the regional context of Europe and the focus of football such argumentations have a much shorter history, dating back to the recent football mega‐events of the twen…
The Beijing Games in the Western Imagination of China: The Weak Power of Soft Power
Mega events focus the world's attention on a particular place and a nation and the success thereof, in either hosting or performing well in the event. Throughout the world, expectations were running high that China would make use of hosting the Beijing Games to promote a positive image to the world. This article takes a critical look at the discourse on the Beijing Games as a public diplomacy tool. Empirical data from global opinion polls are ana…
An Introduction to the Sociology of Sports Mega-Events
The Beijing Games in the Western Imagination of China: The Weak Power of Soft Power
Mega events focus the world's attention on a particular place and a nation and the success thereof, in either hosting or performing well in the event. Throughout the world, expectations were running high that China would make use of hosting the Beijing Games to promote a positive image to the world. This article takes a critical look at the discourse on the Beijing Games as a public diplomacy tool. Empirical data from global opinion polls are ana…
Accounting for Mega-Events: Forecast and Actual Impacts of the 2002 Football World Cup Finals on the Host Countries Japan/Korea
The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was the first football World Cup Finals ever to take place in Asia and be co-hosted by two countries. Drawing on data provided by the national and local organizing committees, football's world governing institution, local and international media accounts and first-hand observations made before, during and after the event, the article discusses the contrast between discourses that forecast and described the actu…
Playing the Post‐Fordist Game in/to the Far East: The Footballisation of China, Japan and South Korea
This essay explores the global dimensions, national aspirations, and local preconditions of the rise of football in China, Japan and Korea. The burgeoning popularity of football in the world’s most vital growth region (in terms of production and consumption power) indicates both the successful integration of the ‘football periphery’ into global commodity markets, as well as changing relations of consumption in areas where football previously was …
Football in the reconstruction of the gender order in Japan
This essay addresses the conjunctions of football, masculinity and gender relations in Japanese society. Football has been identified as a major domain of masculinity in modern societies. However, in Japan, where football has emerged as a major cultural force only over the past one or two decades, women are much more present in the football stadia than in the traditional core cultures of football support. Despite the apparent de‐gendering of foot…
Living under more than one sun: The Nikkei Diaspora in the Americas
Currently more than 2.5 million Americans living on the South and North American continents are Nikkei or descendants of Japanese migrants. The history of their forefathers' emigration from Japan and the meaning of ethnicity and citizenship while living in the diaspora has attracted considerable scholarly attention, which was renewed by the recent wave of sojourner migration by Latin Americans of Japanese origin into Japan. Virtually nothing is k…
Monitoring Health and the Body: Anthropometry, Lifestyle Risks, and the Japanese Obesity Crisis
The 2008 introduction of the special health checkup ( tokutei kenkō shinsa ) signaled a major shift in Japan’s health policy away from a high-risk approach toward a population approach based on the epidemiological probability of contracting a disease. This article places the government’s concern with mapping obesity within its longstanding interest in surveying the national physique and sociological debates on risk in late modernity. The empirica…
No pain, no gain: Embodied masculinities and lifestyle sport in Japan
In postmodern society, the field of consumption has replaced the world of production as the main arena in which dominant stereotypes of masculinity and femininity are communicated and reinforced. Previous research findings suggest that deference to male authority, homosociality, hierarchical junior–senior relationships, conformity and control, and the appreciation of pain and violence are characteristic elements which exaggerate masculine traits …
Governance, citizenship and the new European Football Championships: The European spectacle
For any well‐informed observer of European affairs, the cultural significance of football in Europe is evident to such a degree that football must be appraised as the one ubiquitous exception to th
Football, komyuniti and the Japanese ideological soccer apparatus
This contribution explores different ideas about community (or komyuniti, the Japanese loan word borrowed from English) and different means of community development in relation to association football in contemporary Japan. We show how football has been used in Japan to cope with the emotional, social and economic challenges of social change in late modernity. Analysing the social usage of football for a very heterogeneous contingent of needs and…
Sport Spectacles, Uniformities and the Search for Identity in Late Modern Japan
Cracks in the Moral Economy of Sumo: Beasts of Burden, Sport Heroes, National Icons and Living Gods in Disgrace
Sumo, Japan's vernacular form of wrestling is so strikingly enmeshed in a distinctive cosmology of symbols, performances and narratives that the association with the traditional and the national seems to come inevitably, if not naturally. Yet many of the eye-catching elements are inventions from early modern or more recent times. Recent scandals demonstrated that the world of sumo is threatened to be torn apart between its conceptualisations as e…
Playing by Unfair Rules? Asia's Positioning within Global Sports Production Networks
The link between global sports brands and the violation of workers' rights in Asia has been a mainstream issue for many years. A ceaseless flow of news reports on the infringement of workers' rights in Asia suggests that neocolonialist dependencies and the ruthless exploitation of sweatshop labor are endemic in the industry. However, Asian corporations standing in the shadow of global brands have recently taken the lead in coordinating global spo…
Leisure and Consumer Culture in Japan
The thought behind this ‘think piece’ is that the social scientific investigation of specific experiences (in this case of leisure in Japan) offers both confirmation of general trends in a globaliz
Japanese football and world sports: Raising the Global Game in a Local Setting
Professional football in Japan, as elsewhere, has increasingly become linked to agents, structures, and processes of global capitalism. However, football is as much about culture as it is about business. Placing Japanese football into the context of world sports seems to be a promising endeavour to get fresh insight into the dialectics of the global and the local in transnational cultural flows and the processes underlying the globalization of sp…
Pachinko monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glucks- spielindustrie
Japan: Der andere Kulturfuhrer
Japan Pop! Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
Japanese football and world sports: Raising the Global Game in a Local Setting
Professional football in Japan, as elsewhere, has increasingly become linked to agents, structures, and processes of global capitalism. However, football is as much about culture as it is about business. Placing Japanese football into the context of world sports seems to be a promising endeavour to get fresh insight into the dialectics of the global and the local in transnational cultural flows and the processes underlying the globalization of sp…
Accounting for Mega-Events: Forecast and Actual Impacts of the 2002 Football World Cup Finals on the Host Countries Japan/Korea
The 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan was the first football World Cup Finals ever to take place in Asia and be co-hosted by two countries. Drawing on data provided by the national and local organizing committees, football's world governing institution, local and international media accounts and first-hand observations made before, during and after the event, the article discusses the contrast between discourses that forecast and described the actu…
Leisure and Consumer Culture in Japan
The thought behind this ‘think piece’ is that the social scientific investigation of specific experiences (in this case of leisure in Japan) offers both confirmation of general trends in a globaliz
An Introduction to the Sociology of Sports Mega-Events
Sport Spectacles, Uniformities and the Search for Identity in Late Modern Japan
Playing the Post‐Fordist Game in/to the Far East: The Footballisation of China, Japan and South Korea
This essay explores the global dimensions, national aspirations, and local preconditions of the rise of football in China, Japan and Korea. The burgeoning popularity of football in the world’s most vital growth region (in terms of production and consumption power) indicates both the successful integration of the ‘football periphery’ into global commodity markets, as well as changing relations of consumption in areas where football previously was …
Reflections on the Trajectories of Social Science Research in Contemporary Japan
Journal Article Reflections on the Trajectories of Social Science Research in Contemporary Japan Get access Wolfram MANZENREITER, Wolfram MANZENREITER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Iris WIECZOREK Iris WIECZOREK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Science Japan Journal, Volume 11, Issue 1, Summer 2008, Pages 83–97, https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyn023 Published: …
Introduction: Social Science Matters
Knowledge in general has been identified as the fundamental resource determining the capacities of societies to master the challenges ahead of them. Population growth, poverty, global inequality and the state of international relations are some of the core issues identified by the comprehensive ‘Japan Vision 2050’, published by the Science Council of Japan. These topics resonate closely with the central fields of concern for many working in the s…
Football, komyuniti and the Japanese ideological soccer apparatus
This contribution explores different ideas about community (or komyuniti, the Japanese loan word borrowed from English) and different means of community development in relation to association football in contemporary Japan. We show how football has been used in Japan to cope with the emotional, social and economic challenges of social change in late modernity. Analysing the social usage of football for a very heterogeneous contingent of needs and…
Football in the reconstruction of the gender order in Japan
This essay addresses the conjunctions of football, masculinity and gender relations in Japanese society. Football has been identified as a major domain of masculinity in modern societies. However, in Japan, where football has emerged as a major cultural force only over the past one or two decades, women are much more present in the football stadia than in the traditional core cultures of football support. Despite the apparent de‐gendering of foot…
Governance, citizenship and the new European Football Championships: The European spectacle
For any well‐informed observer of European affairs, the cultural significance of football in Europe is evident to such a degree that football must be appraised as the one ubiquitous exception to th
The Euro 2008 bonanza: Mega‐events, economic pretensions and the sports–media business alliance
Public reports in the media prior to EURO 2008 hailed the economic impact of hosting the event on the national economy. Whereas in the USA spectator sports have been frequently used as a device for drawing public expenditures and subsidies over the greater half of the past century, in the regional context of Europe and the focus of football such argumentations have a much shorter history, dating back to the recent football mega‐events of the twen…
The Beijing Games in the Western Imagination of China: The Weak Power of Soft Power
Mega events focus the world's attention on a particular place and a nation and the success thereof, in either hosting or performing well in the event. Throughout the world, expectations were running high that China would make use of hosting the Beijing Games to promote a positive image to the world. This article takes a critical look at the discourse on the Beijing Games as a public diplomacy tool. Empirical data from global opinion polls are ana…
Monitoring Health and the Body: Anthropometry, Lifestyle Risks, and the Japanese Obesity Crisis
The 2008 introduction of the special health checkup ( tokutei kenkō shinsa ) signaled a major shift in Japan’s health policy away from a high-risk approach toward a population approach based on the epidemiological probability of contracting a disease. This article places the government’s concern with mapping obesity within its longstanding interest in surveying the national physique and sociological debates on risk in late modernity. The empirica…
Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships: The European Spectacle
Olympic Tales from the East
Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup
1. Introduction Section One: Political Economy 2. Staging the Finals 3. Governing Bodies in World Football 4. The Political Economy of the World Cup Section Two: Football in Korea and Japan 5. The Development in Football in Japan 6. The Development of Football in Korea 7. Korean Football at the Crossroads: A View from Inside Section Three: Football Fandom / Contestation 8. Gender and Football Fandom in Japan 9. Japanese Football: Following the Lo…
No pain, no gain: Embodied masculinities and lifestyle sport in Japan
In postmodern society, the field of consumption has replaced the world of production as the main arena in which dominant stereotypes of masculinity and femininity are communicated and reinforced. Previous research findings suggest that deference to male authority, homosociality, hierarchical junior–senior relationships, conformity and control, and the appreciation of pain and violence are characteristic elements which exaggerate masculine traits …
Global Sports Commodity Chains and Asia's New Interregional Division of Labour
The Asian economic region has become centrally important to the sporting goods industry for two main reasons. First, Asia is emerging as an increasingly important sales market for the global sporting goods industry, and second, it is supplying the vast majority of sporting goods to the global athletics market. Using key data combined with case studies of global sporting goods brands positioned centrally in production networks, I will provide quan…
Playing against all odds: Pachinko and the culture of risk-taking in Japan’s crisis economy
The Japanese gambling industry has been badly hit by two decades of economic crises. Shrinking household incomes and shifting consumer preferences have left their marks even on the pachinko business which formerly had been hailed as recession-resistant. This paper situates theory and practice of machine gambling in Japan at the beginning of the twenty-first century into the context of sociological debates on risk. Taking a closer look at recent d…
Cracks in the Moral Economy of Sumo: Beasts of Burden, Sport Heroes, National Icons and Living Gods in Disgrace
Sumo, Japan's vernacular form of wrestling is so strikingly enmeshed in a distinctive cosmology of symbols, performances and narratives that the association with the traditional and the national seems to come inevitably, if not naturally. Yet many of the eye-catching elements are inventions from early modern or more recent times. Recent scandals demonstrated that the world of sumo is threatened to be torn apart between its conceptualisations as e…
Playing by Unfair Rules? Asia's Positioning within Global Sports Production Networks
The link between global sports brands and the violation of workers' rights in Asia has been a mainstream issue for many years. A ceaseless flow of news reports on the infringement of workers' rights in Asia suggests that neocolonialist dependencies and the ruthless exploitation of sweatshop labor are endemic in the industry. However, Asian corporations standing in the shadow of global brands have recently taken the lead in coordinating global spo…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (16 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · History (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Law (10 works)