Ayaka Yoshimizu
Biographic Data
| ID | 640424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayaka Yoshimizu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayaka |
| FAMILY NAME | Yoshimizu |
| SIGNATURE | YOSHIMIZU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3020-1845 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transmediating race and senses through subtitling in translanguaging classroom
This article reflects on a transdisciplinary curricular project in a Japanese language course that employs audio–visual subtitling to promote students’ critical literacies in languages, cultures, and media. Drawing on Nornes’s (2015) notion of “sensuous subtitling,” which embraces the incorporation of the “materiality of language” into translation, we present how students’ experimental subtitlings potentially make a transformative intervention in…
Student-centered, “embodied inter-referencing” as antiracist and anticolonial pedagogy
This article reflects on an experimental pedagogical approach I developed in a Japanese literature course that examines sex, gender, and sexuality in response to institutional and epistemic racism that exist in university in Canada and in the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic when the number of anti-Asian hate crimes rose at an enormous rate in the city where my university is situated. Building on the intellectual movements of “Asia as me…
Unsettling Memories of Japanese Migrant Sex Workers: Carceral Mobilities of the Transpacific Underground at the Turn of the 20 th Century
Between 1908 and 1909 and in 1912, Vancouver-based journalist Shohei Osada published a two-part series entitled “Exploration of Devil Caves” in a local Japanese language newspaper, detailing the lives of Japanese migrants involved in the sex trade in Canada. The series showcases the presence of underground networks that extended across the continent and the Pacific, or what I call the “transpacific underground.” Many characters in Osada’s series …
Bodies That Remember: Gleaning scenic fragments of a brothel district in Yokohama
In January 2005, a large-scale raid organized by Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the municipal government eradicated sex trade businesses in Koganecho, a marginalized district in the port city of Yokohama. The array of small brothels in the district was completely uprooted, and transnational migrant women who were working there disappeared. Although the migrant sex workers are no longer present in the district and the city landscape is shifting r…
Walking Histories, Un/making Places: Walking Tours as Ethnography of Place
This article is a methodological examination situated within a larger multisited project on the formation and regulation of communities of sex workers in Yokohama, Japan, and Vancouver, Canada, in historical and social discourse. Tracing the fragmented and elliptical histories of these communities, we are attentive to the potential for walking, and specifically walking tours, as an ethnographic method, a mode of historical engagement, and a means…
Chopsticks, phone bells and farms: Fuyuko Taira's diasporic spatial practice
In this article, I revisit my earlier project on local poetry practices by Japanese ‘war brides’ from the Second World War and explore a creative, transnational home-making activity by focusing on one of my informants, Fuyuko Taira's senryu poetry. Drawing on theories of global space and diasporic home-making practices, I suggest that her engagement in senryu involves a transnational spatial practice through the use of familiar everyday language.…
Hello, War Brides
This article examines "Hello, War Brides," a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative "memory work." Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I argue that this work represents individual war brides' memories as counter-memories that provide a new understanding of the experiences of Japanese war brides. Such an understan…
Walking Histories, Un/making Places: Walking Tours as Ethnography of Place
This article is a methodological examination situated within a larger multisited project on the formation and regulation of communities of sex workers in Yokohama, Japan, and Vancouver, Canada, in historical and social discourse. Tracing the fragmented and elliptical histories of these communities, we are attentive to the potential for walking, and specifically walking tours, as an ethnographic method, a mode of historical engagement, and a means…
Hello, War Brides
This article examines "Hello, War Brides," a series of short, auto/biographical essays authored by two Japanese war brides from the state of Washington. I view this text as a product of collaborative "memory work." Based on a textual analysis of its narratives and form, I argue that this work represents individual war brides' memories as counter-memories that provide a new understanding of the experiences of Japanese war brides. Such an understan…
Chopsticks, phone bells and farms: Fuyuko Taira's diasporic spatial practice
In this article, I revisit my earlier project on local poetry practices by Japanese ‘war brides’ from the Second World War and explore a creative, transnational home-making activity by focusing on one of my informants, Fuyuko Taira's senryu poetry. Drawing on theories of global space and diasporic home-making practices, I suggest that her engagement in senryu involves a transnational spatial practice through the use of familiar everyday language.…
Bodies That Remember: Gleaning scenic fragments of a brothel district in Yokohama
In January 2005, a large-scale raid organized by Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the municipal government eradicated sex trade businesses in Koganecho, a marginalized district in the port city of Yokohama. The array of small brothels in the district was completely uprooted, and transnational migrant women who were working there disappeared. Although the migrant sex workers are no longer present in the district and the city landscape is shifting r…
Walking Histories, Un/making Places: Walking Tours as Ethnography of Place
This article is a methodological examination situated within a larger multisited project on the formation and regulation of communities of sex workers in Yokohama, Japan, and Vancouver, Canada, in historical and social discourse. Tracing the fragmented and elliptical histories of these communities, we are attentive to the potential for walking, and specifically walking tours, as an ethnographic method, a mode of historical engagement, and a means…
Unsettling Memories of Japanese Migrant Sex Workers: Carceral Mobilities of the Transpacific Underground at the Turn of the 20 th Century
Between 1908 and 1909 and in 1912, Vancouver-based journalist Shohei Osada published a two-part series entitled “Exploration of Devil Caves” in a local Japanese language newspaper, detailing the lives of Japanese migrants involved in the sex trade in Canada. The series showcases the presence of underground networks that extended across the continent and the Pacific, or what I call the “transpacific underground.” Many characters in Osada’s series …
Transmediating race and senses through subtitling in translanguaging classroom
This article reflects on a transdisciplinary curricular project in a Japanese language course that employs audio–visual subtitling to promote students’ critical literacies in languages, cultures, and media. Drawing on Nornes’s (2015) notion of “sensuous subtitling,” which embraces the incorporation of the “materiality of language” into translation, we present how students’ experimental subtitlings potentially make a transformative intervention in…
Student-centered, “embodied inter-referencing” as antiracist and anticolonial pedagogy
This article reflects on an experimental pedagogical approach I developed in a Japanese literature course that examines sex, gender, and sexuality in response to institutional and epistemic racism that exist in university in Canada and in the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic when the number of anti-Asian hate crimes rose at an enormous rate in the city where my university is situated. Building on the intellectual movements of “Asia as me…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sex work and related issues (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works)