Genaro Castro-Vázquez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 96555 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Genaro Castro-Vázquez |
| PRENOMES | Genaro |
| SOBRENOME | Castro-Vázquez |
| ASSINATURA | CASTRO-VÁZQUEZ G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6633-747X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Middle-class-self and the embodiment of benign prostate enlargement or prostate cancer
This paper draws on 35 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Japanese men to conceptualise embodied experiences of benign prostate enlargement and prostate cancer as 'onco-economics. ' The experiences of prostate-related conditions provide a lens through which Japanese men's subjectivities are expressed and contested, especially in relation to expectations around masculinity, aging, and economic responsibility. The data challenges the normati…
Navigating benign-prostate-enlargement or prostate-cancer in Japan
Coming to Grips With Benign Prostate Enlargement or Prostate Cancer in Contemporary Japan
This article explores how a group of 35 Japanese men comprehend and verbalize the somatic experience embedded in dealing with benign prostate enlargement, or disquiet/discomfort of developing prostate cancer. Grounded in an adaptation of the sexual scripts theorizing, a set of in-depth, semistructured individual interviews were conducted through a LINE-app videocall from 2021 to 2023. Outcomes of interview were analyzed through a conversational a…
Banal nationalisms in medicine and prostate onco-practice in Japan
Cultural Scripts Underpinning Prostate Cancer-Literacy in Japan
In a country where cancer has been dubbed a “national disease” ( kokumin bio) that mostly affects Japanese men, this article presents a reading of the cultural scripts underneath prostate cancer—one of the “Western type of cancers” ( ōbeigata no gan). The reading is grounded in an adaptation of the “sexual scripting theory,” the construct of cancer-literacy, and the analysis of 3,092 newspaper reports published from 2005 to 2020, in three Japanes…
Ethno-essentialisms of the self
In challenging the 'validity' of the body mass index (BMI), the construct of metabolic syndrome has been used to comprehend how obesity affects Japanese people. This article is grounded in an adaptation of the 'sexual scripting theory' (Gagnon and Simon, 2005) and proposes the concept of 'ethno-essentialisms of the self' to explore the cultural scripts underpinning the development of metabolic syndrome. Ethno-essentialisms of the self indicate a …
Beefing-up, slimming-down and the somatic self of Japanese men in time of metabolic syndrome
Based on a set of two, semi-structured, individual interviews with 21 Japanese men aged between 25 and 57, from Tokyo and Osaka, this paper explores the rationale underneath their eating habits and engagement in physical exercise. Ten and 11 of the men identified themselves as ‘beefy’ and ‘slim-muscular man’, respectively. The analysis of interview is grounded in symbolic interactionism and the construct of the somatic self. ‘Biopedagogy’, gender…
A metabolic self in contemporary Japan
Japanese Men’s Embodied Culinary and Eating Practices
This article presents the outcomes of interview with a group of Japanese men to unveil how bodyweight control was connected to their embodied culinary and eating practices. Aged 24 years to 56 years, participants were from Tokyo and Osaka. Eight of the men identified themselves as “slim-muscular” and one as “beefy.” Nine of them have been called “chubby” and two have been requested to lose weight. Grounded in symbolic interactionism, biopedagogy,…
Childbirth and Social Class in Contemporary Japan
This paper presents data from a larger ethnographic research project on intimacy and reproduction in Japan, a country that faces a “crisis of ultra-low fertility rates” (Jones, Straughan, & Chan, 2009). Proceeding from a symbolic interactionist perspective, the paper analyses the outcomes of interviews with 56 Japanese mothers aged between 29 and 45 from Tokyo and Kanagawa. The analysis identified “maternal instincts” (honnō), children’s schoolin…
Shotgun weddings ( dekichatta kekkon ) in contemporary Japan
The accelerated greying of its population along with birth rates plummeting below replacement levels synergise into one of the most acute social issues in contemporary Japan. Although singleness, childlessness, delayed marriage and late-in-life-childbirth have become endemic, official records nevertheless reveal an increase in childbirth among women aged 15-19 in 2013. Furthermore, official statistics for 2010 show that 50% of Japanese women aged…
Late-in-life childbearing ( kōrei shussan ) in contemporary Japan
This paper draws on interviews with a group of 27 Japanese women who were classified as late-in-life-childbearing mothers, or kōrei shussan--women who had had their first delivery at 35 years of age or over. In making sense of the significance, symbolism and consequences of late-life motherhood, the paper utilises a symbolic interactionist perspective to shed light on the cultural, structural, interpersonal and intrapsychic dimensions underpinnin…
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Japan
Within a Japanese society grappling with low-birth rates, delayed marriages and late-in-life pregnancies, the use of natural and biomedical Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) has become an issue of critical public health concern. This article presents the opinions of and experiences with ARTs of 56 Japanese mothers, aged between 29 and 45. Hailing from Tokyo and Kanagawa, 45 of these women had accessed different forms of ARTs in order to b…
Japanese Women's Views on Penile Hygiene and Male Circumcision
Current campaigns to promote male circumcision to reduce the risk for HIV infection among heterosexual men do not seem to apply to Japan because the majority of men are uncircumcised and HIV/AIDS rates remain comparatively lower among industrialized countries. No official statistics on male circumcision exist; the surgery has never been mandatory for infants and it is rare among adults, who are largely circumcised at beauty salons. The procedure …
Gender, pride and medical circumcision in contemporary Japan
The outcome of interviews with 26 Japanese men is analysed to identify their views concerning male circumcision and their implications in terms of embodiment, gender and sexuality. Data were collected as part of a larger ethnographic investigation of circumcision, masculinity, sexual behaviour and health matters for Japanese men. Participants in the investigation offered their views in relation to male circumcision by deploying arguments that com…
The 'Beauty' of Male Circumcision in Japan
This article introduces the construct of 'the beauty of male circumcision' to analyse male circumcision in Japan. Japanese men are largely circumcised at beauty and aesthetic clinics, neonatal circumcision has never been mandatory and no official records are provided, therefore the manuscript offers an iconographic and textual analysis of the information that Japanese men can access to decide whether they want to be circumcised. The analysis is g…
Paediatric male circumcision and penile hygiene
This paper analyses the views of 20 Japanese mothers concerning paediatric male circumcision and penile hygiene. In Japan, routine male circumcision has never been implemented for newborns and children, and adult males are mostly circumcised at aesthetic clinics. However, media reports indicate a trend of Japanese mothers willing to have their sons circumcised. In discussing penile hygiene and male circumcision, the construct of a 'sexual script'…
Sexuality, gender or hygiene
In-depth repeat interviews with 14 male Japanese urologists and plastic surgeons are analysed to shed light on male circumcision: a procedure largely conducted at beauty clinics to deal with gender and sexual matters. The urologists strongly oppose male circumcision because it is a surgery promoted by plastic surgeons without any prophylactic benefit and which works only as a placebo. This suggests a critical public health matter within current i…
Jumping out of enclosures
This article presents one aspect of an investigation concerning a Japanese language-tutoring programme for foreign children. Here, I draw on a wider, three-year ethnographic study that was conducted with three Latin American families whose children attended three public Japanese primary schools. This article attempts to disentangle issues of ethnicity, gender and language in the children’s schooling from the families’ perspective. A total of 46 g…
Silence, Condoms, and Masculinity
To investigate how some Japanese graduate students understand their masculine identity and negotiate sexual encounters and condom use, the authors interviewed sixty twenty-four-year-old to twenty-six-year-old heterosexual men during the summer of 1997. They used a set of three interviews covering three areas: home, school and/or job, and sexual life. In talking about sexual encounters and decision making about contraception, they found that male'…
A Service Or a Right
Since April 1996, Japanese health care providers who practise informed consent have been financially rewarded. Although there is no precedent for this financial gain, there are no detailed studies. Focused on a group of Latin American men living with HIV/AIDS, this paper clarifies the actual practices of informed consent at Japanese medical facilities. Twenty HIV-positive men were interviewed in order to investigate how they obtained medical trea…
Embodiment and sexual experiences of some latin American PLWHA men in Japan
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
In this article, we present an aspect of our ethnographic investigation with HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. In order to investigate the relationship between HIV/AIDS and community support among HIV carriers, we interviewed 20 male HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. From April to September 2002 and in August 2003 and 2004, we conducted a set of six 60-minute interviews with 20, 28-37-year-old HIV-positive males. Three of …
The Politics of Viagra
The introduction of Viagra in Japan is largely associated with the construction of 'abject masculinities'. The approval of the drug comes amidst worries about hormones polluting the environment and Japanese men's unwillingness to perform their 'appropriate gender role' in a country coping with problems in the economy, a growing number of unmarried people, an ageing population and declining birth rates. In this article, I analyse how impotence, ge…
'If you say to them that they have to use condoms, some of them might use them. It is like drinking alcohol or smoking'
(2002). 'If you say to them that they have to use condoms, some of them might use them. It is like drinking alcohol or smoking': An educational intervention with Japanese senior high school students. Sex Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 105-117
Jumping out of enclosures
This article presents one aspect of an investigation concerning a Japanese language-tutoring programme for foreign children. Here, I draw on a wider, three-year ethnographic study that was conducted with three Latin American families whose children attended three public Japanese primary schools. This article attempts to disentangle issues of ethnicity, gender and language in the children’s schooling from the families’ perspective. A total of 46 g…
Silence, Condoms, and Masculinity
To investigate how some Japanese graduate students understand their masculine identity and negotiate sexual encounters and condom use, the authors interviewed sixty twenty-four-year-old to twenty-six-year-old heterosexual men during the summer of 1997. They used a set of three interviews covering three areas: home, school and/or job, and sexual life. In talking about sexual encounters and decision making about contraception, they found that male'…
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
In this article, we present an aspect of our ethnographic investigation with HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. In order to investigate the relationship between HIV/AIDS and community support among HIV carriers, we interviewed 20 male HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. From April to September 2002 and in August 2003 and 2004, we conducted a set of six 60-minute interviews with 20, 28-37-year-old HIV-positive males. Three of …
Nemureru Ko Wo Okosu Mono Dearu
In order to propose an educational intervention for sexuality education courses at a Japanese senior high school, we interviewed 51, 15-18-year-old, male Japanese senior high school students, and 4 teachers who impart sex education in the school. Moreover, we analysed the `master narrative' produced by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) to regulate the sexual behaviour of young people through the contents of purity and sex education. A…
Masculinity and Condom Use among Mexican Teenagers
At the upper secondary school level, adolescents seem to be very concerned about sex education programmes, mainly because of widespread information about AIDS, and, of course, because most of them are beginning their sexual life. Generally speaking, Mexican sex education teachers are dealing with two challenges; the steady increase of teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), especially AIDS. In observing the dynami…
Ethno-essentialisms of the self
In challenging the 'validity' of the body mass index (BMI), the construct of metabolic syndrome has been used to comprehend how obesity affects Japanese people. This article is grounded in an adaptation of the 'sexual scripting theory' (Gagnon and Simon, 2005) and proposes the concept of 'ethno-essentialisms of the self' to explore the cultural scripts underpinning the development of metabolic syndrome. Ethno-essentialisms of the self indicate a …
A metabolic self in contemporary Japan
A Service Or a Right
Since April 1996, Japanese health care providers who practise informed consent have been financially rewarded. Although there is no precedent for this financial gain, there are no detailed studies. Focused on a group of Latin American men living with HIV/AIDS, this paper clarifies the actual practices of informed consent at Japanese medical facilities. Twenty HIV-positive men were interviewed in order to investigate how they obtained medical trea…
The Politics of Viagra
The introduction of Viagra in Japan is largely associated with the construction of 'abject masculinities'. The approval of the drug comes amidst worries about hormones polluting the environment and Japanese men's unwillingness to perform their 'appropriate gender role' in a country coping with problems in the economy, a growing number of unmarried people, an ageing population and declining birth rates. In this article, I analyse how impotence, ge…
Masculinity and Condom Use among Mexican Teenagers
At the upper secondary school level, adolescents seem to be very concerned about sex education programmes, mainly because of widespread information about AIDS, and, of course, because most of them are beginning their sexual life. Generally speaking, Mexican sex education teachers are dealing with two challenges; the steady increase of teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), especially AIDS. In observing the dynami…
'If you say to them that they have to use condoms, some of them might use them. It is like drinking alcohol or smoking'
(2002). 'If you say to them that they have to use condoms, some of them might use them. It is like drinking alcohol or smoking': An educational intervention with Japanese senior high school students. Sex Education: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 105-117
Nemureru Ko Wo Okosu Mono Dearu
In order to propose an educational intervention for sexuality education courses at a Japanese senior high school, we interviewed 51, 15-18-year-old, male Japanese senior high school students, and 4 teachers who impart sex education in the school. Moreover, we analysed the `master narrative' produced by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) to regulate the sexual behaviour of young people through the contents of purity and sex education. A…
Embodiment and sexual experiences of some latin American PLWHA men in Japan
Pueblo chico, infierno grande
In this article, we present an aspect of our ethnographic investigation with HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. In order to investigate the relationship between HIV/AIDS and community support among HIV carriers, we interviewed 20 male HIV-positive Latin Americans living in Japan. From April to September 2002 and in August 2003 and 2004, we conducted a set of six 60-minute interviews with 20, 28-37-year-old HIV-positive males. Three of …
The Politics of Viagra
The introduction of Viagra in Japan is largely associated with the construction of 'abject masculinities'. The approval of the drug comes amidst worries about hormones polluting the environment and Japanese men's unwillingness to perform their 'appropriate gender role' in a country coping with problems in the economy, a growing number of unmarried people, an ageing population and declining birth rates. In this article, I analyse how impotence, ge…
Silence, Condoms, and Masculinity
To investigate how some Japanese graduate students understand their masculine identity and negotiate sexual encounters and condom use, the authors interviewed sixty twenty-four-year-old to twenty-six-year-old heterosexual men during the summer of 1997. They used a set of three interviews covering three areas: home, school and/or job, and sexual life. In talking about sexual encounters and decision making about contraception, they found that male'…
A Service Or a Right
Since April 1996, Japanese health care providers who practise informed consent have been financially rewarded. Although there is no precedent for this financial gain, there are no detailed studies. Focused on a group of Latin American men living with HIV/AIDS, this paper clarifies the actual practices of informed consent at Japanese medical facilities. Twenty HIV-positive men were interviewed in order to investigate how they obtained medical trea…
Jumping out of enclosures
This article presents one aspect of an investigation concerning a Japanese language-tutoring programme for foreign children. Here, I draw on a wider, three-year ethnographic study that was conducted with three Latin American families whose children attended three public Japanese primary schools. This article attempts to disentangle issues of ethnicity, gender and language in the children’s schooling from the families’ perspective. A total of 46 g…
Sexuality, gender or hygiene
In-depth repeat interviews with 14 male Japanese urologists and plastic surgeons are analysed to shed light on male circumcision: a procedure largely conducted at beauty clinics to deal with gender and sexual matters. The urologists strongly oppose male circumcision because it is a surgery promoted by plastic surgeons without any prophylactic benefit and which works only as a placebo. This suggests a critical public health matter within current i…
Japanese Women's Views on Penile Hygiene and Male Circumcision
Current campaigns to promote male circumcision to reduce the risk for HIV infection among heterosexual men do not seem to apply to Japan because the majority of men are uncircumcised and HIV/AIDS rates remain comparatively lower among industrialized countries. No official statistics on male circumcision exist; the surgery has never been mandatory for infants and it is rare among adults, who are largely circumcised at beauty salons. The procedure …
Gender, pride and medical circumcision in contemporary Japan
The outcome of interviews with 26 Japanese men is analysed to identify their views concerning male circumcision and their implications in terms of embodiment, gender and sexuality. Data were collected as part of a larger ethnographic investigation of circumcision, masculinity, sexual behaviour and health matters for Japanese men. Participants in the investigation offered their views in relation to male circumcision by deploying arguments that com…
The 'Beauty' of Male Circumcision in Japan
This article introduces the construct of 'the beauty of male circumcision' to analyse male circumcision in Japan. Japanese men are largely circumcised at beauty and aesthetic clinics, neonatal circumcision has never been mandatory and no official records are provided, therefore the manuscript offers an iconographic and textual analysis of the information that Japanese men can access to decide whether they want to be circumcised. The analysis is g…
Paediatric male circumcision and penile hygiene
This paper analyses the views of 20 Japanese mothers concerning paediatric male circumcision and penile hygiene. In Japan, routine male circumcision has never been implemented for newborns and children, and adult males are mostly circumcised at aesthetic clinics. However, media reports indicate a trend of Japanese mothers willing to have their sons circumcised. In discussing penile hygiene and male circumcision, the construct of a 'sexual script'…
Shotgun weddings ( dekichatta kekkon ) in contemporary Japan
The accelerated greying of its population along with birth rates plummeting below replacement levels synergise into one of the most acute social issues in contemporary Japan. Although singleness, childlessness, delayed marriage and late-in-life-childbirth have become endemic, official records nevertheless reveal an increase in childbirth among women aged 15-19 in 2013. Furthermore, official statistics for 2010 show that 50% of Japanese women aged…
Late-in-life childbearing ( kōrei shussan ) in contemporary Japan
This paper draws on interviews with a group of 27 Japanese women who were classified as late-in-life-childbearing mothers, or kōrei shussan--women who had had their first delivery at 35 years of age or over. In making sense of the significance, symbolism and consequences of late-life motherhood, the paper utilises a symbolic interactionist perspective to shed light on the cultural, structural, interpersonal and intrapsychic dimensions underpinnin…
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Contemporary Japan
Within a Japanese society grappling with low-birth rates, delayed marriages and late-in-life pregnancies, the use of natural and biomedical Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) has become an issue of critical public health concern. This article presents the opinions of and experiences with ARTs of 56 Japanese mothers, aged between 29 and 45. Hailing from Tokyo and Kanagawa, 45 of these women had accessed different forms of ARTs in order to b…
Childbirth and Social Class in Contemporary Japan
This paper presents data from a larger ethnographic research project on intimacy and reproduction in Japan, a country that faces a “crisis of ultra-low fertility rates” (Jones, Straughan, & Chan, 2009). Proceeding from a symbolic interactionist perspective, the paper analyses the outcomes of interviews with 56 Japanese mothers aged between 29 and 45 from Tokyo and Kanagawa. The analysis identified “maternal instincts” (honnō), children’s schoolin…
A metabolic self in contemporary Japan
Japanese Men’s Embodied Culinary and Eating Practices
This article presents the outcomes of interview with a group of Japanese men to unveil how bodyweight control was connected to their embodied culinary and eating practices. Aged 24 years to 56 years, participants were from Tokyo and Osaka. Eight of the men identified themselves as “slim-muscular” and one as “beefy.” Nine of them have been called “chubby” and two have been requested to lose weight. Grounded in symbolic interactionism, biopedagogy,…
Beefing-up, slimming-down and the somatic self of Japanese men in time of metabolic syndrome
Based on a set of two, semi-structured, individual interviews with 21 Japanese men aged between 25 and 57, from Tokyo and Osaka, this paper explores the rationale underneath their eating habits and engagement in physical exercise. Ten and 11 of the men identified themselves as ‘beefy’ and ‘slim-muscular man’, respectively. The analysis of interview is grounded in symbolic interactionism and the construct of the somatic self. ‘Biopedagogy’, gender…
Ethno-essentialisms of the self
In challenging the 'validity' of the body mass index (BMI), the construct of metabolic syndrome has been used to comprehend how obesity affects Japanese people. This article is grounded in an adaptation of the 'sexual scripting theory' (Gagnon and Simon, 2005) and proposes the concept of 'ethno-essentialisms of the self' to explore the cultural scripts underpinning the development of metabolic syndrome. Ethno-essentialisms of the self indicate a …
Cultural Scripts Underpinning Prostate Cancer-Literacy in Japan
In a country where cancer has been dubbed a “national disease” ( kokumin bio) that mostly affects Japanese men, this article presents a reading of the cultural scripts underneath prostate cancer—one of the “Western type of cancers” ( ōbeigata no gan). The reading is grounded in an adaptation of the “sexual scripting theory,” the construct of cancer-literacy, and the analysis of 3,092 newspaper reports published from 2005 to 2020, in three Japanes…
Banal nationalisms in medicine and prostate onco-practice in Japan
Coming to Grips With Benign Prostate Enlargement or Prostate Cancer in Contemporary Japan
This article explores how a group of 35 Japanese men comprehend and verbalize the somatic experience embedded in dealing with benign prostate enlargement, or disquiet/discomfort of developing prostate cancer. Grounded in an adaptation of the sexual scripts theorizing, a set of in-depth, semistructured individual interviews were conducted through a LINE-app videocall from 2021 to 2023. Outcomes of interview were analyzed through a conversational a…
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