Perforating colour lines
Japan and the problem of race in the ‘non-West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6449229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmina Yu Untalan (0000-0003-3082-7757, Leiden University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 102-120 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210523000566 |
| OpenAlex | W4388046626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 13 |
Why do racialised states subscribe to the racial international hierarchy? While the critical scholarship in International Relations (IR) has meaningfully unsettled the discipline’s silence on race, it remains bound to the white versus non-white binary, neglecting the transmission and persistence of racism in international politics outside that divide. This article proposes a Lacanian reading of race as constitutive of state subjectivity in the modern world order to address this gap. Focusing on Lacan’s notion of the ‘lack in the Other’, I suggest that non-West/non-white racism is a fantasy that racialised states construct upon encountering the void of ‘Whiteness’ as a master signifier. I argue that racialised states appropriate racism in response to the anxiety induced by the collapse of the Other’s authority. Using the case of Japan’s transition to a modern nation-state, I mobilise the framework to examine Japan’s flirtation with Western racial theories and subsequent attempts to depart from the white racial order by creating its own racial hierarchy
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fantasy · Hierarchy · Literature · Political science · Race (biology · Racial hierarchy · Racism · Scholarship · Silence · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
Mourning the master signifier? A Lacanian approach to emotions and Japan’s subjectivity in IR
The Horne Thesis and Cold War Japan
A Japanese Attempt at Racial Equality before 1919 Proposal
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Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other
Theorising the "humanisation" of refugees
Confronting the global colour line
The other other The black presence in the Japanese experience
White World Order, Black Power Politics
Race and the Education of Desire
The Revolution Will Not Be Theorised
Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method
Come to Africa
Race, Culture and Liberation
Fanon via Lacan, or
Perforating colour lines
State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
The state and the colonial unconscious
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |