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ItemBudget reform in China: Progress and prospects in the Xi Jinping era(ANU Press, 2018)
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ItemWorld Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA)(John Wiley & Sons, 2018-10-05)Since the early twentieth century, countless modern anthropological studies have paid tribute to the richness of cultural diversity across societies, as well as highlighting some of the existential conditions we all share as human beings. The discipline has not been able to serve as an undistorted mirror of this unity in diversity, however, because scholars from a few privileged nations have dominated the process of anthropological knowledge construction over most of this period of time. The World Council of Anthropological Associations was founded to overcome this deficit by providing a global platform for free communication and democratic participation in the spirit of a new “world anthropologies” paradigm.
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ItemRemembering Suffering and Survival: Sites of Memory on Buru(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Survivors and their families have remembered the events of 1965 and the related suffering of persons targeted in the violence in complex ways. In the absence of state recognition of the suffering of victims of 1965, survivors and families have had to pass on their memories in personal ways making their own meanings of these sites of terror within families and communities of former political prisoners. This chapter considers this process in terms of memories of imprisonment on the remote eastern Indonesian island of Buru.
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ItemPhase one of the Longitudinal study of Kobe women's ethnographic interviews 1989-2019: Kanako 1989 and 2000(Routledge, 2018)This chapter introduces the first phase of the Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989–2019, a real-time interdisciplinary study which examines changes in discourse of the same group of women in Japan. It explains the nature of the ethnographic interviews to be analysed and the merits of the multi-analytical discourse (MAD) approach for an interdisciplinary study like this. By locating it in the existing literature on language variation and changes, and on the Japanese women’s discourse, the chapter argues for the book’s innovative significance. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book expands the longitudinal studies in the field of traditional sociolinguistics to analyze change that occurs within situated discourse across differing life-stages. Variations exist in the vernacular discourse of daily lives. Language is also in constant change, as are the life-courses and speech of individuals. The book makes original contributions to our understanding of Japanese language use by illuminating variations and shifts in women's discourse over a period of a decade, in a study that spans three decades. The sharing of Okano's ethnographic data between the team also gives rise to unique ethical issues. The focus on discourse, and multi-layered analysis, advances people's knowledge of changes and shifts beyond a conventional diachronic linguistic analysis of the single-feature, whether phonetic, grammatical or lexical.
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ItemWriting sexual identity onto the small screen: seitekishoosuu-sha (sexual minorities) in Japan(Routledge, 2018-02-01)This chapter examines how the term “LGBT” is inscribed onto the screen in mainstream news and currenta affairs programming in Japan. Analysis of captioning and flip-cards illustrates how the term “LGBT” is visualised to augment the hyper-visibility of ‘sexual minorities.’ Mediatized hyper-visibility, however, is produced alongside corporate expansion into lucrative ‘rainbow markets’ and a proliferation of political discourses pertaining to LGBT rights. Histories of representations and advocacy for LGBT issues and rights are rendered invisible within this process. Critical examination of text in the media offers one way to analyze complex citational practices in which discourses of tolerance/acceptance and in/visibility become entangled.
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ItemAn update on fiscal reform(ANU Press, 2018)
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ItemDeveloping Trust: An Integrated Vision for Social and Environmental Sustainability and Justice(UNESCO, 2018)This paper addresses the question of how the world can move toward a common vision and procedure for achieving socio-ecological sustainability and justice, rather than suffer a catastrophic collapse of civilization. I begin by arguing that this aim can only be achieved through an integrated and holistic process of transformation of our economy and way of life, and that the knowledge sector will be central to facilitating this process. If we reflect on the current role of science in society, especially in the ecological context of the anthropocene and the political context of post-truth polemics, fulfilling this role will require us to heal the fact-value split that has until now kept science separate from or servile to the realm of political action. Social science can be particularly helpful at this historic juncture, by helping to define the psycho-social prerequisites that must be met in order to develop a common and inclusive vision and action plan for a sustainable and just society. Social science shows that endemic collective action issues can be addressed systemically through dialogue, co-designed planning and cooperation. It is argued that the central challenge on the pathway toward universal and sustained human security is thus the building of trust.
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ItemRapport and discourse transformation in ethnographic interviews(Routledge, 2018)This chapter explores Kanako’s 1989 and 2000 interviews by adopting an approach focusing on rapport, in which diachronic analysis of the data is embedded in the interview participants’ negotiation of identity and relationship in discourse. Stylistic features of the interview discourse such as regional variation, interactional particles, clause-final forms, as well as interaction dynamics are analyzed, while the life experiences of Kanako and the interview settings, are also considered. The analysis reveals a complex and nuanced negotiation of rapport between the researcher and Kanako as their social identities and shared aspects of life go through transformation over a decade.
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ItemOn the Periphery: Human Rights, Australia and Indonesia(Hart Publishing, 2018)the government led by Prime Minister Ben Chifley intended to remain loyal to its ally, the Netherlands, which was expected to reclaim control over its colonial possession. On the other hand, Chifley’s government understood the aspirations of Indonesian nationalists, and gradually—as this section will show—had to consider its relationship with a new neighbour. Meanwhile, Indonesia was focused on securing independence and sought international support for its claims. Human rights were not on the agenda of either Australia or Indonesia. Their absence is explained in part by the relative novelty at the time of human rights as a concept in international relations—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights would only be adopted three years later, in 1948. More importantly, Australia and Indonesia were each occupied with more pressing issues.
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Item「アクションリサーチ」の実践現場から—持続可能な学びへの挑戦(オセアニア出版, 2018)