Economy of Dreams: Hope in Global Capitalism and Its Critiques

Miyazaki, Hirokazu

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“…Feminists note that strategically hyped promises of stem cell technologies promote feelings of obligation amongst those who could donate embryos [56,57,86]. Here the rhetoric of the sacred gift of life aligns itself with the recent focus on the anthropology of hope [43,42,76]. Consideration of the relationship between anthropology and theology suggests that the analytic frame provided by the sacred may afford additional understandings.…”

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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

Mackenzie

2007

Health Care Anal

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Abstract:This paper forms part of the feminist critique of the regulatory consequences of biomedicine's systematic exclusion of the role of women's bodies in the development of reprogenetic technologies. I suggest that strategic use of notions of the sacred to decontextualise and delimit disagreement fosters this marginalisation. Here conceptions of the sacred and sacralisation afford a means by which pragmatic consensus over regulation may be achieved, through the deployment of a bricolage of dense images associated with cultural loyalties to solidify support or exclude contradictory elements. Hence an explicit renegotiation of the symbolic order structuring salient debates is necessary to disrupt and enrich the entrenched and exclusionary dominant discourse over reprogenetic regulation. I draw upon previous analyses of strategic rhetoric associated with the regulation of infertility treatment and embryo research in the United Kingdom, the cultural anthropology of biomedicine and feminist ethnographies of reprogenetics to illustrate these claims.

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Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

Mackenzie

2007

Health Care Anal

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“…Conceiving speculation in this way, 2 anthropologists can address what makes such ventures a viable mode of action for a broad swath of the populationnot just the narrow category of professional financial risk-takers so ably analysed in the anthropological literature (Maurer 2006;Miyazaki 2006 andRiles 2004;Zaloom 2003). It will be argued that trust is one element in a spectrum of motivations involved in speculation, and for that reason it is worth defining 'trust' rather precisely as a moral expectation of known others (this will be discussed further below).…”

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Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

2018

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Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra-and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders), but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities. Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) Series EditorsThe authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2018Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise). Breeze ' development, Vladivostok, 2013 190 Figure 13 The 'Eastern Breeze ' complex, Vladivostok, 2013 191 Figure 14 Chinese buyers scrupulously explore an old Chinese object put on sale at Sotheby's auction house in London, UK 212 Figure 15 Carl Fabergé's Easter egg, made predominantly of jade from a private collection of Viktor Vekselberg, the fourth richest person in Russia. The object is on display at special private museum in Saint-Petersburg, Russia 215 Figure 16 One of the Sunshine's operations. Guards reload raw jade to transport it across a river. Jade is on its way from mine to warehouse 219 Figure 17 Advertisement for a company offering help with on-line purchases in Manzhouli, China 241 List of Figures IntroductionTrusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline HumphreyThis book is a collection of essays based on recent fieldwork along the Northeast frontier between Russia and China, 1 and it has two main aims that are closely interconnected. The first is to explore how trust and mistrust are negotiated in a situation beset with doubts and misunderstandings, in a border region where previously hostile states with very different histories, cultures, and languages face one another. The second is to suggest some ways in which these studies can contribute to understanding the import of trust and mistrust in small-scale economic activities. It should be added straight away that the book does not propose a theory of trust of its own to add to the numerous conceptualizations of this idea already available (Luhmann 1979;Gambetta 1988;Hosking 2010;Cook 2001; O'Neill 2002; Baier 2004;Hawley 2014). Rather, it provides anthropological ideas and ethnographic materials that will enable readers to explore and probe these models. What is new here is that, while the great majority of theories of trust assume that actors have a common back...

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“…However, there are positive signs. As Miyazaki's (2006) work suggests, hope lies in people's persistent efforts to find a path towards the future using the means at their disposal. In closing, I offer two examples where otaku culture has provided the means for such endeavors.…”

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Abstract: This essay analyzes Japan's otaku subculture using Hirokazu Miyazaki's (2006) definition of hope as a "reorientation of knowledge." Erosion of postwar social systems has tended to instill a sense of hopelessness among many Japanese youth.

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Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture

Hack

2016

Contemporary Japan

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This essay analyzes Japan's otaku subculture using Hirokazu Miyazaki's (2006) definition of hope as a "reorientation of knowledge." Erosion of postwar social systems has tended to instill a sense of hopelessness among many Japanese youth. Hopelessness manifests as two analogous kinds of refusal: individual social withdrawal and recourse to solipsistic neonationalist ideology. Previous analyses of otaku have demonstrated its connections with these two reactions. Here, I interrogate otaku culture's relationship to neonationalism by investigating its interaction with the xenophobic online subculture known as the netto uyoku. Characterizing both subcultures as discursive practices, I argue that the similarity between netto uyoku and otaku is not one of identity but one of method. Netto uyoku discourse serves to perform an imagined nationalist persona. While otaku elements can be incorporated into netto uyoku performance, other net users invoke the otaku faculty of parody to highlight the constructed nature of netto uyoku identity through ironic recontextualization. This application of otaku principles enables a description of otaku culture as a form of social knowledge, reoriented here to defuse the climate of hopelessness purveyed by the netto uyoku. In the final section, I offer examples of subcultural knowledge being applied to national and international issues in order to indicate its further potential as a source of enabling hope for Japanese youth.

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Economy of Dreams: Hope in Global Capitalism and Its Critiques

Cited by 243 publications

References 51 publications

Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

Regulating Reprogenetics: Strategic Sacralisation and Semantic Massage

Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands

Subculture as social knowledge: a hopeful reading of otaku culture

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