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Mire Koikari先生の講義
社会学特殊講義 Reconstruction of the Intimate and Public Spheres
木曜日3・4限 社会学共同研究室（文学部棟5階Ｌ521）
前期
開講日：6月7日、14日、21日、28日
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【Instructor】
Mire Koikari(University of Hawaii, Associate Professor)
【Title】
Rethinking Nation,Culture and Domesticity in Asia and the Pacific
【Description of Lecture】
Lectures will explore the historical, cultural, and geopolitical dimensions of domesticity in order to deepen and complicate our understandings of the public vs. private spheres.
【Syllabus】
1st week:
The first week will provide overviews of gender and feminist theories of domesticity. Drawing on insights offered by such scholars as Anne McClintock, Amy Kaplan, Vicente Rafael, Christina Klein, Jordan Sand, Sheldon Garon, and Mariko Tamanoi, the lectures will highlight how the intimate and presumably private sphere of domesticity is currently being re-conceptualized as an entity inseparable from and indeed permeable to the public sphere of nation and empire building.
2nd week:
The second week will apply analytical insights identified in the first week to a concrete historical case study, i.e., Japan’s nation and empire building in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Examining home economics education and life improvement movement in pre-1945 Japan, the lectures will illuminate how Japan’s modern domesticity was deeply transnational in its nature, how the private sphere of home became a chief terrain of national mobilization, and how women’s quotidian activities of homemaking constituted an indispensable part of colonial expansionism that involved more than one culture and region in Asia and the Pacific.
3rd week:
The third week will expand the themes and questions generated in the second week by examining a new, post-1945 historical context, i.e. the Cold War. Examining Cold War cult of domesticity not only in Japan but also in various locations in Asia, Americas, and Europe, the lectures will illuminate how pre-1945 dynamics of nation, culture, and domesticity were refitted to the post-1945 context of Cold War struggles between the US and the USSR, turning home into a complex arena of transnational politics once again.
4th week :
The final week will connect the previous weeks’ discussions and analyses to the current, 21st century dynamics of public vs private by focusing on one domestic object of iconic power, i.e., SPAM, luncheon meat. Originally invented as a portable food item for American military, the canned meat has spread across the US, Pacific, and Asia through the WWII, Cold War, and post-Cold War eras, enjoying immense popularity in militarized zones such as Okinawa, Hawai‘i, Guam, and Korea. By tracing SPAM’s transnational and cross-cultural movements, the lecture will illuminate how a seemingly innocuous food item and its consumption at home take on complex meanings in terms of gender, race, class, and nation.
2012年5月16日(水) 16:30 JST
