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Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1086–1087.
Published: 01 November 1996
...William D. Wilder Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things . By Ann Laura Stoler . Durham, N. C : Duke University Press , 1995 . xiv, 237 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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The Sovereign Trickster
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
... who will live and who will die; on the other hand, the freedom from the limits of the latter by way of dissipation, irresponsibility, and excess. This article explores the double sources of his power with reference to the works of Michel Foucault and Achille Mbembe. While most of Foucault's work has...
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Songs as Weapons: The Culture and History of Komori (Nursemaids) in Modern Japan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 793–817.
Published: 01 November 1991
... by families in need of child care in the so-called modern Imperial period (1868–1945), who were called komori . Like their European counterparts, nursemaids and nannies, komori began to appear in what Michel Foucault has called the “discourse of power” in the late nineteenth century, i.e., in the formative...
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Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths. Essays in Honor of John R. W. Smail
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 1084–1086.
Published: 01 November 1996
...: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. By A N N LAURA STOLER. Durham, N. C : Duke University Press, 1995. xiv, 237 pp. $49-95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). In this stimulating book, Ann Stoler opens by stating that "No single analytic framework has saturated the field of colonial...
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Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 243–245.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., further political developments are surely necessary. “Governmentality,” “sovereignty,” and the general focus on modalities of power derive from the work of Michael Foucault, based on his understanding of European developments, and it is natural to wonder how well they fit Chinese realities. Foucault's...
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Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 855–856.
Published: 01 August 1999
..., the concrete result is confusing. The reader unfamiliar with more conventional, untheorized treatments like Sharon Sievers's Flowers in Salt, or Hane Mikiso's Reflections on the Way to the Gallows, might be hard put to piece these fragments into a cogent picture. The text opens with a quote by Michel Foucault...
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Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to ‘the People’ Traditional Chinese Penal Law
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 534–536.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., at the graduate level, and for undergraduate research papers. Much of Dutton's very different book is guided at the outset by Foucault's Discipline and Punish (as well as by other Foucault works which are brought in later), but in the end Dutton rejects Foucault's list of what constitutes modern in the Western...
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Nocturnal Labors in the Light of Day
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (3): 485–493.
Published: 01 May 1980
... between the Orient and the "real world." Said's way of handling all the issues involved here is therefore not to tell a story but, in the metaphor familiar to readers of the works of the contemporary French historian Michel Foucault, to uncover their traces stratum by stratum, somewhat as an archaeologist...
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Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 497–499.
Published: 01 August 2023
.... 1. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage, 2012); Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005); Erving Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (Chicago: Aldine...
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Metzger's Predicament
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 February 1980
... on three large areas of discussion: the construal of history and its function for the discourse on modernization; the problematik informing this construing; and the problem of reading texts. 3
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, The Archeology of Knowledge ( New York : Pantheon Press , 1972 ), pp. 8 – 9...
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Anatomy and the Reconfiguration of Life and Death in Republican China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (4): 1009–1034.
Published: 01 November 2017
... exercised by modern states there and sought, with some success, to create these conditions in China. Modern power over life and death has been described by Michel Foucault ([1977] 1995 , 135–36) as being constituted by the two poles of anatomy and biology; one exerting disciplinary power over...
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Japan and the Enemies of Open Political Science
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 535–537.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of Foucault: European intellectual hegemony today demonstrates theforceof ideas bereft of power . . . [T]his theme demands that we dismiss Foucault's insistence that knowledge and power are two sides of the same coin. The hold of European thought, including Foucault's, on the contemporary world does...
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Making Exposure In/Visible: Epidemiology, Legitimacy, and Authority after Bhopal
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 409–421.
Published: 01 May 2017
... . Reducing Vulnerability and Exposure to Disasters: The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2012 . http://www.unisdr.org/files/29288_apdr2012finallowres.pdf (accessed February 3, 2017 ). Foucault Michel . 1990 . The History of Sexuality...
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State Formation in Community Spaces? Decentralization of Control over Forests in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 9–40.
Published: 01 February 2001
... University Press . Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO). 1999 . “Status and Progress in the Implementation of National Forest Programmes: Outcomes of an FAO Worldwide Survey.” Mimeo . Rome, Italy : FAO . Foucault Michel. 1975 . Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison . Vintage...
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Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore
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Journal of Asian Studies (2007) 66 (1): 283–285.
Published: 01 February 2007
... chapters are devoted to analyses of each of the four plays. In each case, Lo anchors the theatrical text she is analyzing to its specific cultural and political context. Furthermore, she makes skilled use of the ideas of theorists such as Foucault, Mikhail Bakhtin, Judith Butler, and Homi Bhabha to point...
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Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900–1950
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 February 2011
... of Regret and The Biography of Ah Q with a thorough consideration of a wide variety of Western theories of modernity, including those of Hannah Arendt, Richard Sennett, Alastair MacIntyre, and Charles Taylor. As indicated by the subtitle of the book, Foucault's concepts of “genealogy” and the “epistemic...
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Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (2): 357–365.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Globalized World.” American Ethnologist 30 ( 2 ): 225 –42. Foucault Michel . 1978 . An Introduction. Vol. 1 of The History of Sexuality . New York : Vintage Press . Ginsburg Faye 1991 . “ Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village? ” Cultural Anthropology 6 ( 1 ): 92...
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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of Empire
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1194–1195.
Published: 01 November 2011
... about Foucault's clinics, Arnold's colonized bodies, and Said's orientalism, along with women and children as “others,” colonial “problems of difference,” and even anecdotes about a self-critical Bengali masturbator who, in 1885, was publicly seeking self-improvement from his “sinful” affliction...
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Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1158–1159.
Published: 01 November 2021
... studies, Asian American studies, and game studies. If Open World Empire has any shortcomings, it is its ambition. The book challenges scholars of digital games to take pleasure seriously, while offering reparative readings of Barthes, Foucault, and Sedgewick's late-career encounters with “Asia...
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Spiritual Despots: Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 476–477.
Published: 01 May 2019
... through Michel Foucault's writings on asceticism ( askesis ) and subject formation. Critiquing Charles Taylor's concept of modern “buffered subjectivity,” Scott proposes a model of ascetic self-rule, wherein an inner-worldly asceticism both “entails obedience” to a rule that precedes the subject, yet...
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