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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1101–1104.
Published: 01 November 2021
... the efforts of the colonial state, on the one hand, and using prevailing social biases to dominate marginalized groups such as suburban lower-middle-class or semiliterate practitioners, on the other. Thus, Roy argues that nonhumans such as mosquitoes and objects like quinine and malaria became part...
View articletitled, Contrasting and Yet Sharing: A History of Two Western Medicine Traditions in British India - Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India: Family, Market and Homeopathy and Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and <span class="search-highlight">Nonhumans</span> in British India, 1820–1909
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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 523–524.
Published: 01 May 2024
... “biodynamically devours and expels . . . memories of [World War II], these hauntings and traces of the colonial/imperial divide” (xi). As such, the ocean materializes itself as “that wild and enormous container of cultural memory” (xiv). An attunement to such nonhuman agency, albeit an understated one...
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Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ
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Journal of Asian Studies (2025) 84 (1): 284–286.
Published: 01 February 2025
... landscapes and relations among humans and nonhumans?” (59) This question is powerfully answered through nonhuman actors so that “nature would not be used to overcome the division, but the division itself would be the basis of a shared commons” (85). At a time of multiple ecological crises coupled...
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JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (3): 1093–1096.
Published: 01 August 2008
... of nonhuman animals? How are prevailing theories of ownership, property transfer, or land use complicated when we acknowledge the presence of nonhuman animals or the impact of human policies on other species? How are concepts such as “family” disturbed by the rise of pet culture, given that dogs and cats...
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Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 February 2022
... kin, while dogs’ loyalty to their masters secured their place as valued members of a household. While humanists have been slow to embrace or even acknowledge nonhuman agency, scientists have noted moral attributes such as reciprocity and justice in the behavior of many social animals, including those...
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Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 724–725.
Published: 01 August 2021
... innovations, which may also be a source of consternation for some readers. Keck is committed to a renewal of Claude Lévi-Strauss's structuralist approach to anthropology. He seeks to situate the work of epidemic preparation in East Asia within a broad structural framework for analyzing human-nonhuman...
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Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 753–755.
Published: 01 November 2023
... generations are appreciated for their positive cultural consciousness of belonging. In the chapters on myths, rituals, and communal organization, Fiskesjö considers Wa perceptions of nonhuman domains. The Wa do not believe that the human world conquers “nature” by “socializing” it, they do not imagine...
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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 732–734.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... The second chapter points to how dominant scientific language (e.g., metaphors such as parasite versus predator, passive versus active verbs) work together with mechanistic assumptions underpinning Western biological thinking to evacuate agency from the nonhuman world. Chapter 3 builds on biologist Jakob von...
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Decentering the Human in the Human Epoch
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 212–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
... and excesses of capitalism and that frame climate change as an outgrowth of the capitalist system. While not denying the need to seek justice between humans, as frequently demanded by those critiques, he is firm that concerns for justice have to be extended to nonhumans as well. As to how to go about doing...
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Political Ecology: Nature and Society against the Grain
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 407–413.
Published: 01 May 2021
... power and simplifications, to anarchism and self-organization, and to ecological transitions and human-nonhuman interactions. The fact that Scott is one of the most-cited theorists in the field of political ecology is further proof of his influence, with authors using Scottian themes to launch critical...
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The Dog-Eared Dictionary: Human-Animal Alliance in Chinese Civilization
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 589–613.
Published: 01 August 2015
... discrimination, situational gait, and even behavioral and personality traits. The dog is also upheld as the representative of all nonhuman animals, undoubtedly because of its morphological and functional versatility but certainly also because it was the human's main interface and companion at the beginning...
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The People's West Lake: Propaganda, Nature, and Agency in Mao's China, 1949–1976
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 734–736.
Published: 01 August 2024
... heritage around the lake, ultimately not fulfilling Mao's idealistic vision. The CCP's endeavor to fundamentally alter the West Lake area opened up possibilities for both human and nonhuman actors to variously benefit from and undermine the political authorities’ planning. While human agency in Mao's...
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Political Economy: Capturing the Wholeness of Social Relations and Ecological Contexts
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 399–405.
Published: 01 May 2021
... to incorporate Scott's insight into political economy. I argue that the perspective of close and astute observation of social and ecological contexts is required to grasp the complexity of the interwoven social-ecological contexts in which human and nonhuman actors organize life and make worlds. Lastly, I...
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The Global White Snake
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 172–173.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of interdisciplinary scholarship on the “nonhuman turn” that has emerged in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book-length study to examine the remaking of the White Snake legends in the contemporary world. In her first monograph, The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China , 1 Luo discussed...
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The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 754–756.
Published: 01 August 2015
... and nonhuman animals in society and culture. Ian Miller has already contributed to the pioneering volume JAPANimals , 3 introducing the Ueno Zoo in early twentieth-century Japan as a space where nation and empire were staged. In the monograph under review here, Miller not only narrates a history...
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A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 222–225.
Published: 01 February 2022
... and provides some relevant historical and theoretical context. Miyamoto brings together insights from scholars such as Judith Butler (on precarity), Jane Bennett (on nonhuman agency), and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (on spirituality and rituals) and links these to the work of Hongan no Kai members. I would have...
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Death and Life of Nature in Asian Cities
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 300–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and are affected by the built environment. The book, animated by its desire “to regard urban nature as a dynamic, ever-continuing, social-biophysical process” (1), resists viewing nature and culture as binaries to explore new ways of examining human-nonhuman interactions at a time when the world is hurtling toward...
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Power and Agency: The Discipline-Shifting Work of James C. Scott
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 389–390.
Published: 01 May 2021
... economy melds the imperative of subsistence with the nonhuman worlds of flora and fauna. Again shifting the frame, and writing through the lens of political ecology, Pamela McElwee claims Scott as a (somewhat) unrecognized titan of that field in his attention to how both material resources...
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A Recycling of the Past or the Pathway to the New? Framing the South Korean Candlelight Protest Movement
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 101–105.
Published: 01 February 2022
... orders for nonhumans and humans to counter and gradually replace prevailing economic, social, and cultural norms; these cooperatives and groups have centered their movements on building a new culture around the principle of renewing life ( saengmyo˘ng )—that all living entities draw from the same living...
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Catastrophic Asia: An Introduction
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 May 2017
... collected here grapple with the political implications of knowledge that strives to work against those “familiar conceptual distinctions between the natural and the social.” The papers make clear the need for political action based on a more holistic understanding of the human and nonhuman worlds, one...
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