Search Results for Yaeyama

... of these attempts to understand the specificity of Japanese modernity operated from an ahistorical conception of social relations in the countryside that neglected the vast transformations these sites underwent through processes of enclosure and dispossession that the state enacted after 1868. Yaeyama, an island...

... a modern Japanese identity that challenged Western discourses of modernity. Wendy Matsumura’s “Uneven Development: Nonsynchronicity and the Poet- ics of Relation in Interwar Yaeyama” provides an analysis of the ways in which the premodern past, often in a dehistoricized form, is mobilized...