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Andrea Gevurtz Arai<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0teaches Japan and East Asia cultural anthropology and society courses at the University of Washington. She is the author of\u00a0The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan<\/i>\u00a0(Stanford U. Press, 2016) and co-author of\u00a0Spaces of Possibility: in, between and beyond Korea and Japan<\/i>\u00a0(UW Press, 2016), and\u00a0Global Futures in East Asia<\/i>\u00a0(SUP, 2013). Arai is collaborating on a third East Asia project and edited volume: \u201cSpaces of Creative Resistance in East Asia\u201d.<\/p>\n

She is working on a second monograph, on the aesthetics, feminist biopolitics and peripheral spaces of social movements in Japan and beyond.<\/p>\n

Project Description<\/h2>\n

Making Change: Women’s Spatial Aesthetics and Bottom-Up Biopolitics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Japan, Covid-19 and 3.11 have exacerbated social problems brought on by post-1990s un(der)-employment, food and housing insecurity, job search depression, social disconnection and the plight of Tohoku evacuees. All have also disproportionately affected women. At the same time, in Japan, in other parts of East Asia and the world, we are seeing how critical conjunctures of inequities have the power to activate collective resistance. In this paper, part of my current ethnographic and book project, I examine how resistance in Japan is focused on forms of making<\/em>\u2014making spatial aesthetics of change. Those I discuss here are created by women. From Hyogo to Nagano, Hiroshima to Tohoku, these women\u2019s projects of making change challenge the dominant means of production and reproduction. Under often difficult conditions, they re-create realities of family, work, community and sustainable environments, while resisting top-down management and discursive manipulations of the changing conditions of reproductive life. Some of them have left lucrative positions; others gather together in local areas. Their creative resistance \u201clife projects\u201d and aesthetics resonate with what Rin Odawara shows is a long line of women\u2019s movements for change; Sabu Kohso frames as the struggle for life itself, Yoshitaka Mori has described as the particularities of 21st<\/sup> century DIY in Japan; and Arturo Escobar describes as \u201cautonomous design.\u201d These women propose to not only make new things, but new culture; find out what they\u2019re working for; design for the 99%; re-build, dwell and think, and redirect the focus from women as the problem to the social problems of women (and others) in an era of low birth and aftermaths of disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bio Andrea Gevurtz Arai\u00a0teaches Japan and East Asia cultural anthropology and society courses at the University of Washington. She is the author of\u00a0The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan\u00a0(Stanford U. Press, 2016) and co-author of\u00a0Spaces of Possibility: in, between and beyond Korea and Japan\u00a0(UW Press, 2016), and\u00a0Global Futures in East<\/p>\n

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