Despite the pervasive social constructivist turn, regardless of some exceptions, discussions
of race, racialization and racism continue to focus on the relatively essentialist White/non …

Abstract The 2016 Law for the Promotion of the Elimination of Buraku Discrimination
(LPEBD) was a significant development in the history of postwar Buraku liberation politics …

This chapter looks to several digital mapping platforms–some defunct, others active–that, as
I argue, provide a blueprint for an otherwise latent cartographic politics. From 2010 to …

This chapter offers a general background discussion to the Buraku problem in modern
Japan, focusing on the politics of financial redress and the ways in which state funding …

Burakumin are a Japanese minority group who experience a complex kind of discrimination.
But “Burakumin” is also a word that conceals a complex system of ever-changing signs …

Imagine the predicament of the contemporary scholar of Japan who seeks to communicate
the country's politics and diversity. Most any student of Asia knows that other major Asian …

Damga bir isim vermedir. Anne-babanın değil de başkalarının verdiği isimdir. Bazen, kişinin
gerçek isminin bile önüne geçer. Anne-babalar çocuklarının güzel bir isme sahip olması için …

In 2016, a group called Tottori-Loop released on their website as well as through its
publishing company, Jigensha, material under the name Zenkoku Buraku Chōsa, otherwise …

Japonia to państwo budzące powszechne zainteresowanie, posiadające wyrazistą
charakterystykę społeczną i kulturową oraz pasjonującą historię. Cztery duże oraz 6848 …

Silence is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as the “abstaining or forbearing from
speech and utterance”(“silence. n. 1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, November 2016 …