Tessa Morris-Suzuki's scientific contributions

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This book challenges the conventional view of Japanese society as monocultural and homogenous. Unique for its historical breadth and interdisciplinary orientation, Multicultural Japan ranges from prehistory to the present, arguing that cultural diversity has always existed in Japan. A timely and provocative discussion of identity politics regarding...

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... Therefore, this paper shifts from the macro register of examining the historical mixing of political bodies that defined the Hokkaido frontier as a peripheral region (cf. Irish, 2009;Morris-Suzuki, 1996;Walker, 2001), to meso level bio-politics of other making inherent in Hokkaido's modern dairy industry, and ends with a discussion of a new micro level frontier, or ''contact zone'' to borrow from Haraway (2008: 35-42, 205-246), the time and space shared between human, bovine and machine in the rapidly industrializing dairy industry of Tokachi, Hokkaido. All of these linkages on the one hand defy, and on the other hand, define species otherness (Nussbaum, 2006: 325-407). ...