Resilient Borders and Cultural Diversity

Regular price €51.99
Quantity:
In stock with our UK publisher. 14-28 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
14 days return policy Shipping & Delivery
A01=Koichi Iwabuchi
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Asian Studies
Author_Koichi Iwabuchi
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=GTQ
Category=JBCT
Category=JBSL1
Category=JFD
Category=JFFS
Category=JFSL1
COP=United States
Cultural globalization
Cultural Studies
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Japanese Studies
Language_English
Media Studies
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch

Product details

  • ISBN 9781498502276
  • Weight: 227g
  • Dimensions: 151 x 231mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

The acceleration of media culture globalization processes cross-fertilization and people’s exchange beyond the confinement of national borders, but not all of them lead to substantial transformations of national identity or foster cosmopolitan outlook in terms of openness, togetherness and dialogue within and beyond the national borders. Whilst national borders continue to become more and more porous, the measures of border control are constantly reformulated to tame disordered flows and tightly re-demarcate the borders—materially, physically, symbolically and imaginatively. Border crossing does not necessarily bring about the transgression of borders. Transgression of borders requires one to fundamentally question how borders in the existing form have been socio-historically constructed and also seek to displace their exclusionary power that unevenly divide “us” and “them” and “here” and “there.”
This book considers how media culture and the management of people’s border crossing movement combine with Japan's cultural diversity to institute the creation of national cultural borders in Japanese millennials. Critical analysis of this development is a pressing matter if we are to seriously consider how to make Japan’s national cultural borders more inclusive and dialogic.

Koichi Iwabuchi is professor of media and cultural studies at Monash University and director of the Monash Asia Institute.

More from this author