Daniel White, "Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety" (Stanford UP, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Anime Diplomacy in Japan
i describe obligatory nationalism in this chapter as those practices by which expectations commitments and concerns that are demanded of an individual for one's organization become affectively transformed into concerns for the nation at large. This is kind of how nationalism as such within the context of bureaucratic culture emerges and then feeds kind of soft power ideologies, i say. I wanted to try to make this contrast between different officials to see how this this sort of works as a different process so administrative affect then in one meaning of the term refers to this mode of feeling that is cultivated through activities of of daily administrative labor.
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