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- Title
Cultural Diasporic Geographies: Japanese in Latin America/ Tango in Japan.
- Authors
Fares, Gustavo
- Abstract
At a time when the concepts of globalism and globalization are undergoing a "spatial turn," the study of the globalization of culture and of the culture of globalization can be more fruitfully undertaken if space and place are foregrounded and made explicit. The present article examines spatial concerns related to the changing meanings of cultural products and practices when subject to displacements. In my analysis I borrow the notions of "positionality" from geography and the metaphor of the "wormhole" from physics in order to consider the role of space in the physical movement of peoples from Japan to Latin America, and back, and in the displacements of the tango from Buenos Aires to Japan, via Europe. The examination of the movements of peoples and cultural products allows me to capture the interdependencies and "positionalities" of the sites, creating a way for two cultures and two territories to communicate with each other and reduce the space that separates them.
- Subjects
LATIN America; GLOBALIZATION; METAPHOR; ANTI-Japanism; GLOBAL method of teaching
- Publication
Japan Studies Association Journal, 2014, Vol 12, p12
- ISSN
1530-3527
- Publication type
Article