Resources

There are many resources that have influenced my thinking thus far. I have listed several of them below; following these and references for my degree plan, I have annotated bibliographies of sources that were created during INDS 399 (Guided Reading in Individualized Studies).

On the topic of Patrick Galbraith, his book The Moe Manifesto, while written for popular audiences, is another useful resource on the past, present, and future of moe and otaku. And his monograph Otaku and the Stuggle for Imagination in Japan is a culmination of much of his research on otaku sexuality throughout his academic career so far, focusing on the history of otaku sexuality and accompanying discourses around "otaku" in Japan. The book is an intervention into these discourses, questioning the very category of "otaku" and historicizing Japanese fans' struggle for the recognition of their relationship with the imaginary.

Additionally, Galbraith's PhD dissertation "The Politics of Imagination" (now revised into his second monograph The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood) has been enormously influential on my thinking about Japanese fan subcultures, especially the concept of the "ethics of moe," which is borrowed and expanded from the Japanese scholar Shin'ichirō Harata.

The academic collection The End of Cool Japan is an exploration of the global politics of Japanese popular culture, including the particular challenges that otaku sexuality faces. This book was highly influential in guiding me to my central research question.

A pair of translated Japanese books, Saitō Tamaki's Beautiful Fighting Girl and Azuma Hiroki's Otaku: Japan's Database Animals together form a sustained exploration of otaku cultures. Database Animals was partly written as a challenge to the ideas of Beautiful Fighting Girl, but I think they complement each other well. Saitō focuses on otaku sexuality from a Lacanian pyschoanalytic perspectice, while Azuma tries to understand otaku through postmodern theory. Both contribute significantly to the discourse on moe/otaku sexuality.

References (from Degree Plan)

American Anthropological Association. (n.d.). What is Anthropology? Retrieved April 2, 2019, from https://www.americananthro.org/AdvanceYourCareer/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=2150&navItemNumber=740

Anime Expo. (2019, February 11). Anime Expo Academic Symposium: Call for Papers! Retrieved March 25, 2019, from http://www.anime-expo.org/2019/02/11/anime-expo-academic-symposium-call-papers/

Condry, I. (2013). The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story. Durham: Duke University Press.

Columbia University Department of Anthropology. (n.d.). Requirements and Contacts. Retrieved February 18, 2019, from https://anthropology.columbia.edu/graduate/ma-program-sociocultural-anthropology/requirements-and-contacts

Durham, M. G., & Kellner, D. M. (2012). Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program. (n.d.). Japan. Retrieved February 18, 2019, from https://us.fulbrightonline.org/countries/selectedprogram/38

Galbraith, P. W. (2009). Moe: Exploring Virtual Potential in Post-Millennial Japan. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies,9(3). Retrieved February 4, 2019, from http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk

Galbraith, P. W. (2014). The Moé Manifesto: An insider’s look at the worlds of manga, anime, and gaming. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing.

Galbraith, P. W. (2017). The Politics of Imagination: Virtual Regulation and the Ethics of Affect in Japan(Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Duke University. Retrieved April 1, 2019, from https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/14371

Galbraith, P. W. (2018). Akihabara: Promoting and Policing "Otaku" in "Cool Japan". In A. Freedman & T. Slade (Eds.), Introducing Japanese Popular Culture(pp. 373-385). London: Routledge.

Galbraith, P. W. & Lamarre, T. (2010). Otakuology: A Dialogue. Mechademia 5, 360-374. University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved April 1, 2019, from Project MUSE database.

Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. (n.d.). About the Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2019, from https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/jams/about

Koulikov, M. (2019, March 10). Defining Anime and Manga Studies. Retrieved March 30, 2019, from https://animemangastudies.wordpress.com/2019/03/10/defining-anime-and-manga-studies/

Macias, P. (2007, September 27). Akihabara's Awful Truths. Retrieved April 25, 2019, from https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2007/09/27/general/akihabaras-awful-truths/#.XMIzNS3MyL9

Magulick, A. (2017, October 08). Viz Manga Sales are Destroying DC, Marvel in Comic Market. Retrieved February 3, 2019, from https://goboiano.com/viz-manga-sales-are-destroying-dc-marvel-in-comic-market/

Masuda, H., Sudo, T., Rikukawa, K., Mori, Y., Ito, N., & Kameyama, Y. (2018, January). Anime Industry Report 2017: Summary(Rep.). Retrieved March 28, 2019, from The Association of Japanese Animations website: http://aja.gr.jp/english/japan-anime-data

McLelland, M. (2017). Introduction: Negotiating "cool Japan" in research and teaching. In M. McLelland (Ed.), The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, legal, and cultural challenges to Japanese popular culture(pp. 1-30). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Miller, M., & Boix Mansilla, V. (2004, March). Thinking Across Perspectives and Disciplines. Retrieved March 28, 2019, from https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/01e0/a87b220909ad8475f1733471ba357e486f63.pdf

Pink, D. H. (2007, October 22). Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex. Retrieved February 4, 2019, from https://www.wired.com/2007/10/ff-manga/

Robertson, J. (n.d.). Professor Jennifer Robertson. Retrieved May 2, 2019, from http://www.jenniferrobertson.info/home

Scott, J. (2007). Sociology: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge.

Yang, Y. (n.d.). Pause and Select. Retrieved March 25, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfpDNSkMPnmMwZHhUyplbZg

Annotated Bibliographies

The first of these two bibliographies is comprised of useful sources from courses in my degree plan. The second contains texts that I read outside of previous courses, including sources read I read independently of coursework and sources that I selected to read for INDS 299.