Theme Issue on Asia Knowledge: Inside and Outside the Ivory Tower
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This essay shares some narratives and motivations that led to this special set of JAEAR articles on how knowledge about Asia is generated, constructed and received. What are the benefits, as well as the challenges, of sharing academic research with a broad range of audiences and readerships? When academics move beyond the scholarly text to produce museum exhibits, documentary films, blogs, interviews with journalists, and other forms of media, the results can be highly rewarding but also, at times, at frustrating. The problems we experienced when sharing academic knowledge rarely related to the use of scholarly jargon or esoteric topics, but rather with audience ideologies, stereotypes, and expectations. Our stance as scholars is not necessarily appreciated outside the academy, and can occasionally antagonize the public. In some instances non-specialists misuse or misunderstand our research. This essay, and the articles that follow, ask us to reflect on the production of academic work and its reception in a variety of domains.
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Laura Miller, “Cute Masquerade and The Pimping of Japan,” International Journal of Japanese Sociology 20 (2011), 18–29.
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Laura Miller, Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
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Angela Neustatter, “With A Rebel Yell,” The Guardian (May 29, 2005). http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/may/30/japan.fiction (accessed May 31, 2013).
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The blog was Laura Miller, “Much Ado About Nushu,” Keywords (February 4, 2004). http://keywords.oxus.net/archives/2004/02/29/much-ado-about-nushu-an-invited-post/ (accessed May 31, 2013). The aggravating article was Edward Cody, “A Language by Women, for Women,” Washington Post (February 24, 2004). Obituary by Douglas Martin, “Yang Huanyi, Last User of a Secret Code, Dies,” New York Times (October 6, 2004).
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Nicholas Kristof, “Japan’s Feminine Falsetto Falls Right Out of Favor,” New York Times, (December 13, 1995).
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Theme Issue on Asia Knowledge: Inside and Outside the Ivory Tower
In: Journal of American-East Asian RelationsSearch for other papers by Laura Miller in
Current site
Google Scholar
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This essay shares some narratives and motivations that led to this special set of JAEAR articles on how knowledge about Asia is generated, constructed and received. What are the benefits, as well as the challenges, of sharing academic research with a broad range of audiences and readerships? When academics move beyond the scholarly text to produce museum exhibits, documentary films, blogs, interviews with journalists, and other forms of media, the results can be highly rewarding but also, at times, at frustrating. The problems we experienced when sharing academic knowledge rarely related to the use of scholarly jargon or esoteric topics, but rather with audience ideologies, stereotypes, and expectations. Our stance as scholars is not necessarily appreciated outside the academy, and can occasionally antagonize the public. In some instances non-specialists misuse or misunderstand our research. This essay, and the articles that follow, ask us to reflect on the production of academic work and its reception in a variety of domains.
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| Abstract Views | 267 | 94 | 5 |
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