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Please find attached call for contributions to a GJRA edited collection on Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture. Please circulate as widely as possible to any potentially interested colleagues and contacts, and post, blog, tweet, share, and generally
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Deadline for expressions of interest (with indicative abstract and a short CV) is 5 September. See below for details.<br>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Dr </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333">Thomas </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Giddens</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Co-Director </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.stmarys.ac.uk/law-and-culture/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Centre
for Law and Culture</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040"><a href="http://www.stmarys.ac.uk/">St Mary’s University</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Twickenham, London TW1 4SX</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Follow me </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://twitter.com/ThomGiddens"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">@ThomGiddens</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">Founder, <a href="http://graphicjustice.blogspot.com/">Graphic Justice Research Alliance</a> | Follow us <a href="http://twitter.com/LexComica">@LexComica</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#404040">And see the collection, <i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138787995">Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law</a></i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2">Ashley Pearson </font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2">Thom Giddens </font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2">Kieran Tranter</font></span></p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaLight; color: rgb(6, 8, 8); font-size: 12px;">From Crime Fighting Boy Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters
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<p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a significant fountainhead for images, narratives, artefacts, and forms of engagement and identity.
From Pikachu, to instantly identifiable manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, the convenience of sushi, and the hyper-consumerism of product tie-ins Japan has bequeathed ways through which a globalised world imagines, communicates and interrogates tradition
and change, the self and the technological future. Within these foci questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica56; font-style: italic;">Astro Boy</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">; the property and contract of
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica56; font-style: italic;">Pokémon</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">; the ecological justice of
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica56; font-style: italic;">Nausicaä</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">, Shinto’s focus on order and balance; the anxieties of modernity in
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<p style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">This volume is the first to bring together global scholars to reflect on and critically engage with Japan’s popular cultural legal legacy. It explores not only the impact of
Japan on global culture, but what these images, games, narratives, and artefacts reveal about law, humanity, justice and authority in the second decade of the twenty-first century </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica75; font-weight: 700;"><font size="2">genres, games, practices and/or artefacts. Those selected for inclusion will:
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Show an awareness of the embedded, multi-sensorial and transmedial nature of their subject. Demonstrate engagement with existing relevant academic literature.
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<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><font size="2">How has justice been envisioned in Japanese imaginings of the future?<br>
How are authority, gender and the self communicated in Japanese culture?<br>
Are Japanese computer games legally progressive or conservative?<br>
How has law and technology been framed in Japanese popular culture?<br>
What do Japanese transmedial narratives and fan stories tell us about legality and creativity? What role does violence and reactions to violence play in Japanese popular culture?<br>
How is tradition and change mediated in Japanese popular culture?<br>
How does manga and anime animate the legalities of the posthuman? </font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: HelveticaLight; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12px;">The editors will advise contributors of inclusion and process by 12 September 2016.<br>
The first draft of chapters will be due 1 May 2017 with an expected publication date of late 2017. </span></p>
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