Japanese LGBTQ+ Lives, Diasporic Voices, and Resilience: Precarious Visibility
暫譯: 日本 LGBTQ+ 生活、散居聲音與韌性:脆弱的可見性

Tamagawa, Masami

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-10-30
  • 售價: $4,330
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,114
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 204
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 9819531047
  • ISBN-13: 9789819531042
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals in Japan, framed through the central concept of precarious visibility. While the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a pivotal case study, the scope of this work extends beyond that moment to examine how legal precarity, entrenched cultural expectations, and pervasive social stigma shape queer lives in Japan and abroad. Drawing on rich first-person narratives and qualitative analysis, the book illuminates the challenges and resilience of this diverse community.Key themes include healthcare access, mental health, family and workplace dynamics, migration and travel restrictions, and the contested politics of media representation and activism. By centering voices often overlooked even within LGBTQ+ research, the book highlights both the vulnerabilities and adaptive strategies of queer individuals navigating social marginalization. Distinctive in its integration of domestic and diasporic perspectives, the book is relevant to students an scholars in LGBTQ+ studies, Japanese studies, and global queer scholarship. It demonstrates how moments of crisis, such as the pandemic, expose deeper structural inequalities while also prompting new forms of solidarity and resistance.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書全面探討了日本 LGBTQ+ 個體的生活經驗,並以「脆弱的可見性」為核心概念。雖然 COVID-19 疫情作為一個關鍵案例進行分析,但本書的範疇超越了這一時刻,檢視法律脆弱性、根深蒂固的文化期望以及普遍存在的社會污名如何塑造日本及海外的酷兒生活。透過豐富的第一人稱敘述和質性分析,本書揭示了這個多元社群所面臨的挑戰與韌性。主要主題包括醫療保健的可及性、心理健康、家庭與職場動態、移民與旅行限制,以及媒體表現與行動主義的爭議政治。通過聚焦那些在 LGBTQ+ 研究中常被忽視的聲音,本書突顯了酷兒個體在社會邊緣化中所面臨的脆弱性與適應策略。本書在整合國內與海外視角方面具有獨特性,對於 LGBTQ+ 研究、日本研究及全球酷兒學術界的學生與學者均具相關性。它展示了危機時刻(如疫情)如何揭露更深層的結構性不平等,同時促進新的團結與抵抗形式。

作者簡介

Masami Tamagawa, PhD, is Senior Teaching Professor of Japanese at Skidmore College (USA). His research examines gender, sexuality, migration, and media in contemporary Japan, with a focus on the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ communities. He is the author of The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World (Routledge, 2022) and the forthcoming Queer Intimacies and Cultural Dissent in Japanese Life: Quiet Subversion (Routledge). His scholarship has appeared in the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, Sexuality & Culture, and Sage Research Methods. His recent contributions also include the chapter "Crossing Borders, Redefining Identities: Japanese LGBTQ+ Migration to Australia," in Japanese Migrations to Australia: Transformation and Heterogeneity (Routledge, forthcoming).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

田川雅美博士是美國斯基德莫爾學院(Skidmore College)日語的高級教學教授。他的研究探討當代日本的性別、性取向、移民和媒體,特別關注LGBTQ+社群的生活經驗。他是《世界中的日本LGBTQ+社群》(Routledge, 2022)一書的作者,並即將出版《日本生活中的酷兒親密關係與文化異議:靜默的顛覆》(Routledge)。他的學術作品曾發表於《GLBT家庭研究期刊》(Journal of GLBT Family Studies)、《性與文化》(Sexuality & Culture)以及《Sage研究方法》(Sage Research Methods)。他最近的貢獻還包括在即將出版的《日本移民到澳大利亞:轉型與異質性》(Japanese Migrations to Australia: Transformation and Heterogeneity, Routledge)中撰寫的章節「跨越邊界,重新定義身份:日本LGBTQ+移民到澳大利亞」。