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IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-10-12 DOI:10.1215/08992363-9262905

Yuriko Furuhata

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article examines the intertwined cultural politics of geology, mining, and archival media in the context of Japan’s development as an archipelagic empire. The first Japanese geological map (1876) was completed by American geologist Benjamin Smith Lyman, who surveyed mineral deposits in Hokkaidō, Japan’s northern island, long inhabited by the Indigenous Ainu people. Following decolonial and archipelagic thoughts, the author reads across earthly archives of geological strata and colonial archives of historical documents to elucidate the conceptual duality of archipelago as a geological formation and a geopolitical territory. In tracing this formative era of Japan’s resource extraction and settler colonialism, which precedes and informs the current rush to extract rare earth minerals necessary to maintain global digital infrastructures, this article aims to both de-Westernize the methodological orientation known as media geology and offer a prehistory of contemporary rare earth mining in the Pacific Ocean.

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群岛的档案

本文探讨了在日本发展为群岛帝国的背景下，地质、采矿和档案媒体交织在一起的文化政治。第一张日本地质图（1876年）由美国地质学家本杰明·史密斯·莱曼完成，他调查了日本北部岛屿北海道的矿床，该岛长期居住着土著阿伊努人。根据非殖民化和群岛思想，作者翻阅了地球地质地层档案和历史文献殖民档案，以阐明群岛作为地质构造和地缘政治领土的概念双重性。在追溯日本资源开采和定居者殖民主义的形成时代时，本文旨在将被称为媒体地质学的方法论方向去西方化，并提供太平洋当代稀土开采的史前史。

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来源期刊

Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.