Tag: Japanese History

by Retrospect Journal 25/04/2021 0

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Through the Looking Glass: Photography and Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Written by Jack Bennett. The technology of photography has been deeply entangled with imperial expansion. However it has been a contested technology too and used by colonised peoples.

by Retrospect Journal 21/03/2021 0

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Violence, Glue Sniffing, and Liberation: Global 1968 in Japan

Written by Jack Bennett. Shinjuku was the centre of national political struggles and counter-culture in late 1960s Japan. In the paradox of the collective embrace of individualism, a new revolutionary identity politics emerged.