Administering Affect: Pop-Culture Japan and the Politics of Anxiety

by Daniel White

Book Overview

How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503630684
• ISBN13: 9781503630680
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 6.1"