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dc.contributor.authorUzawa, Kanako
dc.contributor.authorWatson, Mark K.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T13:28:44Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T13:28:44Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-09
dc.description.abstractUrespa, meaning “to grow together” in the Ainu language, is a social venture founded at Sapporo University in 2010. The Urespa club brings Indigenous Ainu and Wajin (i.e. non-Ainu) students together in a curriculum-based environment to co-learn the Ainu language and Ainu cultural practices. The initiative’s aim is to restory the conventional narrative of Otherness in Japan by creating a transformative space or “micropublic” in which students can work collaboratively across ethnic difference. In this paper, we argue that Urespa succeeds in effecting an inclusive social setting for both Ainu and Wajin students through the design and implementation of a process which promotes and, recursively, is shaped by, a transcultural form of social encounter. The challenge this makes to the promotion of multicultural programming within Japan in recent decades is important although not without controversy.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>Asian Anthropology</i> on 09 jan 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/https://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2019.1699599.en_US
dc.identifier.citationUzawa, Kanako; Watson, Mark K. Urespa (“Growing Together”): the remaking of Ainu-Wajin relations in Japan through an innovative social venture. Asian Anthropology. 2019en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1703975
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/1683478X.2019.1699599
dc.identifier.issn1683-478X
dc.identifier.issn2168-4227
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/17203
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUzawa, K. (2020). "Crafting Our Future Together": Urban Diasporic Indigeneity from an Ainu Perspective in Japan. (Doctoral thesis). <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17182>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/17182</a>
dc.relation.journalAsian Anthropology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holder@ 2020 The Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kongen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200en_US
dc.titleUrespa (“Growing Together”): the remaking of Ainu-Wajin relations in Japan through an innovative social ventureen_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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