Lieba Faier. Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan
Document Type
Book Review
Program
International and Intercultural Studies (Pitzer)
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
How might a rural Japanese community come to see Filipina brides as “more Japanese than young Japanese women today” (153–54), upending the biologically-based racist essentialisms that consolidate the Japanese nation-state? Lieba Faier's publication of her UCSC anthropology dissertation disrupts nationalist and other identitarian claims to culture. In critiquing systemic or structural approaches to global processes (e.g., capitalism, the nation-state, colonial histories) as unable to sustain sufficient specificity (18), Faier emphasizes local, quotidian construction of meaning, desire, belonging, and culture (1). Based on Faier's work, this approach seems promising in dislodging troubled universalist categories and Eurocentric claims to the global in exploring global/local relations.
Rights Information
© 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
DOI
10.1080/00497878.2010.490725
Recommended Citation
Review of Lieba Faier, Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009, in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 39.6 (May, 2010): 706-8.
