The socioeconomic conditions in Japan today are characterised by affluence, consumerism, growing individualism and a declining birth rate juxtaposed with economic slowdown, major employment restructuring and a rapidly ageing society. These have prompted a general questioning of many of the values and institutions that underpinned the industrial-capitalist ideology of post World War II Japan. In the process the ways in which individuals define themselves and relate to society have been shifting significantly. <br/><br/>In the context of these shifts, this unit examines the ways in which identities based on the self, gender, sexuality, class, region and nation are being questioned,... -- Course Website
Instructor: Assistant Professor Romit Dasgupta
Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline
