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Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama Sensuous Remembering

244 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

244 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

244 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives of transnational migrant sex workers in postcolonial Japan. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the port city of Yokohama, the book focuses on the “water trade” in the Koganecho neighbourhood where exploitative and stigmatised labour... Read more

Introduction: Sensuous Rememberings

PART I

1 Building History on A Vacant Land

2 Re-membering Shitamachi Water Trade

3 Politics of Memory in Koganecho

PART II

4 Following the Ghost, Entangled with Lives

5 Along the River, Under the Railway

6 Across the River

7 An Opening (By Way of Conclusion)

Index