Posted in About This Project (proposal), Privacy Statement, Purpose on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…”I ask him if he is ‘out’ and he looks at me, moves his head slightly forward and asks, ‘Pardon?’”
“Are you out of the closet?” I explain.
He shakes his head from side to side a little, leans in and says slowly, “I’m not gay in Japanese, I’m only gay in English.”
The above excerpt introduces [...]
Posted in About This Project (proposal) on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This project has been approved by the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects (Phone: 724/357-7730).
The approved research protocol may be viewed by clicking below:
APPROVED RESEARCH PROTOCOL
To view the research proposal, please click the appropriate tab at the top of this page.
Posted in About This Project (proposal), tagged Interviews on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Full interview now posted online in the GALE Spring 2008 newsletter:
Abass, F. & Harrison, M. (2008).Discovering voices, discovering selves: A dissertation about language and sexuality in Japan. GALE Newsletter, Spring 2008. http://tokyoprogressive.org/gale-sig/Spring%202008%20Newsletter.pdf
Posted in About This Project (proposal), Presentations & Manuscripts, Purpose on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Excerpt from forthcoming interview with Folake Abass of the JALT Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) sig. More info on viewing the entire interview to be posted soon!
FA: Thank you for agreeing to do this interview with us. To begin with, can you tell us about the research you are doing for your [...]
Posted in About This Project (proposal) on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During the first two interviews that took place as an attempt at preliminary information gathering, I began to imagine that instead of quantitative research (and it should be noted that though I started there, I’ve since moved far from notions of needing to carry out questionnaire-genre research) it might be more interesting to focus on [...]
Posted in About This Project (proposal), Sources on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent request for clarification of a response I made during an interview has prompted me to delve more deeply into “performance of queer desires”…The questions focus on the terms – why queer? why performance?
Gauntlett (n.d.) writes
Queer theory is a set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do [...]
Posted in About This Project (proposal), Purpose on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So it has occurred to me, and numerous times at that, how what this project is not about is just as important as what this project is about. To that end, here’s what I’m not trying to do:
I am not trying to prove that all Japanese construct sexuality in the same way.
I am not assuming [...]
Posted in About This Project (proposal), Purpose on May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Discovering voices, discovering selves: English language, intercultural communication, and Japanese queer sexualities
A 1928 manuscript in The English Journal declared, “English has become so much a part of the Japanese people in the last 50 years that it has rightly been called the second language of the empire” (Crocker, p. 288). Fast forward to 2005 as [...]
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