Yoga-scapes: The Economics of Imagination and Utopian Aspirations of Transglobal Yoga in Japan

瑜伽景观：日本跨全球瑜伽的想象力经济学和乌托邦愿望

• 批准号: 17F17710
• 负责人: 岩谷 彩子
• 金额: $ 1.34万
• 依托单位: Kyoto University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2017-11-10 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17F17710/
• 关键词: yoga; yogascape; Japan; imagination; wellness; Zen Buddhism; meditation; globalization; wellness tourism; sustainable development; neoliberalism; commodification; economics of desire; politics of imagination; yogaland; Global Yoga; Yoga in

The purpose of the research is to contextualize the consumption of yoga-inflected lifestyles in Japan and other countries of East and South-East Asia. And reorient the academic gaze away from the North America and Western Europe. The aim is to determine how the value-adding of yoga lifestyles in Japan is either different or similar to other parts of the world. Overall, the project was successful in showing particular similarities and differences. Much more could be said, assuming more time was available. A second international conference was organized in Kyoto in July 2019. Several articles have been published. More are forthcoming. Some of the key findings are that the general consumption of yoga in Japan is even more gendered than other countries (99pc to 80pc). This (and the language barrier) actually made conducting fieldwork very difficult. As, in many cases, 99 percent of attendees at yoga classes were women who were too shy or ambivalent to discuss matters related to yoga within an academic. One key difference is that yoga is consumed in Japan for reasons of beauty (as compared to fitness) and relaxation. And, like in many parts of the world, it is conspicuously consumed as a marker of location among 30-40 year-old women of the middle class. While yoga in Japan is similar to other countries, there are curious hybrid formations that are specific to Japan, like お寺ヨガ and 忍者ヨガ. A final difference is the lack of concern regarding cultural appropriation and decolonizing yoga, which are very big issues in North America.

The purpose of the research is to contextualize the consumption of yoga-inflected lifestyles in Japan and other countries of East and South-East Asia. And reorient the academic gaze away from the North America and Western Europe. The aim is to determine how the value-adding of yoga lifestyles in Japan is either different or similar to other parts of the world. Overall, the project was successful in showing particular similarities and differences. Much more could be said, assuming more time was available. A second international conference was organized in Kyoto in July 2019. Several articles have been published. More are forthcoming. Some of the key findings are that the general consumption of yoga in Japan is even more gendered than other countries (99pc to 80pc). This (and the language barrier) actually made conducting fieldwork very difficult. As, in many cases, 99 percent of attendees at yoga classes were women who were too shy or ambivalent to discuss matters related to yoga within an academic. One key difference is that yoga is consumed in Japan for reasons of beauty (as compared to fitness) and relaxation. And, like in many parts of the world, it is conspicuously consumed as a marker of location among 30-40 year-old women of the middle class. While yoga in Japan is similar to other countries, there are curious hybrid formations that are specific to Japan, like お temple ヨガ and ninja ヨガ. A final difference is the lack of concern regarding cultural appropriation and decolonizing yoga which are very big issues in North America.

项目成果

Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Text and Traditions

Puspika：通过文本和传统追溯古印度

• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Dina Myasnikova;Binbin Zhang;Junji Fukuda;伊地知雄太・大野 剛・坂田周平・柵木彩花・高橋嘉夫;田中雅人・有賀大輔・柏原輝彦・高橋嘉夫;Lucas den Boer and Daniele Cuneo
• 通讯作者: Lucas den Boer and Daniele Cuneo

Spiritual Bypass and Entanglement in Yogaland: How Neoliberalism, Soft Hindutva and Banal Nationalism Facilitate Yoga Fundamentalism

瑜伽乐园中的精神绕过与纠缠：新自由主义、软印度教和平庸的民族主义如何促进瑜伽原教旨主义

• DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/mfb5n
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Politics and Religion Journal
• 影响因子: 0.3
• 作者: Patrick McCartney

Santamurti: The Legitimate Disposition(s) of the “Temple of Peace” Social Network

Santamurti：“和平寺”社交网络的合法处置

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Annual Papers of the Anthropological Institute
• 作者: H. Windley;T. Shimada;Patrick McCartney
• 通讯作者: Patrick McCartney

Conference 2.0 2019 Call for Papers

会议2.0 2019征文通知

Stretching into the Shadows: Unlikely Alliances, Strategic Syncretism and De-post-colonizing Yogaland's 'Yogatopia(s)'

延伸到阴影中：不太可能的联盟、战略融合和后殖民瑜伽兰的“瑜伽托邦”

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Asian Ethnology
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Mohammad Khusni Bin Ahmat Amin;清水昭男;Dimitar P. Zankov;佐藤朗;扇田久和;Patrick McCartney
• 通讯作者: Patrick McCartney