Herbivorous Boys and Predatory Girls Gender, Consumerism and Low Birth Rate in Japan

Date de début:

25 Novembre 2016 - 12:30

Date de fin:

25 Novembre 2016 - 14:00

Publié ici :

20 Octobre 2016

Mis à jour le :

19 Octobre 2017

Mots-clefs:

Anthropology
Japan
birth rate
herbivorous men

Zone géographique:

Asie

Prochain Lunch seminar de la MFJ, Pr. Ôta Satoshi, 25 novembre 2016

Speaker : ÔTA Satoshi (Tama University) Moderator Rémi SCOCCIMARRO (MFJ, Umifre 19)

Summary

This presentation will examine possible reasons for Japan’s low birth rate from an anthropological point of view. The critically low birth rate of recent decades is a major concern for the Japanese government, which has been trying to tackle the issue by setting up a childcare allowance, providing social welfare, encouraging companies to provide maternity and childcare leave, and increasing nursery places. However, these measures are insufficient. The large proportion of unmarried people in their 20s and 30s also needs to be taken into account. Unlike Western European countries, where out-of-wedlock fertility is socially accepted, people in Japan are expected to have children after marriage. The proportion of unmarried people thus reflects birth rate figures. This presentation will investigate some of the reasons for this situation, focusing particularly on single young men and the rise of sōshokukei danshi (“herbivorous men” who have little interest in women).

Profile

Satoshi Ota is an associate professor at Tama University, School of Global Studies. He received a PhD in Social Anthropology from SOAS, University of London, an MA in Social Anthropology of Japan from Oxford Brookes University, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. He previously worked at the University of Delhi and at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Research interests include: popular culture, consumption and consumerism, youth culture, identity construction, globalization, nationalism, Japan, Taiwan, and Northeast India.

(en anglais sans traduction)

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