Chapter Seventeen Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea

Kim, Hoi-eun

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“…Euro-American biometricians tended to look for craniological justification of racial hierarchies on one hand, and for urban environmental causes for white degeneration on the other (Gould 1996). Japanese were lumped with Chinese and Koreans into the larger racial category of "Mongoloid," so anatomists sought to differentiate modern Japanese from the Ainu, Koreans, and Chinese through increasingly precise measurements of the anatomy and physiology of humans (Hasebe 1912;Kim 2013;Low 2012;Morris-Suzuki 1998).…”

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Anatomy and the Reconfiguration of Life and Death in Republican China

Luesink

2017

J of Asian Stud

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This article argues that the establishment of anatomo-power in China preceded and set the foundation for biopower. Anatomo-power is disciplinary power over live bodies in the military, schools, and hospitals, but also the power of the medical profession over dead bodies to investigate pathology through dissection. At the turn of the twentieth century, Chinese conceptions of political anatomy were used to advocate anatomical knowledge, and an anatomy law in 1913 made routinized dissection possible. Chinese society began to be transformed as old taboos were broken, and thousands of new terms allowed the scientific worldview to take root among professionals and the public. Anatomical researchers addressed both microscopic pathology to cure individuals and macroscopic questions that grouped individuals into a population to be managed, or that sought data to tell new narratives about the origins and future of humanity—a new political anatomy based on the practice of human dissection.

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Anatomy and the Reconfiguration of Life and Death in Republican China

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2017

J of Asian Stud

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Towards a Global Genealogy of Biopolitics: Race, Colonialism, and Biometrics beyond Europe

Nishiyama

2015

Environ Plan D

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This paper examines, at the global scale, the biopolitical strategy of racism that Foucault articulated in the context of 19th-century Europe. Through my historical analysis both of the emergent notion of race and of biometric production of racial knowledge during Japanese colonialism, I endeavour to delineate a circulation of a political rationality of modern racism, which became globally generalised and constitutive of the formation of a non-Western nation-state. I argue that this emergence of global biopolitics, however, should not simply be reduced to a unitary operation but needs to be understood as the process of multiplication that reveals both the continuity and the contingency of the biopolitical strategy of racism in relation to particular spatiotemporal configurations. Furthermore, through an archaeological reading of Foucault on modern racism, I will suggest that Foucault's Society Must be Defended, albeit arguably underdeveloped in its geographical scope of analysis, can shed light on the operation of biopolitics and modern racism beyond the history of Europe.

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Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power

Nishiyama

2020

Cultural Studies

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Some of the contents of the article were part of my PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick in 2016. I would like to thank my supervisors Nick Vaughan-Williams and Chris Hughes and examiners Michael Dillon and Stuart Elden for their support and comments. The present version is substantially revised from the original thesis. The manuscript was initially prepared during my time as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland's RELATE CoE (grant number: 307348). It was completed during my Academy of Finland's postdoctoral funding (grant number: 321755). I am grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which significantly helped to improve this

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Chapter Seventeen Anatomically Speaking: The Kubo Incident and the Paradox of Race in Colonial Korea

Cited by 6 publications

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Anatomy and the Reconfiguration of Life and Death in Republican China

Anatomy and the Reconfiguration of Life and Death in Republican China

Towards a Global Genealogy of Biopolitics: Race, Colonialism, and Biometrics beyond Europe

Bodies and borders in post-imperial Japan: a study of the coloniality of biometric power

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