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Item Open Access Automated graves: The precarity and prosthetics of caring for the dead in Japan(International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2021-07-01) Allison, AOnce dependent on family to bury and memorialize the dead, caring for the deceased has become increasingly precarious in the wake of a decreasing and aging population, a trend towards single households, and downsizing of social relationality—including the temple parishioner system once key in mortuary rituals. In the new “ending” marketplace emerging today to help Japanese manage this precarity, automated graves offer customers a convenient burial spot in an urban ossuary where ashes, interred in a deposit box, are automatically transferred to a grave upon visitation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article examines the just-in-time delivery system at work in automated graves, arguing that the mechanism serves as a social prosthesis, propping up the allure of social caring for the dead, even for those whose ashes are never visited by human relations. With over 30 such institutions now operating in Japan, automated graves are a sign of changing sociality between the living and the dead.Item Open Access Discounted life: Social time in relationless Japan(Boundary 2, 2015-08-01) Allison, AThe essay takes on recent news stories of “missing elderly” (elderly whose deaths go unrecorded) and “lonely death” (bodies discovered days or weeks after someone has died all alone) to consider how life, death, and the bonds/debts of social relationality are getting recalibrated in postcrisis Japan. In what has become a trend toward singular living and solitary existence—sometimes called Japan's “relationless society” (muen shakai)—those without human or economic capital are put at risk. The precarity of living/dying without a safety net of others is one sociological fact examined in this essay. But I also consider another: the emergence of new practices for postmortem care/memorial that relieve social intimates (notably family) of the responsibilities of tending to the dead. In an era where privatization and “self-responsibility” now extend to death, how does sociality get played out in an everyday limited to the present?Item Open Access Pocket Capitalism and Virtual Intimacy: Pokemon as Symptom of Postindustrial Youth Culture(Figuring the Future: Globalization and the Temporalities of Children and Youth, 2008-08-28) Allison, AItem Open Access The Cool Brand and Affective Activism of Japanese Youth(Theory, Culture & Society, 2009-03) Allison, AItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Makhulu, A-M; Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, C; Peterson, M; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, DItem Open Access Welfare(SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly, 2016) Allison, A; Amrute, S; Barchiesi, F; Bauer, A; Bhan, M; Fennell, Catherine; Makhulu, Anne-Maria B; Peterson, Marina; Rajak, D