私はここに属さない : グローバル化の時代の若者文化を考える

Abstract

The paper explores three concepts, globalization, youth, and culture. All three have undergone drastic changes in last. decades and need to be redefined. Globalization stands for spatial-temporal processes which are carried mostly by the non-state actors including, among others, NGO, fandom, and individual. Globalization differs from Internationalization which referst to intensification of the border crossing activities mostly carried by the state actors. Youth, who was once the subject bitterly struggling to define oneself, has acquired the new role of revolutionary defining the new world. They young people with their digital literacy of today have been responsible in bringing about globalization. Culture once was the sacred source of stable and homogeneous identities of people, but it is new a theoretically and politically contested field. The research on diffusion of post-war Japan's popular culture, Manga and Anime, to the young people in the world has inevitably prepared the ground for the new combination of three concepts because Manga and Anime now belong to the life-style of the young people who have been the engine of on-going global processes.