{"id":872,"date":"2016-04-19T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2020-08-13T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:22:45","slug":"corporal-punishment-in-japan-one-path-to-positive-anthropological-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/corporal-punishment-in-japan-one-path-to-positive-anthropological-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Corporal Punishment in Japan: One Path to Positive Anthropological Activism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article, which was peer reviewed and published in the journal <i>Anthropology in Action<\/i>,\u00a0is about the controversial educational practice of corporal punishment \u2013known as <em>taibatsu<\/em> in Japan \u2013 which challenged me to reflect upon my anthropological &#8220;heart&#8221;, and\u00a0find my identity as a scholar and as a human being. Corporal punishment is a practice around which many ideas\u00a0and discourses about education, social order, human rights and even power swirl, and it is\u00a0therefore an inherently sociocultural practice wherever it takes place. Like other forms of violence,\u00a0it also poses a personal challenge to anthropologists who observe it in practice and have\u00a0to decide whether to remain an observing bystander. At one time, I made that choice. In this\u00a0article, I explain why I no longer do.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/06-Miller_AiA.pdf\">Click here to read it or<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/06-Miller_AiA.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dh8R5uXUEAIGNN3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1556\" width=\"807\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dh8R5uXUEAIGNN3.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Dh8R5uXUEAIGNN3-300x157.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, which was peer reviewed and published in the journal Anthropology in Action,\u00a0is about the controversial educational practice of corporal punishment \u2013known as taibatsu in Japan \u2013 which challenged me to reflect upon my anthropological &#8220;heart&#8221;, and\u00a0find my identity as a scholar and as a human being. Corporal punishment is a practice around which&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/corporal-punishment-in-japan-one-path-to-positive-anthropological-activism\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Corporal Punishment in Japan: One Path to Positive Anthropological Activism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-journal-articles","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}