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AbstractUntoward Incidents : Criminal Mysteries of thé Everyday in Postwar JapanThis article analyzes the Glico-Morinaga incidents of the mid- 1980s and their relationship to bourgeois notions of societal orderliness and criminality in postwar Japan. The incidents (in which a group calling themselves the " Mystery Man with the Twenty-one Faces " carried out a sustained harrassment of major food corporations, the media, and the police) disclose how deeply entwined narrative conventions of the modernist détective genre (established by the author Edogawa Rampo) have penetrated into the everyday consciousness of Japanese consumers. These conventions have facilitated the blurring of fiction and factuality in média representations of crime - nowhere more tellingly than in the GM incidents, which together have been called Japan's first " 21st Century Crime ". Twenty-one Faces's manipulation of the modernist lexicon of crime and detection, truth and falsehood. guerilla theater and situationist absurdity provides a telling commentary on the stabilities of what is often portrayed as the epitome of a crime-free. stable post-industrial polity.
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Keywords: gastronomie, vin, tourisme, territoire, France, Italie
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This article looks at the experience of Sikh Canadians in British Columbia's lower mainland. First, I offer a critique of how and where their stories and histories fit within broader academic explorations of “Asian Canadian” themes. I then examine erasures in the archive connected to the building of the oldest still-standing gurdwara in the western hemisphere, the Gur Sikh Temple. The building of this Sikh sacred space offers several markers of resistance, including those that focus on relationships between different Asian Canadian communities as opposed to seeing resistance in relationship to whiteness only.