UID:
almafu_9959231854402883
Format:
1 online resource (370 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-94767-3
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9786612732560
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1-282-73256-0
Content:
Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940's and 1950's, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960's and 1970's, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970's. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front matter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People --
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2. Mass Society, Anpo, and the Birth of the Shimin --
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3. Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism --
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4. Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism --
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5. Shimin, New Civic Movements, and the Politics of Proposal --
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Conclusion: The Shimin Idea and Civil Society --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-26270-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-26271-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520947672
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