UID:
almahu_9949383479402882
Format:
1 online resource (286 pages)
ISBN:
9781351387880
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135138788X
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9781315143705
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1315143704
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9781351387866
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1351387863
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9781351387873
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1351387871
Series Statement:
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Content:
The recent manifestation of exclusionism in Japan has emerged at a time of intensified neoliberal economic policies, increased cross-border migration brought on by globalization, the elevated threat of global terrorism, heightened tensions between East Asian states over historical and territorial conflicts, and a backlash by Japanese conservatives over perceived historical apologism. The social and political environment for minorities in Japan has shifted drastically since the 1990s, yet many studies of Japan still tend to view Japan through the dominant discourses of ethnic homogeneity (tanitsu minzoku shakai) and middle-class society (sochuryu-shakai) which positions the exclusion of minorities as an exceptional phenomenon. While exclusionism has been recognized as a serious threat to minority groups, it has not often been considered a representative issue for the whole of Japanese society. This tendency will persist until the discourses of tanitsu minzoku shakai and sochuryu-shakai are systematically debunked and Japan is widely recognized as both multiethnic and socio-economically stratified. Today, as with most advanced capitalist countries, serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history, policy studies, cultural studies, sociology and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism, the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides.
Note:
Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan /
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Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan /
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Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi) diaspora in modern Japan /
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Ethnic "Korean schools" confront discrimination, hate speech and hate crime: exclusionism from "above and below" in contemporary Japan /
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Backlash: hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism in post-DRIPS Japan /
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Mobilizing places: beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa anti-base struggle /
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Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children /
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Expanding exclusion: from undocumented residents into "Imposter" residents /
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On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint of social exclusion /
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Exclusionism and the Burakumin: literacy movement, legislative countermeasures and the Sayama incident /
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Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a "Natural course of life": parenthood as experienced by the generation before the "LGBT boom" /
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The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan: eugenics, exclusion and discrimination /
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Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster /
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A coalition of radicals and housing first practices in homeless movements? /
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Rethinking the principles of "kyōsei" in Japan: intersections between oldcomers and newcomers /
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A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9781138310391
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9781315143705
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315143705
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