UID:
almahu_9949701496402882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004245921
Series Statement:
Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262409.
Content:
This volume provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among young Japanese from the late 1980s until the present day. Discussing anti-war mobilizations, freeter unions, artists in the homeless movement, campus protest, anti-nuclear protest and activists engaged in support for social withdrawers, the author documents how new forms of activism developed hand-in-hand with experiments in using alternative spaces outside mainstream public areas and a struggle with the traumatic legacy of the failure of earlier protest movements. Despite the relative absence of open protest during much of the 1990s, the author demonstrates that this was an important preparatory period, full of experimentation, in which the foundations for today's protest movements were laid. This book will be welcomed by students of sociological theory relating to Japan as well as those studying the trends and dynamics of contemporary 'post-Bubble' Japanese society.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Trauma, Empowerment and Alternative Space -- Japan's Lost Decade and Two Recoveries -- The New Cultural Movements -- The Rise of Movements Against Precarity -- Space, Art and Homelessness -- Alternative Space, Withdrawal and Empowerment -- Campus Protest -- The Recovery of Activism -- Appendix 1. Chronological Table of Key Events and Major Organisations -- Appendix 2. Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan Leiden, Boston : Global Oriental, 2014, ISBN 9789004245914
Language:
English
