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Making Japanese citizens : civil society and the mythology of the shimin in postwar Japan / Simon Andrew Avenell.
LIBRA JQ1681 .A94 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Avenell, Simon Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Japan.
- Citizenship.
- Political activists.
- Civil society.
- Japan.
- Civil society--Japan.
- Political activists--Japan.
- Japan--Politics and government--1945-.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- 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 in postwar Japan. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Andrew Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation not only in contemporary Japan but also, more generally, in other industrialized nations. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People 20
- 2 Mass Society, Anpo, and the Birth of the Shimin 62
- 3 Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism 106
- 4 Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism 148
- 5 Shimin, New Civic Movements, and the Politics of Proposal 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520262706
- 0520262700
- 0520262719
- 9780520262713
- OCLC:
- 607974827
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