The failure of civil society? : the third sector and the state in contemporary Japan / Akihiro Ogawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogawa, Akihiro, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonprofit organizations--Japan.

Nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit organizations--Government policy--Japan.

Civil society--Japan.

Civil society.

Non-governmental organizations--Japan.

Non-governmental organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book AwardThe global discourse on civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan's volunteers, known as the third sector. In the wake of the Japanese government's failed response to the 1995 earthquake, volunteers took the lead in providing aid to victims. This recent sea change in Japanese society was quickly followed by the 1998 NPO Law (nonprofit organization law) that encourages third sector activities. Drawing on his fieldwork at one of the new NPOs, Akihiro Ogawa explores in detail the social and historical particularities of Japanese "civil society" or shimin shakai, revisiting how the concept is interpreted and practiced by the volunteers themselves. Civil society, Ogawa argues, can best be understood as an active, dynamic process rather than as a static, abstract model.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Kawazoe

NPO: A New Third Sector

Invited by the State

Power and Contested Rationalities

Shimin in Japanese Society

Epilogue: Initiating Change

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Notes

References

Japanese Glossary

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780791494035

0791494039

9781441607782

1441607781

OCLC:

365410052