Japan's living politics : grassroots action and the crises of democracy / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

Social reformers.

Social movements.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Japan.

Politics and government.

Social movements--Japan--History.

Social reformers--Japan--History.

Social change--Japan--History.

Democracy--Japan.

Democracy.

Political culture--Japan.

Political culture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris- Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Japan and the Crisis of Democracy

2. Living Politics: Japan and the World

3. The White Birch and the Earth: Giving Life to the Self in Interwar Japan and Beyond

4. Rethinking the Village

5. Peasant Art, Free Drawing and the Free University

6. The Body Politic: Saku Hospital and the Japanese Cooperative Movement

7. Seeds of Democracy: Rural Spaces of Autonomy in Post-war Japan

8. Development from Within: Environment, Region and Autonomous Action from the 1980s Onward

9. Disaster and Aftermath: Informal Life Politics after 2011

10. Conclusions and Beginnings: Towards Another Democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, 1951- Japan's living politics

ISBN:

9781108490078

1108490077

OCLC:

1141037327