The Red years : theory, politics, and aesthetics in the Japanese '68 / edited by Gavin Walker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walker, Gavin, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student protesters--Japan--History--20th century.

Student protesters.

Student movements--Japan--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Revolutions--Japan--History--20th century.

Revolutions.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

Politics and government.

History.

Japan--History--Shōwa period, 1926-1989.

Japan.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-1989.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Japanese '68

Japanese 1968

Theory, politics, and aesthetics in the Japanese '68

Place of Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2020.

Summary:

"The analysis of May 68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan: it is also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politicsto erupt across the Third World, a crucial and central moment in the history, thought, and politics of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Japan's position -- neither in "the West" nor in the "Third World" -provoked a complex and intense round of mass mobilizations through the 1960s and early 70s. Although the "'68 revolutions" of the Global North -- Western Europe and North America -- are widely known, the Japanese situation remains remarkably under-examined globally.Beginning in the late 1950s, a New Left, independent of the prewar Japanese communist moment (itself of major historical importance in the 1920s and 30s), came to produce one of the most vibrant decades of political organization, political thought, and political aesthetics in the global twentieth century. In the present volume, major thinkers of the Left in Japan alongside scholars of the 1968 movements reexamine the theoretical sources, historical background, cultural productions, and major organizational problems of the 1968 revolutions in Japan." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Revolution and Retrospection p. 1 / Gavin Walker

2 On the Japanese '68 p. 12 / Hiroshi Nagasaki

3 The Ethics of the Agitator: On Hiroshi Nagasaki's The Phenomenology of Politics p. 38 / Yoshihiko Ichida

4 The Perception of Violence, the Violence of Perception, and the Origins of Japan's 1968 p. 57 / William Marotti

5 '68 and the Japanese Women's Liberation Movement p. 77 / Setsu Shigematsu

6 1968 and the Postwar Regime of Emperor-System Democracy p. 98 / Hidemi Suga

7 The Japanese Communist Party since 1968: Between Revolution and Reform p. 120 / Yoshiyuki Koizumi

8 Human Liberation or "Male Romance"? The Gendered Everyday of the Student New Left p. 143 / Chelsea Szendi Schieder

9 The Undercurrent of Art and Politics in the 1960s: On Gendai Shichosha p. 160 / Yoshiko Shimada

10 1972: The Structure on the Streets p. 181 / Yutaka Nagahara

11 Night and Fog in Japan: Toward Another Critique of Violence p. 212 / Alberto Toscano

12 The Post-'68 Conjuncture p. 229 / Gavin Walker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.

ISBN:

9781788731638

1788731638

9781786637222

1786637227

OCLC:

1065112499

Publisher Number:

99986715633

99986116780