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Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state / edited by Sebastian Maslow and Christian Wirth.

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Book
Contributor:
Maslow, Sebastian, editor.
Wirth, Christian, 1975- editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Economic development--Japan--1989-.
Economic development.
Japan.
National security--Japan--History--1989-.
National security.
History.
Japan--Politics and government--1989-.
Politics and government.
Japan--Social conditions--1989-.
Social conditions.
Japan--Economic conditions--1989-.
Economic conditions.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 328 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction: Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State
From Crisis to Crisis Politics
Debating Crisis and Change in Japan
The Socioeconomic Crisis: The Collapse of "Japan Inc."
The Political Crisis: The Eclipse of the 1955 System and Failed Reforms
The 3.11 Triple Disaster and the Resurgence of "Japan Inc."
Conceptualizing Crisis and Change in Politics
Global Change and Post-Modernity?
Crisis as a Narrated Moment of Intervention
Organization of the Volume
Notes
Part I Narrating Japan's Social Crisis
1 Japan's Melting Core: Social Frames and Political Crisis Narratives of Rising Inequalities
Introduction
The Gap Society Frame and Its Social Resonance
The Politicization of the Gap Society Frame and Political Crisis Narratives
Abenomics: The Return to the Good Old Times?
Conclusion
2 Authoritarian Populism in Everyday Life: The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Changes in Japan
Authoritarian Populism
Gendering Authoritarian Populism
The Discursive Politics of Demographic and Lifestyle Change in Japan
3 Save Our Students? Shifting Subjects of Higher Education Crisis in Japan
The Changing Landscape of University Education
Narrating Crisis in Higher Education
Students and the Pathologization of Crisis
The Destitute Student: Loans in Crisis and "Making Higher Education Free"
Saving the Student, Fixing the System: Shifting Subjects
What Kinds of Students Should Be Going to University?
What Kinds of Universities to Support?
Can We Help Students and Reform Universities?
Part II Narrating Japan's Political and Economic Crises
4 A Crisis of Democracy: Civil Society and Energy Politics Before and After the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
The Fukushima Accident and Its Lessons
The Making of Japan's Nuclear Energy Crisis
The Nuclear Village and the Malfunctioning of Japan's Regulatory Agency
Powerless Civil Society
The Vicious Circle of Providing Subsidies for Siting Nuclear Power Stations
Energy Policy Shifts in Germany, Taiwan, and South Korea
Germany's Social Consensus on Denuclearization
Nuclear-Free Homeland Taiwan by 2025
Toward a Post-Nuclear State in South Korea
Japan's Changing Political Culture and the Possibility of an Energy Policy Shift
Few Policy Changes in Post-Fukushima Japan
The Current Status of Nuclear Power Plants and Electricity Supply
Antinuclear Protests after the Fukushima Accident
Rise of the Anti-Abe Protest Campaign
Nuclear Energy Politics after the Fukushima Accident
Notes
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 16, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Crisis narratives, institutional change, and the transformation of the Japanese state
ISBN:
9781438486109
1438486103
Publisher Number:
40030832066
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