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Buraku, Capitalism and the State in Japan / edited by Akira Kobayakawa.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 338.
- Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 338
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Studies.
- Critical Social Sciences.
- History.
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
- Human rights.
- Social history.
- Social sciences.
- Sociology & Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Applying universal themes, this book analyses the discrimination faced by and the (re)construction of the Buraku people during Japan’s modernization. State and capital have created the ongoing plight of the Buraku. This book demonstrates that Buraku discrimination has been a springboard for domination, both during and after Japan’s colonial rule in Asia and has been an important function of governance in Japan. Buraku discrimination is reproduced in both cities and towns, forcing many Buraku people to suffer silently. To combat this situation, there are Buraku resistance movements, studied in depth here.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Prologue
- Akira Kobayakawa
- 1 Burakumin as a Strategic Minority: Buraku Discrimination and Nation-Building in Modern Japan
- Hideo Aoki
- 2 Constructing and Reconstructing Buraku in Military Cities: State, Capital, Violence, and Subjectification of Power
- 3 Buraku Liberation Movements and Denunciation
- Eiji Okada
- 4 The Imperial System and the Buraku Issue as Mental Structure
- Midori Kurokawa
- 5 Buraku Discrimination in Postwar Japan Reorganized by Administrative Power, and Dowa Policy in Postwar Japan Constructed through Exclusion
- Risa Kumamoto
- 6 Buraku Liberation and Literacy Movement: Memoir against Discrimination
- Shinji Sakamoto
- 7 The Entrenchment of Disparities in Buraku Areas and De-problematization
- Shingo Tsumaki
- 8 Stagnation and Silence in Small Buraku: Elimination of Existence and Violence
- Epilogue
- Appendix: a Photographic Story of Japan’s Buraku
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-74425-8
- 9789004744257
- OCLC:
- 1546972451
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004744257 DOI
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