Yuki Miyamoto

A World Otherwise

Environmental Praxis in Minamata

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the philosophies and actions of a group called Hongan no kai, comprised of mercury poisoning sufferers and their supporters in Minamata, Japan. While depicting their plights, Yuki Miyamoto unpacks the ways they wrestle with tragedy in their community as well as their vision of "a world otherwise" (janaka shaba).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781793643605
• ISBN-10: 1793643601
• Artikelnr.: 60416469

Autorenporträt

Yuki Miyamoto is associate professor at DePaul University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Janaka Shaba or A World Otherwise
Chapter 2: Modernization, Mercury, and Minamata
Chapter 3: The World of the Minamata Fishers: Forgiveness, Gift (nosari),
and the Sugimoto Family
Chapter 4: Before Good and Evil: Ogata Masato on Spirit/Tamashii
Chapter 5: Literature of Dystopia: Ishimure Michiko and the Fragile Power
of the Precariousness
Chapter 6: Genius Loci and the Discourse of Home
Chapter 7: Hongan no Kai and Spiritual Praxis as an Environmental Ethics