Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Japan's Living Politics

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Can the history of grassroots self-help action in modern Japan provide clues to overcoming the contemporary global crisis of democracy?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 160mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781108490078
• ISBN-10: 1108490077
• Artikelnr.: 58342597

Autorenporträt

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Emeritus Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Inhaltsangabe

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 postwar Japan
8. Development from within: environment, region and autonomous action from the 1980's onwards
9. Disaster and aftermath: informal life politics after 2011
Conclusion. Towards another democracy.