Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Japan's Living Politics (eBook, ePUB)

Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108804998
• Artikelnr.: 62746308

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.