Japan's New Ruralities (eBook, ePUB)

Coping with Decline in the Periphery
Redaktion: Manzenreiter, Wolfram; Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian; Lützeler, Ralph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counter-argument to the inevitable demise of rural society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000033007
• Artikelnr.: 58644488

Autorenporträt

Wolfram Manzenreiter is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research interest in the social outcomes of globalization is documented in Sport and Body Politics in Japan (Routledge 2014) and the co-edited volume on Happiness and the Good Life in Japan (Routledge, 2017). Ralph Lützeler is Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. His relevant publications include the co-edited volume Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany: A Comparison (2011) and other papers on demographic change and its regional implications in rural and urban areas of Japan. Sebastian Polak-Rottmann is a PhD student, researcher and lecturer at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on private security companies, political participation and well-being in Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Japan's new ruralities Part 1:Transformations in the
primary sector 2. From agribusiness to deer hunter: "Placing" food
industrialization and multispecies health in Tokachi, Hokkaido 3.
Corporatization as hybridization in rural Japan: The case of Iwasaka in
Shiga Prefecture 4. Sea pineapples in troubled waters: On the local-global
interdependencies of the sea squirt (hoya) industry in the aftermath of the
3.11 disaster 5. Reclaiming the global countryside? Decline and
diversification in Saga Genkai coastal fisheries Part 2: Political
innovations in rural Japan 6. Local renewables: Japan's energy
transformation and its potential for the remaking of rural communities 7.
Empowering rural cooperation: Effects of agricultural policy intervention
on rural social capital 8. Sustaining healthcare in Japan's regions: The
introduction of telehealth networks 9. Regional revitalization as a
contested arena: Promoting wine tourism in Yamanashi Part 3: New residents
in the countryside 10. Has the island lure reached Japan? Remote islands
between tourism boom, new residents and fatal depopulation 11. Fluidity in
rural Japan: How lifestyle migration and social movements contribute to the
preservation of traditional ways of life on Iwaishima 12. Nai mono wa nai
-Challenging and subverting rural peripheralization? Decline and revival in
a remote island town 13. Embracing the periphery: Urbanites' motivations
for relocating to rural Japan Part 4: Conceptual interventions for a new
understanding of rural Japan 14. Reinventing rurality: Hybridity and
socio-spatial depolarization in northern Japan 15. Rereading the changing
Japanese rural peripheries: New approaches and actors for the future 16.
Environmental activity gaps and how to fill them: Rural depopulation and
wildlife encroachment in Japan 17. Epilogue: Think global, act peripheral
in Japan's new ruralities