Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Failure of Civil Society?; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Key Questions; Anthropology of Civil Society; Fieldwork; Action Research; Overview of Chapters; 2. Kawazoe; Landscape; Associational Life in Kawazoe; SLG's Entry into the Associational Landscape; Social Capital Argument; 3. NPO: A New Third Sector; SLG: An NPO Promoting Lifelong Learning; Activities Organized by Volunteers; Historical Background; "NPO-ization" Led by the Government; On the Transition; Proper NPOs?; 4. Invited by the State; You Can Volunteer with a Single Finger!; Discourses of "Borantia."
  • Shimin under the NPOVolunteer Subjectivity Revisited; NPO as an Agency in Neoliberalism; Shimin as Cultural Product in Neoliberalism; 7. Epilogue: Initiating Change; Research for Social Change; Establishing the Field Site; Knowing My Field Site; Initiating Collaborative Inquiry; Taking Action; My Positionality; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Notes; References; Japanese Glossary; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.