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Youth movements, trauma and alternative space in contemporary Japan /
This volume provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among young Japanese from the late 1980s until the present day. Discussing anti-war mobilizations, freeter unions, artists in the homeless movement, campus protest, anti-nuclear protest and activists engaged in support for soci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Trauma, Empowerment and Alternative Space; Collective Trauma; Empowerment and the Role of Alternative Space in Social Movements; 2. Japan's Lost Decade and Two Recoveries; The End of The Bubble and the Arrival of Precarity; The Sense of Closure and the Legacy of Earlier Protest; Lost Decade, Regained Activism?; 3. The New Cultural Movements; The Storm of Autumn; The League of Good-for-Nothings; Anti-war Protests and the Prehistory of Sound-Demos.
- 4. The Rise of Movements Against PrecarityThe General Freeter Union and the "precariat"; "Life" and "Survival" in the Precarity Movement; 5. Space, Art and Homelessness; Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle: The Shinjuku Cardboard Village; Anti-Poverty and Viva Poverty; "Waking up From the Dream": Nagai Park's Theatre of Resistance; Miyashita Park: Can a No-Man's-Land be Defended?; 6. Alternative Space, Withdrawal and Empowerment; Support Groups for Social Withdrawers and NEET; Freeter Unions: Narratives of Recovery; 7. Campus Protest; 8. The Recovery of Activism.
- Three Innovations of Freeter ActivismThe Importance of Space: Cntestation and Backeting; Fukushima and Beyond; Appendix 1. Chronological Table of Key Events and Major Organisations; Appendix 2. Interviews; Bibliography; Index.