Revitalization And Internal Colonialism In Rural Japan

Author : Timo Thelen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000570137

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Revitalization and Internal Colonialism in Rural Japan by Timo Thelen Pdf

This book explores the decline of rural and peripheral areas in Japan, which results from an aging population, outmigration of the younger generations, and the economic decline of the primary sector. Based on extensive original research, the book examines in detail the case of the Noto peninsula. Allowing the locals to tell their stories, describe their problems, and come up with possible solutions, the book demonstrates the serious impact of rural decline on their daily life and work and highlights the struggle to sustain rural living in the globalized age. It argues that some recent innovations in global media, economy, technology, and ideology offer scope for reversing the decline, as some central government initiatives do, but that these are not always noticed, appreciated, and made use of by local people. The book also discusses the nature of the links between the peripheries and the centres – regional, national, and global – and how these often take the form of "internal colonialism."

Author : Mina Qiao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000953305

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The Coronavirus Pandemic in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture by Mina Qiao Pdf

This volume is the first book-length collection on Japanese literary and popular cultural responses to the coronavirus pandemic in English. Disrupting the narrative of COVID-19 as a catastrophe without precedent, this book contextualizes the COVID-19 global public health crisis and pandemic-induced social and political turbulence in a post-industrial society that has withstood multiple major destructions and disasters. From published fiction by major authors to anonymous accounts on social media, from network TV shows to contents by Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), in both "high" and "low" culturescapes, timely representations of coronavirus and individual and social livings under its impact emerge. These narratives, either personal or top-down, all endeavor to fathom this unexpected disruption of modern linear progress. Exploring the paradoxes underlying the "new normal" of Japanese society of the present day, the book collectively demonstrates how the narratives of coronavirus are not "neo-" but "re-": returning to the past, revealing existing problems and reclaiming memories lost and lessons forgotten. This edited volume will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Japanese culture and society, Japanese literature, and pandemic studies.

Author : Eerang Park,Sangkyun Kim
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781803924175

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Handbook on Food Tourism by Eerang Park,Sangkyun Kim Pdf

This Handbook on Food Tourism provides an overview of the past, present and future of research traditions, perspectives, and concerns about the food tourism phenomenon. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it contributes to the historical and anthropological understanding of the nexus between food, society and tourism that underpins the divergent business and marketing efforts in tourism today.

Author : Vassilios Ziakas,Christine Lundberg,Maria Lexhagen
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845418960

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Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations by Vassilios Ziakas,Christine Lundberg,Maria Lexhagen Pdf

This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It critically examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its close connection with fan studies and placemaking. The chapters illustrate how different destinations capitalise on expressive cultural practices to attract fan tourists, the processes involved in their tourismification, and the outcomes for both visitors and local communities. The book establishes a common ground for the comprehensive and critical study of popular culture tourism development and fandom. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations. It is a useful resource for researchers in tourism management, fandom, pop culture and media studies, as well as for those working in the tourism industry.

Author : Igor Prusa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000923445

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Scandal in Japan by Igor Prusa Pdf

This book is an exploration of media scandals in contemporary Japanese society. In shedding new light on the study of scandal in Japan, the book offers a novel view of scandal as a specific mediatized ritual which follows moral disturbances throughout Japanese history. Media and society are analyzed largely in terms of social performances, while the focus is on how Japanese transgressors talk and act when explaining their scandals to the public. A detailed analysis of three case studies is provided: the drug scandal of the popular Japanese celebrity Sakai Noriko; the donation scandal centering the heavyweight politician Ozawa Ichirō; and the Olympus accounting fraud revealed by the British CEO Michael Woodford. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese culture and society, anthropology, communication and media studies.

Author : Yvonne Siemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000555547

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Japanese Diaspora and Migration Reconsidered by Yvonne Siemann Pdf

In contrast to most studies of migration, which assume that migrants arrive from less developed countries to the industrialised world, where they suffer from discrimination, poor living conditions and downward social mobility, this book examines a different sort of diaspora – descendants of Japanese migrants or "Nikkei" – in Bolivia, who, after a history of organised migration, have achieved middle-class status in a developing country, while enjoying much symbolic capital among the majority population. Based on extensive original research, the book considers the everyday lives of Nikkei and their identity, discusses how despite their relative success they remain not fully integrated into Bolivia's imperfect pluricultural society and explores how they think about, and relate to, Japan.

Author : Ann Waswo,Nishida Yoshiaki
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700717484

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Farmers and Village Life in Twentieth-century Japan by Ann Waswo,Nishida Yoshiaki Pdf

Rural Japan during the twentieth century has been portrayed as a vast reservoir of conservatism in much of the literature on Japan's modern development, and Japanese agriculture since the 1960s has been treated as an artificial creation sustained only by protectionism of the worst sort. This book presents a range of original, in-depth work, including work by Japanese scholars, that seeks to move beyond such stereotypes to reveal the diversity and complexities of rural life in Japan from 1900 to the present.

Author : Kerry Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074800138

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˜Aœ Time of Crisis by Kerry Smith Pdf

Author : Wolfram Manzenreiter,Ralph Lützeler,Sebastian Polak-Rottmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000032987

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Japan’s New Ruralities by Wolfram Manzenreiter,Ralph Lützeler,Sebastian Polak-Rottmann Pdf

Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counterargument to the inevitable demise of rural society. Contrary to the dominant argument, which holds outmigration and demographic hyper-aging as primarily responsible for rural decline, this book highlights the spatial dimension of power differences behind uneven development in contemporary Japan. Including many fi eldwork-based case studies, the chapters discuss topics such as corporate farming, local energy systems and public healthcare, examining the constraints and possibilities of rural self-determination under the centripetal impact of forces located both in and outside of the country. Focusing on asymmetries of power to explore regional autonomy and heteronomy, it also examines "peripheralization" and the "global countryside," two recent theoretical contributions to the fi eld, as a common framework. Japan’s New Ruralities addresses the complexity of rural decline in the context of debates on globalization and power differences. As such, it will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, human geography and politics, as well as Japanese Studies.

Author : Sonja Ganseforth,Hanno Jentzsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000415360

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Rethinking Locality in Japan by Sonja Ganseforth,Hanno Jentzsch Pdf

This book inquires what is meant when we say "local" and what "local" means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality, it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio-economic shifts in Japan. This includes demographic change, electoral and administrative reform, rural decline and revitalization, welfare reform, as well as the growing metabolic rift in energy and food production. Chapters throughout this edited volume discuss the different and often contested ways in which locality in Japan has been reconstituted, from historical and contemporary instances of administrative restructuring, to more subtle social processes of making – and unmaking – local places. Contributions from multiple disciplinary perspectives are included to investigate the tensions between overlapping and often incongruent dimensions of locality. Framed by a theoretical discussion of socio-spatial thinking, such issues surrounding the construction and renegotiation of local places are not only relevant for Japan specialists, but also connected with topical scholarly debates further afield. Accordingly, Rethinking Locality in Japan will appeal to students and scholars from Japanese studies and human geography to anthropology, history, sociology and political science.

Author : Chih-ming Ka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:1335926595

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Japanese Colonialism in Taiwan by Chih-ming Ka Pdf

Author : Hyaeweol Choi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487436

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Gender Politics at Home and Abroad by Hyaeweol Choi Pdf

Choi examines how global Christian networks facilitated the flow of ideas, people and material culture, shaping gendered modernity in Korea.

Author : Gi-Wook Shin,Michael Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173334

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Colonial Modernity in Korea by Gi-Wook Shin,Michael Robinson Pdf

The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea’s colonial period (1910–1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism. By addressing such diverse subjects as the colonial legal system, radio, telecommunications, the rural economy, and industrialization and the formation of industrial labor, one group of essays analyzes how various aspects of modernity emerged in the colonial context and how they were mobilized by the Japanese for colonial domination, with often unexpected results. A second group examines the development of various forms of identity from nation to gender to class, particularly how aspects of colonial modernity facilitated their formation through negotiation, contestation, and redefinition.

Author : Leo P. Chall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015078349126

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Sociological Abstracts by Leo P. Chall Pdf

Author : Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139527

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Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith Pdf

'A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.' Walter Mignolo, Duke University To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being. Now in its eagerly awaited second edition, this bestselling book has been substantially revised, with new case-studies and examples and important additions on new indigenous literature, the role of research in indigenous struggles for social justice, which brings this essential volume urgently up-to-date.