Japan''s Living Politics - Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Emeritus Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Canberra. Klappentext Can the history of grassroots self-help action in modern Japan provide clues to overcoming the contemporary global crisis of democracy? Zusammenfassung By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan! Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twentieth-and twenty-first-century social experiments with particular relevance in the context of today's global crisis of democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Australian National Universi Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Australian National University Morris-Suzuki, Morris-Suzuki Tessa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781108490078
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49007-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / General, Social & cultural history, History - General History, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Political science & theory, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Political science and theory