Ishikawa Sanshirō's Geographical Imagination - Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Geographical Imagination is an intellectual biography of Ishikawa Sanshirō (1876-1956), a Japanese anarchist active during the first half of the 20th century and a staunch opponent of any form of authoritarianism throughout his life. The book traces his travels, encounters, and ideological engagements, as he opposed war with Russia in the early 1900s, spent several years of self-imposed exile in France and Belgium in the 1910s, and explored European ideas - from anarchism and geographical thought to anti-Darwinism and ecological living. Ishikawa's life and writings bear testimony to Japan's undercurrent of political dissent and transnational revolutionary connections during the modern period.

About the author

Nadine Willems received a PhD from the University of Oxford in 2015 and is now Associate Professor of History at the University of East Anglia in the UK. She is an intellectual and cultural historian of modern Japan, interested in the social tensions that emerged during the country’s process of modernisation. Her research examines agrarian movements, anarchism, and the literature of dissidence and identity within marginal groups in the context of Japan’s imperialist expansion.

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Willems
• Assisted by: Anna Slasheva (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: Russian
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2023
• EAN: 9798887193281
• ISBN: 979-8-88719-328-1
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Contemporary Eastern Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Biography: general, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, Social & political philosophy