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Zusatztext "This book obviously has much to recommend it. . . . A considerable accomplishment." Informationen zum Autor Simon Andrew Avenell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. Klappentext "This provocative book provides a historically grounded! densely documented! and analytically shrewd account of the 'mythology of the citizen' in postwar Japan. Avenell chronicles a history of cooptation! revealing that the citizen myth was susceptible to ethnic-nationalist sentiment! and later to the appeal of 'spontaneous' social service that could promote convergence with state and corporate interest. Nevertheless! as Avenell clearly shows! the mythology of the citizen remains attractive and retains its potential as an instrument of critique-for the essential act of negation that is the final protector of any democratic collectivity from supervening authority."-Andrew Barshay! author of The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: The Marxian and Modernist Traditions Zusammenfassung Presents an history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout Japan's postwar period. The author traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People Chapter 2. Mass Society! Anpo! and the Birth of the Shimin Chapter 3. Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism Chapter 4. Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism Chapter 5. Shimin! New Civic Movements! and the Politics of Proposal Conclusion: The Shimin Idea and Civil Society Notes Bibliography Index ...
