Japan's living politics grassroots action and the crises of democracy

The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2020.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Japan and the crisis of democracy
  • Living politics : Japan and the world
  • The white birch and the earth : giving life to the self in interwar Japan and beyond
  • Rethinking the village
  • Peasant art, free drawing and the Free University
  • The body politic : Saku Hospital and the Japanese cooperative movement
  • Seeds of democracy : rural spaces of autonomy in postwar Japan
  • Development from within : environment, region and autonomous action from the 1980's onwards
  • Disaster and aftermath : informal life politics after 2011
  • Conclusions and beginnings : towards another democracy.