Making Japanese citizens: civil society and the mythology of the Shimin in postwar Japan
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Main Author: Avenell, Simon Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press ©2010
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Item Description:Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally
1. Before the Shimin: The Dark Energy of the People; 2. Mass Society, Anpo, and the Birth of the Shimin; 3. Beheiren and the Asian Shimin: The Fate of Conscientious Civic Activism; 4. Residents into Citizens: The Fate of Pragmatic Civic Activism; 5. Shimin, New Civic Movements, and the Politics of Proposal; Conclusion: The Shimin Idea and Civil Society
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-333) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 356 pages)
ISBN:0520262700
0520262719
0520947673
9780520262706
9780520262713
9780520947672