Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24591-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This volume provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among young Japanese from the late 1980s until the present day. Discussing anti-war mobilizations, freeter unions, artists in the homeless movement, campus protest, anti-nuclear protest and activists engaged in support for social withdrawers, the author documents how new forms of activism developed hand-in-hand with experiments in using alternative spaces outside mainstream public areas and a struggle with the traumatic legacy of the failure of earlier protest movements. Despite the relative absence of open protest during much of the 1990s, the author demonstrates that this was an important preparatory period, full of experimentation, in which the foundations for today’s protest movements were laid. This book will be welcomed by students of sociological theory relating to Japan as well as those studying the trends and dynamics of contemporary ‘post-Bubble’ Japanese society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cassegård, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Cassegård, Ph.D. (2004, Lund University) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. He has published widely on Japan and is the author of Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature (Global Oriental, 2007).