Handbook of Buraku Studies

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-27857-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Handbooks on Japanese Studies

This handbook explores the history, culture, social challenges of Japan’s Burakumin through the multifaceted scholarship of current Buraku studies.

The handbook situates Buraku studies by examining the origins of the Burakumin, from Japan’s medieval outcaste groups and their connections and continuities into the early modern social class system of Tokugawa Japan. The chapters also explore the intersectionality of this group’s experiences across gender, class, and migration status, revealing how their voices were marginalized and their liberation efforts were entangled with colonial complicity. The post-war era experiences of the Buraku are examined, revealing the impacts of government-commissioned human rights surveys and anti-discrimination initiatives alongside stigmas present in the real estate market in Buraku areas and the impact of gentrification on these communities. Forging connections across scholarly fields and national borders the contributions creating meaningful and current collective research about Buraku studies.

Engaging with ongoing scholarly conversations within the emerging field of Buraku Studies this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese society, history and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

D. Amos, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Outcast Status in Historical Japan: From the Heian to the Early Modern Period 2. Early Modern Shogunate Law and “Outcastes”: The “Institutionalization” of Discrimination and the Existence of Regionality 3. Status Discrimination and Marginal Status: A Social History of Early Modern Japanese Eta / Kawata 4. Military Service and Status Promotion: Overcoming and Using Status Barriers in Late-Tokugawa and Early-Meiji Period Japan 5. Outcast Status Groups and the Dismantling of the Early Modern Status Order 6. Landownership, Status, and Local Society in Early Meiji Asakusa Shincho 7. The Birth of Urban Buraku Communities 8. Competing Narratives of Liberation: Prewar Buraku Activism and the Suiheisha Movement 9. Gender and Subaltern in the 1920s Women’s Suiheisha Movement 10. The Buraku Liberation Movement 1945-2022 11. The Dowa Policy Process 12. Settlement Work and Rinpokan 13. The Sayama Incident, the Buraku Issues behind it, and the Current Situation 14. Between Writing and Advocacy: The Media Ecology of Buraku Bungei 15. What is the Buraku Problem according to the “General Public”? The View from Public Opinion Surveys on Human Rights 16. The Contemporary Nature of Buraku Discrimination: Is it more geographical than genealogical? 17. Gentrification and Spatial Inequality in Buraku Communities 18. Identity Formation Among People from Discriminated Buraku Communities: Historical Developments and the Current Situation 19. Creating a Knowledge of Resistance: Questions Raised by Buraku Women

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia. His research primarily focuses on questions of human rights, marginality, and social stratification in Japan from the early modern period through to the present.