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Author Kirby, Peter Wynn, 1968- author.

Title Troubled natures : waste, environment, Japan / Peter Wynn Kirby
Published Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : Japan's waste shadow -- Perils of proximity : an invisible scourge -- Mediated anxieties -- The cult(ures) of Japanese nature -- Tokyo's vermin menace -- Pure obsession : pollution, outcasts, and exclusion -- Growth, sex, fertility, and decline -- Constructing sustainable Japan
Summary This work casts an anthropological lens over two Tokyo neighbourhoods, comparing environmental consciousness and conduct in communities facing specific toxic threats (real or perceived). In each field-site, the tension between lofty rhetoric and daily practices helps highlight the practical ambivalence of Japanese environmental consciousness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-240) and index
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Subject Human ecology -- Japan
Waste products -- Japan -- Public opinion
Pollution -- Japan -- Public opinion
Public opinion -- Japan
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Japan -- Tokyo
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ecology -- Public opinion
Human ecology
Pollution -- Public opinion
Public opinion
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Umweltverschmutzung
Umweltschutz
Abfallbehandlung
SUBJECT Japan -- Environmental conditions -- Public opinion
Subject Japan
Japan -- Tokyo
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780824860776
0824860772
9780824870515
0824870514