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Author Brown, Alexander James, author.

Title Anti-nuclear protest in post-Fukushima Tokyo : power struggles / Alexander James Brown
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
Series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian series
Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia East Asia series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on Japanese names and terminology; Introduction; A contemporary 'workers' inquiry'; Outline; Notes; 1. Fukushima; The perspective of autonomy; Fukushima and the capitalist developmental state; Precarious times in post-industrial Tokyo; Notes; 2. Genpatsu Yamero!; A breath of fresh air; Dance to demonstration; Genpatsu Yamero as a temporary autonomous zone; Shiro-to no Ran's post-industrial; Demonstrating saves electricity; The politics of festive noise; Notes; 3. Tokyo Nantoka
The Nantoka Neighbourhood disruptedThe shape of the Nantoka Neighbourhood; Nantoka media; The neighbourhood against nuclear power; Everyday life as a place for politics; Ibasho; Notes; 4. Hiroba; The hiroba as a liberated zone; The hiroba in time; The global hiroba; Beyond left and right?; For the freedom of demonstration and assembly; Notes; 5. Yaho village; Walking for the future you desire; Remembering Kiyoshiro-; Folk, rock and the festive life of western Tokyo; Graduation; Notes; 6. The Kantei Mae; The Tent Plaza: confronting the nuclear village in Kasumigaseki
Witnessing as a democratic praxisInside and outside the Kantei; A hiroba in the centre of the government district; Beyond representation; Notes; 7. Beyond Fukushima; From precarious work to precarious life; The contestation of space; Struggles for democracy; A new common sense; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and transnational scales, the book also reveals the complex geography of today's globally connected social movements. It emphasizes the contestation of urban space by anti-nuclear activists in Tokyo and the weaving together of urban and cyber space in their praxis. By focusing on the cultural life of the movement--from its characteristic demonstration style to its blogs, zines and pamphlets--this book communicates activists' voices in their own words. Based on excellent ethnographic research, it concludes that the anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster have redefined social movement politics for a new era. Providing an analysis of a unique period in Japan's contemporary urban history from the perspective of eyewitness observations, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Sociology and Japanese Studies in general."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2018)
Subject Antinuclear movement -- Japan -- Tokyo
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Antinuclear movement
Japan
Japan -- Tokyo
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