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Record Nr.

UNINA9910411927903321

Autore

Kajiwara Hazuki

Titolo

Surviving with Companion Animals in Japan : Life after a Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster / / by Hazuki Kajiwara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030493288

3030493288

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems, , 2946-4684

Disciplina

304.20952

300

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Veterinary medicine

Environmental policy

Sociology

Sociology, Urban

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Social Theory

Veterinary Science

Environmental Policy

Urban Sociology

Asian Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chapter 1: Japanese animals in calamity -- Chapter 2: Methodology -- Part 1: The Tsunami in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures -- Chapter 3: Everything I did was for Baron -- Chapter 4: Surviving with companion animals -- Part 2: The Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima -- Chapter 5: I have lost the meaning to live -- Chapter 6: Making choices regarding companion animals -- Chapter 7: Complexities in Fukushima -- Part 3: Social Structures and Causal Mechanisms -- Chapter 8: Applying Critical Realism to real life -- Chapter 9: Advancing the notion



of "bonding rights".

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The author interrogates: 1) How did guardians and their companion animals survive the large disaster?; 2) Why was the relationship between guardians and their companion animals ignored during and after a disaster?; and 3) What structures and/or mechanisms shaped the outcomes for animals and their guardians? Through a critical realist framework, combined with a theoretical perspective developed by Roy Bhaskar and his colleagues, the author argues that despite the trivialization of companion animals by government officials, relationships between animals and guardians were often able to be maintained, in some cases through great pains by the guardians. While the notion of human-animal relationships in Japan has thus far been dominated by economic logic, the author reveals dynamics between guardians and companion animal transcend such structures, forging the concept of "bonding rights.".