1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464031903321

Titolo

When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan / / edited by Roy Starrs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Global Oriental, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-26831-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 p.)

Disciplina

363.34/940952090512

Soggetti

Disasters - Social aspects - Japan - History

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011

Typhoons - Japan - History - 21st century

Floods - Japan - History - 21st century

Atomic bomb - Japan - History - 20th century

Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923

Disasters - Japan - Religious aspects - History

Disasters in literature

Japanese literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Roy Starrs -- Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan / Roy Starrs -- Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 / Aike P. Rots -- Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan / Fabio Rambelli -- Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? / Brian Victoria -- Post-3/11 Literature in Japan / Roman Rosenbaum -- These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11 / Jeffrey Angles -- ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’: Responses to 3/11 – Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry / Henry Johnson -- Learning that Emerges in Times of



Trouble: A Few Cases from Japan / Joy Hendry -- Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand / Kenneth Henshall -- ‘All Shook Up’: Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki’s after the quake / Jonathan Dil -- Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks / Rebecca Suter -- Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950's Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Yuko Shibata -- Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi’s Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing / Kevin M. Doak -- The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry / Leith Morton -- Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 / Mats Karlsson -- The ‘Silenced Nexus’: Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster / Janice Brown -- Index / Roy Starrs.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451652103321

Titolo

Landmines and human security [[electronic resource] ] : international politics and war's hidden legacy / / edited by Richard A. Matthew, Bryan McDonald, and Kenneth R. Rutherford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8399-1

1-4237-4018-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in global politics

Altri autori (Persone)

MatthewRichard Anthony

McDonaldBryan (Bryan L.)

RutherfordKen <1962->

Disciplina

327.1/743

Soggetti

Land mines (International law)

Arms control - International cooperation

Land mine victims

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""LANDMINES AND HUMAN SECURITY""; ""Contents""; ""Forewords""; ""HER MAJESTY QUEEN NOOR""; ""THE HONORABLE LLOYD AXWORTHY""; ""LADY HEATHER MILLS MCCARTNEY AND SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY""; ""SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: The Global Landmine Crisis""; ""1. Human Security and the Mine Ban Movement I: Introduction by RICHARD A. MATTHEW""; ""2. The Global Landmine Crisis in the 1990's by BRYAN MCDONALD""; ""3. Evaluating the Impacts of the Ottawa Treaty by LEAH FRASER""; ""Part II: Perspectives on the Mine Ban Movement""

""4. Nongovernmental Organizations and the Landmine Ban by KENNETH R. RUTHERFORD""""5. Clearing the Path to a Mine-Free World: Implementing the Ottawa Convention by KERRY BRINKERT AND KEVIN HAMILTON""; ""6. Europe and the Ottawa Treaty: Compliance with Exceptions and Loopholes by PAUL CHAMBERLAIN AND DAVID LONG""; ""7. Perspective from a Mine-Affected Country: Mozambique by CARLOS DOS SANTOS""; ""8. Victim Assistance: Landmine Survivors Perspectives



by RAQUEL WILLERMAN""; ""Part III: Related Issues: Demining and Victim Assistance""; ""9. Political Minefield by MICHAEL J. FLYNN""

""16. A Necessary Evil?: Reexamining the Military Utility of Antipersonnel Landmines by TED GAULIN""""17. Are Landmines Still Needed to Defend South Korea?: A Mine Use Case Study by J. ANTONIO OHE""; ""Part IV: Implications of the Mine Ban Movement""; ""18. The Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Landmines: Potential Lessons by STEPHEN GOOSE AND JODY WILLIAMS""; ""19. The Campaign to Ban Antipersonnel Landmines and Global Civil Society by PAUL WAPNER""; ""20. Human Security and the Mine Ban Movement II: Conclusions by RICHARD A. MATTHEW""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"";

""SUNY series in Global Politics""