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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808855703321

Autore

Cassegård Carl

Titolo

Youth movements, trauma and alternative space in contemporary Japan / / by Carl Cassegard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden : , : Brill, , 2013

ISBN

90-04-24592-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

303.60952

Soggetti

Social movements - Japan - History

Youth movements - Japan - History

Youth - Japan - Social conditions

Japan Civilization 1945-

Japan Social conditions 1945-

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

Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Trauma, Empowerment and Alternative Space; Collective Trauma; Empowerment and the Role of Alternative Space in Social Movements; 2. Japan's Lost Decade and Two Recoveries; The End of The Bubble and the Arrival of Precarity; The Sense of Closure and the Legacy of Earlier Protest; Lost Decade, Regained Activism?; 3. The New Cultural Movements; The Storm of Autumn; The League of Good-for-Nothings; Anti-war Protests and the Prehistory of Sound-Demos

4. The Rise of Movements Against Precarity 5. Space, Art and Homelessness; Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle: The Shinjuku Cardboard Village; Anti-Poverty and Viva Poverty; 6. Alternative Space, Withdrawal and Empowerment; Support Groups for Social Withdrawers and NEET; Freeter Unions: Narratives of Recovery; 7. Campus Protest; 8. The Recovery of Activism; Three Innovations of Freeter Activism; The Importance of Space: Contestation and Bracketing; Fukushima and Beyond; Appendix 1. Chronological Table of Key Events and Major Organisations; Appendix 2.Interviews; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary



Japan, the author provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among Japanese freeters, from the pioneering groups in the late 1980's to the open protests witnessed today.