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

• Autore: Cassegård Carl
• Pubblicazione: Leiden : , : Brill, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.60952
• Soggetto topico: Social movements - Japan - History; Youth movements - Japan - History; Youth - Japan - Social conditions
• Soggetto geografico: Japan Civilization 1945-; Japan Social conditions 1945-
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Youth movements, trauma and alternative space in contemporary Japan
• ISBN: 90-04-24592-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808855703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II