| Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan Contributor(s): Cassegård (Author) |
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ISBN: 900424591X ISBN-13: 9789004245914 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $165.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Violence In Society |
| Dewey: 303.609 |
| LCCN: 2013033813 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (1.30 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among young Japanese from the late 1980s until the present day. Discussing anti-war mobilizations, freeter unions, artists in the homeless movement, campus protest, anti-nuclear protest and activists engaged in support for social withdrawers, the author documents how new forms of activism developed hand-in-hand with experiments in using alternative spaces outside mainstream public areas and a struggle with the traumatic legacy of the failure of earlier protest movements. Despite the relative absence of open protest during much of the 1990s, the author demonstrates that this was an important preparatory period, full of experimentation, in which the foundations for today's protest movements were laid. This book will be welcomed by students of sociological theory relating to Japan as well as those studying the trends and dynamics of contemporary 'post-Bubble' Japanese society. |
