Research Catalog

Title

Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan : rethinking discourses of inclusion and exclusion / edited by Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata and Joel Matthews.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shiobara, Yoshikazu, 1973-
• Kawabata, Kohei
• Matthews, Joel

Description

vii, 277 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Today, as with most advanced capitalist countries, serious social divides occasioned by the impacts of globalization and neoliberalism have destabilized Japanese society. This book explores not only how Japanese society is diversified and unequal, but also how diversity and inequality have caused people to divide into separate realities from which conflict and violence have emerged. It empirically examines the current situation while considering the historical development of exclusionism from the interdisciplinary viewpoints of history, policy studies, cultural studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology. In addition to analyzing the realities of division and exclusionism, the authors propose theoretical alternatives to overcome such cultural and social divides"--

Series Statement

Routledge contemporary Japan series

Uniform Title

Routledge contemporary Japan series.

Subjects

• Japan
• Social conflict
• Social conflict > Japan
• Social conditions
• Culture conflict > Japan
• Japan > Social conditions > 21st century
• Social stratification > Japan
• 2000-2099

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part 1 : Context and background. Introduction: social division and exclusionism in contemporary Japan / Yoshikazu Shiobara -- Inclusion and exclusion in neoliberalizing Japan / Noah McCormack and Kohei Kawabata -- Part 2 : Exclusionism and ethnic minorities. Historical structures of exclusion and the colonial Korean (Zainichi) diaspora in modern Japan / Joel Matthews -- Ethnic "Korean schools" confront discrimination, hate speech and hate crime: exclusionism from "above and below" in contemporary Japan / Wooki Park-Kim (translation: Joel Matthews) -- Backlash: hate speech, Ainu indigenous denial and historical revisionism in post-DRIPS Japan / Mark Winchester -- Mobilizing places: beyond the politics of essentialism in the Okinawa anti-base struggle / Shinnosuke Takahashi -- Exclusionism targeting international marriage couples and their children / Lawrence Yoshitaka Shimoji and Chiho Ogaya -- Expanding exclusion: from undocumented residents into "Imposter" residents / Eriko Suzuki -- On the refugee and asylum seeker situation in Japan from the standpoint of social exclusion / Eri Ishikawa (translation: Ariel Acosta) -- Part 3 : Exclusionism and social minorities. Exclusionism and the Burakumin: literacy movement, legislative countermeasures and the Sayama incident / Machiko Ishikawa -- Heterosexual marriage and childbirth as a "Natural course of life": parenthood as experienced by the generation before the "LGBT boom" / Michiko Sambe (translation: Minata Hara) -- The social activism of disabled people in postwar Japan: eugenics, exclusion and discrimination / Kohei Inose -- Discrimination of evacuees in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Shun Harada -- A coalition of radicals and housing first practices in homeless movements? / Teruhiro Yamakita -- Part 4 : Theoretical alternatives for overcoming exclusionism. Rethinking the principles of "kyōsei" in Japan: intersections between oldcomers and newcomers / Kohei Kawabata and Naoko Yamamoto -- A theoretical perspective for overcoming exclusionism / Yoshikazu Shiobara and Mikako Suzuki.

Call Number

JFE 20-1720

ISBN

• 9781138310391
• 1138310395

LCCN

2019015092

OCLC

1107144106

Title

Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan : rethinking discourses of inclusion and exclusion / edited by Yoshikazu Shiobara, Kohei Kawabata and Joel Matthews.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge contemporary Japan series

Routledge contemporary Japan series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Shiobara, Yoshikazu, 1973- editor.

Kawabata, Kohei, editor.

Matthews, Joel, editor.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Cultural and social division in contemporary Japan. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 9781315143705 (OCoLC)1114319713

Research Call Number

JFE 20-1720