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Cambridge University Press Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy

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Product Description The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day. Review 'Tessa Morris-Suzuki incisively explains why democracy is so difficult. For two centuries, many Japanese individuals have produced an impressive array of visionary, cosmopolitan, compassionate, and useful institutions that improve the lives of their neighbors - both body and soul - at the local level - surely the beginning of the answer, she argues.' Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University'From White Birch Teachers, Peasant Art and Free University, to craft and health cooperatives, Morris-Suzuki powerfully exposes the Japanese multitude's transnational past from the ground up and in transwar perspective. This history of symbiotic everyday networks that countered capitalist modernity reveals a new past that could change and challenge old future imaginations of the Anthropocene, democracy and climate change.' Sho Konishi, University of Oxford'Morris-Suzuki reminds us that the transnational history of Japan involves more than the circulation of ideas and practices at the level of nation-states. In this engaging account of translocal connections, we witness the formation of 'new villages' and other communities that championed autonomous politics outside the state and in dialogue with like-minded groups around the world.' Sheldon Garon, Princeton University Book Description Can the history of grassroots self-help action in modern Japan provide clues to overcoming the contemporary global crisis of democracy? About the Author Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Emeritus Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University, Canberra.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1108490077
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
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Release Date: 07 May 2020
Listed Since: 24 October 2019

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