ISBN:
9781000415407
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (307 pages)
Series Statement:
Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.20952
Keywords:
Human geography-Japan
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Series editors' preface to Rethinking Locality in Japan -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Rethinking locality in Japan -- Section I: (Re)lating localities as lived spaces in Japan -- Chapter 2: Locality in Shō-nai: Scale, containers, fields, and horizons -- Chapter 3: Localized yet deterritorialized lives in rural Japan: Fragmented localities, mobility, and neoliberalism -- Chapter 4: Rur-bane relations: Assemblage and cosmopolitics in central Hokkaido -- Chapter 5: The meaning of place for selfhood and well-being in rural Japan -- Section II: Local social worlds at risk -- Chapter 6: Localizing the nuclear: Risk normalization and sense of place after Fukushima -- Chapter 7: Mapping the local economy of care: Social welfare and volunteerism in local communities -- Chapter 8: San'ya: The making and unmaking of a welfare quarter -- Section III: Localities under contestation -- Chapter 9: Defending the local: Resident activism against municipal mergers in postwar rural Japan -- Chapter 10: Local governance of public transport services: Maintaining identity and independence after the Heisei Mergers -- Chapter 11: Territorialized yet fluid locality: Reform, consolidation, and the more-than-human in Japanese fishery cooperatives -- Chapter 12: The reinterpretation of locality and place in the wine industry of Yamanashi Prefecture -- Section IV: Local-national dynamics -- Chapter 13: Furusato nō-zei tax: Local place in national tax policy and the dynamics of locality -- Chapter 14: Uprooting the political landscape: How municipal mergers untethered the local from national politics -- Chapter 15: Competing conceptions of local democracy in Japan -- Section V: Coda.
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