Making Japanese Citizens

Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia
Cover of the book Making Japanese Citizens by Simon Andrew Avenell, University of California Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Simon Andrew Avenell ISBN: 9780520947672
Publisher: University of California Press Publication: September 8, 2010
Imprint: University of California Press Language: English
Author: Simon Andrew Avenell
ISBN: 9780520947672
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication: September 8, 2010
Imprint: University of California Press
Language: English

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Making Japanese Citizens is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of shimin (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.

More books from University of California Press

Cover of the book Imagining the Future of Climate Change by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book The Pastoral Clinic by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Moses and Multiculturalism by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Free for All by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book HIV is God's Blessing by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book I Did It to Save My Life by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book From the Jaws of Victory by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Inland Shift by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Becoming Religious in a Secular Age by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Europe's Promise by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Media Archaeology by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Listening as Spiritual Practice in Early Modern Italy by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Sunset Boulevard by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book Authentic Wine by Simon Andrew Avenell
Cover of the book The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan by Simon Andrew Avenell
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy