Rethinking locality in Japan. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sonja Ganseforth, Hanno Jentzsch.
• Editors: Ganseforth, Sonja; Jentzsch, Hanno, 1983-
• Contents: Part 1: (Re)lating Localities as Lived Spaces in Japan 1. Locality in Shōnai: Scale, Containers, Fields, and Horizons; William W. Kelly 2. Localized yet Deterritorialized Lives in Rural Japan: Fragmented Localities, Mobility, and Neoliberalism; Susanne Klien 3. Rur-bane Relations: Assemblage and Cosmopolitics in Central Hokkaido; Paul Hansen ; ; 4. The Meaning of Place for Selfhood and Well-being in Rural Japan; Wolfram Manzenreiter & Barbara Holthus Part 2: Local Social Worlds at Risk 5. Localizing the Nuclear: Risk Normalization and Sense of Place after Fukushima; Tarek Katramiz 6. Mapping the Local Economy of Care: Social Welfare and Volunteerism in Local Communities; Isaac Gagné 7. San’ya – The Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter; Hanno Jentzsch Part 3: Localities under Contestation 8. Defending the Local: Resident Activism against Municipal Mergers in Postwar Rural Japan; Sven Kramer 9. Local Governance of Public Transport Services: Maintaining Identity and Independence after the Heisei Mergers; Timo Thelen & Hitoshi Oguma 10. Territorialized yet Fluid Locality: Reform, Consolidation, and the More-than-Human in Japanese Fishery Cooperatives; Sonja Ganseforth 11. The Reinterpretation of Locality and Place in the Wine Industry of Yamanashi Prefecture; Aaron Kingsbury Part 4: Local–National Dynamics 12. Furusato Nōzei Tax: Local Place in National Tax Policy and the Dynamics of Locality; Anthony Rausch & Junichiro Koji 13. Uprooting the Political Landscape: How Municipal Mergers Untethered the Local from National Politics; Kyohei Yamada 14. Competing Conceptions of Local Democracy in Japan; Ken Victor Leonard Hijino Part 5: Coda 15. Earth is our Locale: Decentering and Decelerating the Human in the Anthropocene; Peter Matanle
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 304.20952; Human geography -- Japan; Human geography -- Philosophy; Communities -- Japan; Social change -- Japan; Japan -- Politics and government; Japan -- Economic conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000415407; 9781000415360; 9781003032137
• Related ISBNs: 9780367900823; 9780367469481
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