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dc.title | Regional Egoism as the Public Good: Residents' Movements in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s | |
dc.contributor.author | Avenell, S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-16T11:03:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-16T11:03:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Avenell, S. (2006-03). Regional Egoism as the Public Good: Residents' Movements in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Japan Forum 18 (1) : 89-113. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555800500498400 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 09555803 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/130256 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article returns to anti-pollution & anti-development protest in Japan during the 1960s & 1970s. It argues that these movements are best understood as mobilizations for 'autonomy' rather than 'democracy'. Doing so provides for two assertions about citizen activism in post-war Japan. First, the template of autonomy reveals a common thread in the seemingly divergent strategies of citizens' movements over the post-war period. Rather than a stage on the way to democratic pluralism, anti-pollution & anti-development activism emerges as but one attempt to deal with the rationalization & standardization demanded by post-war capitalism & the state. Second, the template of autonomy encourages a dialogue between ideational & institutional explanations of post-war citizen activism & civil society. Activists' experience of development as a colonization of the life-world fashioned their strategic & ideological response far more powerfully than any commitment to 'democracy'. Hence, this article moves away from the flawed assumption that grassroots citizen activism represents (or should represent) everything 'good' & 'democratic' in Japanese civil society. References. | |
dc.description.uri | http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09555800500498400 | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.subject | autonomy | |
dc.subject | citizens' movements | |
dc.subject | civil society | |
dc.subject | pollution | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | JAPANESE STUDIES | |
dc.description.doi | 10.1080/09555800500498400 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Japan Forum | |
dc.description.volume | 18 | |
dc.description.issue | 1 | |
dc.description.page | 89-113 | |
dc.identifier.isiut | 000210912600005 | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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