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| Titel: |
Regional egoism as the public good: residents' movements in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s |
| Auteur: |
Avenell, Simon |
| Verschenen in: |
Japan forum |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 18 (2006) nr. 1 pagina's 89-113 |
| Jaar: |
2006-03-01 |
| Inhoud: |
This article returns to anti-pollution and anti-development protest in Japan during the 1960s and 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 and anti-development activism emerges as but one attempt to deal with the rationalization and standardization demanded by post-war capitalism and the state. Second, the template of autonomy encourages a dialogue between ideational and institutional explanations of post-war citizen activism and civil society. Activists' experience of development as a colonization of the life-world fashioned their strategic and 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' and 'democratic' in Japanese civil society. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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