Binding: Paperback
Description: This book inquires what is meant when we say "local" and what "local" means in the Japanese context. Through the window of locality it enhances an understanding of broader political and socio - economic shifts in Japan. This includes demographic change electoral and administrative reform rural decline and revitalization welfare reform as well as the growing metabolic rift in energy and food production. Chapters throughout this edited volume discuss the different and often contested ways in which locality in Japan has been reconstituted from historical and contemporary instances of administrative restructuring to more subtle social processes of making and unmaking local places. Contributions from multiple disciplinary perspectives are included to investigate the tensions between overlapping and often incongruent dimensions of locality. Framed by a theoretical discussion of socio - spatial thinking such issues surrounding the construction and renegotiation of local places are not only relevant for Japan specialists but also connected with topical scholarly debates further afield. Accordingly Rethinking Locality in Japan will appeal to students and scholars from Japanese studies and human geography to anthropology history sociology and political science.
Title: Rethinking Locality In Japan
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367469481
Pages: 288 Pages, 7 Tables, Black And White; 24 Line Drawings, Black And White; 1 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 7/20/2021
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Category: Human Geography