| Another Japan Is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education Contributor(s): Chan, Jennifer (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080475781X ISBN-13: 9780804757812 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures--on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas--global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth--"Another Japan is Possible" examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the local--that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups--and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Globalization - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 2007045119 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.50 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures--on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas--global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth--Another Japan is Possible examines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the local--that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups--and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective. |