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Rethinking Locality in Japan

Rethinking Locality in Japan

Ganseforth, Sonja
Jentzsch, Hanno

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Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0367900823
ISBN13: 9780367900823
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 20 2021
Pages: 288
Language: English

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.

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