{"product_id":"japans-living-politics-grassroots-action-and-the-crises-of-democracy-hardback-9781108490078","title":"Japan's Living Politics; Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy (Hardback) 9781108490078","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eJapan's Living Politics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGrassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCan the history of grassroots self-help action in modern Japan provide clues to overcoming the contemporary global crisis of democracy?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTessa Morris-Suzuki (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108490078, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 May 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e246 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 1.6 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Japan's Living Politics is likely to be of greatest interest to Japan scholars and students, and it should be widely adopted in Japan studies courses. That said, it should also be of interest to sociologists and anthropologists interested in community activism and communal living. I hope that comparative democracy scholars also take notice because Morris-Suzuki's methodology reads, to this reviewer at least, as both more authentic and more informative than much of the large-n quantitative research that has become a focus of that subfield.' Mary Alice Haddad, Monumenta Nipponica\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise of populism and decline of public confidence in many of the formal institutions of democracy. This crisis of democracy has stimulated searches for alternative ways of understanding and enacting politics. Against this background, Tessa Morris-Suzuki explores the long history of informal everyday political action in the Japanese context. Despite its seemingly inflexible and monolithic formal political system, Japan has been the site of many fascinating small-scale experiments in 'informal life politics': grassroots do-it-yourself actions which seek not to lobby governments for change, but to change reality directly, from the bottom up. She explores this neglected history by examining an interlinked series of informal life politics experiments extending from the 1910s to the present day.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Japan and the crisis of democracy\u003cbr\u003e 2. Living politics: Japan and the world\u003cbr\u003e 3. The white birch and the Earth: giving life to the self in interwar Japan and beyond\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rethinking the village\u003cbr\u003e 5. Peasant art, free drawing and the free university\u003cbr\u003e 6. The body politic: Saku Hospital and the Japanese cooperative movement\u003cbr\u003e 7. Seeds of democracy: rural spaces of autonomy in postwar Japan\u003cbr\u003e 8. Development from within: environment, region and autonomous action from the 1980's onwards\u003cbr\u003e 9. Disaster and aftermath: informal life politics after 2011\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Towards another democracy.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e], Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913187385624,"sku":"9781108490078","price":75.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108490078i.jpg?v=1696706603","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/japans-living-politics-grassroots-action-and-the-crises-of-democracy-hardback-9781108490078","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}