Urban Migrants in Rural Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Migrants in Rural Japan write by Susanne Klien. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them.
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism write by Sidney Xu Lu. This book was released on 2019-07-25. The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows how Japanese anxiety about overpopulation was used to justify expansion, blurring lines between migration and settler colonialism. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Study of Rural to Urban Migration in Japan
The Study of Rural to Urban Migration in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Study of Rural to Urban Migration in Japan write by Hiroshi Kawabe. This book was released on 1960. The Study of Rural to Urban Migration in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan
Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan write by Stephanie Assmann. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and acknowledges that an era of post-growth has arrived in Japan. Through exploring new forms of regional employment, community empowerment, and reverse migration, the authors address potential opportunities and benefits that may help to create and ensure the quality of life in depopulating areas and post-disaster scenarios. This book will be of interest not only to students of Japanese society, but also to those outside of Japan who are seeking new approaches for tackling depopulation challenges.
Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan
Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan write by Christopher S. Thompson. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking collection examines the regional dynamics of state societies, looking at how people use the concepts of urban and rural, traditional and modern, and industrial and agricultural to define their existence and the experience of living in contemporary Japanese society. The book focuses on the Tohoku (Northeast) region, which many Japanese consider rural, agrarian, undeveloped economically, and the epitome of the traditional way of life. While this stereotype overstates the case—the region is home to one of Japan's largest cities—most Japanese contrast Tohoku (everything traditional) with Tokyo (everything modern). However, the contributors show how various regional phenomena—internationalization, lacquerware production, farming, enka (modern Japanese ballads), women's roles, and professional dance —combine the traditional, the modern, and the global. Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan demonstrates that while people use the dichotomies of urban/rural and traditional/modern in order to define their experiences, these categories are no longer useful in analyzing contemporary Japan.
