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Author |
: Nana Okura Gagné |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2021-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501753053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501753053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reworking Japan by : Nana Okura Gagné
Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of individual employees. With Japan's remarkable economic growth since the 1950s, the lifestyles and life courses of "salarymen" came to embody the "New Middle Class" family ideal. However, the nearly three decades of economic stagnation and reforms since the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 1990s has intensified corporate retrenchment under the banner of neoliberal restructuring and brought new challenges to employees and their previously protected livelihoods. In a sweeping appraisal of recent history, Gagné demonstrates how economic restructuring has reshaped Japanese corporations, workers, and ideals, as well as how Japanese companies and employees have resisted and actively responded to such changes. Gagné explores Japan's fraught and problematic transition from the postwar ideology of "companyism" to the emergent ideology of neoliberalism and the subsequent large-scale economic restructuring. By juxtaposing Japan's economic transformation with an ethnography of work and play, and individual life histories, Gagné goes beyond the abstract to explore the human dimension of the neoliberal reforms that have impacted the nation's corporate governance, socioeconomic class, workers' subjectivities, and family relations. Reworking Japan, with its firsthand analysis of how the supposedly hegemonic neoliberal regime does not completely transform existing cultural frames and social relations, will shake up preconceived ideas about Japanese men and the social effects of neoliberalism.
Author |
: Jane Marceau |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 525 |
Release |
: 2011-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110861402 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110861402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reworking the World by : Jane Marceau
Author |
: Jennifer Robertson |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 1991-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520072961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520072960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Native and Newcomer by : Jennifer Robertson
This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an “authentic” Japanese community.
Author |
: Moon-Kie Jung |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2010-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231135351 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231135351 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reworking Race by : Moon-Kie Jung
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. Spearheading the shift were tens of thousands of sugar, pineapple, and dock workers who challenged their powerful employers by joining the left-led International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union. In this theoretically innovative study, Moon-Kie Jung explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame entrenched racial divisions and successfully mobilized a mass working-class movement. He overturns the unquestioned assumption that this interracial effort traded racial politics for class politics. Instead, the movement "reworked race" by incorporating and rearticulating racial meanings and practices into a new ideology of class. Through its groundbreaking historical analysis, Reworking Race radically rethinks interracial politics in theory and practice.
Author |
: Jonathan Zeitlin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199269041 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199269044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Americanization and Its Limits by : Jonathan Zeitlin
An analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II. The contributors analyze the creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and in creating hybrid forms combining foreign and indigenous practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways.
Author |
: Tessa Morris-Suzuki |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2015-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317461159 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317461150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Re-inventing Japan by : Tessa Morris-Suzuki
This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan.
Author |
: Tetsuzo Fuwa |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 125 |
Release |
: 1999-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 488048069X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9784880480695 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Remaking Japan by : Tetsuzo Fuwa
Author |
: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 744 |
Release |
: 1964 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030739056 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Department of Defense Appropriations for 1965 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Author |
: Glen D. Hook |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2003-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134427871 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134427875 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japan and Okinawa by : Glen D. Hook
Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and national structures. The book draws on a range of disciplines to provide new insights into both the contemporary and historical place of Okinawa and the Okinawans. The first half of the book examines Okinawa as part of the global, regional and national structures which impose constraints as well as offer opportunities to Okinawa. Leading specialists examine in detail topics such as Okinawa as a frontier region, Okinawa's Free Trade Zones and response to globalization, and Okinawa as part of the Japanese 'construction state', being particularly concerned with how Okinawa can chart its own course. The second half focuses on questions of identity and subjectivity, examining the multitude of vibrant cultural practices that breathe life into the meaning of being Okinawan and inform their social and political responses to structural constraints. The originality of this book can be found in its elucidation of how the structural constraints of Okinawa's precarious position in the world, the region and as part of Japan impact on subjectivity. For many Okinawans, in the past as now, acceptance and rationalization of their dependency has made them collaborators in their own subordination. At the same time, however, they have demonstrated a capacity to give voice to a separate identity, inscribing cultural practices marking them as different from mainland Japanese.
Author |
: Alexander Jacoby |
Publisher |
: Stone Bridge Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2013-02-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611725315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611725313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors by : Alexander Jacoby
This important work fills the need for a reasonably priced yet comprehensive volume on major directors in the history of Japanese film. With clear insight and without academic jargon, Jacoby examines the works of over 150 filmmakers to uncover what makes their films worth watching. Included are artistic profiles of everyone from Yutaka Abe to Isao Yukisada, including masters like Kinji Fukasaku, Juzo Itami, Akira Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Yoji Yamada. Each entry includes a critical summary and filmography, making this book an essential reference and guide. UK-based Alexander Jacoby is a writer and researcher on Japanese film.