Japan and its others : globalization, difference and the critique of modernity / John Clammer
- Bib ID:
- 784997
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Clammer, J. R
- Description:
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- Rosanna, Vic. : Trans Pacific Press, 2001
- ix, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1876843039 (paperback)
- Series:
- Japanese society series.
- Summary:
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"This book explores Japan's relationship with Asia and the world; it examines contemporary Japanese thinking about Japan's 'others' and how this impacts on local discourses about uniqueness, modernity, internal minorities and 'postmodern' conceptions of Japanese culture, religion and psychic make-up." "John Clammer takes local knowledge and a comparative, non-Western perspective seriously, places the Japanese dialogue with modernity at its centre and pursues the 'centrality of the emotions' as a viable avenue for understanding Japanese society. The book attempts to bring the study of Japanese society and culture into dialogue with some recent developments in cultural studies and tries to show how such an approach can illuminate the analysis of this complex and fascinating society." "The research also demonstrates how the challenge of understanding Japan, in turn, can enrich the scope of cultural studies and the sociology of Japanese capitalism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Rethinking Difference: Japan, Modernities and the Other
- 2. Satellite of the Planet Earth: Japan and the Challenge of Globalization
- 3. Thinking Uniqueness: Nativist Discourse and the Sociology of (Indigenous) Knowledge
- 4. Exempted from Modernity? Power and Morality in a Japanese Setting
- 5. Feeling Capitalism: Late Modernity and Alternative Economies of the Passions
- 6. Discourses of Ethnicity: Migrant Workers, Class and State
- 7. Development from the East: Local Knowledges, Social Movements and Non-Western Modernity
- 8. The Other Others: Japanese Christianity and the Negotiations of Modernity
- 9. How Many Chosen People? Japan, the Jews and Universal Histories
- 10. Shinto Dreams: Difference and the Alternative Politics of Nature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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