Anti-nuclear protest in post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power struggles

Brown, AJ

Anti-nuclear protest in post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power struggles

Brown, AJ

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Citation:: 2018, pp. 1 - 220
Issue Date:: 2018-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Brown, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3582-9658	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	2018, pp. 1 - 220	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9781138563346	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128282
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Alexander James Brown. This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and transnational scales, the book also reveals the complex geography of today’s globally connected social movements. It emphasizes the contestation of urban space by anti-nuclear activists in Tokyo and the weaving together of urban and cyber space in their praxis. By focusing on the cultural life of the movement-from its characteristic demonstration style to its blogs, zines and pamphlets-this book communicates activists’ voices in their own words. Based on excellent ethnographic research, it concludes that the anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster have redefined social movement politics for a new era. Providing an analysis of a unique period in Japan’s contemporary urban history from the perspective of eyewitness observations, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Sociology and Japanese Studies in general.	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.4324/9781315121611	en_US
dc.title	Anti-nuclear protest in post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power struggles	en_US
dc.type	Book
utslib.for	1606 Political Science	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

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© 2018 Alexander James Brown. This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and transnational scales, the book also reveals the complex geography of today’s globally connected social movements. It emphasizes the contestation of urban space by anti-nuclear activists in Tokyo and the weaving together of urban and cyber space in their praxis. By focusing on the cultural life of the movement-from its characteristic demonstration style to its blogs, zines and pamphlets-this book communicates activists’ voices in their own words. Based on excellent ethnographic research, it concludes that the anti-nuclear protests in Tokyo after the Fukushima disaster have redefined social movement politics for a new era. Providing an analysis of a unique period in Japan’s contemporary urban history from the perspective of eyewitness observations, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese Politics, Sociology and Japanese Studies in general.

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