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Japan's New Ruralities: Coping with Decline in the Periphery

Japan's New Ruralities: Coping with Decline in the Periphery

Manzenreiter, Wolfram
Lützeler, Ralph
Polak-Rottmann, Sebastian

Paperback

Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies

General SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0367354187
ISBN13: 9780367354183
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counterargument to the inevitable demise of rural society.

Contrary to the dominant argument, which holds outmigration and demographic hyper-aging as primarily responsible for rural decline, this book highlights the spatial dimension of power differences behind uneven development in contemporary Japan. Including many fi eldwork-based case studies, the chapters discuss topics such as corporate farming, local energy systems and public healthcare, examining the constraints and possibilities of rural self-determination under the centripetal impact of forces located both in and outside of the country. Focusing on asymmetries of power to explore regional autonomy and heteronomy, it also examines peripheralization and the global countryside, two recent theoretical contributions to the fi eld, as a common framework.

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