Ishikawa Sanshir’s Geographical Imagination

Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-8728-343-8
Verlag: Leiden University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Critical, Connected Histories

In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialisation. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshir. exemplifies this imagination, connecting European and Japanese thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. This book investigates the emergence of a strand of non-violent anarchism, reassessing in particular the role of geographical thought in modern Japan as both a vehicle of political dissent and a basis for dialogue between Eastern and Western radical thinkers. By tracing Ishikawa’s travels, intellectual interests and real-life encounters, Nadine Willems identifies a transnational ‘geographical imagination’ that valued ethics of cooperation in the social sphere and a renewed awareness of the man-nature interaction. The book also examines experiments in anarchist activism informed by this common imagination and the role played by the practices of everyday life as a force of socio-political change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willems, Nadine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1: Humanising Science in Modern Japan

Chapter 2: Late Meiji Radicals and the Formation of a Geographical Imagination

Chapter 3: Breaking Boundaries

Chapter 4: Domin Seikatsu: Solidarity as a Political Strategy

Chapter 5: Standing on the Earth

Chapter 6: The Ecology of Everyday Life

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Willems, Nadine
Nadine Willems holds a DPhil in History from the University of Oxford and teaches at the University of East Anglia. She specialises in the intellectual and cultural history of modern Japan, with a focus on East-West transnational exchanges and political dissension. She has also translated Japanese proletarian poetry.