Yoneyama Animism in Contemporary Japan

Voices for the Anthropocene from post-Fukushima Japan
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-39389-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

The book explores the notion of animism through the lens of four prominent figures in Japan: Minamata fisherman Ogata Masato, Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, sociologist Tsurumi Kazuko, and animator Miyazaki Hayao. It contends that animism is at the core of the work of these people who represent contemporary Japan in the fields of citizens’ movements, literature, sociology and popular culture, respectively; and that animism is the conclusion they came up with as a means to survive modernity. The book illustrates how they moved toward that conclusion. By adopting a biographical approach, the book aims to illuminate animism, which has been a blind spot of modernity, and thus address two big lacuna in social science: human-nature relationships and the question of soul and spirituality.

This book is based on research in Japanese Studies, or more broadly Asian Studies, but its perspective is interdisciplinary and it is intended for an even broader readership in social science and humanities in general, especially sociology, anthropology, philosophy and religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoneyama, Shoko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I Minimata Cosmology 1 The Life-world 2 Stories of Soul Part II Animism for New Modernity 3 A Sociological Theory of Animism 4 Imbuing Animism into Modernity 5 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Shoko Yoneyama is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies, where she has taught Japanese and Asian Studies courses for over 25 years. She received the 1996 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching in recognition for her ability to teach both language and social science. Shoko has also supervised numerous Honours, Masters, and PhD students, who now work as professionals in a large variety fields, including teachers, academics, government officials, lawyers, diplomats and international business, and environmental activists.

As a researcher, Shoko has worked extensively in the field of sociology of comparative education, and is recognised internationally as the author of The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance (London, Routledge: 1999 Hardcover, 2000 e-book, 2007 Paperback, 2009 Kindle editions), which is a comparative study of student perceptions of school in Japan and Australia. She has also published widely on such topics as bullying, school non-attendance, alternative education, and organic farming, in the fields of the sociology, politics and philosophy of education, youth, food, environment, and alternative social movements.