Another Japan Is Possible : New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education

by Chan, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780804757829
• ISBN10: 0804757828
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures--on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas--global governance, labor, food sovereignty, peace, HIV/AIDS, gender, minority and human rights, and youth--Another Japan is Possibleexamines the genesis of these new social movements; their critiques of neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism; their local, regional, and global connections; their relationships with the Japanese government; and their role in constructing a new identity of the Japanese as global citizens. Its purpose is to highlight the interactions between the global and the local--that is, how international human rights and global governance issues resonate within Japan and how, in turn, local alternatives are articulated by Japanese advocacy groups--and to analyze citizenship from a postnational and postmodern perspective.

Author Biography

Jennifer Chan is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan (Stanford, 2004).

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Abbreviations and Conventions	p. xxi
Introduction: Global Governance and Japanese Nongovernmental Advocacy Networks	p. 1
Global Governance
Introduction to Part I	p. 47
Global Governance Monitoring and Japan	p. 51
Education, Empowerment, and Alternatives to Neoliberalism	p. 59
Building a People-Based Peace and Democracy Movement in Asia	p. 64
Tobin Tax, Kyoto Social Forum, and Pluralism	p. 69
Education for Civil Society Capacity Building	p. 76
Community Development, Peace, and Global Citizenship	p. 81
Labor
Introduction to Part II	p. 87
Globalization and Labor Restructuring	p. 91
Corporate Restructuring and Homelessness	p. 95
Gender, Part-Time Labor, and Indirect Discrimination	p. 98
Migration, Trafficking, and Free Trade Agreements	p. 102
Neoliberalism and Labor Organizing	p. 106
Water, Global Commons, and Peace	p. 110
Food Sovereignty
Introduction to Part III	p. 117
Agricultural Liberalization, World Trade Organization, and Peace	p. 123
Multifunctionality of Agriculture over Free Trade	p. 130
Citizens' Movement Against Genetically Modified Foods	p. 134
Self-Sufficiency, Safety, and Food Liberalization	p. 138
Peace
Introduction to Part IV	p. 143
"We Want Blue Sky in Peaceful Okinawa"	p. 147
World Peace Now	p. 152
Article 9 and the Peace Movement	p. 158
Fundamental Law of Education, Peace, and the Marketization of Education	p. 162
Japan and International War Crimes	p. 167
Landmine Ban and Peace Education	p. 171
Nuclear Disarmament, Advocacy, and Peace Education	p. 176
Building a Citizens' Peace Movement in Japan and Asia	p. 182
HIV/AIDS
Introduction to Part V	p. 189
HIV/AIDS from a Human Rights Perspective	p. 193
HIV/AIDS, Gender, and Backlash	p. 198
Migrant Workers and HIV/AIDS in Japan	p. 203
Gender
Introduction to Part VI	p. 211
International Lobbying and Japanese Women's Networks	p. 215
Gender, Human Rights, and Trafficking in Persons	p. 220
Gender, Reproductive Rights, and Technology	p. 225
As a Lesbian Feminist in Japan	p. 230
Sex Workers' Movement in Japan	p. 234
Women's Active Museum on War and Peace	p. 237
Art, Feminism, and Activism	p. 242
Minority and Human Rights
Introduction to Part VII	p. 249
Proposal for a Law on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	p. 253
Antidiscrimination, Grassroots Empowerment, and Horizontal Networking	p. 258
Multiple Identities and Buraku Liberation	p. 263
Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Multicultural Coexistence	p. 266
On the Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples' Rights of the Ainu	p. 272
"I Would Like to Be Able to Speak Uchinaguchi When I Grow Up!"	p. 276
Art Activism and Korean Minority Rights	p. 281
Ethnic Diversity, Foreigners' Rights, and Discrimination in Family Registration	p. 284
Disability and Gender	p. 291
The UN Convention on Refugee and Asylum Protection in Japan	p. 295
Torture, Penal Reform, and Prisoners' Rights	p. 299
Death Penalty and Human Rights	p. 304
Youth Groups
Introduction to Part VIII	p. 313
Experience, Action, and the Floating Peace Village	p. 317
Ecology, Youth Action, and International Advocacy	p. 323
Organic Food, Education, and Peace	p. 328
"Another Work Is Possible": Slow Life, Ecology, and Peace	p. 331
Conclusion: Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education	p. 337
Organizations Interviewed	p. 351
Appendixes	p. 355
References	p. 367
Index	p. 393
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