The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan

by Ogawa, Akihiro

• ISBN13: 9780791493953
• ISBN10: 0791493954
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-05
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Table	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Key Questions	p. 1
Anthropology of Civil Society	p. 7
Fieldwork	p. 15
Action Research	p. 18
Overview of Chapters	p. 19
Kawazoe	p. 23
Landscape	p. 23
Associational Life in Kawazoe	p. 31
SLG's Entry into the Associational Landscape	p. 44
Social Capital Argument	p. 48
NPO: A New Third Sector	p. 51
SLG: An NPO Promoting Lifelong Learning	p. 51
Activities Organized by Volunteers	p. 57
Historical Background	p. 71
"NPO-ization" Led by the Government	p. 74
Response to the Government Proposal	p. 77
On the Transition	p. 83
Proper NPOs?	p. 88
Invited by the State	p. 93
You Can Volunteer with a Single Finger!	p. 93
Discourses of "Borantia"	p. 95
Volunteers Invited by the State	p. 97
Volunteering as Potential for Individualization?	p. 101
Reproduction of Volunteer Subjectivity through Education	p. 105
The Colonization of the Volunteering World	p. 112
Power and Contested Rationalities	p. 117
Kyodo: Policy Collaboration	p. 117
A New Political Technique	p. 119
Talks toward Kyodo: A Japanese Case	p. 123
Inside Discussion: Challenging the Defined Benefits	p. 127
Distrust Accelerating between the Sides	p. 131
Pushing Cost-Cutting Policy	p. 134
Contested Rationalities: A Reality	p. 137
Kyodo: A Failed Attempt	p. 141
Shimin in Japanese Society	p. 145
Shimin-A Genealogy	p. 145
Shimin in the Early Postwar Era	p. 147
Shimin under the NPO	p. 155
Volunteer Subjectivity Revisited	p. 161
NPO as an Agency in Neoliberalism	p. 170
Shimin as Cultural Product in Neoliberalism	p. 175
Epilogue: Initiating Change	p. 185
Research for Social Change	p. 186
Establishing the Field Site	p. 187
Knowing My Field Site	p. 190
Initiating Collaborative Inquiry	p. 193
Taking Action	p. 195
My Positionality	p. 197
Appendices	p. 203
	p. 203
	p. 209
	p. 213
Notes	p. 217
References	p. 227
Japanese Glossary	p. 255
Index	p. 263
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