Japanese Modernity and Welfare State, Civil Society and Self in Contemporary Japan

by Vij, Ritu

• ISBN13: 9781403915443
• ISBN10: 140391544X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The hegemony of statist constructions of modern Japan have for long denied the significance of civil society and welfare to the very constitution of Japanese modernity. This book recovers a classical understanding of civil society as the realm of social individuation to draw attention to the specifically modern notion of the subject that underpins both the welfare state and market in contemporary Japan. As such, it offers a critical engagement with debates in comparative political economy and Japanese Studies.

Author Biography

RITU VIJ is Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, U.K. She was previously at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan, as the recipient of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Civil Society, Welfare, and Japan in Comparative Studies	p. 1
Theoretical Contestations: State, Market, and the Individual	p. 33
Self, State, and Civil Society in Modern Japan	p. 75
Social Need and the Welfare State in Modern Japan	p. 107
Welfare Reforms in Recessionary Japan	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 191
Notes	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 229
Index	p. 263
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