Youth movements, trauma and alternative space in contemporary Japan / / by Carl Cassegard.

• Author: Cassegård, Carl.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan, the author provides a detailed study and assessment of social movements among Japanese freeters, from the pioneering groups in the late 1980's to the open protests witnessed today.

Table of Contents

• Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; 1. Trauma, Empowerment and Alternative Space; Collective Trauma; Empowerment and the Role of Alternative Space in Social Movements; 2. Japan's Lost Decade and Two Recoveries; The End of The Bubble and the Arrival of Precarity; The Sense of Closure and the Legacy of Earlier Protest; Lost Decade, Regained Activism?; 3. The New Cultural Movements; The Storm of Autumn; The League of Good-for-Nothings; Anti-war Protests and the Prehistory of Sound-Demos
• 4. The Rise of Movements Against Precarity 5. Space, Art and Homelessness; Art Beyond the Pleasure Principle: The Shinjuku Cardboard Village; Anti-Poverty and Viva Poverty; 6. Alternative Space, Withdrawal and Empowerment; Support Groups for Social Withdrawers and NEET; Freeter Unions: Narratives of Recovery; 7. Campus Protest; 8. The Recovery of Activism; Three Innovations of Freeter Activism; The Importance of Space: Contestation and Bracketing; Fukushima and Beyond; Appendix 1. Chronological Table of Key Events and Major Organisations; Appendix 2.Interviews; Bibliography; Index