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The dramatic mid-nineteenth century increase in relations with the West brought home to many Japa... more The dramatic mid-nineteenth century increase in relations with the West brought home to many Japanese intellectuals and policy-makers just how far their country lagged behind the great powers of the time economically, militarily and politically. Learning to see their country through Western eyes, many intellectuals and policy-makers reviewed their everyday environment, and found, for example, that Japanese cities compared unfavourably to those of the West. Especially problematic were urban pockets of deep poverty, which observers represented as crimeand disease-ridden zones intolerable for a state striving to recast itself as a civilized modern power. Several narrative threads ran through the ensuing debates concerning poor areas and their denizens. Especially in the 1880s and 1890s, early nationalist writers wrote about the plight of the poor people as meriting attention because they were fellow citizens of the nation who had been the main losers in the new social order of Meiji Ja...
East Asian history, 2002
Información del artículo Buraku emigration in the Meiji era - Other ways to become "japanese... more Información del artículo Buraku emigration in the Meiji era - Other ways to become "japanese".
In the context of rapidly advancing globalization, multiculturalism today faces a turning point. ... more In the context of rapidly advancing globalization, multiculturalism today faces a turning point. As market principles become dominant, and profit and national interest are seen to be identical and given priority—in the guise of the acceptance of social inequality and the promotion of individual self-responsibility, of the cutting of welfare budgets and rising disparities—typical neo-liberalism is evident in Japan too, especially post-September 11, under the Koizumi and Abe governments. This may at first glance seem to conflict with the pioneering multiculturalisms seen in Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, with multiculturalism being pressured to change by neo-liberalism, as under the Howard government in Australia. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that multiculturalism has been an adaptive response to globalization. In this paper, by focusing on the colonialism contained within both globalization and multiculturalism, and by clarifying the complicated relationships and ambig...
1 はじめに 渡辺公三 3 開発事業にともなう社会影響評価 (Social Impact Assessment)の手法 岩崎・グッドマン まさみ 25 土地所有にかかわる「伝統」と「近代」の相克... more 1 はじめに 渡辺公三 3 開発事業にともなう社会影響評価 (Social Impact Assessment)の手法 岩崎・グッドマン まさみ 25 土地所有にかかわる「伝統」と「近代」の相克をめぐる 幾つかの論点について─メキシコ・チアパスの事例を参照項に─ 崎山政毅 41 「先住民共同体」はいかに「構築」されたのか? ―ニカラグア;1880~1920― 佐々木祐 55 コンゴ東北部イトゥリ地方における民族間対立と土地問題 澤田昌人 69 先住民と「土地」―大地をめぐる言説と現状― スチュアート ヘンリ 79 墓を通じた土地と人との関係についての小論 ―韓国・済州道の墓地管理活動「伐草」の事例から― L村竜平 97 グァテマラのマヤ系先住民と荒蕪地 ―現地調査の成立と「伝統的共同体」の分節に関する覚書― 中田英樹 115 アメリカ人類学の発生現場を検証する ―モーガンとインディアン「土地問題」へのメモ― 渡辺公三
Through a consideration of the changing social circumstances of 'former outcasts' , '... more Through a consideration of the changing social circumstances of 'former outcasts' , 'new commoners', and 'burakumin' in Meiji-period Japan, this thesis explores the unfolding of processes of nationalization at a 'popular' level. It begins with a look at how formerly unremarkable customary practices involving the avoidance and denigration of certain 'outcast' status people were repositioned as illegitimate expressions of 'discrimination' in the wake of the abolition of 'outcast' status groups and the establishment of equality between Japanese subjects before the law. It goes on to detail how by their attribution of such stigma as 'foreign ancestry' and sundry biological and moral 'defects' to those who were subjected to discriminatory treatment, scholarly and official attempts to explain 'social discrimination' against a part of the Japanese population re-invigorated those 'discriminatory' practic...
Japan's Outcaste Abolition
1. Outcaste Status after Equality 2. A Status Society 3. Outcaste Status 4. Rationality, Enlighte... more 1. Outcaste Status after Equality 2. A Status Society 3. Outcaste Status 4. Rationality, Enlightenment and Outcaste Abolition 5. Defiled Bloodlines 6. Foreign Origins as Stigma 7. The Stigma of Place 8. Assimilation as Liberation 9. Conclusion
Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 1037139022000036959, Aug 4, 2010
立命館言語文化研究
Before the arrival of British settlers in the late-eighteenth century, several hundred linguistic... more Before the arrival of British settlers in the late-eighteenth century, several hundred linguistically distinct groups inhabited the Australian continent and its neighboring islands. Widely dispersed around the Australian continent and surrounds, most indigenous groups lived by hunting ...
The dramatic mid-nineteenth century increase in relations with the West brought home to many Japa... more The dramatic mid-nineteenth century increase in relations with the West brought home to many Japanese intellectuals and policy-makers just how far their country lagged behind the great powers of the time economically, militarily and politically. Learning to see their country through Western eyes, many intellectuals and policy-makers reviewed their everyday environment, and found, for example, that Japanese cities compared unfavourably to those of the West. Especially problematic were urban pockets of deep poverty, which observers represented as crimeand disease-ridden zones intolerable for a state striving to recast itself as a civilized modern power. Several narrative threads ran through the ensuing debates concerning poor areas and their denizens. Especially in the 1880s and 1890s, early nationalist writers wrote about the plight of the poor people as meriting attention because they were fellow citizens of the nation who had been the main losers in the new social order of Meiji Ja...
East Asian history, 2002
Información del artículo Buraku emigration in the Meiji era - Other ways to become "japanese... more Información del artículo Buraku emigration in the Meiji era - Other ways to become "japanese".
In the context of rapidly advancing globalization, multiculturalism today faces a turning point. ... more In the context of rapidly advancing globalization, multiculturalism today faces a turning point. As market principles become dominant, and profit and national interest are seen to be identical and given priority—in the guise of the acceptance of social inequality and the promotion of individual self-responsibility, of the cutting of welfare budgets and rising disparities—typical neo-liberalism is evident in Japan too, especially post-September 11, under the Koizumi and Abe governments. This may at first glance seem to conflict with the pioneering multiculturalisms seen in Canada, Australia, and elsewhere, with multiculturalism being pressured to change by neo-liberalism, as under the Howard government in Australia. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that multiculturalism has been an adaptive response to globalization. In this paper, by focusing on the colonialism contained within both globalization and multiculturalism, and by clarifying the complicated relationships and ambig...
1 はじめに 渡辺公三 3 開発事業にともなう社会影響評価 (Social Impact Assessment)の手法 岩崎・グッドマン まさみ 25 土地所有にかかわる「伝統」と「近代」の相克... more 1 はじめに 渡辺公三 3 開発事業にともなう社会影響評価 (Social Impact Assessment)の手法 岩崎・グッドマン まさみ 25 土地所有にかかわる「伝統」と「近代」の相克をめぐる 幾つかの論点について─メキシコ・チアパスの事例を参照項に─ 崎山政毅 41 「先住民共同体」はいかに「構築」されたのか? ―ニカラグア;1880~1920― 佐々木祐 55 コンゴ東北部イトゥリ地方における民族間対立と土地問題 澤田昌人 69 先住民と「土地」―大地をめぐる言説と現状― スチュアート ヘンリ 79 墓を通じた土地と人との関係についての小論 ―韓国・済州道の墓地管理活動「伐草」の事例から― L村竜平 97 グァテマラのマヤ系先住民と荒蕪地 ―現地調査の成立と「伝統的共同体」の分節に関する覚書― 中田英樹 115 アメリカ人類学の発生現場を検証する ―モーガンとインディアン「土地問題」へのメモ― 渡辺公三
Through a consideration of the changing social circumstances of 'former outcasts' , '... more Through a consideration of the changing social circumstances of 'former outcasts' , 'new commoners', and 'burakumin' in Meiji-period Japan, this thesis explores the unfolding of processes of nationalization at a 'popular' level. It begins with a look at how formerly unremarkable customary practices involving the avoidance and denigration of certain 'outcast' status people were repositioned as illegitimate expressions of 'discrimination' in the wake of the abolition of 'outcast' status groups and the establishment of equality between Japanese subjects before the law. It goes on to detail how by their attribution of such stigma as 'foreign ancestry' and sundry biological and moral 'defects' to those who were subjected to discriminatory treatment, scholarly and official attempts to explain 'social discrimination' against a part of the Japanese population re-invigorated those 'discriminatory' practic...
Japan's Outcaste Abolition
1. Outcaste Status after Equality 2. A Status Society 3. Outcaste Status 4. Rationality, Enlighte... more 1. Outcaste Status after Equality 2. A Status Society 3. Outcaste Status 4. Rationality, Enlightenment and Outcaste Abolition 5. Defiled Bloodlines 6. Foreign Origins as Stigma 7. The Stigma of Place 8. Assimilation as Liberation 9. Conclusion
Cultural and Social Division in Contemporary Japan
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 1037139022000036959, Aug 4, 2010
立命館言語文化研究
Before the arrival of British settlers in the late-eighteenth century, several hundred linguistic... more Before the arrival of British settlers in the late-eighteenth century, several hundred linguistically distinct groups inhabited the Australian continent and its neighboring islands. Widely dispersed around the Australian continent and surrounds, most indigenous groups lived by hunting ...