Young precariat at the forefront: anti-nuclear rallies in post-Fukushima Japan     

Chizuko UENO 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2013,14(2):317-324

Japan suffered a catastrophic disaster on March 11, 2011. The earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant devastated the northeastern part of the country and threatened the entire country and beyond with the risk of radiation. Nowadays, movements against nuclear power plants are emerging across the country. The crisis indeed provides a chance for Japan to forge a new energy policy. However, the activists' claims are not narrowly limited to such energy issues. They call for a fundamentally fairer society and propose alternative ways of life, regarding nuclear power plants as symbols supporting the economic development that Japan enjoyed over the post-Second World War period. As an ethnography, this paper documents the 60,000-citizen Goodbye Nuclear Power Plants (Sayonara Genpatsu) rally that mobilized in central Tokyo on September 19, 2011, as well as the Occupy Tokyo action on October 15, 2011 Occupy Tokyo オキュパイ東京. 2011. “Occupy Tokyo, the Rally and Demonstration in Shinjuku” “オキュパイ東京新宿の集会とデモ.” YouTube video, 9:19, from a demonstration recorded on October 15 and posted on October 17, done by Shinya Adachi. http://youtube/FoKkhRAkwJU  [Google Scholar], presenting the real voices of the rally participants against nuclear power. In particular, I will focus on the voices of young precariat participants, the major actors in the anti-nuclear rally who were generated from and revealed as the negative result of Japan's neoliberal economic policy, held since the 2000s. Further, I argue that their mounting anger might be a trigger for new post-neoliberal politics in post-Fukushima Japan.  相似文献   

The undulating contours of sōgō geijutsu (total work of art), or Hanada Kiyoteru's thoughts on transmedia in postwar Japan     

Ken Yoshida 《Inter-Asia Cultural Studies》2013,14(1):36-54

This article provides an insight into the theorization of sōgō geijutsu or the work of total art during the postwar decades in Japan, primarily through the language of Hanada Kiyoteru, a notable communist critic during the 1950s, as a way to present a discursive precursor to what would be explored as intermedia in the 1960s. It is an attempt to trace the debates that were seen in journal Sōgō Bunka, which was established immediately after the war, and how the question of collectivity and collective production of art was discussed among the contributing critics, artists, and intellectuals. Totality as some may know already, is a problematic term that comes close to the wartime notion of ‘totality’, as it was employed for Japanese government's ideological deployment for its war efforts. Although the term has accrued a sinister ring, the critics mentioned in the article, especially Hanada, were determined to reclaim the term as a way of devising a postwar aesthetic-political platform. One important component of sōgō geijutsu was popular art and its relationship to the masses, as it was designed to relocate avant-garde art practices to the juncture of popular space and political praxis, while critiquing the modernist avant-garde art associated with high art. In addition to providing a fuller historiography of intermedia (or transmedia) in Japan, interrogating sōgō geijutsu also serves to shed some light on the complex and multivalent discourse of locating a ‘people’ and their communicative action. Through this history, the term totality gains a greater texture, no longer dismissible as a mere vestige of fascism in the minds of the Japanese artists and critics.  相似文献   

Revel,Riot and Rebellion and The Social History of Politics     

Phil Withington 《Cultural and Social History》2013,10(3):331-335

ABSTRACT

This article considers the ties between soldiers and civilian life in First World War Britain. Previous assumptions about soldierly alienation and disillusionment from civilian society have been questioned in recent years. This article adds to this discussion by examining the part played by National War Aims Committee propaganda in fostering links between soldiers and the home front. Representation of civilian activities, community, rurality and domesticity offered reassurance that Britain remained largely the same as soldiers remembered. The involvement of soldiers as propagandists also shows that attitudes cannot be deduced solely from the perspective of literary depictions of alienation.  相似文献   

Hot-Heads,Gentlemen and the Liberties of Tradesmen     

Daniel Johnson 《Cultural and Social History》2013,10(3):343-364

Abstract

Over the summer and autumn of 1739 Philadelphia’s two newspapers published competing versions of a hearing in the Pennsylvania assembly that was described as the ‘Affair of the Tanners’. What began as a minor property dispute in the colonial assembly became, with the aid of the local press, a citywide paper war for the support of the urban populace. This article argues the affair provides unique evidence for competing conceptions of the common good in the eighteenth-century colonial city, and was an expression of conflict with deep roots in Philadelphia’s history. The affair also shows how the medium of print could reflect both transatlantic cultural processes as well as distinctly local grievances, as a group of prosperous city artisans and their opponents utilized the city’s newspapers to articulate competing commonwealth ideologies.  相似文献   

组织政治知觉的概念、结构与相关变量研究述评     

高冬东 《保定学院学报》2015,(1):110-113

在对组织政治知觉的概念进行梳理的基础上,阐述组织政治知觉的概念;总结国内外学者对组织政治知觉结构的不同看法,介绍组织政治知觉的测量工具;对组织政治知觉的前因变量、结果变量、中介变量和调节变量进行总结并提出以后的努力方向。  相似文献   

问题引领式教学在高中政治教学中的运用     

赵良 《天津教育》2021,(1):118-119

在高中政治教学中运用问题引领式教学法实施课程教学,能促进教师全方位地了解并熟悉学生的综合情况,然后依此设立课堂问题情景,组织并引导学生进行问题的讨论与探索.如此,不仅能帮助学生形成主动学习与独立思考的习惯,还能推进学生创造性思维的发展.基于此,本文在分析高中政治教学中存在问题的基础上,探讨了问题引领式教学在高中政治课堂...  相似文献   

改革思想政治理论课教学,增强高校德育教育实效     

林天翔 《高教论坛》2007,(5):28-30

增强德育效果是当前高校德育工作者直接面对并亟待解决的问题。思想政治理论课作为对大学生进行思想政治教育的主渠道、主阵地和基本环节,直接影响着高校德育效果的提高,是高校德育效果的基本保证。思想政治理论课教学改革,主要是通过更新教学内容、增强实践教学、改进教学方法和优化教学手段,达到增强教学效果的目的。  相似文献   

Making policy with ‘good ideas’: policy networks and the ‘intellectuals’ of New Labour     

Leslie Sharpe  S. Gopinathan 《教育政策杂志》2013,28(2):151-166

The educational reforms being enacted in Singapore can be considered exceptional in that they are being undertaken within a highly effective system. We explore these reforms using Brown and Lauder's ideal-typical analysis of ‘neo-Fordist’ and ‘post-Fordist’ models of national economic development. Singapore's reforms have been extensive, ranging from changes to early childhood education through to tertiary education. We examine the nature of state-market relations in education within the context of Singapore's ‘soft authoritarian’ political culture and assess the chances of success of the reforms.  相似文献   

大学校报要善于写好"导"字文章     

谢宁生 《徐州教育学院学报》2004,19(4):49-52

为全面、深入、创造性地开展大学生思想政治教育,大学校报要充分发挥育人功能,善于做好“导”字文章。这就是“晓之以理,积极倡导;动之以情,善于引导;以人为本,科学指导。”为进一步加强和改进大学生思想政治教育,大学校报要把办报与大学生思想政治教育结合起来,与培养德智体美全面发展的有理想、有道德、有文化、有纪律的社会主义合格建设者和接班人结合起来。  相似文献   

后勤工作之我见     

赵三仁 《山西师大体育学院学报》1998,(2)

学校的后勤工作应如何进行改革,既适应于改革的社会步伐,又能更好地服务于教学工作,本文进行了这方面的论述及研讨。  相似文献