Japan's New Ruralities: Coping with Decline in the Periphery

ISBN-13: 9780367354183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Wolfram Manzenreiter; Ralph Lutzeler; Sebastian Polak-Rottmann

Opis

Seeking to challenge negative perceptions within Japanese media and politics on the future of the countryside, the contributors to this book present a counter-argument to the inevitable demise of rural society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Japan’s new ruralities  Part 1:Transformations in the primary sector  2. From agribusiness to deer hunter: "Placing" food industrialization and multispecies health in Tokachi, Hokkaido  3. Corporatization as hybridization in rural Japan: The case of Iwasaka in Shiga Prefecture  4. Sea pineapples in troubled waters: On the local-global interdependencies of the sea squirt (hoya) industry in the aftermath of the 3.11 disaster  5. Reclaiming the global countryside? Decline and diversification in Saga Genkai coastal fisheries  Part 2: Political innovations in rural Japan  6. Local renewables: Japan’s energy transformation and its potential for the remaking of rural communities  7. Empowering rural cooperation: Effects of agricultural policy intervention on rural social capital  8. Sustaining healthcare in Japan’s regions: The introduction of telehealth networks  9. Regional revitalization as a contested arena: Promoting wine tourism in Yamanashi  Part 3: New residents in the countryside  10. Has the island lure reached Japan? Remote islands between tourism boom, new residents and fatal depopulation  11. Fluidity in rural Japan: How lifestyle migration and social movements contribute to the preservation of traditional ways of life on Iwaishima  12. Nai mono wa nai—Challenging and subverting rural peripheralization? Decline and revival in a remote island town  13. Embracing the periphery: Urbanites’ motivations for relocating to rural Japan  Part 4: Conceptual interventions for a new understanding of rural Japan  14. Reinventing rurality: Hybridity and socio-spatial depolarization in northern Japan  15. Rereading the changing Japanese rural peripheries: New approaches and actors for the future  16. Environmental activity gaps and how to fill them: Rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment in Japan  17. Epilogue: Think global, act peripheral in Japan’s new ruralities