Japan's Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

ISBN-13: 9781138629066 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 200 str.

Noah Y. McCormack

Opis

This book begins by examining the origins and evolution of the outcaste groups within the Tokugawa status order. It then looks into the complex processes leading up to the abolition of outcaste status and the institution of legal equality in 1871 under the Meiji regime, and analyzes subsequent practices and theories of social discrimination against firstly ‘former outcastes’ and ‘New Commoners’ and then ‘Burakumin’. Finally, it analyses the tactics and strategies of liberation adopted at local and national levels by anti-discrimination movements in Meiji Japan.

Recenzje

"the work provides a compelling examination of the role of domestic and international politics in changing Japan’s status hierarchy, particularly for those on the margins of society. It would be a valuable resource not just for historical studies of marginality, but for anyone, from advanced undergraduates on, in understanding how policies that are derived from creating modern nation state (such as ideologies of commonality and equality) are intertwined with changing beliefs and practices." Christopher Bondy, International Christian University, Social Science Japan Journal

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Noah Y. McCormack is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan.