Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity

ISBN-13: 9780367589882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 210 str.

Azumi Tamura

Opis

Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura  provides a different epistemological and ontological approach to the Social Movement Studies. She investigates an immanent force within individuals that motivates them to become involved in political action.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Hope in The Battlefield: Political Predicament in Japanese Society  2. Complexity, Power and Radical Political Thought Today  3. Dissolved Subjects: Activism and Ethics After Fukushima  4. Resonating Bodies: Disaster and Politics of Experiment  5. Knowledge and Affect in Post-Fukushima Activism  6. Creating Collective ‘Non’ Identity  7. Non-Hegemonic Knowledge in The Age of Precarity  Conclusion

O autorze

Azumi Tamura is a visiting researcher at the Institute of International Relations and Area Studies at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. She received her PhD in Peace Studies in 2016 from the University of Bradford, UK.