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Where are the people? People’s Theater in Inter-Asian Societies
Where Are the People? How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form of Theatrical Aesthetics? At That Time, the Audience Really Stood Up. In this evening, theater practitioners initiated the conversation with physical action. They engage with contemporary issues through their unique performance styles. From a discursive context, they enter the scene of resistance and undertake the labor of performance. Their performance is not just the preface to a series of dialogues, but also a witness to thirty years of People’s Theater. “People’s theater” belongs to the people. It is the theater created by the people and speaks for the people as it has appeared in history in divers...
Adoption of Corporate Social Responsibility by Japanese Companies
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a topical issue in many countries. What are the drivers for the global spread of explicit CSR – practices that are demonstrated to the outside – even in countries where companies had addressed CSR implicitly? What catalyzes organizations to adopt CSR and how does their adoption influence other companies’ likelihood to adopt CSR? This book approaches the recent world-wide adoption of CSR practices as part of the global spread of management concepts. The trend to adopt CSR is examined among Japanese companies, because they have rapidly adopted CSR practices in the last two decades. Existing empirical research on CSR in Japan that has focused mainly on anecdotal evidence on a small number of outstanding companies is extended by employing both qualitative and quantitative empirical research methods. Analyzing drivers for the adoption of CSR practices, organizational characteristics of adopting companies, and how increasing adoption influences the likelihood to adopt provides insights into how Japanese institutions and stakeholders facilitated rapid CSR adoption and the process of CSR diffusion.
The Politics of Making Kinship
The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but the social sciences excised it from theories of the state, public sphere, and democratic order. Kinship has, however, neither completely disappeared from the political cultures of the West nor played the determining social and political role ascribed to it elsewhere. Exploring the issues that arise once the divide between kinship and politics is no longer taken for granted, The Politics of Making Kinship demonstrates how political processes have shaped concepts of kinship over time and, conversely, how political projects have been shaped by specific understandings, idioms and uses of kinship. Taking vantage points from the post-Roman era to early modernity, and from colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond this international set of scholars place kinship centerstage and reintegrate it with political theory.
Parental well-being
"Pursuing happiness is not only idealistic, it is the world's best and perhaps only hope to avoid global catastrophe" (Global Happiness Policy Report 2018). With that, the report argues for happiness as overarching policy goal. This volume argues that parental well-being is well qualified to assume a central role for governments of industrially advanced nations that are in need of coping with the challenges of low fertility and societal aging. More than 4000 mothers and fathers of young children in Germany and Japan have been surveyed in regard to their well-being and satisfaction with many aspects related to their work and family lives. The volume brings together 13 scholars to analyze this...
民眾在何處？亞際社會的民眾劇場
民眾在何處？ 民眾的身體如何以劇場的美學形式，為自己發聲？ 當時，觀眾真的站起來了。 那一夜，多位劇場實踐者將以身體行動作為對話的方法，呈現深具特色的表演形態，表達他們關注的議題。進入論述的脈絡，走上抵抗的現場，承接起表演的工作——他們的表演，是一系列對話的序言，也是三十年來，民眾劇場生命的證言。 「民眾劇場」，屬於人民、由人民創作、為人民發聲的劇場，在歷史上以不同的形式出現。 民眾劇場，在雅加達、馬尼拉、曼谷、新加坡、吉隆坡、香港、東京、釜山、馬普托、北京、上海、花...
Kant’s Concept of Dignity
Nearly all philosophers refer to Kant when debating the concept of dignity, and many approve of Kant’s conception, unaware of the tensions between Kant’s conception and the modern idea of dignity intimately connected to the idea of human rights. What exactly is Kant's conception of dignity? Is there a connecting tie between dignity and the legal sphere of human rights at all? Does Kant’s concept refer to a superior status human beings seem to own in comparison to non-rational beings? Or does it refer to an absolute value? The contributions of this volume are organised in five broader topics. In the first section tensions within the Kantian conception of dignity are discussed (C. Horn, ...
Licentious Fictions
Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-cent...
Geschichtsdenken im modernen Japan
In jeder Gesellschaft ist die eigene Geschichte ein wichtiges Mittel zur Stiftung von Identität. Als solche ist sie überall und zu jeder Zeit ein öffentlich umstrittenes Thema. Japan ist dabei keine Ausnahme. Auch dort lösen, je nach politischer und gesellschaftlicher Lage, nationale Selbstbestätigung und Selbstkritik einander ab. In der vorliegenden Anthologie sind 66 Beiträge von namhaften Autorinnen und Autoren zusammengestellt, die in ihren Texten den Diskurs über die japanische Geschichte in den letzten 150 Jahren maßgeblich geprägt haben. Die Texte kommen in diesem Band in der Regel nur in kommentierten Auszügen zum Abdruck. Ihnen sind Einführungen vorangestellt, die über d...
Spiegel-Bilder
Fotografien deutscher und japanischer Illustrierten der 1930er- und 1940er-Jahre zeigen beispielhaft die manipulative Wirkung der Fotografie als Propagandamedium während des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Gleichzeitig sind sie Produkte politischer wie auch künstlerischer Verbindungslinien zwischen Deutschland und Japan. Dieses Buch vergleicht Muster der bildlichen Darstellung von Kindern und Jugendlichen deutscher und japanischer Pressefotografie der späten 1930er- und frühen 1940er-Jahre anhand zweier bedeutender Illustrierten der Zeit: des Illustrierten Beobachters sowie der Shashin shūhō (写真週報, Fotografische Wochenzeitung). Die Studie zeigt Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in der Gestaltung der Bildpropaganda beider Länder auf, erklärt allgemeine Tendenzen in der Gestaltung von Propaganda und analysiert die Organisation und Funktion von Propaganda in radikalnationalistischen Staaten. Verbindungen deutscher und japanischer Fotografie sowie deren Einflüsse auf die Bildpropaganda der Zeitschriften werden ebenso thematisiert wie Darstellungen Deutschlands auf japanischer und Japans auf deutscher Seite.
„Selbstverantwortung“ in der japanischen Gesellschaft
Was verbindet japanische Geiseln in Kriegsgebieten mit Nuklearflüchtlingen aus Fukushima und Arbeitnehmern in prekären Verhältnissen? Ihnen allen wurde im öffentlichen Diskurs in Japan eine persönliche Verantwortung für ihre Situation zugeschrieben. Diese „Selbstverantwortung“, jap. jikosekinin, ist zum Schlüsselbegriff der japanischen Gegenwartsgesellschaft geworden und ihr Verständnis daher Gegenstand dieses Buches. Was bedeutet „Selbstverantwortung“ in japanischen Diskursen? Und wie konnte der facettenreiche Begriff eine derartige Schlagkraft entwickeln? Laura Blecken findet Antworten auf diese Fragen, indem sie Methoden der Begriffsgeschichte sowie der Diskursanalyse komb...
