Carolyn S. Stevens is Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, Australia.
The popular perception of Japanese society is that it possesses a homogeneity and cultural conformity unlike anything to be found in the West. In fact Japan has its own underclass living outside the mainstream in economic circumstances that are radically different to the more usual perception of a wealthy and sucessful society. Carolyn S. Stevens has produced a new study that intimately explores the lives of Japan's social outcasts as well as those volunteers who seek to help them and as a consequence become socially marginalized themselves.
Chapter 1 A purehabu with a view; Chapter 2 Kotobuki, the "land of longevity”; Chapter 3 The economy of welfare; Chapter 4 Taking action; Chapter 5 The human side; Chapter 6 Rituals "organized” and "disorganized”; Chapter 7 Helping out and holding back; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
An innovative study, based on several years of living in inner city Yokohama. Stevens looks beyond stereotypes of conformity and homogeneity at what life is really like for the Japanese urban underclass, and for those who work with them.
This ethnographic study of social life in Kotobuki, an inner city district of Yokohama, documents the lives of those on a low income who have missed the Japanese economic miracle.
Über den Autor
Carolyn S. Stevens is Professor of Japanese Studies and Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash University, Australia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 A purehabu with a view; Chapter 2 Kotobuki, the "land of longevity"; Chapter 3 The economy of welfare; Chapter 4 Taking action; Chapter 5 The human side; Chapter 6 Rituals "organized" and "disorganized"; Chapter 7 Helping out and holding back; Chapter 8 Conclusion;
