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Konzepte und Praxisbeispiele zur Stärkung der lokalen Gemeinschaft aus Deutschland und Japan
No full textFieldwork in Okutama (Tokyo, Japan) 2023: Interviews
Full text linkThis dataset contains audio files recorded by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. During a visit to Okutama-town (奥多摩町) in November 2023, the author interviewed local people who have been engaging in creating places of social exchange. This includes welfare-related activities, places to have a drink together, places for young people, and places for people with disabilities. The audio files of this dataset cannot be shared with others and requests for permission to listen to them have to be addressed to the author. Contact: [email protected]
Fieldwork in Chizu (Tottori, Japan) 2023: Interviews
Full text linkThis dataset contains audio files recorded by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. During a visit to Chizu-town (智頭町) in June 2023, he interviewed local people who have been engaging in creating places of social exchange. This includes welfare-related activities, places to have a drink together, places for young people, and places to seek refuge from particularly challenging situations. The audio files of this dataset cannot be shared with others and requests for permission to listen to them have to be addressed to the author. Contact: [email protected]
Fieldwork in Chizu (Tottori, Japan) 2023-2024: Photos
No full textThis dataset contains images taken by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. The author visited Chizu-town (智頭町) three times between 2023 and 2024. He participated at a number of events, such as philosophical cafés, a film-screening, welfare-related activities, and a disaster prevention gathering. The images display the region’s abundant natural landscape, but at the same time demonstrate the effects of long-lasting demographic decline. Especially the pictures on the nearly abandoned village of Itaibara-mura illustrate, how whole hamlets can be subject to depopulation. It is the author’s aim to discuss places where local people gather to engage in conversations and community activities and how these places strengthen the respective community’s resilience
Fieldwork in Chizu (Tottori, Japan) 2023-2024: Videos
No full textThis dataset contains videos taken by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. The author visited Chizu-town (智頭町) three times between 2023 and 2024. He participated at a number of events, such as philosophical cafés, a film-screening, welfare-related activities, and a disaster prevention gathering. The videos display the region’s abundant natural landscape and the shrine in the center of the town. It is the author’s aim to discuss places where local people gather to engage in conversations and community activities and how these places strengthen the respective community’s resilience
Fieldwork in Okutama (Tokyo, Japan) 2023-2024: Videos
No full textThis dataset contains videos taken by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. The author visited Okutama-town (奥多摩町) six times between 2023 and 2024. He participated at a number of events, such as an art festival, a harvest festival, welfare-related activities, and a meeting of a local business association. The videos display the region’s abundant natural landscape, but at the same time demonstrate the effects of long-lasting demographic decline despite the region being part of Tokyo metropolis. It is the author’s aim to discuss places where local people gather to engage in conversations and community activities and how these places strengthen the respective community’s resilience
Environmental activity gaps and how to fill them: rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment in Japan
No full textThis paper considers the problem of wildlife encroachment in depopulated rural Japan as a form of peripheralization. It does so by adopting an “energetical” approach to depopulation in upland areas (focused on the changing human relation to the land) and applies this approach to three examples of diminished environmental activity—cutting (vegetation), picking (fruit) and chasing (animals)—associated with wildlife crop-feeding. This waning human activity regime can become associated with the demise of the village as a human space and even its reclamation by the forest. There is, however, an alternative possibility: that, despite the fall in its residential population, the upland village’s activity regime can be at least partially reconstructed and villager frictions with wildlife alleviated. This possibility is considered by describing attempts to fill the three environmental activity gaps that rely on help from an assortment of actors, nonhuman as well as human, along with greater efforts from the remaining villagers themselves.<br/
Fieldwork in Okutama (Tokyo, Japan) 2023-2024: Photos
No full textThis dataset contains images taken by the author for his project “Supplementing activities of resilience: The impact of demographic change on local activities and civic engagement” at the German Institute for Japanese Studies. The author visited Okutama-town (奥多摩町) six times between 2023 and 2024. He participated at a number of events, such as an art festival, a harvest festival, welfare-related activities, and a meeting of a local business association. The images display the region’s abundant natural landscape, but at the same time demonstrate the effects of long-lasting demographic decline despite the region being part of Tokyo metropolis. Especially the pictures of a group of wild monkeys close to the Okutama Lake illustrate, how the continuous aging of the resident population creates activity gaps that let wild animals dwell close to human settlements. It is the author’s aim to discuss places where local people gather to engage in conversations and community activities and how these places strengthen the respective community’s resilience
"Das sicherste Land der Welt?": Zum Sicherheitsverständnis der privaten Sicherheitsindustrie in Japan
No full textPrivate Sicherheitsfirmen in Japan sind trotz ihrer relativ jungen Geschichte und der seit Jahren andauernden wirtschaftlichen Schwierigkeiten ein stabiler Beschäftigungssektor, dessen Zahl an Angestellten mittlerweile die der Polizei übersteigt. Als Sicherheitsindustrie besitzen sie somit eine wichtige Rolle bei der Vermittlung des Verständnisses über Sicherheit und Gefahren. Diese Arbeit untersucht, welche Vorstellungen von Sicherheit und Gefahren innerhalb des privaten Sicherheitssektors vorherrschen und durch welche Strategien diese legitimiert werden.
Durch das Heranziehen theoretischer Überlegungen der konstruktivistischen Tradition der Internationalen Politik im Sinne der securitization-Ansätze, insbesondere des Begriffes der riskification, wird durch eine kritische Diskursanalyse gezeigt, dass im Diskurs um Sicherheit des heutigen Japans vor allem das Betonen der Zusammenarbeit der Polizei mit privaten AkteurInnen Wichtigkeit besitzt. Das ‚klassische‘ Verständnis nach der Art Max Webers, wonach der Staat das Monopol auf die legitime physische Gewaltausübung besitze, wird so im globalisierten und neoliberalen Kontext diskutiert und neu definiert. Diskursive Ereignisse wie die Dreifachkatastrophe im Nordosten Japans 2011 stellen einen bedeutenden Zeitpunkt für dieses Verständnis dar
In Heisei angekommen – eine Rezension zu Local political participation in Japan: A case study of Oita (Routledge, 2019)
No full textIn dieser Rezension wird Local political participation in Japan: A case study of Oita (2019) von Dani Daigle Kida 2019 besprochen. Dabei wird auf die beiden Stärken des Artikels eingegangen: (1) Triangulation qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden, (2) Konzentration auf den lokalen politischen Raum, der bisher nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit im Mainstream der politischen Partizipationsforschung erfahren hat. Im Zuge ihrer Feldforschung in Ōita liefert Kida wertvolle Erkenntnisse darüber, wie \u27traditionelle\u27 Partizipationsweisen bis heute existieren können, obwohl Parteienbindungen erodieren und Diskurse über ein stärkeres Einbinden von Bürger*innen in den politischen Prozess in Gesellschaft, Medien und wissenschaftlichen Kreisen spätestens seit der Heisei-Zeit geführt werden. Die Rezension endet mit dem Vorschlag, ein Konzept zu Partizipation zu verwenden, bei dem auch Tätigkeiten außerhalb des eng begriffenen politischen Raums berücksichtigt werden. Dadurch könnte eine Vielzahl an gesellschaftlich und letztlich auch politisch relevanten Aktivitäten im ländlichen Japan erfasst werden, die (zum Teil durchaus auch erfolgreiche) Versuche darstellen, die Gesellschaft oder lokale Entscheidungsfindungsprozesse zu beeinflussen.This review discusses Local political participation in Japan: A case study of Oita (Dani Daigle Kida 2019). It highlights its strengths (1) of using qualitative and quantitative methods to draw a full picture of local political participation and (2) of focusing on local level politics that has not received much attention of participation research in mainstream political science hitherto. By conducting fieldwork in Ōita, Kida provides insight into how ‘traditional’ ways of political participation continue to exist until today, where party alignments have been eroding and discourses of citizen engagement have been discussed in society, media and academia of the Heisei-era. The review concludes with a short remark on how a conception of political participation that includes political practices outside the ‘political realm’ could have shed light on various activities taking place in rural and local spaces that while adapting to societal changes, challenge local society and politics in various ways
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