David H Slater
Biographic Data
| ID | 128123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David H Slater |
| GIVEN NAMES | David H |
| FAMILY NAME | Slater |
| SIGNATURE | SLATER D H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rejecting the Radical New Left
After a disastrous period of New Left political violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, followed by two decades of abeyance, Japan has experienced a renewed era of social movement activity since the 1990s. These new movements explicitly seek to avoid contamination by the earlier period, even when their participants know little about it except for fear perpetuated by media portrayals of senseless violence. We analyze ethnographic accounts of c…
Sources of Disaster
On 16 March 2021, the Teach311 + COVID-19 Collective (www.teach311.org) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion entitled “Sources of Disaster: New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan.” The event brought together scholars and students researching the history and anthropology of Japan to explore how the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster of 11 March 2011 (3.11) changed our ways of knowing the world. The roundtable focused on…
Social Distancing from the Problem of Japanese Homelessness under Covid-19
Of the many populations at risk in these corona times, the homeless are among the most vulnerable. Without shelter, having to do without personal protective equipment, often without health insurance and unable to limit contact with strangers, the risk of infection is very high. The emergency measures taken by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government included the closure of many public spaces, indoors and out, depriving them of access to the few spaces o…
Vulnerable Populations Under Covid-19 in Japan
This is a collection of original articles on diverse vulnerable populations in Japan in the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic. The effects of COVID-19 are felt differently, with some among us at much greater risk of infection due to preexisting health and welfare conditions. For others, perhaps more than the risk of infection, it is the precautions taken to mitigate the risk for the whole population, such as lockdowns and business closures, th…
The Whole Block Goes Down
In the context of the global increase in displaced people, spiking to nearly 80 million in these corona times, Japan has also seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications for refugee asylum since 2010. Despite increasing numbers of applications, Japan has not increased its refugee recognition rate. Unable to return home to sure persecution when rejected, many refugees end up in Japanese detention centers once their visa expires. Like ja…
Digital Video Archive
Yokohama Street Life
Reviewed by: Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer by Tom Gill David H. Slater (bio) Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer. By Tom Gill. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2015. xii, 149 pages. $75.00, cloth; $74.99, E-Book. Ostensibly, this book is about Nishikawa Kimitsu. The book traces an arc of his adult life and, for the most part, the relationship between Kimitsu and the author, To…
Social class and social identity in postwar Japan
Mobilizing discontent
The ways in which social media becomes recognized, legitimated and used as an effective tool of political activity—that is, framing issues, mobilizing members, logistical organizing of offline events and the subsequent re-representation of these events to a wider audience—depends upon a number of contingent factors. These factors differ quite widely with respect to time and place, media environment and social structure, cultural expectations and …
Japan Copes with Calamity
Sealds (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy)
Recently, young people have been out on the Tokyo streets and in the mass media in opposition to Prime Minister Abe's efforts to pass the State Secrecy Acts, the “reinterpretation” of Article 9 of the Constitutions and the Security Bills. None have garnered more interest or exerted more influence than SEALDs, Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy. They are worthy of attention for various reasons, but we should note at the start they are…
Micro-Politics of Radiation
The triple disasters of 11 March 2011 in northeastern Japan have exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and created new ones all over the Tohoku region. In Fukushima, the fear of radiation has been compounded by the perception of the state's failure to provide timely and relevant information to local residents. This lack of information has particularly affected one of the most vulnerable segments of the population, young mothers with children, forc…
Japan Copes with Calamity
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
Fukushima women against nuclear power
From the very first, it has been quite difficult to politicize earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku, despite the poor planning, the slow and uneven response, the failure to provide aid in a timely way in the days and weeks afterward, and the often poorly organized evacuation centers-an issue which resulted in a number of unexplained deaths. Now, the temporary housing facilities virtually insure that communities, or what is left of them, will stay dy…
A Personal View of Volunteering in Iwate After 3. 11
Margaret Mehl poses some penetrating questions about the changing role of relief work over time as she introduces her experience of volunteering in a relatively remote section of Iwate sixteen months after the 3.11 disasters. She provides an unusual glimpse of the on-going relief effort and the challenges that both volunteers and relief groups face in the redefinition of their priorities and practices as local needs on the ground move away from i…
How to Volunteer in Tohoku
While the rhetoric in this post 3.11 era is "mae muki" (looking ahead), there are still hundreds of thousands of displaced people displaced by the Tohoku disasters, many of whom are living in "temporary housing" units. This is not a self-sufficient way of life, and volunteers are still needed in many different ways, from playing with school kids and having tea parties with the elderly, to recovery activities, such as helping build a shotengai (sh…
From a "Dysfunctional JapaneseStyle Industrialized Society" to an "Ordinary Nation
Oguma Eiji, a sociologist from Keio University, has emerged as one of the most astute commentators on the shifts that have occurred since the 3.11 crises. As an engaged intellectual with a respected history of solid scholarship, he has repeatedly done two things few others have: link the events since 3.11 to larger patterns of political and economic transformation in post-war Japan, and situate this moment in Japan in relation to similar moments …
The Making of Japan's New Working Class
This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article
Social Class in Contemporary Japan
An Introduction to Japanese Society
Native and Newcomer
Micro-Politics of Radiation
The triple disasters of 11 March 2011 in northeastern Japan have exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and created new ones all over the Tohoku region. In Fukushima, the fear of radiation has been compounded by the perception of the state's failure to provide timely and relevant information to local residents. This lack of information has particularly affected one of the most vulnerable segments of the population, young mothers with children, forc…
Fukushima women against nuclear power
From the very first, it has been quite difficult to politicize earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku, despite the poor planning, the slow and uneven response, the failure to provide aid in a timely way in the days and weeks afterward, and the often poorly organized evacuation centers-an issue which resulted in a number of unexplained deaths. Now, the temporary housing facilities virtually insure that communities, or what is left of them, will stay dy…
Native and Newcomer
An Introduction to Japanese Society
Social Class in Contemporary Japan
The Making of Japan's New Working Class
This article is a modified and developed version of a chapter from Social Class in Contemporary Japan: Structures, Socialization and Strategies, edited by Ishida Hiroshi and David H. Slater, Routledge 2009. For a brief outline of the book's arguments, please see Note 1A at the end of the article
A Personal View of Volunteering in Iwate After 3. 11
Margaret Mehl poses some penetrating questions about the changing role of relief work over time as she introduces her experience of volunteering in a relatively remote section of Iwate sixteen months after the 3.11 disasters. She provides an unusual glimpse of the on-going relief effort and the challenges that both volunteers and relief groups face in the redefinition of their priorities and practices as local needs on the ground move away from i…
How to Volunteer in Tohoku
While the rhetoric in this post 3.11 era is "mae muki" (looking ahead), there are still hundreds of thousands of displaced people displaced by the Tohoku disasters, many of whom are living in "temporary housing" units. This is not a self-sufficient way of life, and volunteers are still needed in many different ways, from playing with school kids and having tea parties with the elderly, to recovery activities, such as helping build a shotengai (sh…
From a "Dysfunctional JapaneseStyle Industrialized Society" to an "Ordinary Nation
Oguma Eiji, a sociologist from Keio University, has emerged as one of the most astute commentators on the shifts that have occurred since the 3.11 crises. As an engaged intellectual with a respected history of solid scholarship, he has repeatedly done two things few others have: link the events since 3.11 to larger patterns of political and economic transformation in post-war Japan, and situate this moment in Japan in relation to similar moments …
Japan Copes with Calamity
Contents: Tom Gill/Brigitte Steger/David H. Slater: The 3.11 Disasters - David H. Slater: Urgent Ethnography - Brigitte Steger: Solidarity and Distinction through Practices of Cleanliness in Tsunami Evacuation Shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture - Nathan J. Peterson: Adapting Religious Practice in Response to Disaster in Iwate Prefecture - Johannes Wilhelm/Alyne Delaney: No Homes, No Boats, No Rafts: Miyagi Coastal People in the Aftermath of Dis…
Fukushima women against nuclear power
From the very first, it has been quite difficult to politicize earthquake and tsunami hit Tohoku, despite the poor planning, the slow and uneven response, the failure to provide aid in a timely way in the days and weeks afterward, and the often poorly organized evacuation centers-an issue which resulted in a number of unexplained deaths. Now, the temporary housing facilities virtually insure that communities, or what is left of them, will stay dy…
Micro-Politics of Radiation
The triple disasters of 11 March 2011 in northeastern Japan have exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and created new ones all over the Tohoku region. In Fukushima, the fear of radiation has been compounded by the perception of the state's failure to provide timely and relevant information to local residents. This lack of information has particularly affected one of the most vulnerable segments of the population, young mothers with children, forc…
Social class and social identity in postwar Japan
Mobilizing discontent
The ways in which social media becomes recognized, legitimated and used as an effective tool of political activity—that is, framing issues, mobilizing members, logistical organizing of offline events and the subsequent re-representation of these events to a wider audience—depends upon a number of contingent factors. These factors differ quite widely with respect to time and place, media environment and social structure, cultural expectations and …
Japan Copes with Calamity
Sealds (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy)
Recently, young people have been out on the Tokyo streets and in the mass media in opposition to Prime Minister Abe's efforts to pass the State Secrecy Acts, the “reinterpretation” of Article 9 of the Constitutions and the Security Bills. None have garnered more interest or exerted more influence than SEALDs, Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy. They are worthy of attention for various reasons, but we should note at the start they are…
Yokohama Street Life
Reviewed by: Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer by Tom Gill David H. Slater (bio) Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer. By Tom Gill. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2015. xii, 149 pages. $75.00, cloth; $74.99, E-Book. Ostensibly, this book is about Nishikawa Kimitsu. The book traces an arc of his adult life and, for the most part, the relationship between Kimitsu and the author, To…
Digital Video Archive
Social Distancing from the Problem of Japanese Homelessness under Covid-19
Of the many populations at risk in these corona times, the homeless are among the most vulnerable. Without shelter, having to do without personal protective equipment, often without health insurance and unable to limit contact with strangers, the risk of infection is very high. The emergency measures taken by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government included the closure of many public spaces, indoors and out, depriving them of access to the few spaces o…
Vulnerable Populations Under Covid-19 in Japan
This is a collection of original articles on diverse vulnerable populations in Japan in the wake of the new coronavirus pandemic. The effects of COVID-19 are felt differently, with some among us at much greater risk of infection due to preexisting health and welfare conditions. For others, perhaps more than the risk of infection, it is the precautions taken to mitigate the risk for the whole population, such as lockdowns and business closures, th…
The Whole Block Goes Down
In the context of the global increase in displaced people, spiking to nearly 80 million in these corona times, Japan has also seen a dramatic increase in the number of applications for refugee asylum since 2010. Despite increasing numbers of applications, Japan has not increased its refugee recognition rate. Unable to return home to sure persecution when rejected, many refugees end up in Japanese detention centers once their visa expires. Like ja…
Sources of Disaster
On 16 March 2021, the Teach311 + COVID-19 Collective (www.teach311.org) hosted a virtual roundtable discussion entitled “Sources of Disaster: New Epistemic Perspectives in Post-3.11 Japan.” The event brought together scholars and students researching the history and anthropology of Japan to explore how the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant disaster of 11 March 2011 (3.11) changed our ways of knowing the world. The roundtable focused on…
Rejecting the Radical New Left
After a disastrous period of New Left political violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s, followed by two decades of abeyance, Japan has experienced a renewed era of social movement activity since the 1990s. These new movements explicitly seek to avoid contamination by the earlier period, even when their participants know little about it except for fear perpetuated by media portrayals of senseless violence. We analyze ethnographic accounts of c…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (6 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)