Myles Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Myles Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Myles |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ochanomizu University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9884-103X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Japanese climate capitalism? Toward an understanding of industry’s changing attitudes toward climate change mitigation in Japan
Despite a history of progressive environmental policies in relation to pollution and energy efficiency, Japan stands out as a country with relatively few achievements on the issue of climate change. While research on Japanese climate change policy up until now has focused attention on the role played by government, to date insufficient attention has been paid to the role and impacts of various sectors of Japanese industry in both directly influen…
From the "Lost Decades" to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan
This article argues that, since the 1990s, Japan has faced conditions of enduring economic stagnation, political uncertainty, and various social and demographic challenges, dynamics that it theorises, drawing on Gramsci, as all inter-related elements of a broader organic crisis. In its analysis of Heisei Japan’s organic crisis, this article examines the underlying historical context that gave rise to the various conditions of the crisis since the…
Passive Revolution in Japan
This article draws on Gramsci's theory of passive revolution to explore the second tenure of Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō from 2012 to 2020. It sees the high degree of political stability that Abe achieved as a contrast to the preceding two decades of Japanese politics and asks what accounts for Abe's success in restoring Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) dominance in an era of enduring economic and social crisis. The article argues that Abe…
The Making of Modern Japan
In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan's post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stabili…
Wolfgang Streeck in Tokyo
Since the 1990s Japan has experienced a prolonged period of crisis. Much work has thus far focused on understanding Japan’s crisis on its own terms. Yet we must also consider Japan’s situation within the wider context of global capitalism, examining how the crisis in Japan may be related to, or even integrated within, similar crisis tendencies both within other Northern countries and at the level of the capitalist world system. This article thus …
From nationalist communitarianism to fragmentary neoliberalism
This article explores elements of contemporary Japan's long-term and deep-rooted organic crisis. It is a crisis with various inter-related components, including a long-term economic crisis that has now spanned nearly three decades, a political crisis that brought about significant upheaval and discord, particularly in the 1990s and 2000s, and a cultural crisis characterized by widespread popular anxiety over the future, all without any clear alte…
Narrating technonatures
This article considers the role played by discourses of nature in structuring the cultural politics of anti-GMO activism. It argues that such discourses have been successful rhetorical tools for activists because they mobilize widely resonant nature-culture dualisms that separate the natural and human worlds. However, these discourses hold dubious political implications. In valorizing the natural as a source of essential truth, natural purity dis…
The sticky materiality of neo-liberal neonatures
This article uses Marxist theories of agrarian capitalism to explore the political economy of genetically modified organisms (GMO) agriculture. It argues that the successes and failures of GMO agriculture have been partly circumscribed by the structural requirements of the capitalist system, as well as by the materiality of GMO crops themselves. Successful innovations have been able to mitigate the material barriers to accumulation found in agric…
Production, reproduction, and crisis in Heisei Japan
This article explores the social relations that gave rise to both Japan's postwar boom and its more recent period of stagnation. While holding that the creation of a hegemonic order led by the LDP enabled the period of rapid growth, it argues that a key factor behind the unraveling of this regime since the 1990s has been the opening of a contradiction between conditions necessary for capital accumulation and those required for the reproduction of…
The new agrarian double movement
This paper draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi in analyzing the consequences of legal regimes that regulate genetically modified foods. Against the tide of neoliberalism, a binding, precautionary agreement over trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has emerged through the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This Protocol exemplifies what Polanyi termed the ‘self-protection of society,’ the second phase of his double moveme…
What the Left Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
The most enduring lesson of Occupy Wall Street is the value of dynamically assembling different tendencies into a multitudinous force. Anarchist leadership was central to launching the movement but contributions from socialists and social democrats were integral to its overall success. Moreover the limitations of anarchist-inspired movement features like horizontalism and refusing demands began to reveal themselves as the encampments advanced, fu…
Reform or Radicalism
We examine two recent cases of relative Left success—the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street—and argue that in each case an effective dynamism between radical and reform wings drove gains. This analysis is not meant to deny political difference and hawk false unity. Instead we want to challenge the luxury of mutual dismissal with the actually existing benefits of movement dynamism. By dynamism we mean contributions arising from different act…
Production, reproduction, and crisis in Heisei Japan
This article explores the social relations that gave rise to both Japan's postwar boom and its more recent period of stagnation. While holding that the creation of a hegemonic order led by the LDP enabled the period of rapid growth, it argues that a key factor behind the unraveling of this regime since the 1990s has been the opening of a contradiction between conditions necessary for capital accumulation and those required for the reproduction of…
Reform or Radicalism
We examine two recent cases of relative Left success—the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street—and argue that in each case an effective dynamism between radical and reform wings drove gains. This analysis is not meant to deny political difference and hawk false unity. Instead we want to challenge the luxury of mutual dismissal with the actually existing benefits of movement dynamism. By dynamism we mean contributions arising from different act…
From nationalist communitarianism to fragmentary neoliberalism
This article explores elements of contemporary Japan's long-term and deep-rooted organic crisis. It is a crisis with various inter-related components, including a long-term economic crisis that has now spanned nearly three decades, a political crisis that brought about significant upheaval and discord, particularly in the 1990s and 2000s, and a cultural crisis characterized by widespread popular anxiety over the future, all without any clear alte…
The new agrarian double movement
This paper draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi in analyzing the consequences of legal regimes that regulate genetically modified foods. Against the tide of neoliberalism, a binding, precautionary agreement over trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has emerged through the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This Protocol exemplifies what Polanyi termed the ‘self-protection of society,’ the second phase of his double moveme…
What the Left Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
The most enduring lesson of Occupy Wall Street is the value of dynamically assembling different tendencies into a multitudinous force. Anarchist leadership was central to launching the movement but contributions from socialists and social democrats were integral to its overall success. Moreover the limitations of anarchist-inspired movement features like horizontalism and refusing demands began to reveal themselves as the encampments advanced, fu…
Japanese climate capitalism? Toward an understanding of industry’s changing attitudes toward climate change mitigation in Japan
Despite a history of progressive environmental policies in relation to pollution and energy efficiency, Japan stands out as a country with relatively few achievements on the issue of climate change. While research on Japanese climate change policy up until now has focused attention on the role played by government, to date insufficient attention has been paid to the role and impacts of various sectors of Japanese industry in both directly influen…
Passive Revolution in Japan
This article draws on Gramsci's theory of passive revolution to explore the second tenure of Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō from 2012 to 2020. It sees the high degree of political stability that Abe achieved as a contrast to the preceding two decades of Japanese politics and asks what accounts for Abe's success in restoring Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) dominance in an era of enduring economic and social crisis. The article argues that Abe…
Wolfgang Streeck in Tokyo
Since the 1990s Japan has experienced a prolonged period of crisis. Much work has thus far focused on understanding Japan’s crisis on its own terms. Yet we must also consider Japan’s situation within the wider context of global capitalism, examining how the crisis in Japan may be related to, or even integrated within, similar crisis tendencies both within other Northern countries and at the level of the capitalist world system. This article thus …
Reform or Radicalism
We examine two recent cases of relative Left success—the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street—and argue that in each case an effective dynamism between radical and reform wings drove gains. This analysis is not meant to deny political difference and hawk false unity. Instead we want to challenge the luxury of mutual dismissal with the actually existing benefits of movement dynamism. By dynamism we mean contributions arising from different act…
The new agrarian double movement
This paper draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi in analyzing the consequences of legal regimes that regulate genetically modified foods. Against the tide of neoliberalism, a binding, precautionary agreement over trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has emerged through the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. This Protocol exemplifies what Polanyi termed the ‘self-protection of society,’ the second phase of his double moveme…
What the Left Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street
The most enduring lesson of Occupy Wall Street is the value of dynamically assembling different tendencies into a multitudinous force. Anarchist leadership was central to launching the movement but contributions from socialists and social democrats were integral to its overall success. Moreover the limitations of anarchist-inspired movement features like horizontalism and refusing demands began to reveal themselves as the encampments advanced, fu…
The sticky materiality of neo-liberal neonatures
This article uses Marxist theories of agrarian capitalism to explore the political economy of genetically modified organisms (GMO) agriculture. It argues that the successes and failures of GMO agriculture have been partly circumscribed by the structural requirements of the capitalist system, as well as by the materiality of GMO crops themselves. Successful innovations have been able to mitigate the material barriers to accumulation found in agric…
Production, reproduction, and crisis in Heisei Japan
This article explores the social relations that gave rise to both Japan's postwar boom and its more recent period of stagnation. While holding that the creation of a hegemonic order led by the LDP enabled the period of rapid growth, it argues that a key factor behind the unraveling of this regime since the 1990s has been the opening of a contradiction between conditions necessary for capital accumulation and those required for the reproduction of…
Narrating technonatures
This article considers the role played by discourses of nature in structuring the cultural politics of anti-GMO activism. It argues that such discourses have been successful rhetorical tools for activists because they mobilize widely resonant nature-culture dualisms that separate the natural and human worlds. However, these discourses hold dubious political implications. In valorizing the natural as a source of essential truth, natural purity dis…
From nationalist communitarianism to fragmentary neoliberalism
This article explores elements of contemporary Japan's long-term and deep-rooted organic crisis. It is a crisis with various inter-related components, including a long-term economic crisis that has now spanned nearly three decades, a political crisis that brought about significant upheaval and discord, particularly in the 1990s and 2000s, and a cultural crisis characterized by widespread popular anxiety over the future, all without any clear alte…
The Making of Modern Japan
In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan's post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stabili…
Wolfgang Streeck in Tokyo
Since the 1990s Japan has experienced a prolonged period of crisis. Much work has thus far focused on understanding Japan’s crisis on its own terms. Yet we must also consider Japan’s situation within the wider context of global capitalism, examining how the crisis in Japan may be related to, or even integrated within, similar crisis tendencies both within other Northern countries and at the level of the capitalist world system. This article thus …
Passive Revolution in Japan
This article draws on Gramsci's theory of passive revolution to explore the second tenure of Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō from 2012 to 2020. It sees the high degree of political stability that Abe achieved as a contrast to the preceding two decades of Japanese politics and asks what accounts for Abe's success in restoring Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) dominance in an era of enduring economic and social crisis. The article argues that Abe…
From the "Lost Decades" to the Organic Crisis of Post-1990s Japan
This article argues that, since the 1990s, Japan has faced conditions of enduring economic stagnation, political uncertainty, and various social and demographic challenges, dynamics that it theorises, drawing on Gramsci, as all inter-related elements of a broader organic crisis. In its analysis of Heisei Japan’s organic crisis, this article examines the underlying historical context that gave rise to the various conditions of the crisis since the…
Japanese climate capitalism? Toward an understanding of industry’s changing attitudes toward climate change mitigation in Japan
Despite a history of progressive environmental policies in relation to pollution and energy efficiency, Japan stands out as a country with relatively few achievements on the issue of climate change. While research on Japanese climate change policy up until now has focused attention on the role played by government, to date insufficient attention has been paid to the role and impacts of various sectors of Japanese industry in both directly influen…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Hegemony (4 works)