Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15099950 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Anne Claus (0000-0001-9469-1161, American University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-185 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ssjj/jyy053 |
| OpenAlex | W2905035373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
As a site of both immense environmental devastation and remarkable rebounds, Japan presents a curious case. Four of the most debilitating cases of industrial pollution first emerged there, yet today it enforces some of the strictest emissions standards in the world. Japanese environmental activism in the 1960s and 1970s emerged out of those early experiences fighting industrial pollution caused by the release of toxic amounts of methylmercury, cadmium, and sulphur dioxide—disasters that earned Japan the dubious distinction of being both among the most rapidly advancing economies and among the most tragic sites of industrialization gone awry. Convinced that the horrific experiences of pollution victims could and needed to be translated to others, Japanese activists like Ui Jun and Harada Masazumi felt a responsibility as citizens of, as they described it, the ‘most advanced polluted nation’, to work toward the common goal of eradicating industrial disasters in Japan and elsewhere. These circumstances shaped a social movement that is anthropocentric and situated. While historians and social movement scholars have addressed domestic environmental activism within the archipelago (among others, McKean 1981; Broadbent 1998; Hasegawa 2004; Stolz 2015), it is surprising that there has not been more scholarship that addresses the place of those Japanese activists within global movements. Simon Avenell’s carefully researched historical account delivers this long-needed analysis
Aesthetics · Art · Economic geography · Environmental movement · Geography · Movement (music) · Political science · Politics · Japanese History and Culture
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |