Ordinary Farmers Living Anarchist Time
Arishima Cooperative Farm in Hokkaido, 1922-1935
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3659657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sho Konishi (0000-0001-7735-8770, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1845-1887 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x11000953 |
| OpenAlex | W2314984728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper offers a fresh anarchist history of modern rural experience at the heart of Japan's modernization project in Hokkaido. The rationalization of agricultural methods and the establishment of big farms in Hokkaido worked by tenant farmers served the dual purpose of both colonizing and modernizing Japan's northern frontier. Against the idea of progress imbued in that colonial project, the anarchist and celebrity writer, Arishima Takeo, liberated his tenant farmers by dissolving his tenant farm in Niseko in 1922. The farmers were made the new cooperative owners. Members of the farm, made famous during widespread tenant-farmer disputes, believed they stood at the heart of progress. 'Sōgo fujō' (mutual aid) was viewed as an ethic for social transformation, democracy and elimination of hierarchy that linked the farmers with the wider world. It was the farmers' consciousness of working in a new era, better than ever before, that made them modern. Their community offers us a case study of the imagination and experience of modern temporality amongst the most unlikely subjects of the modern, ordinary agricultural laborers in rural Asia in the early twentieth century. This anarchist history challenges the conceptual framework that has categorized rural Japan as the seat of conservative politics, nativism and traditionalism, and the antithesis of modernity
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Commons · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Rationalization (economics · Social science · Sociology · Anarchism and Radical Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |