From Nature to Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6013433 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Macneil (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contingent Horizons The York University Student Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2292-6739 • E-ISSN: 2292-7514 |
| Publisher | York University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.25071/2292-6739.82 |
| OpenAlex | W2963998629 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This article critically examines the history of Japanese ideas and images of nature, particularly how those ideas and images relate to the production of the modern Japanese nation-state and Japanese national identity. Drawing crucially upon Julia Adeney Thomas’s historical work on the politics of nature in Japan, while examining the lives and work of Shiga Shigetaka, Yanagita Kunio, and Watsuji Tetsur ̄o, the link between nation and nature, and how those two concepts have been fashioned together throughout Japan’s modern history, is explored. This article identifies the context in which the Japanese “love of nature” is constructed through these key figures, arguing that this understanding of nature took precedence precisely because it serves to inform the Japanese national imaginary, giving voice and distinction to the Japanese nationstate. Ultimately, it is argued that this close relationship between nation and nature is undeniably a modern one, and it exemplifies but one expression in a multitude of Japanese reactions to modernity and the concomitant threat of western influence and hegemony that began during the Meiji period
Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Hegemony · Identity (music · Meiji period · Meiji Restoration · Modernity · Multitude · Nation state · National identity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · State (computer science · The Imaginary · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
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Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
The Rural Imaginary
Making Majority Culture
Nations and Nationalism
Reconfiguring ModernityConcepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
Furusato Japan
Discovering the Japanese Alps
Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan
The Zen of Japanese Nationalism
Politics of Nature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |