Another Japan Is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education

Book Overview

This book looks at the emergence of internationally linked Japanese nongovernmental advocacy networks that have grown rapidly since the 1990s in the context of three conjunctural forces: neoliberalism, militarism, and nationalism. It connects three disparate literatures--on the global justice movement, on Japanese civil society, and on global citizenship education. Through the narratives of fifty activists in eight overlapping issue areas--global...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757828
• ISBN13: 9780804757829
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.9"