Screen LibraryTransnational Japan in the global environmental movement /
What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical nar...
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University of Hawaiʻi Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Honolulu : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 318 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-304) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780824867133 0824867130 |
| Index Number: | GE199 |
| CLC: | X321.313 |
| Call Number: | X321.313/A951 |
| Contents: | Japanese industrial pollution and environmental injustice -- The therapy of translocal community -- The human limits to growth : Japanese activists at UNCHE -- Pollution export and victimhood -- Pacific solidarity and atomic aggression -- Globality through local eyes. |