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Ishikawa Sanshir.’s Geographical Imagination : Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan /

Willems, Nadine

Ishikawa Sanshir.’s Geographical Imagination : Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan / Nadine Willems. - 1 online resource (291 p.) : 3 halftones - Critical, Connected Histories ; 3 .

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Humanising Science in Modern Japan -- Chapter 2: Late Meiji Radicals and the Formation of a Geographical Imagination -- Chapter 3: Breaking Boundaries -- Chapter 4: Domin Seikatsu: Solidarity as a Political Strategy -- Chapter 5: Standing on the Earth -- Chapter 6: The Ecology of Everyday Life -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Antiestablishment ideas in contemporary Japan are tied closely to its recent history of capitalist development and industrialization. Activist Ishikawa Sanshiro exemplifies this idea, by merging European and Japanese thought throughout the early twentieth century. Ishikawa Sanshiro’s Geographical Imagination investigates the emergence of a strand of nonviolent anarchism and uses it to reassess the role of geographic thought in modern Japan as both a tool for political dissent and a basis for dialogue between radical thinkers and activists from the East and West. By tracing Ishikawa’s travels, intellectual interests, and real-life encounters, Nadine Willems identifies a transnational “geographical imagination” that valued ethics of cooperation in the social sphere and explored the interactions between man and nature. Additionally, this work explores anarchist activism and the role played by the practices of everyday life as a powerful force of sociopolitical change.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9789400603745

10.24415/9789400603745 doi


Anarchism--History--Japan--20th century.
Anarchists--Japan--Biography.
Geography--History--Japan--20th century.
Asian Studies.
East Asia and North East Asia.
Leiden University Press.
Modern History.
HISTORY / General.

Historical geography, human geography, Buddhism, political dissent, Hokkaido, revolutionary connections, Japanese socialism, agrarian movements.

HX947.Z67 / I848 2020

335/.83095204