Occupy Tokyo: SEALDs, the Forgotten Movement

Gonon, Anne/Galan, Christian/Grimwade, Karen (TRN)

Brill（2023/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 110 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004545922
• DDC分類 303.4840830952090512

Full Description

Japanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build their future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more focused on a personal or even hedonistic life, they surprised the media when a student movement took the floor to criticize the Abe government's security and Self-Defense Forces bills in 2015. The so-called SEALDs movement (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) was formed some time after the Indigenous or Occupy Wall Street movements, but it shares similar concerns.

Understanding the SEALDs' experience from the perspective of John Dewey's philosophy allows us to highlight once again the dangers that digital technology poses to individuals, the collective and their values.

Contents

A Note on Japanese Terms

Abstract

Keywords

 Introduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement Landscape

 Part 1: The Wheels Come Off

 1 Social Upheaval

 2 Japanese Youth and the Crisis

 Part 2: The SEALDs Movement

 3 Influential Factors

 4 Learning by Doing

 5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political Landscape

 Conclusion: What Next after SEALDs?

 Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDs

 Appendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs Movement

 Appendix 3: The SEALDs Manifesto

 Bibliography