Troubled Natures Waste, Environment, Japan

Name: Troubled Natures Waste, Environment, Japan
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ISBN: 9780824834289

ISBN-10: 0824834283

ISBN-13: 9780824834289

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Wynn Kirby

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Welcome to post-Bubble Tokyo. A miasma emanating from a waste transfer station hidden under a city park sickens local homeowners and tears a neighborhood apart. Smart, malevolent jungle crows menace passersby and lay waste to garbage bags. Fears of incinerator fumes and tainted spinach paralyze residents of a middle-class neighborhood. And all the while Tokyoites question who among them belongs and who does not. Peter Kirby's sensitive ethnography brings the new field of environmental anthropology to Japan. He grounds universal questions of waste and renewal in the specific context of a city and nation afflicted by economic malaise and social uncertainty. -David L. Howell, Professor of…

Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Publication date: 11/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Japan's Waste Shadow



Perils of Proximity: An Invisible Scourge



Mediated Anxieties: Nowhere to Hide



The Cult(ures)of Japanese Nature



Tokyo's Vermin Menace



Pure Obsession: Pollution, Outcasts, and Exclusion



Growth, Sex, Fertility, and Decline



Constructing Sustainable Japan


Conclusions


Notes


References


Index