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Humanities || History

The Renaissance of Takefu -How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town

Author: Guven Peter Witteveen

Illustrations : 10 colour photos, 2 tables, 11 line drawings, 1 map

Master eBook ISBN10 : 0-203-49749-X

Master eBook ISBN13 : 978-0-203-49749-4

No of pages : 288

eBook Price : $116

Originally Published : 20 Nov 2003

The Renaissance of Takefu tells the story of a citizen group that made good in an enduring and fundamental way through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story foregrounds individuals and organisations in the regional Japanese town of Takefu (2001 population 73,000), but these events are also placed in the context of the surrounding Japan Sea region of west Japan and the wider currents of the Japanese nation-state at the time. The author relies on the familiar qualitative research methods of participant-observation, conversations, survey and semi-structured interviews in order to weave primary sources with his own observations as an interested outsider. Combined with the scholarship on citizen movements, cultural politics and historical representation, the result is a memorable account about good people perservering in their love of their townscape, in spite of numerous socially and culturally rooted obstacles they faced.



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Table of contents : Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Renewal, Local History and Politics
2. The Place of the Past in Takefu
3. Concerned about the Future of the Past
4. Smokescreens and Stonewalls in the Art Museum Affair
5. The Significance of Japanese Civil Society
6. Takefu's Civil Society in Renaissance
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography


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