Description: Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism, volunteering, and social action for a public cause are dev- oping. This present volume is another, and in my view, important addition to the body of knowledge on civic engagement in Japan. The majority of books on related issues in Japan take on the perspective of organized civic life, in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or nonprofit organizations (NPOs): we know quite a number of things about the quantitative trends in these organizations, on their positioning, on their difficulties, and on the institutional contexts in which they have to work. We know relatively little - except for a small number of topical qualitative case studies - on broad issues that relate to civic engagement in Japan, inside or outside these formal organizations. This volume is the first to offer a wide scope of broad variety of forms of civic engagement in contemporary Japan. The volume is quite forceful in counterbalancing oversimplified ideas on an "ideal" civil society in which state, market, and civil society organizations are in- pendent and at best take on oppositional stances.
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Title: Civic Engagement In Contemporary Japan : Established And Emerging
Weight: 686
EAN: 9781441915030
ISBN-10: 9781441915030
Date of Publication: 2010-04
Place of Publication: 2010-04
Book Series: Springer
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Narrative Type: N/A
Features: N/A
Intended Audience: N/A
Ex Libris: No
Editor: N/A
Edition: N/A
Pagination: 276
Dimensions: 921x614
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan: Established and Emerging Repertoires
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Economics, Sociology
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Weight: 1250 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Henk Vinken, Masayuki Deguchi, Yuko Nishimura, Bruce L. J. White
Subject Area: Regional History, Family Sociology
Series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
Item Width: 155 mm
Format: Hardcover
