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    アクションリサーチ入門 社会変化のための社会調査
    グリーンウッド, DJ ; レヴィン, M ( 2023-07-04)
    応用のない理論は理論ではない。社会分析と社会変革を同時に行う全体的なアプローチのために。研究者と現地の人々が協働して問題の理解と解決に取り組むアクションリサーチ ...
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    Introduction: Transnational Civil Society in Asia
    Ogawa, A ; Avenell, S ; Avenell, S ; Ogawa, A (Routledge, 2021)
    This chapter discusses the theoretical aspects of transnational civil society in Asia examined in the volume along with providing a succinct overview of the content chapters. The chapter first provides a definitional discussion of transnational civil society in Asia, followed by the presentation of the four key themes covered in the chapters: (1) local transformations and connections; (2) diaspora politics; (3) cross-regional initiatives and networks; and (4) global actors and influences. The chapter also poses the question of whether we are witnessing a kind of grassroots regionalization developing in the region.
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    Transnational Civil Society in Asia The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization
    Avenell, S ; Ogawa, A ; Avenell, S ; Ogawa, A (Routledge, 2021)
    This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism ...
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    Civil Society in Japan
    Ogawa, A ; Pekkanen, R ; Pekkanen, S (Oxford University Press, 2021)
    This chapter discusses civil society in contemporary Japan, shedding light on two major actors—NPOs and social movements. Since the launch of the first NPO (nonprofit organization) in 1998, the number has increased dramatically. The analysis focuses on co-production, a policy collaboration technique between NPOs and the Japanese government under the framework of New Public Governance. Social movements are also examined, focusing on anti-nuclear activism—one of the most consistent activisms in Japan, which has been reignited since the nuclear disaster of March 11, 2011. In particular, this chapter presents a brief reflective account of the No Nukes Asia Forum, a pan-Asian transnational activism that originated in Japan.
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    Japanese NPOs and the State Re-examined: Reflections Eighteen Years On
    Ogawa, A ; Chiavacci, D ; Obinger, J ; Grano, S (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)
    This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, ...
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    Shōgai gakushū − lebenslanges Lernen in Japan
    Ogawa, A (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co, KG, 2020-05-04)
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    New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
    Ogawa, A ; Seaton, P ; Ogawa, A ; Seaton, P (Routledge, 2020-04-02)
    Over the last 70 years, Japanese Studies scholarship has gone through several dominant paradigms, from ‘demystifying the Japanese’, to analysis of Japanese economic strength, to discussion of global interest in Japanese popular culture. This book assesses this literature, considering future directions for research into the 2020s and beyond. Shifting the geographical emphasis of Japanese Studies away from the West to the Asia-Pacific region, this book identifies topic areas in which research focusing on Japan will play an important role in global debates in the coming years. This includes the evolution of area studies, coping with aging populations, the various patterns of migration and environmental breakdown. With chapters from an international team of contributors, including significant representation from the Asia-Pacific region, this book enacts Yoshio Sugimoto’s notion of ‘cosmopolitan methodology’ to discuss Japan in an interdisciplinary and transnational context and provides overviews of how Japanese Studies is evolving in other Asian countries such as China and Indonesia. New Frontiers in Japanese Studies is a thought-provoking volume and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese and Asian Studies.
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    ‘Community power’: Renewable energy policy and production in post-Fukushima Japan
    Ogawa, A ; Ogawa, A ; Seaton, P (Routledge - Taylor & Francis, 2020)
    Japan has assumed a central position within global discourses on energy since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that caused radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This disaster singlehandedly destabilised energy policymaking and production practices in Japan. Before this disaster, many people in Japan, including myself, never gave much thought about energy, and only individuals with some reason to be worried about energy issues engaged in discussion about energy. However, people from a broader cross section of society joined the conversation after the disaster. They started learning about how the electricity system works – how electricity is generated and how it is consumed. Before the 11 March disaster, if and when the general public discussed electricity, it was mostly within the context of global climate change; in other words, how to reduce carbon emissions. Unlike coal and natural gas plants, nuclear energy does not involve carbon emissions during the generation of electricity. Such energy generation reflected an ideal pursuit of development and growth, which dominated our lifestyle over the post-Second World War period. However, the post-disaster landscape reshaped our values and ways of living at the grassroots level. People began to engage in more insightful political debates.