The Failure of Civil Society?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary JapanState University of New York Press, 2009年3月9日 - 285 頁 A look at the voluntary sector in Japan, which has emerged strongly only in recent years. The global discourse on civil society is both complicated and enriched in this participant study of Japan’s volunteers, known as the third sector. In the wake of the Japanese government’s failed response to the 1995 earthquake, volunteers took the lead in providing aid to victims. This recent sea change in Japanese society was quickly followed by the 1998 NPO Law (nonprofit organization law) that encourages third sector activities. Drawing on his fieldwork at one of the new NPOs, Akihiro Ogawa explores in detail the social and historical particularities of Japanese “civil society” or shimin shakai, revisiting how the concept is interpreted and practiced by the volunteers themselves. Civil society, Ogawa argues, can best be understood as an active, dynamic process rather than as a static, abstract model. Akihiro Ogawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at Stockholm University. |
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2 Kawazoe | 23 |
A New Third Sector | 51 |
4 Invited by the State | 93 |
5 Power and Contested Rationalities | 117 |
6 Shimin in Japanese Society | 145 |
Initiating Change | 185 |
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