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The Strange Child - Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Paperback)
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The Strange Child - Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Paperback)
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The Strange Child examines how the Japanese financial crisis of the
1990s gave rise to "the child problem," a powerful discourse of
social anxiety that refocused concerns about precarious economic
futures and shifting ideologies of national identity onto the
young. Andrea Gevurtz Arai's ethnography details the different
forms of social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan
starting in the late 1990s. Arai reveals the effects of shifting
educational practices; increased privatization of social services;
recessionary vocabulary of self-development and independence; and
the neoliberalization of patriotism. Arai argues that the child
problem and the social unease out of which it emerged provided a
rationale for reimagining governance in education, liberalizing the
job market, and a new role for psychology in the overturning of
national-cultural ideologies. The Strange Child uncovers the state
of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the politics of distraction
around the child, and the altered life conditions of-and
alternatives created by-the recessionary generation.
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