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Post-Fukushima Activism - Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity (Paperback)
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Post-Fukushima Activism - Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society. In
Japan, the search for the 'outside' of a stagnant reality sometimes
leads marginalised young people to a disastrous image of social
change. The Fukushima nuclear disaster was the realisation of such
an image, triggering the largest wave of activism since the 1960s.
The disaster revealed the interconnected nature of contemporary
society. The protesters regretted that their past indifference to
politics prefigured such a catastrophe and became motivated to
protest in the streets. They did not share any totalising ideology
or predetermined collective identity. Instead, the activism
provided a space for each body to encounter others who forced them
to feel and think, which also introduced an ethical dimension to
their politics. In this book, Azumi Tamura proposes a concept of
politics as a series of endless experiments based on creative
responses to unexpected forces. Instead of searching for a
transcendental reference for politics, she investigates an immanent
force within individuals that motivates them to become involved in
political action. Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Tamura provides
a different epistemological and ontological approach to the social
movement studies. She suggests social movements themselves generate
knowledge about how one may live better in a complex society and
where our lives are exposed to uncertainty. This knowledge is
neither empirical knowledge, nor normative political theory of 'how
we should live'. Instead, social movements bring affective
knowledge into politics as they offer a space for experimenting
with 'how we might live.' The encounter with such knowledge
galvanizes our desire for 'how we want to live' and encourages new
experiments.
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