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... in Postwar Japan . Berkeley : University of California Press . Avenell Simon . 2012 . “ From Fearsome Pollution to Fukushima: Environmental Activism and the Nuclear Blind Spot in Contemporary Japan .” Environmental History 17 , no. 2 : 244 – 76 . Baum Seth . 2015 . “ Japan Should...

... to Investigate Radioactive Groundwater at Indian Point .” New York Times , February 6 . www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/nyregion/new-york-state-to-investigate-radioactive-groundwater-at-indian-point.html . Stolz Robert . “ Money and Mercury: Environmental Pollution and the Limits of Japanese Postwar...

.... There is a widely held view that environmental pollution and ecological destruction are inevitable in the process of economic and social develop- ment but the problem will be solved as science and technology develop, and economic growth itself will generate...

... : Pantheon Books . Stolz Robert . 2018 . “ Money and Mercury: Environmental Pollution and the Limits of Japanese Postwar Democracy .” positions 26 , no. 2 : 243 – 64 . Tanaka Nobunori Kohno Michiko Sugimura Akie 1960 . “ Cytological Effect of Hot Rain .” Japanese Journal...

... Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Stolz Robert . 2018 . “ Money and Mercury: Environmental Pollution and the Limits of Japanese Postwar Democracy .” positions 26 , no. 2 : 243 – 64 . Suzuki Keiji Yamashita...

... the poor peasants in Guizhou Province in southwest China are compelled to farm on steep slopes, showing that China does not have an overall strategy that takes care of the nation's environmental protection and sustainable development. Story 3. The Story of “Enclosures”: how the grave traffic jams and air...

...Charlotte Bruckermann Abstract Faced with environmental degradation and atmospheric pollution, Chinese citizens increasingly envision the good life as a green life. Yet in cities and the countryside, understandings of environmental hardship and ecological redress diverge and at times even...

... environmental pollution and modern development) should be understood as “mobilizations for autonomy rather than democracy,” where “autonomy” seems to mean freedom from cen- trally directed development projects and other bureaucratic...

.... Furthermore, as many scholars have noted, the health issues brought on by environmental pollution run even deeper, intertwined with domestic environments (housing), poverty (limiting access to medical care), and fluc- tuations in socioeconomic status...

... a powerful, affluent, and repressive China is a key player, however, middle-class migrants increasingly leave China to pursue a better life defined in nonmaterial terms such as cultural authenticity, environmental purity, social solidarity, and individual freedom. As a new wave of middle-class migrants...

... domestic issues on a daily basis, such as the widening gap between the haves and the have- nots, disasters caused by environmental pollution and administrative misman- agement, endemic corruption, social instability, and riots of rural and eth...

... elements of the aca- demic tradition from which they had emerged, while AMPO sought to reach activists throughout Asia and beyond, taking up issues of war, imperial- ism, environmental pollution, and Japanese and American corporations...

... to the continuum of living. This presentness makes Behemoth very different from two other Chinese films that center on the issue of dust and environmental pollution. Like Behemoth , two contemporaneous films also express interest in airborne particles. One is Chai Jing's Under the Dome (2015...

...: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Deng Yanhua Yang Guobin . 2013 . “ Pollution and Protest in China: Environmental Mobilization in Context .” China Quarterly 214 : 321 – 36 . Denzin Norman Lincoln Yvonna S. . 2005 . “ Introduction...

... on the exploitation of underprivileged local communities. Boss Kong sees White Crow as endangering his business plans because its abnormal appearance is a visible sign of the hazardous levels of environmental pollution. He plots to trap the bird with the help of Instant, but the student instead helps White Crow...

... among distinct cases of pollution from radiation, chemical solvents, and insoluble copper. We bring to the fore an analysis of the particulate in this introduction to several articles focusing on East Asia by considering its role within the scope of the concept of genba (現場). We define genba as a lived...

... to environmental pollution and encouraged civic activism in con- fronting those problems. While ecology has not always been a theme overtly addressed by Yin, her art practice itself evinces an ecological sensibility, manifested in her prefer- ence for found art materials and the various ways she relates to them...

... to achieve or maintain. But adopting a less energy-intensive lifestyle, whether by force or voluntarily, might ultimately be crucial to mitigating the negative effects of environmental pollution on people's lives and well-being. As Lauren Berlant ( 2011 : 69) asks, “What is the good life when the world...

.... Wonderful Days takes place in a dystopian, ecologically destroyed world. The rich political elite live in a city named Ecoban, which is literally powered by the pollution produced by the industrial wasteland outside the city, Marr. In the opening scroll, Ecoban is called an “arc” that protects “human...

... and Sociology at Southwest Minzu University, China. A cultural anthropologist, Professor Tang studies rituals, ethnic relations, and environmental hazards and the sociopolitical responses in southwest China. Katherine G. T. Whatley is a PhD candidate in Japanese Literature at Stanford University. Her...