Bad water : nature, pollution, and politics in Japan, 1870-1950 / Robert Stolz.
2014
TD187.5.J3 S76 2014eb
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Title
Bad water : nature, pollution, and politics in Japan, 1870-1950 / Robert Stolz.
Author
Stolz, Robert, 1970- author.
ISBN
9780822376507 (electronic book)
9780822356905
9780822356998
9780822356905
9780822356998
Published
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
TD187.5.J3 S76 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.739/4095209041
Summary
Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Sho-zo-, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Asia-Pacific.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Table of Contents
A decade of leaks
Pollution and peasants at the limits of liberalism
Nature over nation : Tanaka Shōzō's environmental turn
Natural democracy
The original green company : Snow Brand Dairy
Conclusion : Bad water, a theoretical consideration
Appendix. Tanaka and Kōtoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor.
Pollution and peasants at the limits of liberalism
Nature over nation : Tanaka Shōzō's environmental turn
Natural democracy
The original green company : Snow Brand Dairy
Conclusion : Bad water, a theoretical consideration
Appendix. Tanaka and Kōtoku's Appeal to the Meiji Emperor.