Life Beyond the Tohoku Disasters
Autonomy and Adaptability in Coastal Japan
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793616555 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781793616555 (ISBN)
This book shows the profundity of life for fishing families living in a disaster-strewn world in Japan. Using their own words, the text demonstrates the significance of people’s attachment to their places and seascapes, their connections with one another, and the importance of autonomy and adaptability, especially post-3.11.
This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami generated from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Focused on one town in Miyagi Prefecture near the epicenter of the 2011 quake, the text provides a singularly unique opportunity to hear, in their own voices, individuals’ reflections and experiences on life after the disasters while also drawing upon anthropological fieldwork data from many of the same individuals 10 years prior to the disaster.
Alyne E. Delaney skillfully contextualizes local culture and fishing livelihoods and lays out key impacts of disaster reconstruction policies on local society, illustrating the importance of people’s attachment to their places and seascapes, their connections with one another and shared traditions, and their sea-connected working ways of life.
Delaney reveals not only the heartbreak of the disasters and the strain placed on individuals and coastal communities when national policymakers fail to use good governance when rebuilding, but also provides insights into how some have managed to recover and learn the wisdom of knowing what real happiness is, offering readers an enlightening discourse of the potency of the local cultural traits of autonomy and adaptability.
This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami generated from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Focused on one town in Miyagi Prefecture near the epicenter of the 2011 quake, the text provides a singularly unique opportunity to hear, in their own voices, individuals’ reflections and experiences on life after the disasters while also drawing upon anthropological fieldwork data from many of the same individuals 10 years prior to the disaster.
Alyne E. Delaney skillfully contextualizes local culture and fishing livelihoods and lays out key impacts of disaster reconstruction policies on local society, illustrating the importance of people’s attachment to their places and seascapes, their connections with one another and shared traditions, and their sea-connected working ways of life.
Delaney reveals not only the heartbreak of the disasters and the strain placed on individuals and coastal communities when national policymakers fail to use good governance when rebuilding, but also provides insights into how some have managed to recover and learn the wisdom of knowing what real happiness is, offering readers an enlightening discourse of the potency of the local cultural traits of autonomy and adaptability.
Alyne E. Delaney is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Tohoku University’s Center for Northeast Asian Studies and Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Life Before
Chapter 1: Scenes, Seascapes, and Disasters
Chapter 2: Anchoring Coastal Ways of Life
Chapter 3: Connecting Coastal Ways of Life
Part II: The Disasters of 3.11
Chapter 4: Remembering Ano Hi, “That Day”
Part III: Resilience: Life a Decade later
Chapter 5: Rebuilding Lives
Chapter 6: Policy Impacts on Working Lives
Chapter 7: Knowing What Happiness Is
Glossary
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.04.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 17 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 535 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781793616555 / 9781793616555 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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