Minamata - Timothy S. George

Minamata

Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan
Buch | Softcover
424 Seiten
2002
Harvard University, Asia Center (Verlag)
978-0-674-00785-7 (ISBN)
31,10 inkl. MwSt
The outbreak of the “Minamata Disease” in 1950s Japan remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning in history. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters to secure redress.
Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the “Minamata Disease,” it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters, particularly the activities of grassroots movements and popular campaigns, to secure redress.

Timothy S. George argues that Japan’s postwar democracy is ad hoc, fragile, and dependent on definition through citizen action and that the redress effort is exemplary of the great changes in the second and third postwar decades that redefined democracy in Japan.

Timothy S. George is Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.5.2002
Reihe/Serie Harvard East Asian Monographs
Zusatzinfo 2 maps, 34 halftones, 1 line drawing, 6 tables
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Studium 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
ISBN-10 0-674-00785-9 / 0674007859
ISBN-13 978-0-674-00785-7 / 9780674007857
Zustand Neuware
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