{"product_id":"gender-culture-and-disaster-in-post-3-11-japan-paperback","title":"Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMire Koikari\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great East Japan Disaster - a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 - has ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions on safety and security, risk and vulnerability, and recovery and refortification. \u003ci\u003eGender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan\u003c\/i\u003e re-frames post-disaster national reconstruction as a social project imbued with dynamics of gender, race, and empire and in doing so Mire Koikari offers an innovative approach to resilience building in contemporary Japan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom juvenile literature to civic manuals to policy statements, Koikari examines a vast array of primary sources to demonstrate how femininity and masculinity, readiness and preparedness, militarism and humanitarianism, and nationalism and transnationalism inform cultural formation and transformation triggered by the unprecedented crisis. Interdisciplinary in its orientation, the book reveals how militarism, neoliberalism, and neoconservatism drive Japan's resilience building while calling attention to historical precedents and transnational connections that animate the ongoing mobilization toward safety and security. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important contribution to studies of gender and Japan, the book is essential reading for all those wishing to understand local and global politics of precarity and its proposed solutions amid the rising tide of pandemics, ecological hazards, industrial disasters, and humanitarian crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMire Koikari\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Women's Studies at University of Hawaii, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity, and Transnationalism in East Asi\u003c\/i\u003ea (2015) and \u003ci\u003ePedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the US Occupation of Japan\u003c\/i\u003e (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 210\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099604848775,"sku":"9781350212992","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6cebe99ec22c3abddf4ac4757dd691d7.webp?v=1732375944","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/gender-culture-and-disaster-in-post-3-11-japan-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}