Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society
SUNY Press
ISBN13:
9781438478067
$40.57
Introduction -- Lifestyle migration and mobility: negotiating urban lifestyles in rural communities -- The countryside between aging, lack of perspectives, and creative depopulation through the lens of female settlers -- Post-growth forms of living and working: countryside as experimental ground and social imaginary -- Between agency and anomie, possibility and probability: lifestyle migrants and the neo-liberal moment -- Convergence of work and leisure: blessing or plight? -- Liminal belonging and moratorium migration: lifestyle migrants between limbo and purpose of life -- Social entrepreneurs between self-determination and structural constraints: examples from Miyagi and Tokushima prefectures -- Conclusion: deconstructing Japan's rural-urban divide.
- | Author: Susanne Klien
- | Publisher: SUNY Press
- | Publication Date: January 02, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1438478062
- | ISBN-13: 9781438478067
- Author:
- Susanne Klien
- Publisher:
- SUNY Press
- Publication Date:
- January 02, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 232 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1438478062
- ISBN-13:
- 9781438478067