TY  - GEN
T1  - Urban migrants in rural Japan : between agency and anomie in a post-growth society
A1  - Klien, Susanne, 1972-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1137022475
AB  - Offers an in-depth ethnography of paradigm shifts in the lifestyles and values of youth in post-growth Japan. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-growth Japan. By exploring narratives and trajectories of individuals who relocate from urban to rural areas and seek new modes of working and living, this multisited ethnography reveals the changing role of rurality, from postwar notions of a stagnant backwater to contemporary sites of experimentation. The individual cases presented in the book vividly illustrate changing lifestyles and perceptions of work. What emerges from Urban Migrants in Rural Japan is the emotionally fraught quest of many individuals for a personally fulfilling lifestyle and the conflicting neoliberal constraints many settlers face. In fact, flexibility often coincides with precarity and self-exploitation. Susanne Klien shows how mobility serves as a strategic mechanism for neophytes in rural Japan who hedge their bets; gain time; and seek assurance, inspiration, and courage to do (or further postpone doing) what they ultimately feel makes sense to them.
OP  - 203
CN  - HT381
SN  - 9781438478074
SN  - 1438478070
SN  - 9781438478050
SN  - 9781438478067
KW  - Urban-rural migration : Japan.
KW  - Rural-urban relations : Japan.
KW  - Amenity migration : Japan.
KW  - Lifestyles : Japan.
KW  - Japan : Social conditions : 21st century.
KW  - Exode urbain : Japon.
KW  - Relations villes-campagnes : Japon.
KW  - Contre-urbanisation : Japon.
KW  - Style de vie : Japon.
KW  - Japon : Conditions sociales : 21e siècle.
KW  - Cultural.
KW  - Anthropology.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Amenity migration
KW  - Lifestyles
KW  - Rural-urban relations
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Urban-rural migration
KW  - Japan
KW  - 2000-2099
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -