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8 - Development from Within

Environment, Region and Autonomous Action from the 1980s Onward

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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The prewar activities of the White Birch teachers, and the related postwar activities of rural youth groups and social educators, provided the basis which sustained a new wave of informal life politics from the 1980s onward. As rural areas began to suffer acutely from problems of depopulation and aging, and as schemes to disperse industrial activities to the regions led to environmental conflicts, local communities looked to alternative forms of endogenous development to secure their own futures. This chapter explores examples of the search for ‘development from within’, focusing particularly on the cases of the Shinshū Miyamoto School (Shinshū Miyamoto Juku) in Nagano Prefecture and other environmental, cooperative and alternative currency projects which are linked to the school through a regional network of self-help action.

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Shinshū Miyamoto SchoolMiyamoto Kenichiendogenous developmentenvironmental pollutionorganic farmingalternative currencies
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Japan's Living Politics
Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy
 , pp. 158 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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