Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950

Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural...
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Author: Robert Stolz
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Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 by Stolz, Robert

Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950

$87.12

Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950

$87.12
Author: Robert Stolz
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's social and political thought in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth. The need to incorporate nature into politics was revealed by a series of large-scale industrial disasters in the 1890s. The Ashio Copper Mine unleashed massive amounts of copper, arsenic, mercury, and other pollutants into surrounding watersheds. Robert Stolz argues that by forcefully demonstrating the mutual penetration of humans and nature, industrial pollution biologically and politically compromised the autonomous liberal subject underlying the political philosophy of the modernizing Meiji state. In the following decades, socialism, anarchism, fascism, and Confucian benevolence and moral economy were marshaled in the search for new theories of a modern political subject and a social organization adequate to the environmental crisis. With detailed considerations of several key environmental activists, including Tanaka Shōzō, Bad Water is a nuanced account of Japan's environmental turn, a historical moment when, for the first time, Japanese thinkers and activists experienced nature as alienated from themselves and were forced to rebuild the connections.

Author: Robert Stolz
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/04/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822356998

About the Author

Robert Stolz is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia.


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