Troubled natures : waste, environment, Japan / Peter Wynn Kirby.

• Introduction : Japan's waste shadow -- Perils of proximity : an invisible scourge -- Mediated anxieties -- The cult(ures) of Japanese nature -- Tokyo's vermin menace -- Pure obsession : pollution, outcasts, and exclusion -- Growth, sex, fertility, and decline -- Constructing sustainable Japan.

• The author looks at two Tokyo neighborhoods, comparing environmental consciousness and conduct in communities facing specific toxic threats (real or perceived). In each fieldsite, the tension between lofty rhetoric and daily practices helps highlight the practical ambivalence of Japanese environmental consciousness. Waste practices and ideas of pollution in Tokyo tie clearly into broader social issues such as exclusionary practices, emergent lifestyle changes, recycling efforts, and novel forms of energy production. Throughout, waste and environmental health problems in Tokyo collide against diverse cultural elements linked to nature(s) uneasy relations between animals and humans; native conceptions of the foreign and the polluted; reproductive challenges in the face of a plunging fertility rate; and changing attitudes toward illness and health. 

Ämnesord

Humanekologi  (sao)

Avfall  (sao)

Human ecology  -- Japan. (LCSH)

Waste products  -- Japan -- Public opinion. (LCSH)

Pollution  -- Japan -- Public opinion. (LCSH)

Public opinion  -- Japan. (LCSH)

Urban ecology (Sociology)  -- Japan -- Tokyo. (LCSH)

Umweltverschmutzung  (gnd)

Umweltschutz  (gnd)

Abfallbehandlung  (gnd)

Human ecology.  (fast)

Public opinion.  (fast)

Urban ecology (Sociology)  (fast)

Ecology  -- Public opinion. (fast)

Pollution  -- Public opinion. (fast)

Human ecology  (LCSH)

Waste products  (LCSH)

Japan  -- Environmental conditions -- Public opinion. (LCSH)

Japan.  (fast)

Japan  -- Tokyo. (fast)

Japan 

Klassifikation

GF666 (LCC)

304.20952 (DDC)

Uhb (kssb/8 (machine generated))