Japanese modernity and welfare : state, civil society, and self in contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij.
Japanese modernity and welfare : state, civil society, and self in contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij.
Japanese modernity and welfare : state, civil society, and self in contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
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N330.12609/ 2
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English
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xiii, 270 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction -- State, market and the individual : mapping the theoretical terrain -- Self, state, and civil society in modern Japan -- Social need and the welfare state in modern Japan -- Welfare reforms in post-recessionary Japan -- Conclusion.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
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England
Date Published
c2007.
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"This book explores the anatomy of Japanese welfare in the context of the constellation of modernity and capitalism, with a focus on the normative status of welfare and the sources of its legitimation within civil society. Drawing on a new-Heglian understanding of the constitution of subjectivity within political economy, the book uncovers a distin...
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Japanese modernity and welfare : state, civil society, and self in contemporary Japan / Ritu Vij.
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International political economy series.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N330.12609/ 2
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140391544X (hbk.) :
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330.1260952
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991023724999702626
