Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement

by Simon Avenell

Book Overview

What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082487935X
• ISBN13: 9780824879358
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"