IJS Contemporary Japanese Life-World Series

Preface

Imagining Degrowth beyond Déjà Vu — JUNG, Ji Hee
Toward a Degrowth Discourse beyond Déjà-vu

Part I. The Facade of Growth Projects and What Lay behind It: Competing Bodies and the Spatial Politics of (Post) Empire

1. Competition and Enlightenment for the Impossible Goal of “Finding Japan’s Best” — LEE, Eun-gyong

A Narrative of Modern Japan’s Growth Ideology in the “Healthy Child Commendation Project” (1930~1978)

2. Barracks and Urban Transformation in Transwar Japan — HAN, Jung-sun

Developmentalism and the Politics of Space in Kobe

Part II. Mythifying "Postwar" Democracy, Peace, and Prosperity and Envisioning Catastrophe

3. “Maturity” and “Violence” in the postwar discourse of Japanese literature — NAM, Sang-wook

focusing on the representation of “Violence” by Kenzaburo Oe

4. Monsters of simulacra — SEO, Dong Ju

The Transformation of godzilla during Japan’s period of rapid economic growth and the dissociation of postwar sensibilities

Part III. The Afterimage of Growth and the Distruptive Imagery of Degrowth

5. Imagining a Post-High-Economic-Growth Society — JUNG, Ji Hee

The Crisis of the Liberal Political Economy and the “Japanese Model of Mature Society”

6. Poverty among Single Mothers in Japan and the Constraints of Motherhood — PARK, Seung-hyun

7. 1980s Japanese Consumer Society and the Change of Comic Market — KIM, Hyojin

Focusing on the Role of Female-oriented Parody Dojinshi

Bibliography

English Abstracts

Index