Book Review: S. Kim and H-W Lee eds. Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia
Book Review: S. Kim and H-W Lee eds. Reimagining Nation and Nationalism in Multicultural East Asia
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书评：S. Kim 和 H-W Lee 编辑。
DOI：
10.1093/ssjj/jyy042
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Junichiro Koji
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作者：
Yusuke Kishita;Robert Phaal;Yuki Okada;Yutaka Nomaguchi;Tomoaki Yano;Koichi Otomi;森田雅宗，加藤薫，野田尚宏;Junichiro Koji
在这种情况下，地方性并不等同于与之相关的狭隘主义。他将日本环境行动主义的方法描述为一种“根深蒂固的世界主义”。在实践中，在根深蒂固的世界主义中运作的活动家援引当地人，以培养同情心，并激励参与防止其他地方的环境不公正。在这种范式下，即使是气候变化等全球性问题也源于人类健康或粮食供应问题等紧迫问题。Avenell设法实现他的理论目标，而不是在特定学科的行话中表达他的论点。这本书也很有用，因为它表明了国内解决环境问题的方法如何继续显著塑造全球问题的解决方式。历史学家通过他们的学术研究已经说明了特定的框架是如何打开某些途径并排除其他途径的。由于其以人为本的方法，日本的环保主义可能会为其他正在重新考虑如何有效应对气候变化的北方国家提供宝贵的经验教训。这本书的一个局限性是，虽然它令人信服地描绘了日本环境行动主义的轮廓，但与之形成对比的“全球环境运动”可以进一步证实现有的关于这一主题的学术机构。除了这个限制，这本书是一个有价值的贡献，奖学金的主题是相对未知的英语学者和学者的环境正义在美国。可以预见，环境历史学家会对这本书感兴趣。这本书补充了其他历史学家和活动家的工作，同时为日本的环保主义者如何以及为什么寻求跨国联系以及这些交流对其他地方为类似原因而战的受害者的影响带来了新的见解。这本书与全球环境保护主义的不同形式的参与增强了这本书的意义，超越了日本学者的观众，对那些对社会运动，跨国关系和行动主义感兴趣的人。这本书清晰的写作风格和引人入胜的结构，特别是将活动家和受害者的生活史与重大国际事件交织在一起，使得这本书也适合在本科生课堂上使用。
Book Reviews 185 locality in this case does not equate with the parochialism that is often associated with it. He characterizes the approach of Japanese environmental activism as a form of ‘rooted cosmopolitanism’. In practice, activists operating within rooted cosmopolitanism invoke the local in order to cultivate empathy and motivate engagement in preventing environmental injustices elsewhere. Within this paradigm, even global concerns like climate change are grounded in immediate issues like human health or concerns about food supply. Avenell manages to achieve his theoretical aims without couching his arguments within discipline-specific jargon. The book is also useful because it indicates how domestic approaches to environmental problems continue to significantly shape the ways that global problems are addressed. Historians have illustrated through their scholarship how particular framings open up certain avenues and foreclose others. Because of its anthropocentric approach, Japanese environmentalism may yield valuable lessons for other northern countries that are reconsidering how to effectively deal with climate change. One limitation of the book is that, while it convincingly draws the contours of Japanese environmental activism,‘the global environmental movement’that it is contrasted with could be further substantiated with the existing body of scholarship on this topic. This limitation aside, the book is a valuable contribution to scholarship on a topic that is relatively unknown to English-language scholars and scholars of environmental justice in the US. Environmental historians will predictably find much of interest in this book. The book complements the work of other historians and activists while bringing new insights to how and why environmentalists in Japan sought out transnational connections and what the consequences of those exchanges were for victims fighting similar causes elsewhere. The book’s engagement with the different forms of global environmentalism enhances the significance of this book beyond an audience of Japan scholars to those interested in social movements, transnational relations, and activism. The clear writing style and engaging structure of the book—particularly the interweaving of activist and victim life histories with significant international events—makes the book appropriate for use in undergraduate classes as well.