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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College Graduate School of Social Design Studies (MSDA)
Course Code VP211
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Lecture
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.5
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Credits 2
Course Number SDM6211
Language English
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Assigned Year 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
Prerequisite Regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
Course Cancellation -(履修中止制度なし/ No system for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes

【Course Objectives】

This coursework examines the history of Japanese modernity and development by contextualizing it into the global debate on postdevelopment, the Anthropocene, and transition designs. Major objectives are threefold: (1) Critically exemplifying competing social design paradigms (especially state vs people) and related social conflicts in the process of modernization and development; (2) Re-examining alternative development theories that emerged in response to human and ecological disasters; (3) Exploring the diversity of social innovations in contemporary Japan and designing just transition towards a post-growth society.

【Course Contents】

The coursework is divided into three parts. The first part (Sessions 2 to 5) introduces historical research and examines conflictual nature of Japanese modernization and development by focusing on its human and environmental damages such as industrial pollution and the destruction of commons. The second part (Sessions 6 to 7) discusses alternative development theories that reevaluate the dimensions of ecology and culture and the role of commons and community as opposed to the society of mass consumption. The third part (Sessions 8 to 12) introduces socio-economic crises in the 21st century and explores the diversity of social innovations and policy agendas that support just transition towards post-growth.

Each class consists of a lecture and discussions, with short presentations (based on reading) being included. At the end of the course, it is expected that students are able to find problems and perspectives of Japanese society and to investigate their own research.

Japanese Items

【授業計画 / Course Schedule】

1 Introduction

Thinking about Japanese Modenity and Development in the Time of the Anthropocene
2 Part I: History

Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor: Mapping Key Theoretical Perspectives for Understanding Japanese Modernity and Development
3 Toxic Nature and A History of Industrial Pollution in Japan (1) : The Case of Ashio Copper Mine Pollution
4 Toxic Nature and A History of Industrial Pollution in Japan (2) : Revisiting Tanaka Shozo’s Environmental Philosophy
5 Toxic Nature and A History of Industrial Pollution in Japan (3): Post-war Local Development in Question
6 Part II: Alternative Theory
What is a Sustainable Society? Learning from Ken'ichi Miyamoto's Reflections on the Japanese Environmental Movement.
7 Postdevelopment in Japan: Revisiting Yoshirou Tamanoi's Theory of Regionalism
8 Part III: Grassroots Innovation
From Organic Farming to Integral Local Cooperatives: Case of Muchacha-en in Akehama Town, Ehime Prefecture
9 Hardtime in Hometown: A History of Nuclear Power Project and Community Survival of Kaminoseki Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture
10 Rethinking Locality in Japan: a Methodological Question
11 Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: An Overview of Recent Trend
12 Reflections and Group Discussion
13 Final Presentation (1)
14 Final Presentation (2)

【活用される授業方法 / Teaching Methods Used】

板書 /Writing on the Board
スライド(パワーポイント等)の使用 /Slides (PowerPoint, etc.)
上記以外の視聴覚教材の使用 /Audiovisual Materials Other than Those Listed Above
個人発表 /Individual Presentations
グループ発表 /Group Presentations
ディスカッション・ディベート /Discussion/Debate
実技・実習・実験 /Practicum/Experiments/Practical Training
学内の教室外施設の利用 /Use of On-Campus Facilities Outside the Classroom
校外実習・フィールドワーク /Field Work
上記いずれも用いない予定 /None of the above

【授業時間外(予習・復習等)の学修 / Study Required Outside of Class】

Students are required to read indicated reading materials and prepared for in-class discussion and presentation.

【成績評価方法・基準 / Evaluation】

種類 (Kind)割合 (%)基準 (Criteria)
平常点 (In-class Points)100 Final Presentation(20%)
In-class Discussion(30%)
Attendance(20%)
Final Report(30%)
備考 (Notes)

【テキスト / Textbooks】

その他 (Others)
No textbook is specified. Lecturer provides reading materials each week.

【参考文献 / Readings】

No著者名 (Author/Editor)書籍名 (Title)出版社 (Publisher)出版年 (Date)ISBN/ISSN
1 Dusinberre, M. Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2012
2 Klein, E. and Morreo, C. E. Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies London: Routledge 2019
3 Miller, I. J., Thomas, J. A., and Walker, B. L. Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press 2013
4 Morris-Suzuki, T. The Technological Transformation of Japan: from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1994
5 Sachs, W. (ed.) The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power London: Zed-Books 1992
6 Stolz, R. Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870-1950 Durham ; Duke University Press 2014
7 Walker, B. L. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan Seattle: University of Washington Press 2010
その他 (Others)
(8) Nakano, Y. (2019). Postdevelopment in Japan: Revisiting Yoshirou Tamanoi’s Theory of Regionalism. In Klein and Morreo (eds.) (2019).
(9) Ui, J. (1992). Industrial pollution in Japan. Tokyo, Japan : United Nations University Press.
(10) Klien Susanne (2020) Urban Migrants in Rural Japan Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-Growth Society. New York: SUNY Press.
(11) McNeill, J. R. and Engelke, P. (2016). The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945. Harvard University Press.
(12) Nixon. R. (2013). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press.

【履修にあたって求められる能力 / Abilities Required to Take the Course】

(1) Students are required to have a good ability to read academic literature on modern Japanese history and politics.
(2) Students are required to actively participate in in-class presentation and discussion.
(3) Students are required to have a good ability of academic writing.

【学生が準備すべき機器等 / Equipment, etc., that Students Should Prepare】

【その他 / Others】

Lecturer's personal website: https://postcapitalism.jp/index/

【注意事項 / Notice】