The Strange Child Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan 1st Edition by Andrea Gevurtz Arai ISBN 9780804798563 0804798567

Authors:Andrea Gevurtz Arai , Series:Psychology [50] , Tags:Education / Educational Psychology Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General , Author sort:Arai, Andrea Gevurtz , Languages:Languages:eng , Publisher:Stanford University Press , Comments:Comments:Andrea Gevurtz Arai’s ethnography details the different forms of social and cultural dislocation that erupted in Japan starting in the late 1990s. Arai reveals the effects of shifting educational practices; increased privatization of social services; recessionary vocabulary of self-development and independence; and the neoliberalization of patriotism. Arai argues that the child problem and the social unease out of which it emerged provided a rationale for reimagining governance in education, liberalizing the job market, and a new role for psychology in the overturning of national-cultural ideologies.The Strange Childuncovers the state of nationalism in contemporary Japan, the politics of distraction around the child, and the altered life conditions of—and alternatives created by—the recessionary generation.