Overview
- Examines the marginalization of guardian-companion animal relationships by the modern state
- Provides insight into an unprecedented event in Japan: the combined impact of an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster
- The first book-length study to apply a critical realist frame to field research in Japan
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems (PSASP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Tsunami in Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures
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The Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima
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Social Structures and Causal Mechanisms
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About this book
This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The author interrogates: 1) How did guardians and their companion animals survive the large disaster?; 2) Why was the relationship between guardians and their companion animals ignored during and after a disaster?; and 3) What structures and/or mechanisms shaped the outcomes for animals and their guardians? Through a critical realist framework, combined with a theoretical perspective developed by Roy Bhaskar and his colleagues, the author argues that despite the trivialization of companion animals by government officials, relationships between animals and guardians were often able to be maintained, in some cases through great pains by the guardians. While the notion of human-animal relationships in Japan has thus far been dominated by economic logic, the author reveals dynamics between guardians and companion animal transcend such structures, forging the concept of “bonding rights.”
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hazuki Kajiwara (梶原はづき) is a researcher in the Rikkyo University Institute of Social Welfare in Tokyo, Japan, and a part-time lecturer in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Nihon Veterinary and Life Science University, Tokyo, Japan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surviving with Companion Animals in Japan
Book Subtitle: Life after a Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster
Authors: Hazuki Kajiwara
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49328-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49327-1Published: 15 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-49330-1Published: 15 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-49328-8Published: 14 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-4676
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4684
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Theory, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Urban Studies/Sociology, Asian Culture