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In Japanese with English summary
How can be the Anthropocene perceived and discussed from stand point of Asia? This book explores the idea of the Anthropocene as seen from the area. As a product of modern science, the Anthropocene concept must be associated with the values and institutions of modern Western civilization. Though we all live in a modern, globalized world, the historical values and institutions of Asia—the Earth’s largest and most populous continent—are quite diverse in themselves and different from those of the West. At the root of these differences are different conceptualizations of, and attitudes toward, nature. We consider how such different traditions of thought and practice might affect the meaning of the Anthropocene in our globalized times.
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Masahiro Terada (RHIN) and Daniel Niles (RIHN)
Masahiro Terada and Daniel Niles<
Kaoru Sugihara (RIHN)
Stéphane Grumbach (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France)
Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Daniel Niles
Emily Sekine (SAPIENS, USA)
Augustin Berque (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
Daniel Niles and Sander van der Leeuw (AAAS, USA)
Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University, Japan)
Masahiro Terada
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga (MIT, USA)
Matthias Schemmel (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
Christoph Rosol (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany)
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Ken’itchi Abé
Président du comité éditorial de la collection « Sciences de l’homme et de l’environnement et les régions »
Professeur à l’Institut de recherche pour l’humanité et la nature
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Tomoya Akimichi
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Tomoya Akimichi
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Philippe Descola
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Tomoya Akimichi
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Tomoya Akimichi
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Philippe Descola
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Itsuhiro Hazama
221
Mitsuho Ikeda
249
Philippe Descola
265
Hitoshi Yamada
287
Augustin Berque
305
Philippe Descola
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Kenji Yoshida
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Daisuke Shimoyama
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Tomoya Akimichi
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Tomoya Akimichi
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By narrating the event, human being make past present, and at the same time, by doing so it make present past. Especially to those who encounter the catastrophe this dimension of time and narrative is crucial because humanity is a creature of narrating the event. How is it possible and how did this species do so? Focusing on the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the 3.11 Tohoku triple catastrophe in 2011, both happened in Japan, and other natural and man-made disasters including war and the Holocaust (the Shoah), the author Masahiro Terada, historian and “meta-historian” of human-nature relationship, investigates the way how the catastrophe passes across time from present to past and from past to present in museums, at memorials, and on the sites of place of memory. This is an inquiry into the modality of Anthropocenic response to one of the dramatic changes of the Earth.
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Chapter 1. Catastrophe Remembered: Narrating the Present Catastrophe by Remembering the Past Catastrophe
Chapter 2. Records and Memories: Historical Consciousness and Transcendental Experience in the Japanese Historical Context
Chapter 3. To Be in Front of the Catastrophe: The Moment of Vortex
Chapter 4. Experiencing the Tremble: How Did Volunteers Experience the Catastrophe?
Supplementary Chapter 1. The Faces of Volunteers Speak: The Catastrophe Photographed
Gallery. Volunteers Came with the Wind: Photographs by Kozo Kitagawa
Dialogue 1. Picturing the Wind, Picturing the Light: A Dialogue with Kozo Kitagawa
Chapter 5. Recovering through the Unknown Dead
Column 1. Museum as a Medium Representing Time and Space
Column 2. How Does the Chinese National History Museum Narrate Recovery?
Chapter 6. Transparent Space, Flamboyant Time: Mourning and Reconstruction in Modern/Post-Modern Japan
Column 3. Tracing Haruki Murakami’s “A Walk to Kobe”
Column 4. What I thought in Aceh, Indonesia: Seven Years after the Great Indian Ocean Tsunami
Chapter 7. Tragedy and Narrative: Voices of the Dead
Chapter 8. Whose Memory? To Whom Is Memory Memorized? Die Kindheit in Kobe, or Childhood in Kobe
Dialogue 2. Woods of Folktale and the Narrative of Catastrophe: A Dialogue with Chinatsu Shimizu, Curator of the Sendai Medhiatheque
Chapter 9. Politics of Emotion: Dramatization of Catastrophe at Memorials
Column 5. What Landscape Tells: Impression at the Site of Auschwitz
Chapter 10. To be with Memory of the Catastrophe: Beyond Aporia of Conservation
Column 6. Visioning Invisible Landscape: Fukushima and Auschwitz
Supplementary Chapter 2. Naru-becoming and the Energeia of History