{"product_id":"mobilizing-japanese-youth-christopher-gerteis-9781501756313","title":"Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMobilizing Japanese Youth, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan--left-wing radicals and right-wing activists--attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults.\u003c\/b\u003e Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political violence committed by young Japanese in this era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Gerteis shows, Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism, anti-imperialism, anticommunism, neo-fascism, and ultra-nationalism. \u003ci\u003eMobilizing Japanese Youth\u003c\/i\u003e carefully unpacks their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the Japanese state that engulfed them. The 1950s-style mass-mobilization efforts orchestrated by organized labor could not capture their political imagination in the way that more extreme ideologies could. By focusing on how far-right and far-left organizations attempted to reach-out to young radicals, especially those of working-class origins, this book offers a new understanding of successive waves of youth radicalism since 1960.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Gerteis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501756311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501756313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Christopher Gerteis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44042536517887,"sku":"9781501756313","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b937c213-7424-4347-8032-a8a353d3e99e.jpg?v=1684962102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mobilizing-japanese-youth-christopher-gerteis-9781501756313","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}