Social reproduction and the limitations of protest camps: openness and exclusion of social movements in Japan

Tominaga, Kyoko

doi:10.1080/14742837.2017.1279960

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“…The emphasis on the dangers, the one-time nature and the uniqueness of protest tourism can lead to an increase in the exclusion inherent in social movements. For this reason, it is necessary to include and analyse moderate activities that are closer to everyday life, such as staying in the shared accommodation of activist friends (Jaureguiberry-Mondion, 2022) or lodging in a camp with other activists (Tominaga, 2017), in the category of protest tourism.…”

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“…From then until now, women activists have been widely involved in development and environmental issues in developing countries, as well as in women's liberation movements. We can find articles discussing how Japanese female activists have joined in protest tourism for both domestic and international issues (Tominaga, 2017;Sakuma, 2021). Therefore, the authors thought that it would not be difficult to find female protest tourists today.…”

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Protest tourism as gendered experience: constraints, feelings and gender roles of female activists

Tominaga

2023

Front. Sustain. Tour.

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This paper investigates protest tourism as a gendered experience. Recently, scholars have shown increasing interest in protest tourism, but they have mainly focused on the participants' motivation, emotions, and identity. Understanding gender differences in protest tourism is important in the investigation of both protests and tourism. This study discusses Japanese female protest tourism, focusing on three aspects: constraints, feelings and gender roles. Previous studies on tourism and social movements provide a research framework for these three aspects. Based on writings described by female activists and on interviews with participants, the paper reports three key findings. First, female participants face constraints when taking part in protest tourism due to domestic responsibilities and resource limitations. Second, women's protest tourists have fears about the risks of harassment and violence and are uncomfortable being in a marginalized position. Third, they are forced into a feminine role in demonstration speeches and accommodations; however, if they ignore social norms, they can liberate themselves from that role. These findings demonstrate the discouragement factors associated with protest tourism, namely its danger, one-time nature and uniqueness, by focusing on the marginalized actor. The discussion of the concept of protest tourism therefore includes a wider range of behaviors.

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Protest tourism as gendered experience: constraints, feelings and gender roles of female activists

Tominaga

2023

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“…Those present at the meetings and events I describe below, therefore, did not all share the national historical context of Japan; instead, they shared only the history of past antisummit mobilizations. However, even this transnational history of summit mobilizations was not equally shared by all; as Tominaga () shows, many of the Japanese participants had little or no knowledge of previous antisummit mobilizations. This disjunctive history is central to the analysis offered here.…”

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“Don't Get Arrested!” Trust, Miscommunication, and Repression at the 2008 Anti‐G8 Mobilization in Japan

Maeckelbergh

2018

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Transnational coordination and communication have become increasingly important themes in scholarship on social movements. The alterglobalization movement is one of the most globally networked movements in recent history. As part of its repertoire, every year thousands of people travel from around the world to protest the G8, the gathering of the world's eight most powerful leaders. When the G8 came to Japan in 2008, local activists decided to organize a mobilization similar to those previously held in Western Europe and North America. The shift from Europe to Japan, however, proved more difficult than anticipated. I explore three factors that together hindered the mobilization: trust, miscommunication, and state repression. Through an analysis of action planning meetings, I explore how interpersonal trust combined with dynamics of individual and collective risk to shape relations of inclusion, exclusion, and hierarchy. I describe the interplay among trust, miscommunication, and repression to show how interpersonal trust undermined the movement's own goal of prefiguring more horizontal political structures and, paradoxically, expanded the impact of state repression by creating an individuation of responsibility that implicated movement actors themselves in narrowing the forms of protest available.

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Happiness as a by-product – the impact of civic engagement on women’s well-being in rural Japan

Miserka,

Polak-Rottmann

2024

Japan Forum

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Social reproduction and the limitations of protest camps: openness and exclusion of social movements in Japan

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Protest tourism as gendered experience: constraints, feelings and gender roles of female activists

Protest tourism as gendered experience: constraints, feelings and gender roles of female activists

“Don't Get Arrested!” Trust, Miscommunication, and Repression at the 2008 Anti‐G8 Mobilization in Japan

Happiness as a by-product – the impact of civic engagement on women’s well-being in rural Japan

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