Challenging conventional thought on the nature of welfare and civil society in modern Japan, Ritu Vij offers an original theoretical and historical interpretation of both. Drawing upon a neo-Hegelian understanding of the formation of modern subjectivity in political economy, this book uncovers a specific pattern of welfare provision in Japan.

Autorentext
RITU VIJ is Lecturer of International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK. She was previously at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Japan, as the recipient of a Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Social Science Research Council (USA) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). She is editor of Globalization and Welfare: A Critical Reader.

Inhalt
Introduction: Civil Society, Welfare, and Japan in Comparative Studies State, Market and the Individual: Mapping the Theoretical Terrain Self, State, and Civil Society in Modern Japan Social Need and the Welfare State in Modern Japan Welfare Reform in Post-Recessionary Japan Conclusion