Reclaiming the global countryside?

Ganseforth, Sonja

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“…Following amalgamations, many cooperatives established larger collection and shipping facilities to improve their logistics, but this came at the expenses of members living far apart. Similar effects can be also seen in fisheries (Ganseforth 2020).…”

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Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan

Lollini

2023

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feedback, encouragement, and continuous support allowed me to embark on this journey and complete my thesis. I would like to thank all the participants to this study, who shared with me their stories and insights. A special thanks goes to Funada san and the folks at JA Ueda Farm. I wish you all success with your farming careers. My deepest gratitude goes to Kazu san and his family, who welcomed me in their house and made bento for me every day. I would like to thank Professors Motoki Akitsu and Yoichiro Aikawa for helping me with fieldwork in Japan. I would also like to thank the ESRC, the Sasakawa foundation, and the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee for supporting this study and allowing me to complete my DPhil. Last but not least, I would like to thank my mother and Haruka for their love and support.Chapter 4. Accessing land and housing: property, abandonment, and Japan's land crisis Chapter 5. Acquiring farming know-how: quality, labour, and enskilment Chapter 6. Accessing capital: subsidies for small and big farms Chapter 7. Accessing markets: marketing, food distribution, and price formation Conclusions Bibliography liveable (sumi-yasui) town in the prefecture by Toyo Keizai in 2015. Among its strengths, as emphasised by the city website, Tōmi features sunny weather, low snowfall in the winter, easy access to Tokyo (90 minutes by train), and availability of childcare facilities. 15 As discussed in Chapter 2, these are all features greatly appreciated by urban-rural migrants. The local I-turn promotion office is well organised and active. 16 A new entry farmer from Osaka told me that she decided to come to Tōmi because, unlike other municipalities she had visited, employees at the city hall were very helpful and motivated. Tōmi also features various tourist attractions. From the train station, visitors can easily reach Unno Juku, a post station established in 1625 on the old Hokkoku Kaido. The street counts 203 well-preserved historical buildings conserving their unique Edo period atmosphere. On top of the mountain, Yunomaru heights allows convenient half-day hikes. From mid-June to early July 600,000 blooming stocks of Japanese azalea offer a unique sight. The city also counts several hot springs, sports facilities, and a small ski ground. It also hosts many festivals throughout the year, including outdoor kabuki performances and a wine festival.Tōmi-shi.Tōmi is a small mountain municipality that saw a moderate, yet steady urban development even after the 2000s. Major streets are crowded with gas stations, restaurant chains, home centers, 15 Five kindergarten, five elementary schools, two junior high schools, one high school. 16 'I-Turn' is an expression indicating urban-to-rural migration (details in Chapter 2). 20 convenience stores, supermarkets, and pachinko. Electricity pylons rise between them, with cables and electric wires hanging along the streets. Between major broadways and the constant flow of cars and trucks, there is a web of streets and narrow alleys, often only drivable by one car at o...

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Section: Japanese Agriculturesupporting

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“…7 Administrative amalgamations are often contested as they subtract decision-making powers from local incumbents in communities that retain distinct history and sense of identity. 8 See, for instance, Ganseforth (2020).…”

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Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan

Lollini

2023

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“…‘Nowadays decisions are being made in the headquarter in Karatsu and only some representative from our village can go and join the meetings,’ one fisher from a formerly independent branch office of Saga Genkai JF complained (interview June 2017). The replacement of direct plenary meetings with representative systems arguably has led to a degree of de‐democratisation in these close‐knit, grass‐roots institutions (Ganseforth, 2020).…”

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“…Rural revitalisation has been on the agenda of Japanese politics under varying slogans for decades, but programmes aiming to revitalize Japanese fisheries, usually drawing on blue‐print projects to produce stereotypical local specialty foods, souvenirs, and touristic experiences, have shown only limited success. These entrepreneurial projects present another aspect of the neoliberalisation of Japanese society (Ganseforth, 2020), relying predominantly on unpaid women's work without giving them more influence in decision‐making processes (Borovoy, 2012). Rather than sustaining a traditional culture of small‐scale fisheries and supporting local livelihoods, the provisions of the fishery law reform now seem directed at increasing seafood production and investments in large‐scale aquaculture facilities.…”

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Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small‐scale fisheries

Ganseforth

2021

Geographical Journal

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Based on in‐depth anthropological field research in rural Japan, this paper analyses the ongoing reform of Japanese fishery governance and its social and environmental justice implications, as globally proliferating discourses on the ‘blue economy’ and ‘blue growth’ are driving the enclosure of one of the last vestiges of natural resource commons in small‐scale fisheries. Coastal fisheries in Japan are often idealized as one of the last bastions of resource co‐management in an industrialized country, with local cooperatives collectively controlling territorial fishing rights. However, demographic change, declining profitability, and dwindling resource stocks are challenging their viability. Reform of the fishery law, designed to stimulate new growth and industrialization – particularly in aquaculture – includes the opening up of coastal fishery resources to corporate investors, the strengthening of top‐down regulation, and the introduction of individual fishing quotas (IQ). The desire to boost domestic seafood production also has to be seen within the context of the double anxiety of high dependency on international trade for foodstuff and of Japan's vanishing rurality. This emphasis on private capital and presupposed economic and scientific rationality builds on the same rationale of blue economy and blue growth discourses, which promise financial along with ecological returns on large‐scale investments in sustainable ocean economies. Growth‐oriented reform in Japan now imperils successful resource co‐management in coastal small‐scale fisheries. Its analysis therefore offers deeper insights into the transformative as well as dispossessive potential of the global paradigmatic shift towards an intensified industrial exploitation of the oceans. The question of social and environmental justice is central in the re‐allocation of access rights to ocean spaces and resources and the re‐arrangement of decision‐making processes in fishery governance, as local fishing communities face a very real threat of dispossession and disempowerment.

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Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages: Fish as Functional Food Cyborgs and Emblematic Cultural Commodities

Ganseforth

2022

Green Letters

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Reclaiming the global countryside?

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Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan

Becoming a Farmer in Contemporary Japan

Blue revitalization or dispossession? Reform of common resource management in Japanese small‐scale fisheries

Shifting Matter and Meanings in Japanese Seafood Assemblages: Fish as Functional Food Cyborgs and Emblematic Cultural Commodities

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