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Protecting the Weak in East Asia: Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation book cover

1st Edition

Protecting the Weak in East Asia Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation

Edited By Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann, Cornelia Storz Copyright 2018
292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

292 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also providing an historically informed analysis of contemporary issues. Using case studies on disaster... Read more

1. Introduction, Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann and Cornelia Storz

Part I: Historical and Conceptual Background Studies

2. Protecting the Weak or Weeding out the Unfit? Disaster Relief, Animal Protection, and the Changing Evaluation of Social Darwinism in Japan and China, Matthias Schumann

3. Processes of Appropriation: Welfare and Cultural Heritage in East Asia, Iwo Amelung

4. Shifting Relations between State and Social Actors: Ambiguous Strategies of Protecting the Weak in Japan and China, Heike Holbig and Moritz Bälz

5. Theories on Institutional Change: An Application to the Dynamics of “Protecting the Weak”, Cornelia Storz and Heike Holbig

Part II: Comparative Studies of Empirical Cases in Contemporary Japan and China 

6. From Natural Hazard to Man-Made Disaster: The Protection of Disaster Victims in China and Japan, Elisa Hörhager andJulius Weitzdörfer 

7. Employee Well-being in China and Japan: A Media Content Analysis, Markus Heckel, Stefan Hüppe and Na Zou 

8. Animal Protection in China and Japan: The Ambiguous Status of Companion Animals in Rapidly Changing Societies, Kazushige Doi & Jean-Baptiste Pettier 

9. Protecting the Weak? Tracing UNESCO’s Influence on Intangible Cultural Heritage Regimes in Japan and China, Christina Maags and IoanTrifu

Part III: Conclusions

10. Weak v Strong: Ambiguities of Protection, Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz, Heike Holbig, Matthias Schumann and Cornelia Storz

Biography

Iwo Amelung is Professor of Chinese Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Moritz Bälz holds the Chair of Japanese Law and its Cultural Foundations at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Heike Holbig is Professor of Political Science at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and a senior research fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany.

Matthias Schumann is a postdoctoral research fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication" at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Cornelia Storz is Professor of Economic Institutions, Innovation and East Asian Development at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

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