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Female Nationalist Activism in Japan: Truth-Telling Through Everyday Micro-Practices
Swedish Defence University, Department of Political Science and Law, Political Science Division.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9336-4422
Swedish Defence University, Department of Political Science and Law, Political Science Division.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7495-055X
2022 (English)In: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, ISSN 0304-3754, E-ISSN 2163-3150, Vol. 47, no 4, p. 194-208Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

There is an emerging debate about the role and importance of women in right-wing nationalist movements. Drawing on research that highlights the need to study such women as active and complex political agents, this article examines a phenomenon that has previously received little attention—the activism of female Japanese nationalists. We approach the question of how such activism is practiced by analyzing a group interview with female nationalists, a nationalist manga centering on women’s experiences, and autobiographic books on such activism by and for Japanese women. The article contributes by arguing that female nationalist agency in Japan is a complex phenomenon, which is enacted through everyday micro-practices. It outlines how female nationalist activism draws upon and enhances, as well as challenges and transcends, a traditional Japanese “housewife identity.” As such, the female Japanese nationalist is imagined as having access to certain truths. She takes on the role of “truth-teller,” who is playing a strategic role in “waking people up” to the nationalist cause by voicing anger but also making space for a more “joyful,” “cute,” and inconspicuous everyday activism.

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2022. Vol. 47, no 4, p. 194-208
Keywords [en]
apan, right-wing women, everyday activism, historical revisionism, micro-practices, nationalism, woke
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Political Science
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-11303DOI: 10.1177/03043754221126279OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-11303DiVA, id: diva2:1725599
Available from: 2023-01-11 Created: 2023-01-11 Last updated: 2023-01-11Bibliographically approved

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