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Author: David Leheny
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Edition: Annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780801444180
ISBN 10: 0801444187
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 01 March 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
David Leheny's brilliant book shows how global norms are transformed in Japan by officials in the law enforcement and security fields who seek expanded state powers to target national problems and offer credible solutions. This analysis reveals the cultural politics through which solutions resonate with and amplify local constructions of threats, anxieties, villains, and scapegoats. Leheny's fascinating analysis at the interface of political science and anthropology makes a compelling case for constructionist approaches to transnationalism. -Kay Warren, Brown University
"""David Leheny's book vividly illustrates how vague and not-so-vague fear is pervasive in post-Cold War and post-9/11 Japanese society.""-Takashi Inoguchi, Chuo University ""Insightful social science is rarely such fun. Think Global, Fear Local reveals how broadly accepted global norms against child prostitution and terrorism get transformed by anxiety-ridden Japanese policy makers into powerful weapons used to attack peripheral, though admittedly vexing, domestic demons. Leheny's wry wit and Runyonesque characterizations make this a delicious romp through the back alleys of contemporary Japan in the quest to learn how 'good norms go bad.' Read this book; you won't be disappointed.""-T. J. Pempel, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley ""David Leheny's brilliant book shows how global norms are transformed in Japan by officials in the law enforcement and security fields who seek expanded state powers to target national problems and offer credible solutions. This analysis reveals the cultural politics through which solutions resonate with and amplify local constructions of threats, anxieties, villains, and scapegoats. Leheny's fascinating analysis at the interface of political science and anthropology makes a compelling case for constructionist approaches to transnationalism.""-Kay Warren, Brown University"
Author Information
David Leheny is Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of The Rules of Play: National Identity and the Shaping of Japanese Leisure, also from Cornell.
