Children, Childhood, and Neighborhoods in a Japanese Suburb: Toward Implications for Children’s Neighborhoods from Post-Humanist Perspectives
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- Abstract
- This paper aims to unpack processes through which children’s neighborhoods are constructed in a Japanese suburb. In this endeavor, I do not take for granted childhood which is often placed on developmentalism or regarded as a human embodiment of the future. Rather, in examining the forming processes of children’s neighborhoods, I pay particular attention to the relationality between children’s neighborhoods and childhood while contextualizing and denaturalizing childhood from post-humanist perspectives. The analysis based on an ethnographic data shows how the spatially, temporally, and socially intertwined separation between children and the general public and among children and parents dominantly takes place in the neighborhood while their integration also occurs to a limited extent. I contend that this dominant separation is prompted by the hegemony of childhood and the accompanying structures both of which are (re)produced within constant negotiation in the age of uncertainty. Further, with regard to that childhood, I showcase three modalities—the vulnerable child, the troublesome child, and the child-parent relationship—as significant aspects to shape children’s neighborhoods. This separation would, in turn, reinforce the hegemony of childhood and those structures, further (re)producing and maintaining itself. However, this separation is not a static phenomenon. Rather, since it is caused by dynamic and multilevel processes, it contains variances, particularly in a practical term. This variability produces a room that the integration instead takes place. Hence, in a Japanese suburb, children’s neighborhoods consist of the dominant separation and the limited integration both of which are the results of dynamic and complex negotiation processes revolving around childhood.
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| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | August 2019 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Shichino, Toshiyuki |
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| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Stanford Global Studies, Center for East Asian Studies |
| Primary advisor | Inoue, Miyako |
Subjects
| Subject | childhood studies |
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| Subject | the modern family |
| Subject | neighborhood |
| Subject | suburb |
| Subject | Japan |
| Subject | post-humanism |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Shichino, Toshiyuki. (2019). Children, Childhood, and Neighborhoods in a Japanese Suburb: Toward Implications for Children’s Neighborhoods from Post-Humanist Perspectives. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/hd411pg1907
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