TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tsutsui, Kiyoteru
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - Rights make might: global human rights and minority social movements in Japan
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York, NY
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Japan
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Buraku people
KW  - Koreans
KW  - Ainu
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Menschenrecht
KW  - Bedeutung
KW  - Rolle
KW  - Zivilgesellschaft
KW  - Politische Beteiligung
KW  - Minderheitenrecht
KW  - Minderheit
KW  - Gruppe
KW  - Rechtsstellung
KW  - Ethnic relations
AB  - "Rights Make Might examines why the three most salient minority groups in Japan all expanded their activism since the late 1970s and chronicles the galvanizing effects of global human rights ideas and institutions on local social movements. The prehistory of the three groups reveals that minority politics in Japan before the 1970s featured politically dormant Ainu - an indigenous people in northern Japan -, active but unsuccessful Koreans - a stateless colonial legacy group -, and active and established Burakumin - a former outcaste group that still faced social discrimination. Despite the unfavorable domestic political environment, the infusion of global human rights ideas and the opening of international human rights arenas as new venues for contestation transformed minority activists' movement actorhood, or subjective understanding about their position and entitled rights in Japan, as well as the views of the Japanese public and political establishment toward those groups, thus catalyzing substantial gains for all three groups. Having benefited from global human rights, all three groups also repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of global human rights principles and instruments. Drawing on interviews and archival data, Rights Make Might offers a detailed historical and comparative analysis of the co-constitutive relationship between international human rights activities and local politics that contributes to our understanding of international norms, multilateral institutions, social movements, human rights, and ethno-racial politics."
SN  - 9780190853105
LA  - English
N1  - Kiyoteru Tsutsui
ID  - 1025740793
ER  -