Yet the mining of coal and its ongoing displacement has not ended in Germany. See Ingmar Björn Nolting, “The Eviction of Lützerath: The Village Being Destroyed for a Coal Mine,” The Guardian January 24, 2023 →.
Rather than seeing neoliberalism as a set of economic policies aiming to separate markets and capital from democratic governance, theorist Wendy Brown argues that neoliberalism is itself a “rationality.” Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia University Press, 2019), 21.
See Julia Obinger, “Aufstand Der Amateure!: Alternative Lebensstile Als Aktivismus in Urbanen Räumen Japans” (PhD diss., University of Zurich, 2013), 49.
Alexander James Brown, Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles (Routledge, 2018), 56.
Matsumoto Hajime, interview by Magazine9, 2007 → (in Japanese).
Matsumoto Hajime and Amateur Riot, interview by Jason Waite, trans. by Kenji Kubota, March 21, 2017.
Julia Lesser and Clarissa Seidel, Radioactivists: Protest in Japan after Fukushima (Ginger and Blonde Productions, 2011).
Matsumoto Hajime, Binbōnin daihanran: Ikinikui yo no naka to tanoshiku tatakau hōhō (The great pauper rebellion: How to struggle against a hard world while having fun) (Asupekuto, 2008). Quoted and translated in Carl Cassegård, Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan (Global Oriental, 2014), 108.
Alexander James Brown has undertaken a study of the term “prefigurative politics” in Japan, including the critical role of Sabu Kohso’s translation of the term as “yojiteki seiki” in 2006 and its subsequent usage. Brown, “Translating Prefigurative Politics: Social Networks and Rhetorical Strategies in the Alter-Globalisation Movement,” The Translator, April 15, 2020.
Willem van Schendel, “Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance: Jumping Scale in Southeast Asia,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20, no. 6 (December 2002); Arkotong Longkumer and Michael Heneise, “The Highlander,” The Highlander: Journal of Highland Asia 1, no. 1 (December 21, 2019).
James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale University Press, 2009), 26.
Hakim Bey, T.A.Z: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed (Autonomedia, 2003).
Matsumoto Hajime, Binbōnin No Gyakushū: Tada de Ikiru Hōhō (Counter-Attack of the poor: How to live for free) (Chikuma shobō, 2008), 56. Translated in Brown, Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo, 91.
Ralph Lützeler, “Population Increase and ‘New-Build Gentrification’ in Central Tōkyō,” Erdkunde 62, no. 4 (December 2008).
Roman A. Cybriwsky, Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City (University of Georgia Press, 2011); Munehisa Ishida, “The Changing Face of Shibuya: Renewal Speeds up Shift from Cultural Center to IT Hub,” The Mainichi, January 7, 2020 →.
William Andrew, “Residents and Activists Protest Proposed Kōenji Gentrification Plan,” Throw Out Your Books (blog), September 25, 2018 →.