The Politics of Precariousness and Protest in Post-Disaster Japan:
From the Freeter Movement to Anti-Nuclear Activism
Robin O'Day,
JSPS postdoctral researcher, University of Tsukuba
Place: Room B113, Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences (人文社会学系棟), University of Tsukuba
Time: 10:10-11:30
<Abstract>
In this talk I will provide an overview of two separate but connected research projects. First, I will provide an overview of my doctoral research organized under the title, “Japanese Irregular Workers in Protest: freeters, precarity and the re-articulation of class.” The dissertation is based upon twenty months of fieldwork research (2007-2009) with four union movements attempting to politically mobilize freeters (youth who drift from job to job). Through ethnographic fieldwork with these social movements, I argue that the loss of place for young irregular workers, as a consequence of a restructured labor market along neoliberal principles, is contributing to the re-articulation of class politics and protest in post-industrial Japan. Second, by following the theme of political protest I will also explain how I interpret the connection between an emergent politics of youth activism around irregular employment with the protests that emerged after Japan’s “triple disaster” in 2011.
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