{"product_id":"the-red-years-theory-politics-and-aesthetics-in-the-japanese-68-gavin-walker","title":"The Red Years: Theory, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Japanese ’68 – Gavin Walker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable with shipping in the US and UK only.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eThe story of Japan’s forgotten radical 1968\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe analysis of May ’68 in Paris, Berkeley, and the Western world has been widely reconsidered. But 1968 is not only a year that conjures up images of Paris, Frankfurt, or Milan: it was also the pivotal year for a new anti-colonial and anti-capitalist politics to erupt across the Third World, a crucial and central moment in the history, thought, and politics of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Japan’s position—neither in “the West” nor in the “Third World’—provoked a complex and intense round of mass mobilisations through the 1960s and early ’70s. Although the “’68 revolutions” of the Global North—Western Europe and North America—are widely known, the Japanese situation remains remarkably under-examined globally. Beginning in the late 1950s, the New Left, independent of the prewar Japanese communist moment (itself of major historical importance in the 1920s and ’30s), came to produce one of the most vibrant decades of political organization, political thought, and political aesthetics in the global twentieth century. In the present volume, major thinkers of the left in Japan, alongside scholars of the 1968 movements, reexamine the theoretical sources, historical background, cultural productions, and major organisational problems of the 1968 revolutions in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents include:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolution and Retrospection\u003c\/em\u003e, by Gavin Walker; \u003cem\u003eO\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003en the Japanese ’68\u003c\/i\u003e, by Hiroshi Nagasaki;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ethics of the Agitator: On Hiroshi Nagasaki’s The Phenomenology of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e by Yoshihiko Ichida;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Perception of Violence, the Violence of Perception, and the Origins of Japan’s 1968\u003c\/i\u003e by William Marotti;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e’68 and the Japanese Women’s Liberation Movement\u003c\/i\u003e by Setsu Shigematsu;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1968 and the Postwar Regime of Emperor-System Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e by Hidemi Suga;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Communist Party since 1968: Between Revolution and Reform\u003c\/i\u003e by Yoshiyuki Koizumi;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Liberation or “Male Romance”? The Gendered Everyday of the Student New Left\u003c\/i\u003e by Chelsea Szendi Schieder;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Undercurrent of Art and Politics in the 1960s: On Gendai Shichōsha\u003c\/i\u003e by Yoshiko Shimada;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e1972: The Structure on the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e by Yutaka Nagahara;\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNight and Fog in Japan: Toward Another Critique of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e by Alberto Toscano; and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Post-’68 Conjuncture\u003c\/i\u003e by Gavin Walker. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSKU: 9781786637222\u003cbr\u003eEditor: Gavin Walker\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Verso Books\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781786637222\u003cbr\u003ePublished: 11\/2020\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePage count: 272\u003cbr\u003eSubjects: 1968, History, Social Movements\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39522246918229,"sku":null,"price":56.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0006\/7554\/5141\/products\/2nd_COVER_PROOF_Red_Years__The-8425ced87f7c3f6fcbd91ed837b522fa.jpg?v=1630622474","url":"https:\/\/shop.workingclasshistory.com\/en-nz\/products\/the-red-years-theory-politics-and-aesthetics-in-the-japanese-68-gavin-walker","provider":"Working Class History | Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}