Synergistic Nativism: State-Society Relations and Japan’s Nativist Right-Wing Movement Mobilization

• In Event: Social Movements in East Asia

Brief Overview

This paper develops a theoretical model to explain how Japan’s state-society relationship facilitates nativist movement mobilization from the discursive interaction between political and civil societies to produce a mainstreaming of nativist beliefs.

Author

• Ken Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY