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Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo

Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building... CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo, by Janet Borland, Harvard University Asia Center (Harvard East Asian monograph series 434), 2020, 330 pp., $32 USD (paperback), ISBN 9780674247833 The historical record is relatively silent regarding children and their experiences but, fortu- nately, not all traces have been lost to time. Some scholars have probed the boundaries of what the historical sources offer, uncovering materials, angles, and questions that prove relevant and productive to a wide range of issues. In the most exciting cases, the resulting analyses change how we frame the problem at hand. In her recent book, Earthquake Children, Janet Borland achieves just that by complicating our understanding of and productively intertwining two strains of history that have been heretofore told separately: the history of children, and the history of earthquake response. Borland has wisely chosen her fault lines. Analyses of the impact of earthquakes on the environment, life, and culture across the Japanese archipelago can be found in a growing body of multidisciplinary scholarship – ranging from Gregory Clancey’s Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 (Clancey, 2006) and Gennifer http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Japan Taylor & Francis

Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo

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Contemporary Japan , Volume 35 (1): 4 – Jan 2, 2023
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Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo

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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo, by Janet Borland, Harvard University Asia Center (Harvard East Asian monograph series 434), 2020, 330 pp., $32 USD (paperback), ISBN 9780674247833 The historical record is relatively silent regarding children and their experiences but, fortu- nately, not all traces have been lost to time. Some scholars have probed the boundaries of what...
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CONTEMPORARY JAPAN BOOK REVIEW Children, cement, and catastrophe go well together. Review of Earthquake children: Building resilience from the ruins of Tokyo, by Janet Borland, Harvard University Asia Center (Harvard East Asian monograph series 434), 2020, 330 pp., $32 USD (paperback), ISBN 9780674247833 The historical record is relatively silent regarding children and their experiences but, fortu- nately, not all traces have been lost to time. Some scholars have probed the boundaries of what the historical sources offer, uncovering materials, angles, and questions that prove relevant and productive to a wide range of issues. In the most exciting cases, the resulting analyses change how we frame the problem at hand. In her recent book, Earthquake Children, Janet Borland achieves just that by complicating our understanding of and productively intertwining two strains of history that have been heretofore told separately: the history of children, and the history of earthquake response. Borland has wisely chosen her fault lines. Analyses of the impact of earthquakes on the environment, life, and culture across the Japanese archipelago can be found in a growing body of multidisciplinary scholarship – ranging from Gregory Clancey’s Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868–1930 (Clancey, 2006) and Gennifer

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Contemporary Japan – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jan 2, 2023

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