Japanese rural resettlers: communities with newcomers as heterotopic spaces

Q2 Social Sciences

Asian anthropology Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1683478X.2021.2016134

Ksenia Kurochkina

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Abstract

Abstract The increasing number of young urbanites settling into the countryside of Japan compels urgent research on communities with newcomers and newly emerging lifestyles. This article explores the daily practices of newcomers to rural areas to understand the complexity of the transformation of rurality in contemporary post-growth Japan. This study was conducted in 2011–2015 and draws upon ethnographic data from rural communities. The article details three distinctive lifestyles practiced by rural newcomers: self-sufficiency in food, agro-entrepreneurship, and an “average” way of life. This article analyzes contemporary rural Japan through the lens of heterotopia as a specific characteristic of modern space where seemingly incompatible sites are set side by side. Highlighting the complexity of contemporary rural spaces allows for challenging the norms of conventional perceptions of rurality.

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日本农村移民：以新移民为异位空间的社区

越来越多的年轻城市居民定居到日本农村，迫切需要对新移民和新兴生活方式的社区进行研究。本文探讨了新到农村地区的人的日常实践，以了解当代后增长时期日本农村转型的复杂性。这项研究于2011-2015年进行，并利用了农村社区的民族志数据。这篇文章详细介绍了农村新移民的三种独特的生活方式:粮食自给自足、农业创业和“普通”生活方式。本文通过异托邦的视角来分析当代日本农村，这是一种现代空间的特殊特征，在这种空间中，看似不相容的地点并排放置。突出当代乡村空间的复杂性，可以挑战传统乡村观念的规范。

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Asian anthropology Social Sciences-Anthropology

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