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REPRESENTING LOCAL PLACES AND RAISING VOICES FROM BELOW Edited by Toshio MIZUUCHI Series Japanese Contributions to the History of Geographical Thought. Issue Date 2003 Type Book Textversion Publisher The copyright of this material is retained by authors. This material is published on Right this web site with the agreement of the authors. Placed on: Osaka City University Repository https://dlisv03.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/il/meta_pub/G0000438repository REPRESENTING LOCAL PLACES AND RAISING VOICES FROM BELOW CONTENTS Preface . MIZUUCHI, Toshio 2 Globalization and Local Cities: Focusing on Cities in Tohoku Area . YOSHIHARA, Naoki 3 The Historical Transformation of Poverty, Discrimination, and Urban Policy in Japanese City: The Case of Osaka . MIZUUCHI, Toshio 12 Geographical Features of Social Polarization in Seoul, South Korea . YIM, Seik-Hoi 31 An Existing Form of Urban Locality Groups in Jakarta: Reexamining RT/RW for the post-New Order Era . DWIANTO, Raphaella D. 41 Locating Trans-border Subjects: Hong Kong Working People in Mainland China . PUN, Ngai 61 To Make Both Ends Meet: A Comparison of Two Paradigms of Public Participation . TAN, Hung-Jen 73 The Dispute on Urban Autonomy Evoked by the Discourse of Garden City: The Case of Japan in the Early 20th Century . NISHIBE, Hitoshi 84 Nature as a Locus of Resistance: Representation and Appropriation of Nature in the Grass-rooted Movement Against the U.S. Military Exercises in Hijudai, Japan . NAKASHIMA, Koji 91 Re-Mapping the Configuration of Regional Identity in Ryukyu Islands . OSHIRO, Naoki 102 Landscapes of National Parks in Taiwan under the Japanese Colonial Period . KANDA, Koji 112 Representation of Local History: The Case of the Onondaga Historical Association in Syracuse, New York . FUKUDA, Tamami 120 Modernization, Industrialization and Regional Change in Japan: A Case of a Coal-Mining Region: Panopticonization towards Space and Society in Modern Japan . TSUTSUMI, Kenji 135 2 ■ Preface The subtitle of this book, ‘Japanese contribution’ and ‘geographical thought’ do not seem to fit the main title. The following list of this series lets us know that they had started nearly a quarter century before. 1: Geographical Languages in Different Times and Places. Edited by Ichiro SUIZU, Kyoto University, Japan, 1980. 2: Languages, Paradigms and Schools in Geography. Edited by Keiichi TAKEUCHI, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, 1984. 3: Cosmology, Epistemology and the History of Geographical Thought, Edited by Hideki Nozawa, Kyushu University, Japan, 1986. 4: Indigenous and Foreign Influences in the Development of Japanese Geographical Thought. Edited by Hideki Nozawa, Kyushu University, Japan, 1989. 5: unedited 6: Social Theory and Geographical Thought, Edited by Hideki Nozawa, Kyushu University, Japan, 1996. 7: Nation, Region and the Politics of Geography in East Asia, Edited by Toshio MIZUUCHI, Osaka City University, 1999. I, as an editor, believe that every contribution to this book goes far beyond the traditional style of geographical studies. We should be glad to know that, during the past quarter century in Japan, many younger talented geographers have emerged and are tackling both with the challenging theoretical and empirical themes. Yes, it is partly true, but we also fear the loss of common ground for the geographical academy in Japan due to the scrap-and-built plan of university system. Amidst the trans-disciplinary wave in the human-social sciences, the ideas and knowledge of geography might become popular among other disciplines, but geographers themselves always feel uneasy, studying in a very small office of geography, and sense how big and profound our field is. In any case, the name of this title expresses our motif that we have to break through thinking and act critically in order for our insight to penetrate into the real world, I would like to express my gratitude, first, to Professor Yoshihara (urban sociologist) who organized the study group for theory of space. He kindly introduced us to Raphaella who contributed her brilliant papers about Jakarta’s urban community. Other papers were mainly produced through our encounters at the conferences of International Critical Geography Group (ICGG) and East Asian Regional Conferences in Alternative Geography (EARCAG). We still keep in mind the statement made at the first EARCAG in Korea, which advocated that Asian scholars must work to extend our understanding of the role of space in Asian development. Along this line, we Asians might find the concepts developed in the West insufficient in understanding our peculiar settings. I hope this collection of papers contributes to the promulgation of the Asian theoretical and empirical message to the world. The financial publication of this book was made possible by the Ministry of Education (MEXT) and Urban-Culture Research Center under the COE projects of Osaka City University. Toshio Mizuuchi 3 Globalization and Local Cities: 1) Focusing on Cities in Tohoku Area YOSHIHARA, Naoki* In this paper, several issues that emerge during analysis on local cities in globalization will be observed by focusing on local cities in Tohoku area. In the first part, the author will observe the context of review on modernity which is brought about by globalization, by clarifying the social connotation of locality / ‘individuality of place’ through reexamination of ‘central - local’ framework. In the next part, the author will focus on local cities in Tohoku area, to clarify the strong connection of ‘peripheral Tohoku local cities’ with the mechanism of modernity, while observing how is the ‘far and away Tohoku society’ changing inside the wavering nation state, and how it shows in the present form of Sendai as a regional core city. And based on the above arguments, in the last part, while exploring the issue on theory of typologies of cities in post nation-state, the author will once again observe the contents of meaning of locality. I. Globalization and Locality Along with the progress of globalization, social connotation of locality, which can no longer be captured in the conventional frame work of ‘central-local’ converged on nation-society, is being widely talked about. If we look back, for a considerably long period of time, modern city has been positioned inside the framework of the above-mentioned ‘central-local,’ which is after all the structure of modern nation-state. ‘Modern nation-state dissolved herself in the movement of “uniformity and accumulation” that led various opposite factors in the composition of labor force which took shape inside a national economy, into one “central”. Furthermore, an illusion called communal society was formed inside the mechanism of nation-state, and various movements of discriminating or classing in the society were integrated towards the “nationalization of civil society (Saito Hideharu).” In this “nationalization of civil society,” the so called “civilian public sphere” occupied an important position. ... and as “integrating institution” (Yazaki Takeo) or “knotting institution” (Suzuki Eitaro) which appeared on such “civilian public sphere,” city functioned more than just as a media’ (Yoshihara, 2000: 25-26). Also, according to Marxist discourses which posited city as the ‘cohesive point of market relations’ (Lenin - Otsuka Hisao - Shimazaki Minoru), city was put inside the context of modernity basically. And when it comes to local city, local city placed itself as being integrated into the ‘central’ metropolitan area in a subordinating position, while placing its feet firmly in the * Tohoku University, JAPAN [email protected] 4 context of modernity. Consequently, it was usual to place ‘local’ as ‘peripheral’ or ‘inferior.’ Such composition was accelerated by a series of post-war regional development, and the supporting factor for this was no other than the ‘local/periphery’s motion of getting caught inside the merciless centripetal force of the central’ (Yoshihara, 1997: 73). However, globalization has made an inroad upon the foundation of modern nation -state/national economy, and this brought about a new ‘local’ = locality which can no longer be contained in the aforementioned circle of ‘central-local’, ‘center-periphery’. In other words, this is the ‘local’ = locality which emerged as the paradox of globalization, or what McGrew points out as the five consequences of globalization, namely ‘universalization vs. particularization,’ ‘homogenization vs. differentiation,’ ‘integration vs. fragmentation,’ ‘centralization vs. decentralization,’ ‘juxtaposition vs. syncretization,’ in which linkage to place and locale serves as the mutual base (McGrew, 1992: 74-75) 2). There are of course some arguments, such as David Harvey’s, which identify the above-mentioned paradox of globalization and localization as an effect of differentiation by capital. However, there is one important point to be emphasized, i.e. while in some parts it resonates the argument which tries to reinstate the ‘diverse local’ which has been denied by modern nation-state, there emerges a stand point which tries to discover new development factors in local cities. Some recent arguments on cities in Tohoku area give emphasis for example on ‘individuality of place’ (Takahashi Hidehiro) or ‘social bases inherent in city’ (Hashimoto Kazutaka). Incited by the argument mentioning city’s ‘original individuality’ as the ‘local indigenous asset’ (Sasaki Masayuki), Takahashi captures ‘individuality of place’ as a totality of ‘ human resources or subjective factors in the economic development