Title: Community resilience to a developmental shock: a case study of a rural village in Nagano, Japan
Abstract:This paper offers a historical case study of rural community response to a 'developmental shock', by focusing on the controversy over a golf resort project in the forested alluvial fan area of a rural...This paper offers a historical case study of rural community response to a 'developmental shock', by focusing on the controversy over a golf resort project in the forested alluvial fan area of a rural agrarian village in Japan during the 1970s. At a glance, the controversy seems to represent a story of well-coordinated local social/resident movements, led by a local leader with foresight and connections to non-local resources, which successfully countered the externally imposed project. Our study reveals that behind the overt form of resistance, critical agency to facilitate both the resistance and resilience of the community arose from 'local outsiders' (i.e. new settlers to the village) whose voice was legitimised through traditional local institutions of communal decision-making. The case study also highlights a subtle, but critical role of embodied cultural capital of local actors that kept the community from serious social divides through the controversy, further contributing to high community resilience.Read More
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-06-08
Language: en
Type: article
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