Living Conviviality in Inter-disaster…

Living Conviviality in Inter-disaster and Declining Era: Lessons from Disaster Recovery 
Takumi Miyamoto

186 mm x 130 mm
176 pages
JPY 1,700
ISBN 9784790717942
Pub date: October 2024

In a society with a declining and aging population, how have disaster-stricken areas regained their vitality? A practical guide to live conviviality in an age of decline. Based on 20 years of practical research, this book proposes new ways to change organizations and ourselves.

Points of Appeal
1) Elucidating the mechanism of community change
2) Practical application of group dynamics
3) Principles and laws based on real-life examples of disaster recovery
4) Interactive reading experience

Table of Contents
Preface

Introduction:  Rethinking The Emperor’s New Clothes
--What is group dynamics for everyone?

Chapter 1:  Working on disaster recovery in a declining area
--Ethnography of the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake

Chapter 2:  When support stumbles
--“Aiming at” relation and “spending time together” relation

Chapter 3:  How can a community change itself?
--Being endogenously motivated

Chapter 4:  How to change a group?
--Putting it into words in front of everyone

Chapter 5:  What if we don't pretend we didn’t see it?
--Overcoming collective denial

Conclusion:  “Take care of them” instead of “support them”
--Living conviviality in inter-disaster and declining era

Notes
Afterwords

Author Information
Takumi Miyamoto
Born in 1984 in Osaka. Ph.D. in Human Sciences. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University. Vice President of CODE Citizens towards Overseas Disaster Emergency, a Non-Profit Organization. He conducts research in disaster-stricken and depopulated areas on how to deal with “problems” that are not just the way people in the world see them.