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A World Otherwise

Environmental Praxis in Minamata
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This book examines the struggles of those suffering from Minimata disease, eponymous with the Japanese city in which a Chisso factory released methylmercury into the Shiranui Sea, leading to widespread poisonings. Yuki Miyamoto explores Minimata sufferers' struggles, examining their physical pains as well as the emotional plight of having lost their loved ones, their livelihood, and fellowship in communities, to the illness. Miyamoto's analysis focuses on the philosophies and actions of a group, Hongan no kai, comprised of Minamata disease sufferers and their supporters in 1994. Relying on the group's newsletter, "Tamashii utsure," (Transferring the spirit), this monograph explores the ways in which Hongan no kai members have come to terms with their experiences as well as their visions of "a world otherwise" (janaka shaba), where ontology, epistemology, and worldviews are construed differently from those of this modern world.
Chapter 1: Janaka Shaba or A World Otherwise Chapter 2: Modernization, Mercury, and Minamata Chapter 3: The World of the Minamata Fishers: Forgiveness, Gift (nosari), and the Sugimoto Family Chapter 4: Before Good and Evil: Ogata Masato on Spirit/Tamashii Chapter 5: Literature of Dystopia: Ishimure Michiko and the Fragile Power of the Precariousness Chapter 6: Genius Loci and the Discourse of Home Chapter 7: Hongan no Kai and Spiritual Praxis as an Environmental Ethics
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