David Leheny
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Keywords: kokusaika, varieties of capitalism, migration, political economy
DOI: 10.5509/2019924729
Ronald Dore’s 1979 essay about Japan’s “internationalization” tackled one of the defining themes of Japanese politics, society, and culture over the past decades. In his characteristically witty voice, Dore assessed the myriad ways in which a Japan that was well attuned to global cultures was also capable of reaffirming supposed chasms between Japanese society and the world outside, particularly in political and economic matters. In this article, I place Dore’s compelling essay in the contexts both of his own changing views on Japan over the course of his distinguished and prolific career, as well as in the currents of a Japan that has been transformed dramatically over the past three decades by transnational flows that fall outside the prevailing use of the word kokusaika (internationalization). Dore’s contributions to the field displayed not only his keen engagement with Japanese intellectual and social debates, but also moral judgments regarding the values encoded, reproduced, and sometimes betrayed by institutional environments. By extending the logics of Dore’s work, this article suggests that we might think of internationalization as something not only challenging these environments, but also transformed and embedded within them.
罗纳德·道尔转变的日本研究方法中的国际化
关键词: kokusaika(国际化);资本主义类型说;移民;政治经济学。
罗纳德·道尔于1979年发表的关于日本“国际化”的论文针对了过去几十年来主导日本政治、社会以及文化的主题。道尔用他特有的风趣语言评析了熟捻全球文化的日本是怎样也能通过各种方式加深日本社会与外部世界之间的所谓鸿沟。本文中,我将道尔这篇令人信服的论文置于双重背景中考察,一方面是他精彩及多产的职业生涯过程中不断演进的观点,另一方面是过去三十多年来为跨国力量影响下显著转型的日本,为kokusaika (国际化)一词的流行用法所不查的各种发展潮流。 道尔对研究领域所做的贡献不仅展示出他对日本思想和社会讨论的敏锐洞察和参与,而且也显示出对以内在编码方式内生于社会制度中,以及为社会制度所生产并经常被其背叛的社会价值的道德判断。通过对道尔作品的逻辑的拓展,本论文提出我们或许可以 视国际化为不仅仅挑战这些社会环境,而且对它们加以转化,并且深植其中。
Translated from English by Li Guo
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