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The State Bearing Gifts: Deception and Disaffection in Japanese Higher Education
by McVeigh, Brian J.
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Using Japanese higher education as a case study, author Brian J. McVeigh explores the varieties of 'exchange dramatics' among the Education Ministry, universities, faculty, and students. With one eye on large-scale processes and the other on everyday practices, he elucidates trafficking between micro- and macro-levels and key concepts of 'value, ' 'exchange, ' and 'role performance' by studying how political economy configures dramatization and deception at the everyday level. Relying on extensive ethnographic participant observation and the notion of the 'gift, ' McVeigh challenges the commonly accepted idea of 'social contract' for understanding state-society relations. Written to be read as both a political and philosophical commentary and anthropological investigation, this work has theoretical implications for comparative studies of political systems, particularly regarding the relation between self-deception and the ideological manufacture of legitima
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: McVeigh, Brian J.
- ISBN: 9780739113448
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.36 x 1.09
- Number Of Pages: 308
- Publication Year: 2006
Language:
English