David Rands

Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo and Osaka in the development of Korean communities in Japan. Analysis of distinct Korean communities allows for the examination of urban factors of each city which contributed to the patterns of Korean immigration and community formation. By utilizing a comparative narrative of the two cities, distinctions between the organic growth of Osaka and the planned city of Tokyo are illuminated. Additionally, the discussion utilizes the concept of function-based spatiality to show how each city interacted with its surrounding regional, national, and global spheres. The functions of Tokyo, as a gateway to Western modernization and center of the Japanese state, shaped the interactions with Korean immigrants. Likewise, Osaka's functions as a center of mercantilism and second city played a large role in how Koreans were incorporated into the urban ethnoscapes. Taken together, these two examples provide insight to the dynamics of urban systems on the development of immigrant communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739173695
• Artikelnr.: 41044738

Autorenporträt

David Rands is director of the Asian studies minor and assistant professor in the Department of History and Philosophy at Austin Peay State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Theoretical Approach Part I Introduction to Part I: Two Very
Different Cities Chapter One: The Historical Development of Osaka's
Synergies Chapter Two: The Historical Development of Tokyo's Synergies Part
II Introduction to Part II: Function-Based Spatiality and the Development
of Korean Communities in Osaka and Tokyo Chapter Three: From Initial
Sojourners through Annexation Chapter Four: Annexation through the Great
Kanto Earthquake Chapter Five: From the Great Kanto Earthquake to Greater
Central Oversight Chapter Six: Increased Central Control. Conscription, and
the End of the War Epilogue: Beginning the Postwar Plight