Rin Ushiyama (Queen's University Belfast)

Aum Shinrikyo and Religious Terrorism in Japanese Collective Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representations of the 'Aum Affair' have hindered social repair and reconciliation.

Produktdetails

• British Academy Monographs
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780197267370
• ISBN-10: 0197267378
• Artikelnr.: 66170394

Autorenporträt

Rin Ushiyama is Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, a post he has held since 2021. He holds a PhD in Sociology (2017) from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. Previously, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology, Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. He is currently a Co-Editor of Cultural Sociology (British Sociological Association/SAGE). He is a cultural and political sociologist interested in contested memories of violence, including war, terrorism, and colonialism with a regional focus on East Asia. His latest research investigates historical denial in the context of contemporary Japan and East Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Towards a Multi-layered Account of Collective Memory
3: The Prelude to Destruction: the 1994 Matsumoto Sarin Attack
4: Shock and Anger: Societal Responses to the Tokyo Subway Attack
5: Commemorating Crisis: State, Media, and Civil Responses to the Aum Affair
6: Public Intellectuals and the Struggle over Mind Control
7: Performing Victimhood: Pursuing Justice after Tragedy
8: The Trauma of Perpetrators
9: Conclusions