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Social Processes and Effects of Innovations

in Tokyo and beyond – Workshop of the IN-EAST School of Advanced Studies  |  Wed/Thu, November 7–8, 2018, 13.15 h |  Geibelstr. 41, 47057 Duisburg, SG 183

The metropolitan area of Tokyo is still the Japanese seismograph of new social developments in the public sphere, even after nearly two decades of decentralization reforms. Due to the rapid urban and social developments, the metropolitan society offers an ideal forum for social innovations.
With presenters from sociology, political science and cultural studies, the workshop offers various insights of social and urban innovations in the form of new social movements, democratic innovations, and recent urban developments and their effects on the local community.

PROGRAMME

Wed, November 7, 2018
Session I: New Social Movements and Innovative Political Participation

13.15   Welcome and Introduction

13:30   Keiichi Satoh: “New Protest Cycle” Backed by the New Organizational Alliance? – Making Sense of the Frequent Large-Scale Demonstrations after the 3/11

14:15   Anna Wiemann: The Network Coalition E-shift – A New Form of Social Movement Organization?

15:30   Kei Takata: What’s so New about the ‘New New Social Movements’ in Japan?

16:15   Momoyo Hüstebeck: Invited Spaces – Deliberative Innovations in Comparison to Social Movements as Claimed Spaces

17:00   General Discussion / Conclusion

Thu, November 8, 2018
Session II: Social Effects of Urban Innovations

9:15   Introduction

9:30   Takashi Machimura: Tokyo’s Flexible but Uncontrollable City Regions as Innovative Base: Its Past Development and Future Challenges

10:30   Christian Tagsold: The Tokyo Olympics 2020: A Small-Scale but Functional Vision for the Mega-City?

11:15   Deirdre Sneep: “A Global Landmark for Young People” – Urban Innovations and Urban Aging in Light of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

12:45   Wrap Up and Final Conclusion

Download of the Programme with Abstracts and Bios:
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/in-east/events/programm_social_processes.pdf

Contact: Momoyo Hüstebeck
momoyo.huestebeck@uni-due.de
Participation is free. Please register by
events@in-east.de