Ruszel, Julian
Project title: The Neoliberalization of Collectivist Family Structures in Japan
Department: Pacific and Asian Studies
Faculty supervisor: Dr. Andrew Marton and Dr. Hiroko Noro
Working from the premise that family is central to both social order (collectivist or otherwise) and capitalist social formations, this project will incorporate previous sociological and anthropological research to examine changing family structures in Japan since the Edo Period, and employ these models as a basis for clarifying the ongoing dialectic between the stark individualism of neoliberalism and the collectivist social structures and identities of traditional Japanese society."