Um anarquismo menor: práticas libertárias no Japão imperial

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Luíza Uehara de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/22418
• topic: Anarquismo - Japão; Kokutai - Japão; Expansão de vida; Japão - História; Anarchism - Japan; Kokutai - Japan; Expansion of life; Japan - History; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

The word Harmony usually refers to a sense of tranquility, a pleasant melody to one’s ears, or some balance. In Japan, one of the origins of this word is the Kokutai (national entity), an official document released during the second half of Tokugawa period that stated the absence of conflict and the worship of the Emperor. The Kokutai has changed over the years and become not only a document but a tradition that would lead to obedience and devotion to the Emperor, a rigid hierarchy, and the persecution to anyone who intended to carry out any change towards this organization. Given this false Japanese harmony, the present work investigated libertarian practices in Japan through the anarchists papers in Brazil, Switzerland, and Japan, using a genealogical analysis of power proposed by Michel Foucault, and the concept of monument archive expressed in the anarchist heterotopias developed by Edson Passetti. Those are not spaces to embrace History as a whole, nonetheless, they target the vitality within the anarchist struggles. Therefore, it shows the libertarian practices in the Empire of Japan, with the invention of new costums and the direct struggles against the obedience spread and reinforced by the Kokutai. The anarchists created associations, journals, provided translations, kept contact with other anarchists around the planet, experienced free love, argued among themselves in passionate altercations, transformed themselves, embraced terrorism, faced death and, sometimes, suicide. The present work also shows how anarchist struggles unfolded at the post–World War II, the anarchists responses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and their pacifist struggles. These practices are placed as the expansion of life, a concept developed by the anarchist Ōsugi Sakae, understood as the constant untraining of obedience, and the assertion of a free life in the fight against the State conquests such as the government, the police, voting, the justice court, and morals. These are practices of a minor anarchism in a continuous fight against government and centralized authority. No compromises or arrangements but the affirmation of revolt