Becoming One : Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar

Becoming One Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar

International development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by exploring the work of OISCA*, a prominent Japanese NGO in central Myanmar. OISCA's postwar origins at the intersection of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watanabe, Chika, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press [2019]
Subjects:
Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement-International.
Non-governmental organizations > Japan.
Agricultural development projects > Burma.
Agricultural assistance, Japanese > Burma.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438744106719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Glossary and Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Moral Imaginations of Becoming One
  • Chapter 1. A History of the Nonreligious
  • Chapter 2. The Politics of "Shinto" Environmentalism
  • Chapter 3. Making a Universal Furusato (Homeplace)
  • Chapter 4. Muddy Labor
  • Chapter 5. Being Like Family
  • Chapter 6. Discipline as Care
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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