“…Educational developments in postwar Japan cannot be adequately understood today without a knowledge of the basic issues underlying the interminable controversy between the Japanese Ministry of Education and the left-wing Japan Teachers Union, Nikkyoso.Japan’s Militant Teachers is the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the origin and development of the fundamental issues in this struggle. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Literature review -- 2.1 Right-wing populism -- 2.2 Nationalism(s) -- 2.3 Nationalism and populism -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3 Theoretical framework -- 3.1 Post-structuralism: undecidability and the impossibility of social closure -- 3.2 Neo-Gramscianism: hegemony, contingency and articulation -- 3.3 The political according to Laclau: post-foundationalism, discourse and competition -- 3.4 The populist radical right, populism and nationalism -- 4 Methodology -- 4.1 Overcoming the limitations of other Discourse Theory methodologies for the analysis of discursive formations -- 4.2 What kind of discourse analysis? …”

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