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This article represents an analysis of the cultural assumptions that are involved in the implementation of coproduction schemes. Through a case study of a garbage disposal scheme in a Japanese city, two interrelated themes are examined: (a) the nature of programs of coproduction as universal arrangements for the creation and delivery of urban services, and (b) the peculiar Japanese models and premises that form part of the implementation of such programs in that sociocultural context. The article also includes an examination of how the Japanese case may contribute toward an understanding of the assumptions that lie behind the introduction of coproduction arrangements in other cultural contexts.

"This book offers a comparative study of military reserves in contemporary democracies. A combination of budgetary pressures, new missions and emerging military roles during the past three decades has led the armed forces of democracies to rethink the training and use of reserve forces. Moreover, reservists have become central to the armed forces as part of moves towards "total" or "comprehensive" defense. Despite this, a scholarly bias towards studying regulars and conscripts means that reservists and reserve soldiers continue to receive only marginal attention. This volume fills that lacuna through a series of country studies examining how best to understand the peculiarities of reservist service. In contrast to regulars and conscripts, reservists are marked by their dual management of civilian and military careers, different family dynamics, diverse motivations and commitment to the armed forces, the material and non-material incentives they are offered, and their place in the political sphere. This volume suggests two frames to make sense of such differences: first, it looks at reservists as "transmigrants" traveling between the military and civilian worlds; and, second, it analyzes the multiple informal "contracts" and negotiations that bind them to the military. All the chapters adopt these conceptualizations, granting the volume a common focus and integrative frame. The volume will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, civil-military relations, sociology and International Relations"--

"This book offers a comparative study of military reserves in contemporary democracies. A combination of budgetary pressures, new missions and emerging military roles during the past three decades has led the armed forces of democracies to rethink the training and use of reserve forces. Moreover, reservists have become central to the armed forces as part of moves towards "total" or "comprehensive" defense. Despite this, a scholarly bias towards studying regulars and conscripts means that reservists and reserve soldiers continue to receive only marginal attention. This volume fills that lacuna through a series of country studies examining how best to understand the peculiarities of reservist service. In contrast to regulars and conscripts, reservists are marked by their dual management of civilian and military careers, different family dynamics, diverse motivations and commitment to the armed forces, the material and non-material incentives they are offered, and their place in the political sphere. This volume suggests two frames to make sense of such differences: first, it looks at reservists as "transmigrants" traveling between the military and civilian worlds; and, second, it analyzes the multiple informal "contracts" and negotiations that bind them to the military. All the chapters adopt these conceptualizations, granting the volume a common focus and integrative frame. The volume will be of much interest to students of military and strategic studies, civil-military relations, sociology and International Relations"--

Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari -- A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish -- Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka -- The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is worthy of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp -- Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy -- Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman -- Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson -- How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma -- The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates -- Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.

Preface -- Chapter 1 Creativity and Innovation in the Media and Cultural Industries: Setting an Agenda for Social and Human Sciences -- Chapter 2 Creative Activity under Attention Scarcity -- Chapter 3. "Outsourcing Taste: Are Algorithms Doing all the Work? -- Chapter 4 Embodied Social Dimensions in the Creative Process: Improvisation, Ethics and Gender in Choreography Classes in Israeli High-school Dance Programs -- Chapter 5 Creative Masses: Creative Exploitation and Corporate Success in Japan's Media Industries -- Chapter 6 Dilemma: Professional Identity Work among Tokyo-based Designers -- Chapter 7 Creativity at the Margins: the 'Golden Age' of Japanese Cinema (1945-1965) -- Chapter 8 Several Things that We Know about Creativity: History, Biography and Affordances in Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 9 Rethinking Copyrights: The Impact of Copying on Cultural Creativity and Diversity -- Chapter 10 Tradition or Innovation? Creativity and Internationalisation in Kyoto's craft industries.