Research Focus Group Talk: Epistemological Revolution in Japan’s Long 1968
2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies SSMS UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA focus on student actors has often led historians of Japan to dismiss the idea of epochal change in “the long 1968.” This talk adopts the perspective of the older generation of Japanese social scientists to show these years as a watershed in the basis of authoritative knowledge. The existing historiography often presents these scholars as reactionary. I show how they, in concert with their colleagues abroad, actually anticipated and indeed accelerated epistemological revolution. Born ...