Part1: (Re)lating Localities as Lived Spaces in Japan
1. Locality in Sh?nai: Scale, Containers, Fields, and Horizons
2. Localized yet Deterritorialized Lives in Rural Japan: Fragmented Localities, Mobility, and Neoliberalism
3. Rur-bane Relations: Assemblage and Cosmopolitics in Central Hokkaido
4. The Meaning of Place for Selfhood and Well-being in Rural Japan
Part2: Local Social Worlds at Risk
5. Localizing the Nuclear: Risk Normalization and Sense of Place after Fukushima
6. Mapping the Local Economy of Care: Social Welfare and Volunteerism in Local Communities
7. San’ya ? The Making and Unmaking of a Welfare Quarter
Part3: Localities under Contestation
8. Defending the Local: Resident Activism against Municipal Mergers in Postwar Rural Japan
9. Local Governance of Public Transport Services: Maintaining Identity and Independence after the Heisei Mergers
10. Territorialized yet Fluid Locality: Reform, Consolidation, and the More-than-Human in Japanese Fishery Cooperatives
11. The Reinterpretation of Locality and Place in the Wine Industry of Yamanashi Prefecture
Part4: Local?National Dynamics
12. Furusato N?zei Tax: Local Place in National Tax Policy and the Dynamics of Locality
13. Uprooting the Political Landscape: How Municipal Mergers Untethered the Local from National Politics
14. Competing Conceptions of Local Democracy in Japan
Part5: Coda
15. Earth is our Locale: Decentering and Decelerating the Human in the Anthropocene