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This view is advanced by other anthropologists hoping to illustrate that civil society discourse is “marked by expressions of strong desires, hopes, and fears” (Rutherford 2004: 124).
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As opposed to, for instance, an NGO that is “registered” with the appropriate authorities and has minuted meetings.
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Information from short biography on the Def Tech website (see http://www.deftech.jp).
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See Def Tech profile on the NHK website http://archives.nhk.or.jp/chronicle/B10002200090608200030052/.
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See White, in Ronald and Alexy (2009).
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White, B. (2010). The Soft Advocacy of Music Fandom: Japanese Youth and the Building of Civic Infrastructures of the Mind. In: Vinken, H., Nishimura, Y., White, B., Deguchi, M. (eds) Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1504-7_10
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