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Parks without purpose: symbolic infrastructure and the politics of visibility - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Kanji Watanabe, the senior Japanese bureaucrat who is the central character in Akira Kurosawa’s movie Ikiru, learns he has terminal cancer. After decades of stamping meaningless files, he realises he has achieved nothing satisfactory in his life. In one harrowing scene, he sits in the dark while his son and daughter-in-law discuss his death, not with grief, but with quiet excitement about the pension they will receive. To me, that moment of invi…
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Parks without purpose: symbolic infrastructure and the politics of visibility - Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Kanji Watanabe, the senior Japanese bureaucrat who is the central character in Akira Kurosawa’s movie Ikiru, learns he has terminal cancer. After decades of stamping meaningless files, he realises he has achieved nothing satisfactory in his life. In one harrowing scene, he sits in the dark while his son and daughter-in-law discuss his death, not with grief, but with quiet excitement about the pension they will receive. To me, that moment of invi…
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