This “manifestly publication” invites the reader to subvert disabling normativities of neoliberal, imperial-capitalist, cis-heteropatriarchal time, space, and intra-corporeal relations.

Present research deals with the civil society and social advocacy regarding the Special Secrecy Law in contemporary Japan. The purpose of this work is to examine the ability of the civil society groups to influence the governmental policymaking by tracking the activities of an NGO network in its resistance towards the Special Secrecy Law in a case study, which acts as a mean to examine the process of influencing governmental decision making.