Editors:
- Examines the changing relationship between political ideas and political action
- Considers how grassroots actions in East Asia generate political ideas
- Focuses on the primacy of action in the social and political realm in China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Citizenships
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Front Matter
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Alternatives
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century, considering how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions, and how they adapt their actions to the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the nexus between ideas and action in a world where the conventional ‘right-left’ divide has a decreasing hold on the political imagination. Examining grassroots self-help actions as responses to everyday life problems, it argues that whilst action may be initiated by encounters with ideas that come into the community from outside, often the flow of cause and effect works in the opposite direction. Focusing on countries both politically dynamic and with long-standing historical and cultural connections - China (including Inner Mongolia), Japan, Taiwan and Korea – this book fills a significant gap in the literature on social movements, demonstrating that survival itself is a political act.
Keywords
- Social Movements and Politics in Asia
- Community Action and Social Networks in East Asia
- Survival Politics and Grassroots Improvisation
- Political Groups in Urban China
- Informal Networks and Politics
- Takae Anti-Helipad Movement in Okinawa
- Politics of Being Apolitical
- South Korean Organic Farming Movement
Editors and Affiliations
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Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Shuge Wei
About the editors
Tom Cliff is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Australian National University. His research focuses on the role of the informal institutions of family and enterprise in responding to economic uncertainty and the ageing population in China. His book Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang was published in June 2016.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Distinguished Professor of Japanese History and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, Australian National University. Her research addresses informal life politics in Japan, and on issues of migration and of history and memory in East Asia. Her books include Borderline Japan: (2010) and East Asia Beyond the History War (2013).
Shuge Wei is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Australian National University. Her research interests include grassroots movement in Taiwan and China, Chinese media history, Sino-Japanese war and Chinese political culture. Her book News under Fire: China’s Propaganda against Japanin the English-Language Press, 1928-1941 was published in 2017.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia
Editors: Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Shuge Wei
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6336-7Published: 21 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4859-4Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6337-4Published: 04 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 246
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Political Theory, Sociology of Citizenship