The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia / edited by Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Shuge Wei.
Cliff, Tom, editor.; Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, editor.; Wei, Shuge, editor.
2018
JA76
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Title The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia / edited by Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Shuge Wei.
ISBN 9789811063374
9811063370
9811063362
9789811063367
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4
Published Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages 14 illustrations, 2 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4 doi
Call Number JA76
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.2
Summary 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.
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Added Author Cliff, Tom, editor.
Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, editor.
Wei, Shuge, editor.
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Living Politics: Social Alternatives and the Crisis of Democracy
Part I
Ignoring the Attention-seeking State
Survival as Citizenship, or Citizenship as Survival? Imagined and Transient Political Groups in Urban China
Self-help is Political: How Organic Farming Creates an Autonomous Space Within the South Korean Nation State
Part II
Leveraging Informal Networks for Survival Politics
Informal Grassland Protection Networks in Inner Mongolia
Forest, Music, and Farming: The Takae Anti-helipad Movement and Everyday Life as Political Space
Part III
Alternative Value Creation
The Dilemmas of Peach Blossom Valley: The Resurgence of Rice-terrace Farming in Gongliao District, Taiwan
The Neverending Story: Alternative Exchange and Living Politics in a Japanese Regional Community
Improvising the Future.

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