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New worlds from below : informal life politics and grassroots action in twenty-first century Northeast Asia /

In Asia today, the grand ideologies of the past have lost their power over the popular imagination. Even in many of the region's democracies, popular engagement in the political process faces profound challenges. Yet amidst this landscape of political disenchantment, groups of ordinary people a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Editor ), Soh, Eun Jeong (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017.
Colección:Asian studies series monograph ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Social change and rediscovering rural reconstruction in China
  • A century of social alternatives in a Japanese mountain community
  • Transnational activism and Japan's second modernity
  • Animism: a grassroots response to socioenvironmental crisis in Japan
  • Informal labour, local citizens and the Tokyo Electric Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis: responses to neoliberal disaster management
  • National subjects, citizens and refugees: thoughts on the politics of survival, violence and mourning following the Sewol ferry disaster in South Korea
  • Thinking of art as informal life politics in Hong Kong
  • Informal life politics of marketization in North Korea
  • Social innovation in Asia: trends and characteristics in China, Korea, India, Japan and Thailand
  • Epilogue.