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Democracy on Trial : Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan /

Writing "an ethnography of democracy," Ya-Chung Chuang masterfully describes and analyzes a multifaceted Taiwanese society. Contradicting mainstream research on political cultures, which relies heavily on survey data and statistical analysis, Ya-Chung Chuang produces an anthropologically i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chuang, Ya-Chung, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. State and civil society
  • Democracy's dawn : "quiet revolution" in a national crisis
  • Democracy in action : the making of social movement webs
  • Talking democracy : from normalized political processes to politicized everyday life
  • Part II. Identity and ethnicity
  • Reflexive democracy : Bentu and its discontent
  • Democracy as dream : ethnicity and the politics of recognition
  • Part III. Place and politics
  • (en)gendering democracy : Shequ and urban neighborhood organizing
  • Walking democracy : street life and local politics in a Taipei neighborhood
  • Epilogue : democracy unbound
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.