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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Chuang, Ya-Chung, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politics and culture > Taiwan.
Social movements > Taiwan.
Democracy > Taiwan.
Taiwan > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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