Overview
- The only edited book examining social movements in East Asia
- A direct contrast to books focused on Western social movements and the societies they're born from
- International volume with contributors from throughout East Asia
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies (NCSS)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Japanese Society, Culture, and Politics
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Japan
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Introduction to Korean Society, Culture, and Politics
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Front Matter
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Korea
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Introduction to Taiwanese Society, Culture, and Politics
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Front Matter
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Introduction to Hong Kong History and Society
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Keywords
About this book
In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society. In studying civil society in Asia, a different understanding of history, politics, and society is needed. The region’s long traditions of centralized, authoritarian states buttressed by Confucian and in some cases Communist ideologies may render this concept irrelevant.
The chapters in this international volume cover most of the areas and countries traditionally defined as belonging to East Asia: Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and China. The case studies included in this volume confront the utility of using the Western concept of civil society, represented in its most active form – social movements – to think about East Asia popular politics. Along with providing an array of important case studies of social movements in East Asia, the introduction, chapters and conclusion in the book take up three major theoretical questions:
- the effect of the East Asian cultural, social and institutional context upon the mobilization, activities and outcomes of social movements in that region,
- the role of social movements in larger transformative processes,
- utility of Western social movement concepts in explaining social movements in East Asia.
This book will be of interest to two major groups of readers, those who study East Asia and those who pursue social movements and civil society, as well as politics more generally.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“East Asian Social Movements is a very timely collection for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in, wrestling with, and working with the dynamic relationships between and among social movements, nonprofit and voluntary organizing, democratic processes, culture, and context. … The thought-provoking collection merits the attention of all studying and working in the international and interdisciplinary field of social movements and nonprofit and voluntary organizing.” (Yea-Wen Chen, Voluntas, Vol. 24, March, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: East Asian Social Movements
Book Subtitle: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region
Editors: Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman
Series Title: Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09626-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-09625-4Published: 15 December 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2785-8Published: 25 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-09626-1Published: 07 January 2011
Series ISSN: 1568-2579
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 516
Topics: Sociology, general, Political Science, Regional and Cultural Studies