TY - BOOK
T1 - New Worlds from Below: Informal life Politics and Grassroots Action in Twenty-First Century Northeast Asia
AU - Morris-Suzuki, Tessa
AU - Soh, Eun Jeong
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - n 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 across Asia are finding new ways to take control of their own lives, respond to threats to their physical and cultural survival, and build better futures. This collection of essays by prominent scholars and activists traces the rise of a quiet politics of survival from the villages of China to Japan’s Minamata and Fukushima, and from the street art of Seoul and Hong Kong to the illegal markets of North Korea. Introducing an innovative conceptual framework, New Worlds from Below shows how informal grassroots politics in Northeast Asia is generating new ideas and practices that have region-wide and global relevance.
AB - n 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 across Asia are finding new ways to take control of their own lives, respond to threats to their physical and cultural survival, and build better futures. This collection of essays by prominent scholars and activists traces the rise of a quiet politics of survival from the villages of China to Japan’s Minamata and Fukushima, and from the street art of Seoul and Hong Kong to the illegal markets of North Korea. Introducing an innovative conceptual framework, New Worlds from Below shows how informal grassroots politics in Northeast Asia is generating new ideas and practices that have region-wide and global relevance.
U2 - 10.22459/NWFB.03.2017
DO - 10.22459/NWFB.03.2017
M3 - Book
SN - 9781760460907
BT - New Worlds from Below: Informal life Politics and Grassroots Action in Twenty-First Century Northeast Asia
PB - ANU Press
CY - Acton, Australia
ER -