The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cliff, Tom (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Morris-Suzuki, Tessa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wei, Shuge (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Political sociology.; Political theory.; Citizenship-Sociological aspects.; Political Sociology.; Political Theory.; Sociology of Citizenship.

This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century, considering how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions, and how they adapt their actions to the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the nexus between ideas and action...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Living Politics: Social Alternatives and the Crisis of Democracy
• Part I
• Ignoring the Attention-seeking State
• Survival as Citizenship, or Citizenship as Survival? Imagined and Transient Political Groups in Urban China
• Self-help is Political: How Organic Farming Creates an Autonomous Space Within the South Korean Nation State
• Part II
• Leveraging Informal Networks for Survival Politics
• Informal Grassland Protection Networks in Inner Mongolia
• Forest, Music, and Farming: The Takae Anti-helipad Movement and Everyday Life as Political Space
• Part III
• Alternative Value Creation
• The Dilemmas of Peach Blossom Valley: The Resurgence of Rice-terrace Farming in Gongliao District, Taiwan
• The Neverending Story: Alternative Exchange and Living Politics in a Japanese Regional Community
• Improvising the Future.