The Living Politics of Self Help Movements in East Asia 1st Edition by Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris Suzuki, Shuge Wei ISBN 9789811063367 9811063362

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ISBN 10: 9811063362

ISBN 13:  9789811063367

Author: Tom Cliff, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Shuge Wei

 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 in a world where the conventional ‘right-left’ divide has a decreasing hold on the political imagination. Examining grassroots self-help actions as responses to everyday life problems, it argues that whilst action may be initiated by encounters with ideas that come into the community from outside, often the flow of cause and effect works in the opposite direction. Focusing on countries both politically dynamic and with long-standing historical and cultural connections – China (including Inner Mongolia), Japan, Taiwan and Korea – this book fills a significant gap in the literature on social movements, demonstrating that survival itself is a political act.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: Living Politics—Social Alternatives and the Crisis of Democracy

2. Concept Essay One: Ignoring the Attention-Seeking State

3. Survival as Citizenship, or Citizenship as Survival? Imagined and Transient Political Groups in Urban China

4. Self-Help Is Political: How Organic Farming Creates an Autonomous Space Within the South Korean Nation State

5. Concept Essay Two: Leveraging Informal Networks for Survival Politics

6. Informal Grassland Protection Networks in Inner Mongolia

7. Forest, Music, and Farming: The Takae Anti-Helipad Movement and Everyday Life as Political Space

8. Concept Essay Three: Alternative Value Creation

9. The Dilemmas of Peach Blossom Valley: The Resurgence of Rice-Terrace Farming in Gongliao District, Taiwan

10. The Neverending Story: Alternative Exchange and Living Politics in a Japanese Regional Community

11. Epilogue: Improvising the Future

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