Student Activism In Asia

Author : Meredith Leigh Weiss,Edward Aspinall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780816679690

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Student Activism in Asia by Meredith Leigh Weiss,Edward Aspinall Pdf

Since World War II, students in East and Southeast Asia have led protest movements that toppled authoritarian regimes in countries such as Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. Elsewhere in the region, student protests have shaken regimes until they were brutally suppressed--most famously in China's Tiananmen Square and in Burma. But despite their significance, these movements have received only a fraction of the notice that has been given to American and European student protests of the 1960s and 1970s. The first book in decades to redress this neglect, Student Activism in Asia tells the story of student protest movements across Asia. Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative approach, the contributors examine ten countries, focusing on those where student protests have been particularly fierce and consequential: China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Indonesia, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. They explore similarities and differences among student movements in these countries, paying special attention to the influence of four factors: higher education systems, students' collective identities, students' relationships with ruling regimes, and transnational flows of activist ideas and inspirations. The authors include leading specialists on student activism in each of the countries investigated. Together, these experts provide a rich picture of an important tradition of political protest that has ebbed and flowed but has left indelible marks on Asia's sociopolitical landscape. Contributors: Patricio N. Abinales, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Prajak Kongkirati, Thammasat U, Thailand; Win Min, Vahu Development Institute; Stephan Ortmann, City U of Hong Kong; Mi Park, Dalhousie U, Canada; Patricia G. Steinhoff, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Mark R. Thompson, City U of Hong Kong; Teresa Wright, California State U, Long Beach.

Author : Meredith Leigh Weiss
Publisher : Southeast Asia Program Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : College students
ISBN : 0877277842

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Student Activism in Malaysia by Meredith Leigh Weiss Pdf

This work traces the early rise and subsequent decline of politically effective student activism in Malaysia, shedding new light on the dynamics of mobilization and on the key role of students and universities in postcolonial political development.

Author : Nishant Shah,Sumandro Chattapadhyay,Puthiya Purayil Sneha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3957960509

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Digital Activism in Asia Reader by Nishant Shah,Sumandro Chattapadhyay,Puthiya Purayil Sneha Pdf

The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West's attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. This reader crowd-sources critical tools, concepts, analyses, and annotations, self-identified by a network of change makers in Asia as important in their own practices within their own contexts.

Author : Russell Jeung,Karen Umemoto,Harvey Dong,Eric Mar,Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani,Arnold Pan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Asian American college students
ISBN : 0934052549

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Mountain Movers by Russell Jeung,Karen Umemoto,Harvey Dong,Eric Mar,Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani,Arnold Pan Pdf

On the beginnings of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State University, and UCLA.

Author : Xiaoping Li
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841368

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Voices Rising by Xiaoping Li Pdf

This interdisciplinary inquiry examines Asian Canadian political and cultural activism around community building, identity making, racial equity, and social justice. Informed by a postcolonial and postmodern cultural critique, it traces the trajectory of progressive cultural discourse generated by Asian Canadian cultural activists over the course of several generations. Xiaoping Li draws on historical sources and personal testimonies to convincingly demonstrate how culture acts as a means of engagement with the political and social world. He addresses topical issues of "race," ethnicity, identity, and transculturalism.

Author : Lorenzo Cini,Donatella della Porta,César Guzmán-Concha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030757540

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Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism by Lorenzo Cini,Donatella della Porta,César Guzmán-Concha Pdf

This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological significance. More specifically, its eleven chapters explore the role of students as political actors: their ability to build effective organizations, to make political alliances with other actors, and to win public consensus, as well as their impact on cultural, political, and policy outcomes. To do so, the volume examines case studies in England, Chile, South Africa, Quebec, and Hong Kong, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and Latin America. Grouped into two major sections, the collection covers the organizational structures of student movements and their alliances and outcomes. Ultimately, this volume examines the understudied political aspects of student unrest, exploring how student mobilizations—driven by indebtedness, precariousness, the corporatization of the university, and other issues—correspond to larger processes of change with wider implications in society.

Author : Chih-ming Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824839161

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Transpacific Articulations by Chih-ming Wang Pdf

In 1854 Yung Wing, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, returned to a poverty-stricken China, where domestic revolt and foreign invasion were shaking the Chinese empire. Inspired by the U.S. and its liberal education, Yung believed that having more Chinese students educated there was the only way to bring reform to China. Since then, generations of students from China—and other Asian countries—have embarked on this transpacific voyage in search of modernity. What forces have shaped Asian student migration to the U.S.? What impact do foreign students have on the formation of Asian America? How do we grasp the meaning of this transpacific subject in and out of Asian American history and culture? Transpacific Articulations explores these questions in the crossings of Asian culture and American history. Beginning with the story of Yung Wing, the book is organized chronologically to show the transpacific character of Asian student migration. The author examines Chinese students’ writings in English and Chinese, maintaining that so-called “overseas student literature” represents both an imaginary passage to modernity and a transnational culture where meanings of Asian America are rearticulated through Chinese. He also demonstrates that Chinese student political activities in the U.S. in the late 1960s and 1970s—namely, the Baodiao movement that protested Japan’s takeover of the Diaoyutai Islands and the Taiwan independence movement—have important but less examined intersections with Asian America. In addition, the work offers a reflection on the development of Asian American studies in Asia to suggest the continuing significance of knowledge and movement in the formation of Asian America. Transpacific Articulations provides a doubly engaged perspective formed in the nexus of Asian and American histories by taking the foreign student figure seriously. It will not only speak to scholars of Asian American studies, Asian studies, and transnational cultural studies, but also to general readers who are interested in issues of modernity, diaspora, identity, and cultural politics in China and Taiwan.

Author : Fabio Lanza
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780822372431

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The End of Concern by Fabio Lanza Pdf

In 1968 a cohort of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS). Critical of the field of Asian studies and its complicity with the United States' policies in Vietnam, the CCAS mounted a sweeping attack on the field's academic, political, and financial structures. While the CCAS included scholars of Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia, the committee focused on Maoist China, as it offered the possibility of an alternative politics and the transformation of the meaning of labor and the production of knowledge. In The End of Concern Fabio Lanza traces the complete history of the CCAS, outlining how its members worked to merge their politics and activism with their scholarship. Lanza's story exceeds the intellectual history and legacy of the CCAS, however; he narrates a moment of transition in Cold War politics and how Maoist China influenced activists and intellectuals around the world, becoming a central element in the political upheaval of the long 1960s.

Author : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 0804731667

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Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Pdf

This is a history of student protests in Shanghai from the turn of the century to 1949, showing how these students experienced and help shape the course of the Chinese Revolution.

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442607934

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Learning Activism by Aziz Choudry Pdf

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial perspectives on knowledge and power, the book highlights how activists and organizers learn through doing, and fills the gap between social movement practice as it occurs on the ground, critical adult education scholarship, and social movement theorizing. Examples include anti-colonial currents within global justice organizing in the Asia-Pacific, activist research and education in social movements and people's organizations in the Philippines, Migrant and immigrant worker struggles in Canada, and the Quebec student strike. The result is a book that carves out a new space for intellectual life in activist practice.

Author : Ali Mozaffari,Tod Jones
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204827

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Heritage Movements in Asia by Ali Mozaffari,Tod Jones Pdf

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts.

Author : Teresa Wright
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780824864927

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The Perils of Protest by Teresa Wright Pdf

China's student movement of 1989 ushered in an era of harsh political repression, crushing the hopes of those who desired a more democratic future. Communist Party elites sealed the fate of the movement, but did ill-considered choices by student leaders contribute to its tragic outcome? To answer this question, Teresa Wright centers on a critical source of information that has been largely overlooked by the dozens of works that have appeared in the past decade on the "Democracy Movement": the students themselves. Drawing on interviews and little-known first-hand accounts, Wright offers the most complete and representative compilation of thoughts and opinions of the leaders of this student action. She compares this closely studied movement with one that has received less attention, Taiwan's Month of March Movement of 1990, introducing for the first time in English a narrative of Taiwan's largest student demonstration to date. Despite their different outcomes (the Taiwan action ended peacefully and resulted in the government addressing student demands), both movements similarly maintained a strict separation between student and non-student participants and were unstable and conflict-ridden. This comparison allows for a thorough assessment of the origins and impact of student behavior in 1989 and provides intriguing new insights into the growing literature on political protest in non-democratic regimes.

Author : Elinor Bartak
Publisher : Monash University Press
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033142210

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The Student Movement in Thailand, 1970-1976 by Elinor Bartak Pdf

Author : Doreen Lee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374091

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Activist Archives by Doreen Lee Pdf

In Activist Archives Doreen Lee tells the origins, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end the thirty-two-year dictatorship in May 1998. Lee situates the revolt as the most recent manifestation of student activists claiming a political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of politicized youth. Combining historical and ethnographic analysis of "Generation 98," Lee offers rich depictions of the generational structures, nationalist sentiments, and organizational and private spaces that bound these activists together. She examines the ways the movement shaped new and youthful ways of looking, seeing, and being—found in archival documents from the 1980s and 1990s; the connections between politics and place; narratives of state violence; activists' experimental lifestyles; and the uneven development of democratic politics on and off the street. Lee illuminates how the interaction between official history, collective memory, and performance came to define youth citizenship and resistance in Indonesia’s transition to the post-Suharto present.

Author : Claudia Rueda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477319307

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Students of Revolution by Claudia Rueda Pdf

Students played a critical role in the Sandinista struggle in Nicaragua, helping to topple the US-backed Somoza dictatorship in 1979—one of only two successful social revolutions in Cold War Latin America. Debunking misconceptions, Students of Revolution provides new evidence that groups of college and secondary-level students were instrumental in fostering a culture of insurrection—one in which societal groups from elite housewives to rural laborers came to see armed revolution as not only legitimate but necessary. Drawing on student archives, state and university records, and oral histories, Claudia Rueda reveals the tactics by which young activists deployed their age, class, and gender to craft a heroic identity that justified their political participation and to help build cross-class movements that eventually paralyzed the country. Despite living under a dictatorship that sharply curtailed expression, these students gained status as future national leaders, helping to sanctify their right to protest and generating widespread outrage while they endured the regime’s repression. Students of Revolution thus highlights the aggressive young dissenters who became the vanguard of the opposition.