This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others. Each chapter focuses on a different form of creative resistance to the last two decades of social disconnection, increased income disparity and new burdens placed on reproductive labor and the environment taking place in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Each chapter demonstrates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making their stands in the everyday--focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.
Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in 21st Century East Asia brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others for a collection which addresses the last two decades hollowing out of social connections, socio-economic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asia societies. Written by authors from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, each chapter is focused on those making a difference together in socially sustainable ways, particularly in the areas of gender, labor, and environments -- both built and natural. These projects all constitute acts of creative resistance to neoliberal development, and each act of creative resistance demonstrates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making new worlds and lifeways in the small and everyday. Taking on larger political and economic forces that affect their lives and communities, each project and group of individuals featured here is focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.
Recenzijas
"The force of this volume lies as much in the collection of essays as a whole as it does in the individual arguments; diverse, sometimes uncertain, they present a true politics of the everyday. Above all, it insists on the endurance of particularityof a potentiality not defined by, or contained by, the seemingly totalizing ubiquity of global capital; these are stories of our time." - Thomas Looser (associate professor and chair of East Asian Studies at New York University)
Contents
Foreword by Christopher T. Nelson
Introduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
Section I: Creative Acts of Resistance
1 DiY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics, and Womens Projects in Post 3.11 Japan
by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
2 Ma-eul Sal-i of Korean Young People: Making Spaces for a Different
Lifestyle by Hyein Chae
3 Regaining Autonomy at Work in Hong Kongs Alternative Communities by
Chor-See Chan
4 I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish: A Form of Young Peoples Creative
Resistance in 21st- Century China by Jinyue Xu and Yue Wu
Section II: Cultural Spaces and Community Places
5 I Refuse to Live in a Town Without a Cinema!: Rebuilding a Cultural
Space and Social Infrastructure in Toyooka, Japan by Hidehiko Ishibashi
6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place in Kanazawa Japan by
Keisuke Sugano
7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues by Urban Elite
Youth in China by Summer Xuan Dai
8 Creative Resistance and Social Isolation in Japan by Yumi Matsubara
Section III: Environments of Creative Resistance
9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community and Gathering
Spaces in Taiwan by Hsiu Fan Lin and Yu Liu
10 The Tale of a Transitional Site for Self-Organized Civic Life in South
Korea (Bibil Base) by Yeonjung Ahn
11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in Wan-hua, Taipei by Liling
Huang and Jeff Hou
Teaching Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by Christopher T. Nelson vii
Introduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses 1
andrea gevurtz arai
part i: creative acts of resistance
1 DIY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics,
and Womens
Projects
after
3.11 in Japan 13
andrea gevurtz arai
2 Maeul Sari for Young Korean People:
Making Spaces
for a Different
Lifestyle 24
Hyein Chae
3 Reinventing Faan Gung: Regaining Autonomy at Work
in Hong Kongs Alternative Communities 43
chor-see
chan
4 I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish: A Form of Young
Peoples
Creative Resistance
in Twenty-First-
Century
China 57
jinyue xu and yue wu
part ii: cultural spaces and community places
5 I Refuse to Live in a Town without a Cinema!: Rebuilding
a Theater and Cultural Space in Toyooka, Japan 77
hidehiko ishibashi
6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place
in Kanazawa, Japan 88
keisuke sugano
7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues
by Urban Elite Youth in China 102
summer xuan dai
8 Creative Resistance
and Social Isolation in Japan 119
yumi matsubara
part iii: environments of creative resistance
9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community
and Gathering Spaces in Taiwan 135
hsiu fan lin and yu liu
10 A Transitional Site for Self-Organized
Civic Life in
South Korea
(Bibil Base) 143
yeonjung ahn
11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in
Wanhua, Taipei 148
liling huang and jeffrey hou
Teaching Appendix: For the Instructor Thinking of
Adopting This Volume 165
andrea gevurtz arai with miriam timson
Acknowledgments
169
Notes on Contributors 171
Index 000
ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI is a cultural anthropologist and acting assistant professor in The Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan and the coeditor of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times and Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan.
CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON is a cultural anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Okinawa and the forthcoming When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Okinawa.
