Spaces of Creative Resistance

Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia
Herausgeber: Arai, Andrea Gevurtz

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978842502
• ISBN-10: 1978842503
• Artikelnr.: 71936752

Autorenporträt

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.

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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 Women’s 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 Kong’s “Alternative Communities” by
Chor-See Chan
4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of Young People’s 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