Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
"Spaces of Creative Resistance is a refreshing book about social critique that does more than just critique dominant structures and systems—it shows how communities in Asia have created social change in daily life. The book masterfully illustrates how the everyday has been regenerated as a site of contestation and social renewal and therefore provides fresh insights on the tension between authority and counter-authority." - Albert L. Park, Claremont McKenna College "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 particularity—of 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