Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia

book: Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2020

Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia

Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth

Edited by: David Chiavacci, Simona Grano and Julia Obinger

Volume 20 in the series Protest and Social Movements

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048551613

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About this book

This volume focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully consolidated democracies in the area: Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The book argues that all three countries have reached a new era of post high-growth and mature democracy, leading to new social anxieties and increasing normative diversity, which have direct repercussions on the relationship between the state and civil society. It introduces a comparative perspective in identifying and discussing similarities and differences in East Asia based on in-depth case studies in the fields of environmental issues, national identities as well as neoliberalism and social inclusion that go beyond the classic dichotomy of state vs "liberal" civil society.

Author information

ChiavacciDavid:

David Chiavacci is Professor in Social Science of Japan at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research covers political and economic sociology of contemporary Japan in a comparative perspective. He is known for his publications on social movements, social inequality as well as Japan’s new immigration and immigration policy.GranoSimona:

Simona Alba Grano is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She is also a research fellow of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), at Tübingen, Germany. ObingerJulia:

Julia Obinger is currently working outside of academia in Hamburg, Germany. Before 2018, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, Skoll Centre of Social Entrepreneurship as well as at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.

Reviews

"The book is a collection of chapters prepared by social scientists with expertise in the Eastern Asian matters, specializing mainly in sociology, comparative politics and civil society studies. The background of the authors enables to apply interdisciplinary lenses to analyze the civil society phenomenon in Eastern Asia. What is especially important and interesting, the book is written both by experts from outside the countries of interest and by specialists originating from these countries. The cultural knowledge from the inside of the states is of great value to the presented texts and the book as a whole."
- Iwona Nowakowska, Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (2021)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
List of Illustrations and Tables Open Access Download PDF	6
1. A New Era of Civil Society and State in East Asian Democracies David Chiavacci and Simona A. Grano Open Access Download PDF	9
Part I. Environmental Issues
2. Interactions between Environmental Civil Society and the State during the Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen Administrations in Taiwan Simona A. Grano Open Access Download PDF	33
3. Working with and around Strong States. Environmental Networks in East Asia Mary Alice Haddad Open Access Download PDF	59
4. The Campaign for Nuclear Power in Japan before and after 2011. Between State, Market and Civil Society Tobias Weiss Open Access Download PDF	85
Part II. Identity Politics
5. The ‘Pro-Establishment’ Radical Right. Japan’s Nativist Movement Reconsidered Naoto Higuchi Open Access Download PDF	117
6. The Religion-Based Conservative Countermovement in Taiwan. Origin, Tactics and Impacts Ming-sho Ho Open Access Download PDF	141
7. The Relationship between Mainstream and Movement Parties in Taiwan. Case Studies of the New Power Party (NPP) and the Green Party Taiwan-Social Democratic Party Alliance (GPT/SDP) Tommy Chung Yin Kwan and Dafydd Fell Open Access Download PDF	167
8. New Immigration, Civic Activism and Identity in Japan. Influencing the ‘Strong’ State David Chiavacci Open Access Download PDF	187
Part III. Neoliberalism and Social Inclusion
9. Japanese NPOs and the State Re-examined. Reflections Eighteen Years On Akihiro Ogawa Open Access Download PDF	219
10. Changing Patterns of South Korean Social Movements, 1960s-2010s. Testimony, Firebombs, Lawsuit and Candlelight Jin-Wook Shin Open Access Download PDF	239
11. Opening up the Welfare State to ‘Outsiders’. Pro-Homeless Activism and Neoliberal Backlashes in Japan Mahito Hayashi Open Access Download PDF	269
12. Legal Mobilization and the Transformation of State-Society Relations in South Korea in the Realm of Disability Policy Celeste L. Arrington Open Access Download PDF	297
Index Open Access Download PDF	325

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Civil society; state; entanglement; contention; East Asia

eBook

Published: June 22, 2020
ISBN: 9789048551613