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Political participation in Asia : defining & deploying political space / edited by Eva Hansson and Meredith Weiss.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary Asia series.
- Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
- Standardized Title:
- Political participation in Asia (Routledge (Firm))
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Asia.
- Political participation.
- Democracy--Asia.
- Democracy.
- Authoritarianism--Asia.
- Authoritarianism.
- Asia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book explores political participation in Asia and how democracy and authoritarianism function under neoliberal economic relations. It examines changes that coincide seemingly perversely with a participation explosion: with mass street protests and "occupations," energetic online contention, movements of students and workers, mobilization for and against democracy, and more. Organised thematically in three parts--political participation in a "postdemocratic" context, changes in the scope and character of political space, and the policing of that space--this book analyses economic, regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and across not just states, but sub-regions"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Conceptualizing political space and mobilization / Eva Hansson & Meredith Weiss
- Politics and businessification : the struggle for civil society / Kevin Hewison
- Post-democracy and political space : lessons from the Korean experience / Jamie Doucette
- Moral discourse and China's evolving enterprise society / Johan Lagerkvist
- Reshaping political space and workers' mobilization in South Korea / Kwang-Yeong Shin
- The new meaning of political participation in cyberspace : social media and collective action in Vietnam's authoritarianism / Bui Hai Thiem
- Consumer space as political space : liquid Islamism in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng
- Political discourse on the internet in China : a multifarious virtual space / Teresa Wright
- When democracy is questioned : competing democratic principles and struggles for democracy in Thailand / Bencharat Sae Chua
- Political space in refugee camps : enabling and constraining conditions for refugee agency / Elisabeth Olivius
- Policing politics : Myanmar's military regime and protest spaces in times of transition / Marco Beunte
- Participation and space : themes, patterns, and implications / Meredith Weiss & Eva Hansson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Hewison, Kevin. Politics and businessification.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-62247-1
- 1-315-11258-2
- 1-351-62246-3
- 9781315112589
- OCLC:
- 1007860310
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