1st Edition

Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space

Edited By Khatharya Um, Chiharu Takenaka Copyright 2023
280 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia. Providing a textured, critical reading of East Asia as an economically, socially, and politically dynamic region, this book also presents the... Read more

Introduction: Globalization, Civil Society, and Changing East Asian Space
Khatharya Um
Part 1: Global Shifts and Challenges to the Liberal International Order
1. State and Civil Society in East Asia in the Age of Globalization
Chiharu Takenaka
2. The Rise of China and the Future of Democracy and Civil Society in East Asia
David Arase
3. Mutually Assured Assertiveness? The Abe Government’s Response to China’s Global Rise
Franziska Schultz
Part 2: Changing Demographics, Nationhood, and Peoplehood: Migration, Diversity, and Inclusion
4. The Persistence of Monoethnic Ideology in Multiethnic Japan
John Lie
5. Southeast Asian Mobilities and Immobilities in East Asian Space: Globalization, Migration, and the Roles of Civil Society
Khatharya Um
6. Diasporic Development and Socioeconomic Integration: New Chinese Migrants in a Globalized World
Min Zhou and Hong Liu
Part 3: Globalization, Pluralism , Governance, and Civil Society
7. Active Democracy: How Political Activists and Ordinary Citizens Support Democracy in Taiwan
Hannah June Kim and Lev Nachman
8. Total Defense: Civil Society in Singapore and the Struggle Against Global Terrorism
Yee-Kuang Heng
9. Global, Regional, National and Local Aspects of Hong Kong's Democracy Movement
Toru Kurata
10. Looking into States and Civil Societies in Taiwan and Singapore through the Lens of Sexual Minorities
Keiko Tsuji Tamura

Biography

Khatharya Um is Associate Dean of Social Sciences, and Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies-Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Chiharu Takenaka is a former Professor of International Politics at Graduate School of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.