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Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers book cover

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Taiwan's Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers

Edited By Dafydd Fell Copyright 2017
300 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring of 2014. Social movements in Taiwan have emerged as a powerful new actor that needs to be understood... Read more

1. Social Movements in Taiwan after 2008: From the Strawberries to the Sunflowers and Beyond Dafydd Fell

Part I: Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers

2. Civic Activism and Protests in Taiwan: Why Size Doesn’t (Always) Matter J. Michael Cole

3. Virtual ecologies, mobilization, and democratic groups without leaders:

Impacts of internet media on the Wild Strawberry Movement Hsiao Yuan

4. A Tale of Two Offshore Islands: Anti-Casino Movements in Penghu and Mazu Tsai I-lun and Ho Ming-sho

5. Not Wanting Want: The Anti-Media Monopoly Movement in Taiwan Rowena Ebsworth

6. This land is your land? This land is MY land: Land Expropriation during the Ma Ying-jeou Administration and Implications on Social Movements Ketty W. Chen

7. The Sunflower Movement: Origins, Structures and Strategies of Taiwan’s Response Against the Black Box André Beckershoff

8. The China Factor and Taiwan’s Civil Society Organizations in the Sunflower Movement: The Case of the Democratic Front against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement Hsu Szu-chien

Part II: Environmental Movements

9. The Evolution of the Anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan since 2008 Simona Grano

10. The Revival of Taiwan’s Green Party after 2008 Dafydd Fell and Peng Yen-wen

Part III: Other pre-2008 long-term social movements

11. Rising from the Ashes? The Trade Union Movement under Ma Ying-jeou’s regime

Chiu Yu-bin

12. A Team Player Pursuing Its Own Dreams: Rights-Claim Campaign of Chinese Migrant Spouses in the Migrant Movement Before and After 2008

Lara Momesso and Isabelle Cheng

13. All Our Relations: Indigenous Rights Movements in Contemporary Taiwan Scott Simon

14. Uneasy Alliance:State Feminism and the Conservative Government in Taiwan

Huang Chang-ling

Biography

Dafydd Fell is Reader in Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Centre of Taiwan Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, UK.

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