Democracy on trial : social movements and cultural politics in postauthoritarian Taiwan / / Ya-Chung Chuang
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| Autore: |
Chuang YaChung
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| Titolo: |
Democracy on trial : social movements and cultural politics in postauthoritarian Taiwan / / Ya-Chung Chuang
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| Pubblicazione: | Hong Kong : , : The Chinese University Press, , [2013] |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 320.95124909048 |
| Soggetto topico: | Democracy - Taiwan |
| Social movements - Taiwan | |
| Politics and culture - Taiwan | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-258) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. State and civil society -- Democracy's dawn : "quiet revolution" in a national crisis -- Democracy in action : the making of social movement webs -- Talking democracy : from normalized political processes to politicized everyday life -- Part II. Identity and ethnicity -- Reflexive democracy : Bentu and its discontent -- Democracy as dream : ethnicity and the politics of recognition -- Part III. Place and politics -- (en)gendering democracy : Shequ and urban neighborhood organizing -- Walking democracy : street life and local politics in a Taipei neighborhood -- Epilogue : democracy unbound -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Writing "an ethnography of democracy," Ya-Chung Chuang masterfully describes and analyzes a multifaceted Taiwanese society. Contradicting mainstream research on political cultures, which relies heavily on survey data and statistical analysis, Ya-Chung Chuang produces an anthropologically inspired, contextually rich study using original source materials. He traces a genealogy of pivotal concepts, such as sovereignty, identity, and locality, at the heart of Taiwan's democratic discourse and relates the experience of democracy as "a way of life" from the viewpoints of a variety of subjects, including social movement participants, urban community members, and ethnic activists. His book explores the loaded meaning of democracy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Democracy on trial |
| ISBN: | 962-996-920-3 |
| 962-996-963-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787970103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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