Andrea Gevurtz Arai, Christopher T. Nelson, Yeonjung Ahn, Miriam Timson, Hyein Chae

Spaces of Creative Resistance

Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia
Herausgeber: Arai, Andrea Gevurtz

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781978842496
• ISBN-10: 197884249X
• Artikelnr.: 71934699

Autorenporträt

ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI is a cultural anthropologist and acting assistant professor in The Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan and the coeditor of  Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times and Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan. CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON is a cultural anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Okinawa and the forthcoming When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Okinawa.

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Contents
Foreword by Christopher T. Nelson
Introduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
Section I: Creative Acts of Resistance
1 DiY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics, and Women’s Projects in Post 3.11
Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai
2 Ma-eul Sal-i of Korean Young People: Making Spaces for a Different
Lifestyle by Hyein Chae
3 Regaining Autonomy at Work in Hong Kong’s “Alternative Communities” by
Chor-See Chan
4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of Young People’s Creative
Resistance in 21st- Century China by Jinyue Xu and Yue Wu
Section II: Cultural Spaces and Community Places
5 “I Refuse to Live in a Town Without a Cinema!”: Rebuilding a Cultural
Space and Social Infrastructure in Toyooka, Japan by Hidehiko Ishibashi
6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place in Kanazawa Japan by
Keisuke Sugano 
7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues by Urban Elite
Youth in China by Summer Xuan Dai
8 Creative Resistance and Social Isolation in Japan by Yumi Matsubara
Section III: Environments of Creative Resistance¿
9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community and “Gathering”
Spaces in Taiwan by Hsiu Fan Lin and Yu Liu
10 The Tale of a Transitional Site for Self-Organized Civic Life in South
Korea (Bibil Base) by Yeonjung Ahn
11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in Wan-hua, Taipei by
Liling Huang and Jeff Hou
Teaching Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by Christopher T. Nelson vii
Introduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses 1
andrea gevurtz arai
part i: creative acts of resistance
1 DIY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics,
and Women’s
Projects
after
3.11 in Japan 13
andrea gevurtz arai
2 Maeul Sari for Young Korean People:
Making Spaces
for a Different
Lifestyle 24
Hyein Chae
3 Reinventing Faan Gung: Regaining Autonomy at Work
in Hong Kong’s Alternative Communities 43
chor-see
chan
4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of Young
People’s
Creative Resistance
in Twenty-First-
Century
China 57
jinyue xu and yue wu
part ii: cultural spaces and community places
5 “I Refuse to Live in a Town without a Cinema!”: Rebuilding
a Theater and Cultural Space in Toyooka, Japan 77
hidehiko ishibashi
6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place
in Kanazawa, Japan 88
keisuke sugano
7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues
by Urban Elite Youth in China 102
summer xuan dai
8 Creative Resistance
and Social Isolation in Japan 119
yumi matsubara
part iii: environments of creative resistance
9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community
and “Gathering” Spaces in Taiwan 135
hsiu fan lin and yu liu
10 A Transitional Site for Self-Organized
Civic Life in
South Korea
(Bibil Base) 143
yeonjung ahn
11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in
Wanhua, Taipei 148
liling huang and jeffrey hou
Teaching Appendix: For the Instructor Thinking of
Adopting This Volume 165
andrea gevurtz arai with miriam timson
Acknowledgments
169
Notes on Contributors 171
Index 000