Overview
- Provides comparative analyses of social movements in Europe and Asia
- Development of different methodologies and analyses to explain the Asia (as opposed to the European) cases
- Integrates elements from political science, cultural studies as well as economics
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe
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Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
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National Examples
Keywords
- Agricultural markets
- British and French hunger marches
- Collective action
- Economic crisis
- Economic, political and social globalization
- Employment status and political participation
- European governance and democracy
- European integration
- European network of the unemployed
- Food riots
- NGO work in People's Republic of China
- Philippine social movement activism
- Political contentiousness
- Pro-Gypsy activities in France
- Social engagement
- Social movements
- Suicide problems in contempoary Japanese society
About this book
Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefitte’s prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions. China has undergone the fastest industrialization and urbanization process in history, yet tensions there are rising as some realize how far they have been left behind. This volume explores the applicability of European economic and social models to our analysis of East Asia’s and, in particular, China’s situation. Though millions of Chinese and other Asian people have been lifted out of poverty, inequality is rising nonetheless, and contemporary Europe and Asia are both witnessing collective action against rampant economic neoliberalism in the former and the exclusion of minorities in the latter.
It is difficult to overstate the relevance of this assessment, which seeks answers to some central questions: Can events in Europe serve as a model for those in East Asia? Are there similarities or differences between the two regions? To what extent do political, economic or social systems stimulate or inhibit collective action? How culturally equivalent are the collective actions of marginalized/ disadvantaged people in the two locations, or are events in Europe symptomatic of specific cultural attributes? Comparing and contrasting the research tools and dominant paradigms in the social and economic sciences in East Asia and Europe, as this volume does, throws out some revealing results.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe
Book Subtitle: Social Movement Analyses
Editors: Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Frédéric Royall
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4653-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4652-7Published: 10 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9211-1Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4653-4Published: 10 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 306
Topics: Sociology, general, Population Economics, Demography