EAN: 9789811063367

THE LIVING POLITICS OF SELF-HELP MOVEMENTS IN E...

This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century  considering
how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions  and how they adapt their actions to
the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the nexus between
ideas and action in a world where the conventional 'right-left' divide has a decreasing hold on
the political imagination. Examining grassroots self-help actions as responses to everyday life
problems  it argues that whilst action may be initiated by encounters with ideas that come into
the community from outside  often the flow of cause and effect works in the opposite direction.
Focusing on countries both politically dynamic and with long-standing historical and cultural
connections - China (including Inner Mongolia)  Japan  Taiwan and Korea - this book fills a
significant gap in the literature on social movements  demonstrating that survival itself is a
political act.

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