The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia
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
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TOM CLIFF TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI SHUGE WEI
The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia
Tom Cliff • Tessa Morris-Suzuki Shuge Wei Editors
The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia
Editors Tom Cliff Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Tessa Morris-Suzuki Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Shuge Wei Australian National University Canberra, Australia
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Since 2013, our research group, based at the Australian National University, has been exploring the quiet ways in which groups of ordinary people across East Asia are addressing social problems and improving their lives through self-help action. Members of the team have traveled to communities in Inner and Outer Mongolia, China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, meeting a remarkable range of people who are experimenting with their own forms of everyday politics. Some of the participants in these local experiments have also joined international workshops or conferences that we have run here in Australia, and through our website and conferences, we are seeking to create networks that will help the practitioners of informal life politics across the region to learn about and from one another. Our research has made us conscious of common patterns that link these infor
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