Endorsements for Vol. 1 of Asiaās Unknown Uprisings
āThis book makes a unique contribution to Korean Studies because of its social movementsā prism. It will resonate well in Korea and will also serve as a good introduction to Korea for outsiders. By providing details on twentieth-century uprisings, Katsiaficas provides insights into the trajectory of social movements in the future. His worldwide field-work experiences and surprising insights into Korea are described well in this book.ā
āNa Kahn-chae, director, May 18 Institute, Gwangju, South Korea
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āIn Asiaās Unknown Uprisings, Katsiaficas continues to develop his unique perspective on social movements that he first enunciated in books on the global insurgency of 1968 and autonomous movements in Europe in the 1970s and ā80s. Finally, for the first time in English, we now have a comprehensive overview of the remarkable waves of popular uprisings that have taken place in South Korea in the twentieth century. With this volume, Katsiaficas challenges the Eurocentrism of social movement scholarship and provides a radical reappraisal of the role of mass popular uprisings in contemporary history.ā
āEddie Yuen, coauthor of Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement and Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth
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Endorsements for Vols. 1 and 2 of Asiaās Unknown Uprisings
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āIn Asiaās Unknown Uprisings, George Katsiaficas inspires readers with an exciting yet scholarly examination of the rise and interlinking of mass revolutionary waves of struggle. In no way Pollyannaish, Katsiaficas presents readers with an analysis of the successes and failures of these late twentieth-century movements. In view of the phenomenal Arab democratic uprisings begun in late 2010 and early 2011, Katsiaficasās analysis is profoundly relevant in helping us understand how the metaphorical flight of a butterfly in one part of the planet can contribute to a metaphoric hurricane thousands of miles away.ā
āBill Fletcher, Jr., coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, and
BlackCommentator.com editorial board member
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āGeorge Katsiaficas is Americaās leading practitioner of the method of āparticipant-observation,ā acting with and observing the movements that he is studying. This study of People Power is a brilliant narrative of the present as history from below. It is a detailed account of the struggle for freedom and social justice, encompassing the different currents, both reformist and revolutionary, in a balanced study that combines objectivity and commitment. Above all, he presents the beauty of popular movements in the process of self-emancipation.ā
āJames Petras, author of The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack
āGeorge Katsiaficas has written a majestic account of political uprisings and social movements in Asiaāan important contribution to the literature on both Asian studies and social change that is highly-recommended reading for anyone concerned with these fields of interest. The work is well-researched, clearly argued, and beautifully written, accessible to both academic and general readers.ā
āCarl Boggs, author of The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and WorldĀ Domination, and professor of social sciences, National University, Los Angeles
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āWith a characteristic discipline, which typifies the intellectual fabric of great minds, George Katsiaficas shares a family resemblance with Herbert Marcuse, the greatest revolutionary thinker of the twentieth century. Like Marcuse before him, Katsiaficas imbues us with eros for revolutions and respect for meaningful factsĀ .Ā .Ā . This is a great read by a major thinker, destined to be a classic about the revolutions and passions of the Asian world.ā
āTeodros Kiros, professor of philosophy and English at Berklee College of Music and a non-resident Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University
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āThrough Katsiaficasās study of Asiaās uprisings and rebellions, readers get a glimpse of the challenge to revolutionaries to move beyond representative democracy and to reimagine and reinvent democracy. This book shows the power of rebellions to change the conversation.ā
āGrace Lee Boggs, activist and coauthor of Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century
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āThe work of George Katsiaficas reveals the sinews of social revolutionānot the posturing of political parties, but the impulse that rises from the grassroots which tap into an ever present tendency in history, that of the self-organization of citizens.ā
āDimitrios Roussopoulos, author of Participatory Democracy: Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
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āThe heartbeat of the eros effect only grows stronger in this expansive work, as George Katsiaficas lovingly details the Ć©lan vital of do-it-ourselves rebellions, and in places too long ignored. His sweeping account not only helps us take better pulse of and better engage in todayās directly democratic uprisings but also charts their direct lineage in revolts waged outside nationalist, hierarchical structures. In fully embracing the complexity, surprise, messiness, cross-pollination, and power of revolutions in which people experiment in forms of freedom together, Asiaās Unknown Uprisings grasps the promise of a shared future in such egalitarian yearnings.ā
āCindy Milstein, Occupy Philly and co-collaborator of Paths toward Utopia: Explorations in Everyday Anarchism
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Table of Contents
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
I am the People, the Mob
List of Tables
Table of Figures
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE - My First Encounter with Korea
CHAPTER 1 - Uprisings and History
CHAPTER 2 - Korea Enters the Modern World System
CHAPTER 3 - U.S. Imperialism and the October Peopleās Uprising
CHAPTER 4 - Against Koreaās Division: Jeju Uprising and Yeosun Insurrection
CHAPTER 5 - The Minjung Awaken: Students Overthrow Rhee and Park
CHAPTER 6 - Gwangju Peopleās Uprising
CHAPTER 7 - Neoliberalism and the Gwangju Uprising
CHAPTER 8 - The Gathering Storm
CHAPTER 9 - The June Uprising of 1987
CHAPTER 10 - The Great Workersā Struggle
CHAPTER 11 - From Minjung to Citizens
CHAPTER 12 - The Struggle...