
Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2
People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947ā2009
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Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2
People Power in the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia, 1947ā2009
About this book
Ten years in the making, this magisterial workāthe second of a two-volume studyāprovides a unique perspective on uprisings in nine Asian nations in the past five decades. While the 2011 Arab Spring is well known, the wave of uprisings that swept Asia in the 1980s remain hardly visible. Through a critique of Samuel Huntington's notion of a "Third Wave" of democratization, the author relates Asian uprisings to predecessors in 1968 and shows their subsequent influence on uprisings in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. By empirically reconstructing the specific history of each Asian uprising, significant insight into major constituencies of change and the trajectories of these societies becomes visible.
This book provides detailed histories of uprisings in nine placesāthe Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesiaāas well as introductory and concluding chapters that place them in a global context and analyze them in light of major sociological theories. Profusely illustrated with photographs, tables, graphs, and charts, it is the definitive, and defining, work from the eminent participant-observer scholar of social movements.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Charts and Graphs
- List of Photographs
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 A World of Uprisings
- Chapter 2 The Philippines
- Chapter 3 Burma
- Chapter 4 Tibet
- Chapter 5 China
- Chapter 6 Taiwan
- Chapter 7 Nepal
- Chapter 8 Bangladesh
- Chapter 9 Thailand
- Chapter 10 Indonesia
- Chapter 11 People Power and Its Limits
- Chapter 12 The Commune: Freedomās Phenomenological Form
- Chapter 13 Organizations and Movements
- Chapter 14 The Changing Face of the Proletariat
- Chapter 15 Uprisings in Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 16 The System is the Problem
- Interviews
- Credits
- About the Author
- Index