Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe : Social Movement Analyses. 1st ed. 2013

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edited by Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Frédéric Royall

出版情報:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Andreosso-O'Callaghan, Bernadette.
• Royall, Frédéric.
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ISBN:

9789400746534 [9400746539]    

注記:

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia: Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Frédéric Royall --    Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe -- 2: Economic Change and Social a Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies: Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan -- 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion and Political Contentiousness: Christian Lahusen -- 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China: Carsten Storm -- 5: European Governance and Democracy: Didier Chabanet -- 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared: M. Bruna Zolin -- Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective -- 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Social Movements: How One Relates to the Other: Pascale Dufour -- 8: Transnational Collective Action and the European Network of the Unemployed: Frédéric Royall -- Part
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, e

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