We are pleased to announce a new book on civil society and state in East Asia is available online:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/38237


Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth

Edited by David Chiavacci, Simona Grano, and Julia Obinger

Amsterdam University Press, 2020

Table of Contents
1 A New Era of Civil Society and State in East Asian Democracies, David Chiavacci and Simona A. Grano

Part I Environmental Issues
2 Interactions between Environmental Civil Society and the State during the Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen Administrations in Taiwan, Simona A. Grano
3 Working with and around Strong States: Environmental Networks in East Asia, Mary Alice Haddad
4 The Campaign for Nuclear Power in Japan before and after 2011: Between State, Market and Civil Society, Tobias Weiss

Part II Identity Politics
5 The 'Pro-Establishment' Radical Right: Japan's Nativist Movement Reconsidered, Naoto Higuchi
6 The Religion-Based Conservative Countermovement in Taiwan: Origin, Tactics and Impacts Ming-sho Ho
7 The Relationship between Mainstream and Movement Parties in Taiwan: Case Studies of the New Power Party (NPP) and the Green Party Taiwan-Social Democratic Party Alliance (GPT/SDP), Tommy Chung Yin Kwan and Dafydd Fell
8 New Immigration, Civic Activism and Identity in Japan: Influencing the 'Strong' State, David Chiavacci

Part III Neoliberalism and Social Inclusion
9 Japanese NPOs and the State Re-examined: Reflections Eighteen Years On, Akihiro Ogawa
10 Changing Patterns of South Korean Social Movements, 1960s-2010s: Testimony, Firebombs, Lawsuit and Candlelight, Jin-Wook Shin
11 Opening up the Welfare State to 'Outsiders' 269 Pro-Homeless Activism and Neoliberal Backlashes in Japan Mahito Hayashi
12 Legal Mobilization and the Transformation of State-Society Relations in South Korea in the Realm of Disability Policy, Celeste L. Arrington


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Naoto Higuchi
School of Human Sciences, Waseda University
2-579-15, Mikajima, Tokorozawa 3591192, Japan
higuchinaoto@waseda.jp