Political participation in Asia: defining & deploying political space

Conceptualizing political space and mobilization / Eva Hansson & Meredith Weiss -- Politics and businessification : the struggle for civil society / Kevin Hewison -- Post-democracy and political space : lessons from the Korean experience / Jamie Doucette -- Moral discourse and China's evolving enterprise society / Johan Lagerkvist -- Reshaping political space and workers' mobilization in South Korea / Kwang-Yeong Shin -- The new meaning of political participation in cyberspace : social media and collective action in Vietnam's authoritarianism / Bui Hai Thiem -- Consumer space as political space : liquid Islamism in Malaysia and Indonesia / Hew Wai Weng -- Political discourse on the internet in China : a multifarious virtual space / Teresa Wright -- When democracy is questioned : competing democratic principles and struggles for democracy in Thailand / Bencharat Sae Chua -- Political space in refugee camps : enabling and constraining conditions for refugee agency / Elisabeth Olivius -- Policing politics : Myanmar's military regime and protest spaces in times of transition / Marco Beunte -- Participation and space : themes, patterns, and implications / Meredith Weiss & Eva Hansson.

"This book explores political participation in Asia and how democracy and authoritarianism function under neoliberal economic relations. It examines changes that coincide seemingly perversely with a participation explosion: with mass street protests and "occupations," energetic online contention, movements of students and workers, mobilization for and against democracy, and more. Organised thematically in three parts--political participation in a "postdemocratic" context, changes in the scope and character of political space, and the policing of that space--this book analyses economic, regime and media shifts and how they function in tandem and across not just states, but sub-regions"--

"Cover" -- "Half Title" -- "Series Page" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Table of Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Figures" -- "Tables" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Contributors" -- "Part 1 Post-democratic political participation" -- "Chapter 1 Conceptualizing political space and mobilization" -- "Conceptualizing political space and participation" -- "Towards a synthesis " -- "Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Chapter 2 Politics and businessification: The struggle for civil society" -- "Conceptualizing civil society" -- "The rise of post-democratic politics" -- "Making the business of the state the business of business" -- "The struggle for the organizations of civil society" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 3 Post-democracy and political space: Lessons from the Korean experience" -- "Interrogating post-democracy " -- "Frustrations of Korean democratization" -- "Political space" -- "Confronting egalitarian politics" -- "A Korean Thermidor?" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Part 2 Expanding and contesting political space" -- "Chapter 4 Moral discourse and China's evolving enterprise society" -- "The politico-economic agenda of marketization and the 1989 upheaval" -- "Moral discourse of China's evolving enterprise society " -- "The moral discourse of Confucian harmony and stability" -- "The securitization and monitoring of enterprise society lest moralism fail" -- "Concluding remarks" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "Chapter 5 Reshaping political space and workers' mobilization in South Korea" -- "Four forms of workers' associational power " -- "Democratic transition and workers' struggles in 1987" -- "Building associational power resources" -- "Globalization and workers' politics" -- "Mobilization from the margins" -- "Conclusion" -- "Note" -- "References