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Over the last decade, a youth revolt has swept through Asia. Massive, regime-rocking protests have grabbed global attention as students and other young people have confronted security forces on the streets, taking great risks to condemn authoritarian rule, promote democracy, and to push forward new agendas of personal freedom and gender equality. Behind the scenes, young people have experimented with novel and diverse modes of political and social activism, often using new tools of online communication and cultural expression, forging new kinds of coalitions, and exploring nonconfrontational and subterranean networking.
Youth Activism in Asia focuses equally on the episodes of spectacular protest and on varieties of less visible engagement, examining the diversity, origins, and impact of contemporary youth activism in Asia. With fifteen case studies, the volume highlights shared patterns among demands, tactical repertoires, and activist networks, and examines what differentiates protest movements across countries and over time. Drawing on original fieldwork and, in many cases, their own experience, the authors address Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and transnational activism. Conceiving of "activism" broadly as any action intended to bring about social and political change, the volume makes theoretical contributions to our understanding of the relationship between protest and democratic backsliding, engagement with new communication technologies, and this generation's distinctive intersectional politics. Youth Activism in Asia showcases the creativity, energy, boldness, and diversity of a new generation of Asian political activists.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: A New Wave of Youth Activism in Asia
Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, and Colm A. Fox
I. REVIVAL
1. Revolution of Our Generation: How Hong Kong Youth Achieved Generational Change by Decentralizing the Democracy Movement
Shue Fung Chow
2. Resisting the Democratic Decline: The Return of the Indonesian Student Movement in 2019-2020
Fauziah Mayangsari
3. Thailand's Youth Movement and its Political Consequences
Akanit Horatanakun
4. Students and Revolution in Myanmar: New Shifts in Discourses of Inter-Ethnic Unity?
Pan Hsu Pyae Eain and Tamas Wells
5. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Life Trajectories of Participants in Taiwan's Sunflower Movement
Ming-sho Ho and Chun-Ching Tu
II. INNOVATION
6. Tracing the Milk Tea Alliance: Transnational Solidarity and Youth Activism in Asia
Wichuta Teeratanabodee
7. Re-Rooting and Re-Routing: Youth Activism in Post-COVID Philippines
Yatun Sastramidjaja, Sarah Faith Rulloda, and Giselle Manuel
8. Indonesia's Young Anti-Feminists? Capturing the Socially Conservative Faction within the Student Movements
Dyah Ayu Kartika
9. Research as Praxis: Research-Based Activism by Youth Environmentalists in Technocratic Singapore
Bertrand Seah
10. These Are Everyone's Streets: Student Protest at the National University of Timor Lorosa'e
Berta Antonieta Tilman Pereira and David Webster
III. ADAPTATION
11. Double Activism, Double Burden: A Case Among Malay Muslim Activists in Malaysia
Nur Adilla
12. Quiet Activism Under an Absolutist State: The Politics of Youth Activism and Advocacy in Contemporary Brunei
Mu'izz Abdul Khalid
13. Returning to the Norm? The Reemergence of Student Activism in Singapore
Joel Yew and Daryl WJ Yang
14. From the Left and Beyond: Continuities and Discontinuities in Student Activism in the Philippines
Juhn Chris P. Espia
15. Youth Activism in Reform-Era China, Old and New
Teresa Wright
