Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe: Social Movement Analyses

314 Pages·2013·2.32 MB·English

by  Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan (auth.)

Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe

Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan
Frédéric Royall
Editors
Economic and Political
Change in Asia and Europe
Social Movement Analyses
Editors
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan Frédéric Royall
Department of Economics School of Language, Literature, Culture
Kemmy Business School and Communication
University of Limerick University of Limerick
Ireland Ireland
ISBN 978-94-007-4652-7 ISBN 978-94-007-4653-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4653-4
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Acknowledgments
This work is a result of many months of fruitful cooperation between all of the
authors of this book. This work started under the auspices of the ASEF (Asia-Europe
Foundation) in 2009. We are therefore indebted to ASEF for its fi nancial, adminis-
trative, and academic support throughout the timeline of the project. Financial
assistance was also provided by the Centre for European Studies at the University
of Limerick (Ireland). The editors thank all the book’s contributors for their time
and patience in this project. We are also grateful for the attention given by Mr. Frank
O’Callaghan in proofreading the manuscript, Ms. Claire Ryan for editorial assistance,
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Contents
1 Collective Action and Relatively Powerless
People in Europe and Asia ..................................................................... 1
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan and Frédéric Royall
Part I Economic, Political and Social Globalization
in Asia and Europe
2 Economic Change and Social Dynamics: Converging
and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies ............................. 13
Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan
3 European Integration, Social Cohesion,
and Political Contentiousness ................................................................ 31
Christian Lahusen
4 Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China ...................... 53
Carsten Storm
5 European Governance and Democracy ................................................ 71
Didier Chabanet
6 Agricultural Markets and Food Riots:
The European Union and Asia Compared ........................................... 87
M. Bruna Zolin
Part II Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective
7 Marginalization and Transnationalizing Movements:
How Does One Relate to the Other? ..................................................... 113
Pascale Dufour
8 Transnational Collective Action and the European
Network of the Unemployed................................................................... 125
Frédéric Royall
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Part III National Examples
9 The British and French Hunger Marches of the 1930s:
An Exclusive Mode of Protest, a Cultural Transfer,
and a Fulcrum of Success ....................................................................... 145
Matt Perry
10 Comparing Mobilizations Against Three Social
Reforms in the 2000s in Belgium ........................................................... 163
Jean Faniel
11 Employment Status and Political Participation: Does Exclusion
Influence the Protest Behavior of the Young Unemployed? ................ 179
Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini
12 Practical Uses of Administrative and Cultural Categories
Across the Field of Pro-Gypsy Activities in France Today:
Activist Constructions and Adaptations
to Political Categorizations .................................................................... 197
Anne-Cécile Renouard
13 Challenges of Social Engagement: NGO Work
in the People’s Republic of China .......................................................... 213
Birgit Häse
14 The Suicide Problem in Contemporary Japanese Society:
Its Economic and Social Backdrop and Religious Reactions .............. 229
Michiaki Okuyama
15 Constructing and Controlling People’s Power
from the Grass Roots: Philippine Social Movement
Activism in a Historical Perspective ...................................................... 243
Dominique Caouette
Part IV Commentary
16 What Do Social Scientists Do When
They Do Comparative Work? ................................................................ 285
Lilian Mathieu
About the Authors ........................................................................................... 297
References ........................................................................................................ 301
Index ................................................................................................................. 303
List of Figures
Fig. 2.1 Income distribution by broad region of the world
( upper and lower quintiles) ............................................................ 19
Fig. 2.2 At-risk poverty rate, total population, 2009 ................................... 23
Fig. 5.1 A two-dimensional space for situating
conceptions of citizenship .............................................................. 76
Fig. 6.1 Selected cereal and soybean prices (2007–2010) .......................... 89
Fig. 6.2 Population in Europe and Asia, 1985–2050
(FAO estimates from 2010 to 2050) ............................................... 90
Fig. 6.3 Primary crop production trend 1980–2008 (1,000 t) ..................... 94
Fig. 6.4 International food aid fl ows (1,000 t, sx) compared
to international cereal prices (USD/t, dx) ...................................... 107
Fig. 12.1 Activists framing categories and types of categories ..................... 203
Fig. 12.2 Activist categories and common framing structures ...................... 210
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