...Doreen Lee Abstract Activist art and political resistance became popular aesthetics in the work of Indonesian artists after the fall of the New Order in 1998. In subsequent years, more art alternatives have emerged in cities and small towns across Indonesia, including diverse and vernacular modes...

... that sought to protest and repair the failing system of chastity awards. The activist impetus greatly enhanced the centrality and influence of chastity practice in social life and, in doing so, opened the notion of chastity to contentious and sometimes subversive negotiations. Zhu's reading of the situation...

...Mary E. McCoy Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia . By Doreen Lee . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . xvi, 278 pp. ISBN: 9780822361527 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Eugene Y. Park Cho Kwang-jo: Silch'ŏnjŏk chisigin ŭi salm, isang kwa hyŏnsil sai esŏ . [Cho Kwang-jo: An activist intellectual's life, between ideals and reality] , Chǒng Tu-hŭi , Seoul : Ak'anet , 2000 . 307 pp. ₩ 18,000 Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001...

...S. V. R. Nasr Political Mercenaries and Citizen Soldiers: A Profile of North Indian Party Activists . By Yogendra K. Malik and Jesse F. Marquette . Delhi : Chanakya Publications , 1990 . xiv, 213 pp. Rs. 200. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK...

... the churches in action. Looking at how churches and activists interact in the aftermath of the Euromaidan and the Umbrella Movement, we explore how grassroots activists approach religious hierarchies and how, in these circumstances, the clergy of the churches might be pressured into maneuvering between...

...Mengyang Zhao Becoming Activists in Global China is a timely comparative study on social movement modularity, using a novel approach to decipher the mediated effect of internal culture in shaping the fate of political dissidents. In the study of contentious politics in China, Minyun has always...

... : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . xii, 267 pp. ISBN: 9780226331614 (paper). The Rise of the Octobrists in Contemporary Thailand: Power and Conflict among Former Left-Wing Student Activists in Thai Politics . By Kanokrat Lertchoosakul . Chiang Mai : Silkworm Books , 2017 . xx, 364 pp. ISBN...

...Manuela Ciotti Abstract This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities as seva or social...

..., and who, in the extended process of self-organization, articulated—however inchoately and sometimes even incoherently—an intellectual and activist program of resistance and opposition to the corrupt domestic governmental systems, global institutions, local organizations, and specific individuals who were...

... to student activists according to their positions in the pre-Cultural Revolution status quo. However, a closer examination of events in Beijing during the summer and early autumn of 1966—where the Red Guards and their factional divisions first emerged—suggests a different interpretation. Factions emerged...

...Bryan Pfaffenberger Abstract In the same year (1968) that students blockaded the streets of Paris, the formerly somnolent Jaffna Peninsula—the center of Tamil culture in Sri Lanka—was rocked by its own version of civil unrest. Led by an activist affiliated with the “Peking wing” of the Ceylon...

...Germaine A. Hoston Abstract The Political Histories of Western Europe and the United States over the past three hundred years illustrate powerfully how the evolution of fully functioning liberal democratic politics has been linked intimately to the presence of vigorous thinkers and activists...

... society. Women's studies is not only concerned with changing intellectual inquiry but also with changing society itself. Scholars and activists sometimes inhabit different bodies, but by and large people who are concerned with inquiry into women's condition are also engaged in trying to change...

...Lynn A. Struve Abstract Too often the thought and scholarship of Huang Zongxi (1610–95), a prominent Chinese intellectual and political activist of the Ming-Qing transition period, are treated in isolation, as though the man stood in a sphere above and apart from most other thinkers of his day...

...John R. Bowen Abstract M uslim movements in the twentieth century have sought to develop new reading and listening publics attuned to the messages of reform and renewal. Across Asia and the Middle East, scholars, poets, and activists have created distinctive vernacular genres intended to make...

...John R. Bowen Abstract S ince the late nineteenth century, Muslim movements for religious and social reform have underscored the value of making scripture accessible to a broad public. Scholars and activists alike have urged ordinary Muslim men and women to study and follow the Qur'ān...

... of Indonesian political culture they approach what he terms the “radical activist” mode, and seek to reshape society, if not the state, in the image of the Qur’ān and hadīth. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 List of References Abidin and Wahyuddin Uyun . 1990...

..., and with it an inexplicable sadness always takes hold of my psyche. It has grown even more devastating since the 22 May 2014 coup, in which we must face the news of the arrest and detention of activists and those who oppose dictatorship.” This was not a commemoration after dictatorship such as those of the same era held...