Simon Avenell - Transnational Civil Society in Asia

Transnational Civil Society in Asia

This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region.

The contributors conceive of transnational civil society networks as constructive vehicles for both informing and persuading governments and businesses to adopt, modify, or abandon certain policies or positions. This volume investigates the role of such networks through a range of interdisciplinary approaches, bringing together case studies on Asian transnationalism from South, Southeast, and Northeast Asia across four key themes: local transformations and connections, diaspora politics, cross-regional initiatives and networks, and global actors and influences. Chapters demonstrate how transnational civil society is connecting people in local communities across Asia, in parallel to ongoing tensions between nation-states and civil society. By highlighting the grassroots regionalization emerging from ever-intensifying information exchange between civil society actors across borders as well as concrete transnational initiatives uniting actors across Asia the volume advances the intellectual mandate of redefining Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation.

Transnational Civil Society in Asia will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, politics, and Asian studies more broadly.

Simon Avenell is a Professor at the Australian National University. He studies Japanese history, civil society, environmentalism, and transnationalism. He has published in leading journals, including the Journal of Japanese Studies and Environmental History . His most recent book is Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (2017).

Akihiro Ogawa is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Melbournes Asia Institute. His major research interest is in contemporary Japanese society, focusing on civil society.

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Transnational Civil Society in Asia

The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization

Edited by Simon Avenell and Akihiro Ogawa

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Dedicated to all of the civil society people we met in the field

Contents

Simon Avenell and Akihiro Ogawa

PART I
Northeast Asia

Akina Mikami

Stephen Noakes

Akihiro Ogawa

Simon Avenell

PART II
Southeast Asia

Jeff Kingston

Gillian Koh and Dhevarajan Devadas

Ruth Phillips and Deanna Davy

Apichai W. Shipper

PART III
South Asia

Pradeep Taneja and Surjeet Dhanji

Salim Lakha

Udan Fernando

Ian Rowen

Simon Avenell is Professor in the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University. He works on modern Japanese history, civic activism, civil society, and transnational history. His work has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Japanese Studies , Environmental History , and Modern Asian Studies . He has published two books: Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan (UC Press, 2010), and Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Hawaii, 2017). He is currently completing a book on Japans reengagement with Asia in the wake of World War II.

Deanna Davy completed her PhD on the subject of child trafficking in Southeast Asia, and has five years of experience living and working in Southeast Asia. During her career she has designed and managed research projects, conducted research work on migration and trafficking in persons, and written research reports for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Childrens Fund, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat, and ECPAT International. In addition to her PhD, she has completed a Master of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, a Master of International Development, and a Master of Evaluation.