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      From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers

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      From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers
      Edited ByDafydd Fell
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 28 February 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560533
      Pages 300
      eBook ISBN 9781315560533
      Subjects Area Studies, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Fell, D. (Ed.). (2017). Taiwan’s Social Movements under Ma Ying-jeou: From the Wild Strawberries to the Sunflowers (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315560533

      ABSTRACT

      In the spring of 2014, the Sunflower Movement’s three-week occupation of the Legislative Yuan brought Taiwan back to international media attention. It was the culmination of a series of social movements that had been growing in strength since 2008 and have become even more salient since the spring of 2014. Social movements in Taiwan have emerged as a powerful new actor that needs to be understood alongside those players that have dominated the literature such as political parties, local factions, Taishang, China and the United States.

      This book offers readers an introduction to the development of these social movements in Taiwan by examining a number of important movement case studies that focus on the post 2008 period. The return of the Kuomintang (KMT) to power radically changed the political environment for Taiwan’s civil society and so the book considers how social activists responded to this new political opportunity structure. The case chapters are based on extensive fieldwork and are written by authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches; in some cases authors combine being both academics and activists themselves. Together, the chapters focus on a number of core issues, providing the book with four key aims. Firstly, it investigates the roots of the movements and considers how to best explain their emergence. Secondly, it examines the development trajectories of these movements. Thirdly, it looks at the best way to explain their impact and development patterns, and finally it assesses their overall impact, questioning whether they can be regarded as successes or failures.

      Covering a unique range of social movement cases, the book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in Taiwanese society and politics, as well as social movements and civil society.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|17 pages

      Social movements in Taiwan after 2008

      From the strawberries to the sunflowers and beyond
      ByDafydd Fell

      chapter 2|16 pages

      Civic activism and protests in Taiwan

      Why size doesn’t (always) matter
      ByJ. Michael Cole

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Virtual ecologies, mobilization and democratic groups without leaders

      Impacts of Internet media on the Wild Strawberry Movement
      ByHsiao Yuan

      chapter 4|17 pages

      A tale of two offshore islands

      Anti-casino movements in Penghu and Mazu
      ByTsai I-lun, Ho Ming-sho

      chapter 5|21 pages

      Not wanting Want

      The Anti-Media Monopoly Movement in Taiwan
      ByRowena Ebsworth

      chapter 6|21 pages

      This land is your land? This land is MY land

      Land expropriation during the Ma Ying-jeou administration and implications for social movements
      ByKetty W. Chen

      chapter 7|21 pages

      The Sunflower Movement

      Origins, structures, and strategies of Taiwan’s resistance against the ‘Black Box’
      ByAndré Beckershoff

      chapter 8|20 pages

      The China factor and Taiwan’s civil society organizations in the Sunflower Movement

      The case of the Democratic Front Against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
      ByHsu Szu-chien

      chapter 9|23 pages

      The evolution of the anti-nuclear movement in Taiwan since 2008

      BySimona Grano

      chapter 10|22 pages

      The revival of Taiwan’s Green Party after 2008

      ByDafydd Fell, Peng Yen-wen

      chapter 11|20 pages

      Rising from the ashes?

      The trade union movement under Ma Ying-jeou’s regime
      ByChiu Yu-bin

      chapter 12|17 pages

      A team player pursuing its own dreams

      Rights-claim campaign of Chinese migrant spouses in the migrant movement before and after 2008
      ByLara Momesso, Isabelle Cheng

      chapter 13|22 pages

      All our relations

      Indigenous rights movements in contemporary Taiwan
      ByScott Simon

      chapter 14|15 pages

      Uneasy alliance

      State feminism and the conservative government in Taiwan 1
      ByHuang Chang-Ling
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