Spaces of Creative Resistance

ANDREA GEVURTZ ARAI is a cultural anthropologist and acting assistant professor in The Henry M Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan and the coeditor of Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times and Spaces of Possibility: In, Between, and Beyond Korea and Japan.CHRISTOPHER T. NELSON is a cultural anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Okinawa and the forthcoming When the Bones Speak: The Living, the Dead, and the Sacrifice of Okinawa.

"The force of this volume lies as much in the collection of essays as a whole as it does in the individual arguments; diverse, sometimes uncertain, they present a true politics of the everyday. Above all, it insists on the endurance of particularity—of a potentiality not defined by, or contained by, the seemingly totalizing ubiquity of global capital; these are stories of our time." - Thomas Looser (associate professor and chair of East Asian Studies at New York University)

• ContentsForeword by Christopher T. NelsonIntroduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses by Andrea Gevurtz AraiSection I: Creative Acts of Resistance1 DiY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics, and Women’s Projects in Post 3.11 Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai2 Ma-eul Sal-i of Korean Young People: Making Spaces for a Different Lifestyle by Hyein Chae3 Regaining Autonomy at Work in Hong Kong’s “Alternative Communities” by Chor-See Chan4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of Young People’s Creative Resistance in 21st- Century China by Jinyue Xu and Yue WuSection II: Cultural Spaces and Community Places5 “I Refuse to Live in a Town Without a Cinema!”: Rebuilding a Cultural Space and Social Infrastructure in Toyooka, Japan by Hidehiko Ishibashi6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Place in Kanazawa Japan by Keisuke Sugano 7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issues by Urban Elite Youth in China by Summer Xuan Dai8 Creative Resistance and Social Isolation in Japan by Yumi MatsubaraSection III: Environments of Creative Resistance​9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Community and “Gathering” Spaces in Taiwan by Hsiu Fan Lin and Yu Liu10 The Tale of a Transitional Site for Self-Organized Civic Life in South Korea (Bibil Base) by Yeonjung Ahn11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action in Wan-hua, Taipei by Liling Huang and Jeff HouTeaching AppendixBibliographyIndexForeword by Christopher T. Nelson viiIntroduction: Shifting Contexts, Creative Responses 1andrea gevurtz araipart i: creative acts of resistance1 DIY Sensibilities, Eco-Aesthetics,and Women’sProjectsafter3.11 in Japan 13andrea gevurtz arai2 Maeul Sari for Young Korean People:Making Spacesfor a DifferentLifestyle 24Hyein Chae3 Reinventing Faan Gung: Regaining Autonomy at Workin Hong Kong’s Alternative Communities 43chor-seechan4 “I Want to Lie Flat Like a Dead Fish”: A Form of YoungPeople’sCreative Resistancein Twenty-First-CenturyChina 57jinyue xu and yue wupart ii: cultural spaces and community places5 “I Refuse to Live in a Town without a Cinema!”: Rebuildinga Theater and Cultural Space in Toyooka, Japan 77hidehiko ishibashi6 Rebuilding a Vacant Space and Regaining My Placein Kanazawa, Japan 88keisuke sugano7 706 Youth Space: A Collective Response to Social Issuesby Urban Elite Youth in China 102summer xuan dai8 Creative Resistanceand Social Isolation in Japan 119yumi matsubarapart iii: environments of creative resistance9 The Case of the Yuanli Hi Home: Revitalizing Communityand “Gathering” Spaces in Taiwan 135hsiu fan lin and yu liu10 A Transitional Site for Self-OrganizedCivic Life inSouth Korea(Bibil Base) 143yeonjung ahn11 Urban Poverty and Spaces of Community Action inWanhua, Taipei 148liling huang and jeffrey houTeaching Appendix: For the Instructor Thinking ofAdopting This Volume 165andrea gevurtz arai with miriam timsonAcknowledgments169Notes on Contributors 171Index 000