Inequality and Social Unrest

Tue, Nov 21

  • What is the repertoire of contention in Asia?
  • Where are people protesting and why? 

Read This

  • Weiss, Meredith L. Protest and Possibilities : Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006, selections.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan, and Sing, Ming. Take Back Our Future : an Eventful Sociology of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. Ithaca [New York]: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019.

Recommended

  • Weiss, Meredith L., and Aspinall, Edward. Student Activism in Asia : Between Protest and Powerlessness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.