031 - Section on Asia and Asian America Paper Session. Social Change and Resistance in Asia and Asian America

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This session invites submissions that advance knowledge about the relationship between social change and social resistance in Asia and Asia America. How do individuals and collectivities make sense of and attempt to challenge the uneven power dynamics associated with global capitalist transformations, such as widespread inequality and precarity, intensified flows of labor, capital, and money across borders, urban growth and environmental degradation, and persistent social exclusion along race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status? What role do states, institutions, social movements, and communities play in promoting – as well as undermining ­– individual and collective forms of social resistance? What kinds of strategies and practices foster more enduring forms of social transformation? Submissions to this panel that undertake transnational, diasporic and/or comparative perspectives on the dynamics of collective action in Asia and Asia America are especially welcome.

Sub Unit

• Section on Asia and Asian America / Social Change and Resistance in Asia and Asian America

Session Organizer

• Jennifer Jihye Chun, University of Toronto Scarborough

Individual Presentations

• A Theory of Immigrant Political Incorporation: Hmong Americans’ Movement against Welfare Reforms - Yang Sao Xiong, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• From Labor Commodification to Land Dispossession: The Changing Foundations of Chinese Development, 1978 to present - Julia Chuang, Boston College

• Making and Remaking Gentrification: The Case of Korea Re-inventing Commercial Tenants as Activists Against Gentrification - Yewon Andrea Lee

• Weapons of the Weak Soldiers: Military Masculinity and Embodied Resistance in Taiwanese Conscription - Ying-Chao Kao, Rutgers University