New edited volume: Andrea Gevurtz Arai “Spaces of Creative Resistance”

Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia (Rutgers University Press 2025) brings together an exciting cross-regional interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists, and others for a collection that addresses the last two decades’ hollowing out of social connections, socioeconomic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asian societies. Written by authors from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, each chapter is focused on people making a difference together in socially sustainable ways, particularly in the areas of gender, labor, and environments—both built and natural.  This volume began with a 2021 conference partially funded by the Global Innovation Fund by the Office of Global Affairs and also with funding from other UW East Asia focused centers and programs.