{"id":6031,"date":"2025-07-02T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T19:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:16:14","slug":"spaces-of-creative-resistance-social-change-in-east-asia-projects-in-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/earc\/spaces-of-creative-resistance-social-change-in-east-asia-projects-in-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Change Projects in East Asia – NCTA Online Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Educators joined Andrea Gevurtz Arai<\/strong>, Professor of Japan and East Asia Studies and Cultural Anthropology in the Jackson School of International Studies, for an online program exploring the newly published volume Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia<\/em><\/a>, which she curated and edited. This collection brings together a cross-national, interdisciplinary group of scholars, scholar-activists, artists, and others to explore the past two decades of growing income inequality, declining birth rates, increasing precarity, and grassroots responses across East Asian societies.<\/p>\n

We focused on the case studies in the book that highlight how young people throughout East Asia are working together to create socially sustainable change, particularly in the areas of gender, labor, and the environment, both built and natural. We also discussed the broader context of these changes, examining both top-down and bottom-up dynamics, and considered the similarities and differences among East Asian nations. Finally, we reflected on what it means to confront large-scale political and economic forces that shape individual lives and communities. Each project in the volume is centered on making everyday life more liveable and imagining more hopeful futures. The volume also includes a teaching appendix, which we explored together during the session.<\/p>\n

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