Join Center for Japanese Studies Acting Assistant Professor Andrea Gevurtz Arai on Friday, July 11 from 7-8 p.m. at the Elliot Bay Book Company for a discussion on the new book, “Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia.” She will be joined by Summer Dai, a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments.
This edited volume brings together an exciting cross-regional inter-disciplinary group of scholars, scholar activists, artists and others that addresses the last two decades’ hollowing out of social connections, socioeconomic income gaps, and general precarity of life in East Asian societies. Each chapter demonstrates how individuals and communities across East Asia are making their stands in the everyday — focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.
Registration recommended at bit.ly/arai-july11.