{"id":5727,"date":"2025-07-01T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:04:15","slug":"spaces-of-creative-resistance-with-andrea-gevurtz-arai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/spaces-of-creative-resistance-with-andrea-gevurtz-arai\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Spaces of Creative Resistance&#8221; with Andrea Gevurtz Arai on July 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5728 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-300x300.png\" alt=\"Join Center for Japanese Studies 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, &quot;Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia.&quot; She will be joined by Summer Dai, a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-375x375.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-750x750.png 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/Andrea_Gevurtz_Arai__3_.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Join Center for Japanese Studies Acting Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/people\/andrea-arai\/\">Andrea Gevurtz Arai<\/a> on Friday, July 11 from 7-8 p.m. at the Elliot Bay Book Company for a discussion on the new book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/templeton-press\/spaces-of-creative-resistance\/9781978842496\/\">Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia<\/a>.&#8221; She will be joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/be.uw.edu\/academics\/phd\/student-profiles\/#dai:~:text=sustainability%2C%20and%20vitality.-,Summer%20Xuan%20Dai,-Ph.C.%2C%20University\">Summer Dai<\/a>, a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington&#8217;s College of Built Environments.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; 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 \u2014 focused on making more liveable presents and more possible futures.<\/p>\n<p>Registration recommended at <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/arai-july11\">bit.ly\/arai-july11<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;Spaces of Creative Resistance: Social Change Projects in Twenty-First-Century East Asia.&#8221; She will be joined by Summer Dai, a Ph.D. student in the University<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/spaces-of-creative-resistance-with-andrea-gevurtz-arai\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[152,151,155,154,153],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","tag-andrea-arai","tag-andrea-gevurtz-arai","tag-spaces-of-creative-resistance","tag-spaces-of-creative-resistance-social-change-projects-in-twenty-first-century-east-asia","tag-summer-dai","region-east-asia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Spaces of Creative Resistance&quot; 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