Student Resistance in the Age of Chaos. Book 1, 1999-2009 by Mark Edelman Boren

Author:Mark Edelman Boren [Boren Mark Edelman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781644210376
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2022-08-10T18:00:00+00:00

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TECHNOLOGICAL EXPLOSIONS, REVOLUTIONS, AND GENDER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS IN ASIA AND AUSTRALIA

Asia during the first decade of the millennium was, like Eastern Europe, a hotbed of student resistance, and student protest actions took just about every conceivable form. The region’s wide variety of cultures, societies, religions, and governments, which had often historically defined themselves in contrast to their neighbors, also influenced one another through an ever-increasing economic globalism, the proliferation of more affordable technology, and the constantly expanding reach of social media. For nations like Australia that had strong ties to the West, students’ issues often mirrored those in Europe or the United States. But even in authoritarian nations, the transmission of Western media and culture spread by new technology and networks encouraged the growth of prodemocracy and civil rights movements. Adding to these cultural influences, the prodemocracy revolutions in Eastern Europe inspired hope in many seeking to overthrow their own authoritarian regimes. Such influences were offset or directly countered by robust dictatorial countermeasures. As China’s government consolidated power domestically, its influence spread across the region in aggressive territorial and economic imperialism and through its internet and social-media platforms.

Student resistance has long played a major role in the histories of the region’s nations, and student-led reforms have changed the courses of the area’s nations, from China to Japan, from South Korea to India. But in this first decade of the millennium, the technological advances and social interconnectivity spreading throughout the region began to radically transform student resistance in unprecedented ways. Technology changed the nature of how demonstrations occurred and what they were about, for access to global media expanded the reach of Western ideas, exposing relatively isolated areas to contemporary views on civil rights, ideas of social justice, and, of course, fashion. Globally influential popular culture—from pop singers to movie stars, from hairstyles to clothes—fueled the desires and attitudes of a younger generation often willing to challenge their conservative elders, religious codes, and governments in many of the area’s cultures and societies.

That said, while interconnectivity and globalism aid increased activism levels, and a number of resistance efforts in the region’s countries sought to engage on international issues, most of the resistance struggles in the region remained localized and country-specific. They mostly had to do with specific nations’ struggles over their own citizens’ identities, ideas of self-determination, and rights. South Korean students, for example, would protest in giant numbers against Japan’s school-curriculum reforms, but what they were demonstrating against was the national and personally felt slight in Japan’s whitewashing of the crimes its soldiers committed during their early-twentieth-century invasions of Korea. Because the region’s many societies are so different from one another, and the relations among them so complex, it’s hard to summarize the various student actions beyond saying that a lot was going on and that the nature and efficacy of the protests were changed by rapidly evolving technology. How quickly those changes swept through the various countries of the region depended on the extent of civilian access to modern technology.

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