George Katsiaficas Boeken

Using social movements as a prism to illuminate the oft-hidden history of twentieth-century Korea, this book provides detailed analysis of major uprisings that have patterned that country's politics and society. With a central focus on the Gwangju Uprising, which ultimately proved decisive in South Korea's democratization. Karsiaficas extrapolates Korean experiences to examine possibilities of global social movements in the twenty-first century. The book's historical sweep ranges from conflicts as Korea entered the modern era, to the country's division and the Korean War, through to opposition to neoliberal economic policies, and ongoing struggles in the internet age. Ten years in the making, it is the first volume in a magisterial two-part study that concludes by analyzing in rich detail uprisings in nine other places: the Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia

Since the modern anti-globalisation movement kicked off with the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, a new generation has been engaging in anti-capitalist direct action. Its aims, politics, lifestyles and tactics grow directly out of the autonomous social movements that emerged in Europe from the 1970s through to the mid-1990s. The Subversion of Politics fills in the gaps between the momentous events of 1968 and 1999. Katsiaficas presents the protagonists of social revolt - Italian feminists, squatters, disarmament, punk rockers and street fighters in sympathetic light.