You are cordially invited to a CSEAS Tonan Talk, a Brown Bag lecture series. The talk is open to the public, and you can bring your lunch bag to the place.The details are as follows.<\/p>\n
Title:<\/strong> Re-examining the roles of middle class and civil society in the Date:<\/strong> December 15th (Tues.) 12:00 – 14:00, 2015 But what remains to be resolved in the above three established assertions are the following questions:<\/p>\n First, the issue of “specification” of what segments of middle classes and what types of civil society organization that have indeed made contributions to the making of democracy and what and how have they done for the cause of democracy? About the speaker<\/strong>:
\npaths to democratization in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand
\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Professor Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, distinguished research
\nfellow of the Institute of Sociology at the Academia Sinica and CSEAS Visiting Research Scholar<\/p>\n
\nPlace:<\/strong> Tonan-tei (Room No. 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building,
\nKyoto University<\/p>\n
\nAbstract:<\/strong>
\nThere are no shortage of various theoretical assertions and debates on the bilateral relations between middle class and democracy, between civil society and democracy, and even between middle class and civil
\nsociety. However, all existing discourses are quite general, linear and static. In the 60s, the dominant thinking was to embrace the middle class to be the vanguard for Western democracies. Since the late 80s,
\nthe popular assessment was to regard civil society as the driving force behind the third wave democratization in the non-western world. All along, it is also assumed that the middle classes have constituted the core membership of the civil society. In the recent past, many works on Asian democratization seems to have taken the similar line of argument.<\/p>\n
\nSecond, the issue of “consistence or shift” of positions and actions of those pro-democracy middle class groups and their respective civil society organizations over the different phases of democratic
\ntransitions and transformations and why so?
\nThird, the issue of “typology of the triple links” of middle class ,civil society and democratization in a more vigorous comparative analytical mode beyond one country case studies and what theoretical
\npropositions can be made?
\nFourth, the issue of “social origins or foundations” of Asia’s modern democracies in post-World War Two and how to make out of that?
\nIn this talk, I will sketch the ideas of a proposed comparative study to tackle the four important and challenging questions by looking into two Northeast Asian countries of Taiwan and South Korea and two Southeast Asian countries of the Philippines and Thailand for such typological inquiries.<\/p>\n
\nHsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, PhD, is Distinguished Research Fellow of the
\nInstitute of Sociology at the Academia Sinica. He is also the Professor
\nof Sociology at National Taiwan University and National Sun Yat-sen
\nUniversity and Chair Professor of Hakka studies at National Central
\nUniversity in Taiwan. He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at
\nCenter for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. His current
\nresearch focuses on civil society, new democracies, middle class in
\nAsia, local sustainable development, Hakka studies, and NGO studies.
\nRecent publications include Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Asia
\n(co-editor). Taipei: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2015; The
\nLessons of Taiwan\u2019s Local Environment (editor). Kaohsiung: Chu-Liu Book
\nCompany, 2015; Writing Taiwan\u2019s Third Sector History II (editor).
\nKaohsiung: Chu-Liu Book Company, 2015; Near Neighbors: Issues in Taiwan
\nand Hong Kong Societies (co-editor). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Inst. of Asian
\nPacific Studies, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, 2014. Globalization and
\nNew Intra-Urban Dynamics in Asian Cities (co-editor). Taipei: National
\nTaiwan University Press, 2014. Politics, Ethnicity, Religions and Art in
\nIndonesia (co-editor). Taipei: Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies,
\nAcademia Sinica, 2014. Writing Taiwan\u2019s Third Sector History I (editor).
\nKaohsiung: Chu-Liu Book Company, 2014; Democracy or Alternative
\nPolitical Systems in Asia: After the Strongmen (editor). London & New
\nYork: Routledge, 2014; Chinese Middle Classes: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao
\nand China (editor), London & New York: Routledge, 2013.<\/p>\n
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