Asia's Unknown Uprisings

In May 1980 the Gwangju uprising shook the southwestern South Korea. In reaction to two coups and the increasing authoritarianism of the military dictatorship, the population of the city of Gwangju began a direct struggle against the military forces sent to suppress protests. George Katsiaficas, a long-time activist, professor and student of Herbert Marcuse, talked via Skype about his recent two-volume study "Asia's Unknown Uprisings". Through a critique of Samuel Huntington’s notion of a “Third Wave” of democratization, the author relates Asian uprisings to predecessors in 1968 and shows their subsequent influence on uprisings in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. By empirically reconstructing the specific history of each Asian uprising in Korea, Philippines, Burma, Tibet, China, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Thailand, and Indonesia 1947–2009, significant insight into major constituencies of change and the trajectories of these societies becomes visible. Recorded 2013-11-17 Facebook: www.facebook.com/aryhma/ Instagram: aryhma Twitter: twitter.com/A_ryhma Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/AryhmaHelsinki Twitch: www.twitch.tv/aryhma Spotify: sptfy.com/a-ryhma Apple podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/a-ryhmä/id1508757319 Google podcasts: podcasts.google.com/?q=a-ryhm%C3%A4