週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

Introduction

2/20

Syllabus and Course Regulations

NO HOMEWORK

3

0

2

National Holiday – 228 Memorial Day

2/27

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

3

Democracy and Civil Society

3/6

De Tocqueville, Alexis, 2015. Democracy in America-Vol. I. and II. Read Books Ltd. (Vol II, Part 1) – [very short chapters from a classic book]

Foley, Michael W. and Bob Edwards, 1998. "Beyond Tocqueville: civil society and social capital in comparative perspective: editors' introduction." American Behavioral Scientist, 5-20.

ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

4

Critiques of Tocquevillian Civil Society

3/13

Diamond, Larry, 1994. "Rethinking civil society: Toward democratic consolidation." Journal of democracy 5.3: 4-17.

Hedman, Eva-Lotta E, 2001, "Contesting state and civil society: Southeast Asian trajectories." Modern Asian Studies 35.4: 921-951.

Additional:

Kim, Sungmoon. "On Korean dual civil society: Thinking through Tocqueville and Confucius." Contemporary Political Theory 9.4 (2010): 434-457.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

5

Social Capital and Civil Society

3/20

Fukuyama, Francis, 2001. "Social capital, civil society and development." Third world quarterly 22.1: 7-20.

Putnam, Robert D, 1992, Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton university press. (Ch.6 – Social capital and institutional success)

Additional:

Edwards, Bob, and Michael W. Foley, 1998 "Civil society and social capital beyond Putnam." American behavioral scientist 42.1: 124-139.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

6

Social Movement and the State

3/27

Bermeo, Nancy G, 2003, Ordinary people in extraordinary times: The citizenry and the breakdown of democracy. Princeton University Press (Ch.1)

Tarrow, Sidney, 2012, Strangers at the gates: movements and states in contentious politics. Cambridge University Press (Ch.1)

Additional:

Linz, Juan J., Juan J. Linz, and Alfred Stepan, 1996, Problems of democratic transition and consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and post-communist Europe. JHU Press (Ch. 1)

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

7

National Holiday – Children’s Day and Tomb Sweeping Festival

4/3

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

8

Fake news and the limitations to freedom of speech: lessons from the Philippines and Malaysia

4/10

Coronel, Sheila S. "Press freedom in the Philippines." Press freedom in contemporary Asia. Routledge, 2019. 214-229.

Fernandez, Joseph M. "Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Act: A cog in an arsenal of anti-free speech laws and a bold promise of reforms." Pacific Journalism Review 25.1/2 (2019): 173-192.

Additional:

Gloria, Glenda. "Holding the line: Rappler, Facebook, Duterte and the battle for truth and public trust." Pacific Journalism Review 28.1/2 (2022): 47-53.

Herr, Orna. "New tactics to close down speech: The news editor at Rappler speaks to Index about legal threats against the media outlet’s CEO, Maria Ressa, plus a report on Index’s recent work." Index on Censorship 49.3 (2020): 97-100.

Grace A Go, Miriam. "“We’re not scared of these things”: Rappler news editor on how the newsroom continues despite the increasing threats, alongside words from their CEO Maria Ressa." Index on Censorship 47.2 (2018): 48-51.

Neo, R. (2021). The failed construction of fake news as a security threat in Malaysia. Contemporary Politics, 27(3), 316-335.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

9

Democratic transition and student movements: lessons from

Thailand and Indonesia

4/17

Sastramidjaja, Yatun. "Chapter One. Student Movements and Indonesia’s Democratic Transition". Activists in Transition: Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia, edited by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019, pp. 23-40. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501742491-004

Darling, Frank C. “Student Protest and Political Change in Thailand.” Pacific Affairs, vol. 47, no. 1, 1974, pp. 5–19. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2755892.  

Additional:

Franken, Lara Aina. "Perception of Hierarchy Among Student Activists in the Thai Youth Movement 2020-2022." Asia in Focus 10.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

10

Transnational democratization and digital movement: the Milk tea alliance

4/24

Huang, Roger Lee, and Chavalin Svetanant. "Challenging digital authoritarianism: Milk Tea Alliance and transnational solidarity." Activism and authoritarian governance in Asia. Routledge, 2022. 130-142.

Khor, Yu Leng. "Mapping the Transnationalisation of Social Movements Through Online Media: The Case of the Milk Tea Alliance." The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. 121-136.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

11

Governance reform, anti-corruption: the Malaysian experience

5/1

(Guest lecture: Dr. Choong Pui Yee, University of Malaya, Malaysia)

Choong, Pui Yee, 2016, "Grassroots Democratic Movements' Dependency on New Media in Contemporary Malaysia: Prospects and Limitations." State, Society and Information Technology in Asia. Routledge, 93-108.

Case, William, 2009, "Low-quality democracy and varied authoritarianism: elites and regimes in Southeast Asia today." The Pacific Review 22.3: 255-269.

Additional:

Govindasamy, Anantha Raman. "Social movements in contemporary Malaysia: The cases of BERSIH, HINDRAF and Perkasa." Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia. Routledge, 2014. 116-126.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

12

The Politics of citizenship, and the plight of the minorities: the Myanmar experience

5/8

Berenschot, Ward, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Laurens Bakker. "Introduction: citizenship and democratization in postcolonial Southeast Asia." Citizenship and democratization in Southeast Asia. Brill, 2017. 1-28

Jagger, Stan. "Developing civil society in the non-state sphere: Welfare and rights-based organisations associated with ethnic armed groups in Myanmar." Small wars & insurgencies 29.2 (2018): 316-343.

Additional:

Cheesman, Nick. "How in Myanmar “national races” came to surpass citizenship and exclude Rohingya." Journal of Contemporary Asia 47.3 (2017): 461-483.

Aziz, Abdul. "Rohingya diaspora online: Mapping the spaces of visibility, resistance and transnational identity on social media." New Media & Society 26.9 (2024): 5219-5239.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

13

Labor movements and contentious politics: stories from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam

5/15

Sutan, Arissy Jorgi, et al. "Using social media as tools of social movement and social protest in omnibus law of job creation bill policy-making process in Indonesia." International Conference on Advances in Digital Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.

Hutchison, Jane. "Labour politics in Southeast Asia: The Philippines in comparative perspective." Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian politics. Routledge, 2012. 40-52.

Additional:

Ngoc Tran, Angie. "The third sleeve: Emerging labor newspapers and the response of the labor unions and the state to workers' resistance in Vietnam." Labor Studies Journal 32.3 (2007): 257-279.

Pangsapa, Piya, 2015, "When battlefields become marketplaces: Migrant workers and the role of civil society and NGO activism in Thailand." International Migration 53.3: 124-149.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

14

Religious “uncivil” society? The case of Indonesia and Myanmar

5/22

Facal, Gabriel, 2020, "Islamic Defenders Front Militia (Front Pembela Islam) and its impact on growing religious intolerance in Indonesia." TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia 8.1: 7-20.

Van Klinken, Gerry, and Su Mon Thazin Aung, 2017, "The contentious politics of anti-Muslim scapegoating in Myanmar." Journal of Contemporary Asia 47.3 (2017): 353-375

Additional:

Candland, Christopher, 2001, "Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia." Social Capital as a Policy Resource. Springer, Boston, MA, 2001. 129-148.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

15

Study Visit to industrial policy Think Tank: Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC)

5/29

Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC, previously known as the Market Intelligence Center) is a division of the Institute for Information Industry (III), a leader in Taiwan's ICT industry research and consultancy.

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

NO CLASS

16

The Mekong Region case and environmental challenges: lessons from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam

6/5

Green, W. Nathan, and Ian G. Baird. "The contentious politics of hydropower dam impact assessments in the Mekong River basin." Political geography 83 (2020): 102272.

Young, Sokphea, and Sophal Ear. "Transnational political economic structures: explaining transnational environmental movements against dams in the lower Mekong region." Third World Quarterly 42.12 (2021): 2993-3011.

Additional:

Nguyen-Van-Quoc, Thai, Ethemcan Turhan, and Ronald Holzhacker. "Activism and non-activism: The politics of claiming environmental justice in Vietnam." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 6.2 (2023): 976-1006.

Kirchherr, Julian, Katrina J. Charles, and Matthew J. Walton. "The interplay of activists and dam developers: The case of Myanmar’s mega-dams." International Journal of Water Resources Development 33.1 (2017): 111-131.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

17

Gender issues and the triumph of social movement: lessons from Thailand and Indonesia

6/12

Moreau, Julie, 2017, "Political Science and the Study of LGBT Social Movements in the Global South." LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader 3: 439.

Yulius, H., and S. G. Davies. "The unfulfilled promise of democracy: lesbian and gay activism in Indonesia." Activists in transition: progressive politics in democratic Indonesia (2019): 153-170.

Additional:

Falk, Monica Lindberg. "Feminism, Buddhism and transnational women’s movements in Thailand." Women's Movements in Asia. Routledge, 2010. 120-133.

SHORT ESSAYS (for those who choose this topic)

3

3

18

Study Visit to Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD)

6/19

Students attend a presentation by a research fellow at TFD and participate in the discussion.

NO HOMEWORK

3

0