[KS] New book announcement (Alexander Bukh)

[Alexander Bukh]

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for X-posting.

I believe that some of you may be interested in my recently published
monograph on territorial disputes related activism in Northeast Asia.
Chapters 2 and 3 focus on the Dokdo/ Takeshima dispute between Japan and
Korea.
*These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in
Northeast Asia*

Stanford University Press, Studies in Asian Security Series, 232 pages
Publication date: 10/03/2020
Cloth ISBN: 9781503611894
Digital ISBN: 9781503611900

Brief Description

Territorial disputes are one of the main sources of tension in Northeast
Asia. Escalation in such conflicts often stems from a widely shared public
perception that the territory in question is of the utmost importance to
the nation. While that's frequently not true in economic, military, or
political terms, citizens' groups and other domestic actors throughout the
region have mounted sustained campaigns to protect or recover disputed
islands. Quite often, these campaigns have wide-ranging domestic and
international consequences.

Why and how do territorial disputes that at one point mattered little,
become salient? Focusing on non-state actors rather than political elites,
Alexander Bukh explains how and why apparently inconsequential territories
become central to national discourse in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. *These
Islands Are Ours* challenges the conventional wisdom that disputes-related
campaigns originate in the desire to protect national territory and traces
their roots to times of crisis in the respective societies. This book gives
us a new way to understand the nature of territorial disputes and how they
inform national identities by exploring the processes of their social
construction, and amplification.
Contents

Introduction

1 Japan's "Northern Territories"

2 Shimane Prefecture's Quest for Takeshima

3 The "Protect Dokdo" Movement in South Korea

4 Taiwan's "Protect the Diaoyutai" Baodiao Movement

Conclusion

For further information please visit:
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31650
https://www.academia.edu/42071828/These_Islands_Are_Ours_The_Social_Construction_of_Territ..
<https://www.academia.edu/42071828/These_Islands_Are_Ours_The_Social_Construction_of_Territorial_Disputes_in_Northeast_Asia>
<https://www.academia.edu/14906478/Special_Issue_on_Civil_Society_and_Borders_in_Asia>


Dr Alexander Bukh

Political Science and International Relations Programme
Victoria University of Wellington
Phone:+64 (0)4 463 9450
Fax:   +64 (0)4 463 5351


*In print!*

*These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in
Northeast Asia*
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31650
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