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Continent of Resistance
by Kriangsak Teera-Hong & Kevin Lin
Continent of Resistance features conversations about strategies of building power within Asian labour movements. We talk with grassroots organizers and researchers from across Asia, followed by highlights from the world of work in Asia. The monthly podcast is co-produced and co-hosted by Kevin Lin (Managing Editor of Asian Labour Review) and Kriangsak (Kiang) Teera-Hong (Managing Director of Just Economy and Labour Institute). For more, visit: labourreview.org.
Episodes
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: Centering Care and Joy
We close the season by challenging the culture of burnout and self-sacrifice that so often haunts progressive movements. Shifting the focus to the "politics of care." We are curious about what care-centered organizing looks like in practice—from shared leadership and restorative rest to the...
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: Organizing in a Converging Crisis
As labor struggles increasingly intersect with climate collapse and rising authoritarianism, is the traditional "mobilizing and advocacy" model still enough? We question our collective obsession with "shiny new solutions," the professionalization of activism, and the movement's overreliance on...
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: Rewriting the Culture of Labor Movement
In this episode, we unpack the often-taken-for-granted culture within labor movements and explore the vital shift toward relationship-based organizing. Examining how workers historically build a culture of genuine solidarity, they ask a fundamental question: How can we foster movements that are…
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: Leveraging the Strategic Power of Workers
We continue the conversation on the long-standing assumption that informal labor is unorganizable, positioning it instead as the defining norm of the modern workforce. By examining these diverse leverage points, the conversation moves beyond reactive protests to consider how movements can bridge...
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: Who’s Reclaiming the New Frontiers of Labor?
Labor struggles no longer unfold only on the factory floor. This episode centers on whether new frontiers, such as the rise of platform workers, are truly new or simply extensions of the old system. We discuss the long-standing norms within labor movements that equate organizing primarily with...
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Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures: From Frustration to Imagination
In our new season of Continent of Resistance, Reclaiming Asian Labor Futures, Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn and Kevin Lin are joined by Nash Tysmans to explore how the terrain of labor struggle is shifting across Asia—from industrial to service-oriented and informal work—and how new forms of...
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Whither Asia's Labor Movements?
In the final episode of this series, we reflect on the key takeaways from our exploration of worker struggles across Asia. The historical and geographical context of strike waves offers valuable insights, and the comparative analysis is important for understanding labor movements. We highlight…
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Whither Asia's Labor Movements?
We reflect on the key takeaways from our exploration of worker struggles across Asia. The historical and geographical context of strike waves offers valuable insights, and the comparative analysis is important for understanding labor movements. We highlight the growing shift toward organizing in...
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Repression, Adaption and New Directions (2010s)
In the aftermath of the major strike waves across Asia in the 2010s, the initial worker victories in Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China were met with increasing government repression and restrictive labor laws. We analyze the more repressive environment for labour activism, the deepening of...
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Uprise and Unity amid Global Upheaval (2000s-2010s)
Set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis and its significant impacts on export sectors in Asia, workers in Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China rose in unprecedented numbers, demanding fair wages, better conditions, and stronger protections. This is a high point in the wave of...
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Democratization, Political Reforms and Organized Labor (2000s)
Political reforms and market liberalization significantly shaped the terrains of workers’ struggles in Asia. While Cambodia, Indonesia, China and Vietnam have also all seen market liberalisation and export-oriented industrialisation, they experienced divergent political trajectories, with some...
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Integration into Global Capitalism and Making of Working Class (1990s-2000s)
Against the interdependence and dialectics of liberalization and integration into global capitalism, new working classes emerged in Asia as key actors in the 1990s and 2000s. This set the stage for the Asian strike waves of the 2010s. Looking at the divergent histories and parallel developments…
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Asia's Striking Decade
Welcome to Season 2 of Continent of Resistance, a structured and research-driven series. In this introductory episode, we discuss the changes since their first season and introduce the key themes of the new series. We reflect on their motivations for examining the wave of labor strikes across…
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Best of The Continent of Resistance (Part 2)
In this special double-episode, we curate selected excerpts from our insightful discussions with activists and researchers throughout 2023. The featured discussions illuminate the challenges associated with organizing gig and freelance workers, showcase the unwavering resilience of women...
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Best 0f The Continent of Resistance (Part 1)
In this special double-episode, we curate selected excerpts from our insightful discussions with activists and researchers throughout 2023. The featured discussions illuminate the challenges associated with organizing gig and freelance workers, showcase the unwavering resilience of women...
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Labor Party's Potentials and Contradictions in Indonesia
Labor movements have aspired to establish their own political parties to contest state power. Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of such a party. In this episode, we delve into the origin story of the Labor Party of Indonesia, exploring its goals and political agenda for the upcoming election....
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How to Make Sense of Our Current Moment?
A conversation between the co-hosts, Kiang and Kevin zoom out and take stock of the economic and political moment our labour movements in Asia are in. The widely shared sentiment is that conditions have become much worse for workers in recent years. How have we arrived at this moment, and what...
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Gig Workers Rising: Grab Couriers' Self-Organization in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam (Part Two)
Part 2 of our conversation on Gig Workers Rising: Grab Couriers' Self-Organization in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam
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Gig Workers Rising: Grab Couriers' Self-Organization in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam (Part One)
One logistics and food delivery platform company, Grab, dominates almost the entirety of Southeast Asian markets. In this two-part conversation, we delve into the dynamic world of collectivization, and the emergence and development of self-organization among Grab couriers and riders in Indonesia,...
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Workers or Freelancers? Organising against Informality in Indonesia’s Media and Creative Industry
In Asia, bright and artistic young people have pursued their passion in the media and creative industry as journalists, theater workers and musicians. Despite the space such work affords for their creativity, these are also some of the most precarious and insecure jobs, with many working from one...
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Logistics Workers Organizing and Korean Truckers’ Strikes
Logistics has become the buzzword in today's global economy. But who exactly are logistics workers, and what is the history of the logistics revolution? In this episode, we explore the world of logistics workers and their efforts to build bargaining power through organising and disruption.Our...
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May Day Special: Agitation, Influencers, and Culture of Resistance, feat. Kara Taggaoa
In this May Day special, we explore the meaning of worker and labor activism, with a focus on engaging youth in the fight for workers' rights. To celebrate the special occasion of the 120th anniversary of May Day in the Philippines, the guest for this episode is Kara Taggaoa, a young labor…
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Labour Resilience Against Class Warfare in Myanmar - Part 2
In this episode, we present a two-part conversation on labour in post-coup Myanmar. More than two years after the coup, how has the labour movement fared? We spoke with labour activists Ma San and Ko Maung about organising garment workers and delivery riders, how activists navigate opportunities...
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Labour Resilience Against Class Warfare in Myanmar - Part 1
In this episode, we present a two-part conversation on labour in post-coup Myanmar. More than two years after the coup, how has the labour movement fared? We spoke with labour activists Ma San and Ko Maung about organising garment workers and delivery riders, how activists navigate opportunities...
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Women Journalists in Revolt, featuring Chie Matsumoto
We interview Chie Matsumoto about the progress and challenges of women media workers organizing against sexual harassment in Japan. Centering around recent successes of journalists speaking out against predatory behaviours, the conversation touches on addressing sexual harassment as a workplace...
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Continent of Resistance features conversations about strategies of building power within Asian labour movements. We talk with grassroots organizers and researchers from across Asia, followed by highlights from the world of work in Asia. The monthly podcast is co-produced and co-hosted by Kevin Lin (Managing Editor of Asian Labour Review) and Kriangsak (Kiang) Teera-Hong (Managing Director of Just Economy and Labour Institute). For more, visit: labourreview.org.
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Kriangsak Teera-Hong & Kevin Lin
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