Living Politics: Social Alternatives and the Crisis of Democracy.- Part I.- Ignoring the Attention-seeking State.- Survival as Citizenship, or Citizenship as Survival? Imagined and Transient Political Groups in Urban China.- Self-help is Political: How Organic Farming Creates an Autonomous Space Within the South Korean Nation State.- Part II.- Leveraging Informal Networks for Survival Politics.- Informal Grassland Protection Networks in Inner Mongolia.- Forest, Music, and Farming: The Takae Anti-helipad Movement and Everyday Life as Political Space.- Part III.- Alternative Value Creation.- The Dilemmas of Peach Blossom Valley: The Resurgence of Rice-terrace Farming in Gongliao District, Taiwan.- The Neverending Story: Alternative Exchange and Living Politics in a Japanese Regional Community.- Improvising the Future.