The dynamics of localized citizenship at the grassroots in China
In: Citizenship studies, Band 26, Heft 4-5, S. 712-717
ISSN: 1469-3593
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In: Citizenship studies, Band 26, Heft 4-5, S. 712-717
ISSN: 1469-3593
In: Citizenship studies, Band 21, Heft 7, S. 755-772
ISSN: 1469-3593
In: The China quarterly, Band 226, S. 342-362
ISSN: 1468-2648
AbstractThe demise of collective units that attach citizens to the state in China has been overstated; the hegemonic form of Chinese citizenship today links participation and welfare entitlement to membership in a collective unit in a specific locality. This article presents an ethnographic account of the operation of this "normal" form of local citizenship in resident and villager committees in Tianjin. These committees combine participatory and welfare dimensions of citizenship in one institutional setting. Here, citizens are bound to the state through a face-to-face politics that acts both as a mechanism of control and a channel for claims-making, a mode of rule I term "socialized governance," which blurs the boundaries between political compliance and social conformity, and makes social norms a strong force in the citizenship order. While variably achieved in practice, this form of citizenship represents an ideal that shapes conditions for politics and perceptions of inequality.
In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Band 226, S. 342-362
ISSN: 0305-7410, 0009-4439
In: The China quarterly, Heft 226, S. 342-362
ISSN: 1468-2648
The demise of collective units that attach citizens to the state in China has been overstated; the hegemonic form of Chinese citizenship today links participation and welfare entitlement to membership in a collective unit in a specific locality. This article presents an ethnographic account of the operation of this "normal" form of local citizenship in resident and villager committees in Tianjin. These committees combine participatory and welfare dimensions of citizenship in one institutional setting. Here, citizens are bound to the state through a face-to-face politics that acts both as a mechanism of control and a channel for claims-making, a mode of rule I term "socialized governance," which blurs the boundaries between political compliance and social conformity, and makes social norms a strong force in the citizenship order. While variably achieved in practice, this form of citizenship represents an ideal that shapes conditions for politics and perceptions of inequality. (China Q/GIGA)
World Affairs Online
In: Asian studies review, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 100-118
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Asian studies review, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 100-118
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Journal of east Asian studies, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 142-145
ISSN: 2234-6643
In: International journal of social welfare, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 231-232
ISSN: 1468-2397
In: Pacific affairs, Band 86, Heft 4, S. 901-903
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Pacific affairs, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 133-135
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Pacific affairs, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 180-182
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Pacific affairs, Band 85, Heft 1, S. 180-184
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 185-210
ISSN: 1467-2715
The channeling of popular struggles through legal cases is central to the strategy of the emerging "rights defense" movement in China, linking grassroots contention with professional mediators who translate grievances into the institutional environment of law. This was the case in an unusual, ultimately unsuccessful campaign in 2005 to remove an elected village chief in Taishi Village in Guangdong, China, by legal means. While the grievances that sparked the campaign were about the unequal distribution of the benefits from village development, the strategy of instituting a recall procedure and the framing of the campaign in terms of democracy and rule of law obscured distinctly gendered issues of poverty and inequality in the village, even though women were among the most visible protesters. This article employs a "sociology of translation" to link framing processes and power dynamics, thus proposing a methodological approach to reconnecting framing with other aspects of movements. In the Taishi case, the translation of the dispute into the language of law had contrary effects: it opened the door to a legitimate, if temporary, public space for the airing of villagers' claims. At the same time, translation legitimized the voices of "experts" who then became de facto leaders in this public space; it also increasingly shifted the action to the internet, to which the villagers apparently had no access. This analysis raises questions about whether such strategies may result in either the formation of durable rights-based identities among grassroots participants or a sense of being connected to a broader social movement. (Crit As Stud/GIGA)
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 84, Heft 1
ISSN: 0030-851X