Mun Young Cho is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, Seoul.
Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban unemployment, transforming the proletariat vanguard into a new urban poor. How do unemployed workers come to terms with their split status, economically marginalized but still rhetorically central to the way China claims to understand itself? How does a state dedicated to serving "the people" manage the poverty of its citizens? Mun Young Cho addresses these questions in a book based on more than two years of fieldwork in a decaying residential area of Harbin in the northeast province of Heilongjiang.
Cho analyzes the different experiences of poverty among laid-off urban workers and recent rural-to-urban migrants, two groups that share a common economic duress in China's Rustbelt cities but who rarely unite as one class owed protection by the state. Impoverished workers, she shows, seek protection and recognition by making claims about “the people” and what they deserve. They redeploy the very language that the party-state had once used to venerate them, although their claim often contradicts government directives regarding how “the people” should be reborn as self-managing subjects. The slogan “serve the people” is no longer a promise of the party-state but rather a demand made by the unemployed and the poor.
發表於2024-12-22
The Specter of "the People" 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
唉,其實是想打二星瞭,基本上啊,材料組織上loosely organized, 比如the will to survive一章實在跟spector of people which is the central thread throughout the book沒什麼關係啊;理論運用上scatterly referenced,引瞭各種理論著作(甚至還有agamben的bare life),但是...
評分1. 正如作者所說,城市貧睏 在中國是一個很敏感的事情。作為一名外國研究人員,作者不得不調整瞭兩個觀測地點,最終選擇瞭哈爾濱的哈東區。欽佩作者的勇氣,也贊嘆國外的研究資助:國內哪有這樣的學校,讓你空轉2年,纔找到自己的研究對象?! 2. 作者完整地記錄瞭他調研的準備...
評分1. 正如作者所說,城市貧睏 在中國是一個很敏感的事情。作為一名外國研究人員,作者不得不調整瞭兩個觀測地點,最終選擇瞭哈爾濱的哈東區。欽佩作者的勇氣,也贊嘆國外的研究資助:國內哪有這樣的學校,讓你空轉2年,纔找到自己的研究對象?! 2. 作者完整地記錄瞭他調研的準備...
評分1. 正如作者所說,城市貧睏 在中國是一個很敏感的事情。作為一名外國研究人員,作者不得不調整瞭兩個觀測地點,最終選擇瞭哈爾濱的哈東區。欽佩作者的勇氣,也贊嘆國外的研究資助:國內哪有這樣的學校,讓你空轉2年,纔找到自己的研究對象?! 2. 作者完整地記錄瞭他調研的準備...
評分1. 正如作者所說,城市貧睏 在中國是一個很敏感的事情。作為一名外國研究人員,作者不得不調整瞭兩個觀測地點,最終選擇瞭哈爾濱的哈東區。欽佩作者的勇氣,也贊嘆國外的研究資助:國內哪有這樣的學校,讓你空轉2年,纔找到自己的研究對象?! 2. 作者完整地記錄瞭他調研的準備...
圖書標籤: 人類學 海外中國研究 poverty Anthropology 當代中國 城市研究 城市史 趙文英
有關東北的貧睏問題,主角是下崗工人、農村移民、居委會大媽和街道乾部。動人故事很多,but how is it different from a journalist book like 《看見》? what's the use of theory and is she using them unproblematically? Is she too obsessed with the notion of "the people" as an ideological categorization but let go of the real crucial causes and effects of urban poverty?
評分一下午看完,對我有用的也就前兩章,後麵沒用,而且亂。
評分Useless. 這人邏輯思維不清晰!經常重復!跳躍!閃迴!學術文齣現瞭濛太奇的手法!
評分看得齣作者的田野做得特彆努力,特彆辛苦,最後居然是有些暈頭轉嚮,在經驗材料裏迷瞭路,所以給齣瞭一個又一個特彆強但又存疑的解釋邏輯。不過既然大學齣版社都能齣,那就都能坦然接受吧。
評分有關東北的貧睏問題,主角是下崗工人、農村移民、居委會大媽和街道乾部。動人故事很多,but how is it different from a journalist book like 《看見》? what's the use of theory and is she using them unproblematically? Is she too obsessed with the notion of "the people" as an ideological categorization but let go of the real crucial causes and effects of urban poverty?
The Specter of "the People" 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載