Luigi Tomba is a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University. He is the author of Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to the Market and coeditor of The China Journal.
发表于2025-01-21
The Government Next Door 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
The core conception of this book seems to be community consensus: the shared discourses and converging interests of state and non-state actors (definitely including residents). The community consensus is resulting from five governance strategies summari...
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评分The core conception of this book seems to be community consensus: the shared discourses and converging interests of state and non-state actors (definitely including residents). The community consensus is resulting from five governance strategies summari...
评分The core conception of this book seems to be community consensus: the shared discourses and converging interests of state and non-state actors (definitely including residents). The community consensus is resulting from five governance strategies summari...
评分The core conception of this book seems to be community consensus: the shared discourses and converging interests of state and non-state actors (definitely including residents). The community consensus is resulting from five governance strategies summari...
图书标签: 社会学 政治学 海外中国研究 中国政治 人类学 urban 民族志 Politics
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place.
Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.
理论野心大,对城市新兴“中产阶级”的政治行动力的判断也挺到位的。但相比起来田野材料就太碎太单薄了,撑不起来那些论点。
评分USYD中国政治下周上课的主题是“中国城市的政治经济”,请了邓利杰来做讲座,不过我很好奇老师留这本书当阅读材料要怎么去讲课。这本书总体是两线并行来讲中国的封闭式社区,第一条线是下岗职工,主要是第二章在说政府是如何通过福利保障和社区干部来调节工人诉求和国家秩序。第二条线是中产阶级“自治”式的小区,三到五章分别是从小区的产生、业主利用国家话语维权和高素质的模范诞生(成为话语和排斥的表达)三个阶段来讲述。对工人阶级那部分讲述得很到位,但作者似乎对中产阶级有什么误解:显然政府和中产阶级在话语上的共识(比如和谐社会比如中国梦)没有作者想象的那么统一。不过第一章里有句话我觉得他写得很到位“(社区共识的)目的不是消除社会冲突,而是遏制冲突”。ps读的过程中还有个小插曲,总之期待这本书中文版明年的出版。
评分作者试图证明国家在社区治理中的两种治理术。在下岗工人社区,通过强化居委会、街道办,国家既提供福利又监视社会。在城市小区,国家以住房改革吸引中产,同时以"社区自治“和”“素质”的话语(discourse)鼓励对其他社会阶层的拒斥,以此维系城市空间分隔和社会稳定。前一半Read已写得很详细;后一半视角虽新但可靠性存疑。诚然,社会控制不都是通过压制性(repressive)手段实现的。但仅凭政府和中产在话语上的重叠(convergence),就认定两者之间存在"共识"(consensus,本书语境中或可理解为“合谋”),一切都是计划的一部分,脑补太多。说远一点,中国研究应该“求同”而非“求异”。比如,先看segregation和gentrification的普遍经验,再看中国是否特别、为何特别。
评分感觉写得有点散,毕竟是长期的田野经历的积累。一些部分可以往政府策略上靠,但靠得有点生硬,而且未免脑补得过多,说服力差一点。不过从和谐社会到他并未论及的核心价值观的脉络可以看出,作者的讨论还是有先见之明的。不过还是把自己的一些初步的想法和作者的讨论靠上了。
评分USYD中国政治下周上课的主题是“中国城市的政治经济”,请了邓利杰来做讲座,不过我很好奇老师留这本书当阅读材料要怎么去讲课。这本书总体是两线并行来讲中国的封闭式社区,第一条线是下岗职工,主要是第二章在说政府是如何通过福利保障和社区干部来调节工人诉求和国家秩序。第二条线是中产阶级“自治”式的小区,三到五章分别是从小区的产生、业主利用国家话语维权和高素质的模范诞生(成为话语和排斥的表达)三个阶段来讲述。对工人阶级那部分讲述得很到位,但作者似乎对中产阶级有什么误解:显然政府和中产阶级在话语上的共识(比如和谐社会比如中国梦)没有作者想象的那么统一。不过第一章里有句话我觉得他写得很到位“(社区共识的)目的不是消除社会冲突,而是遏制冲突”。ps读的过程中还有个小插曲,总之期待这本书中文版明年的出版。
The Government Next Door 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书