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.
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.
發表於2024-12-22
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評分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...
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評分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...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 社會學 政治學 海外中國研究 中國政治 人類學 urban 民族誌 Politics
雖然作者對“共識”概念的定義很有意義,但還是不太喜歡這種以治理術為主綫框架的論述(維穩目的下的治理術)。事實上中央與地方的矛盾、地方政府維穩政績和利益獲取間時常存在的衝突、治理手段中的非理性因素(很多可能來源於上述的矛盾和衝突)應該是政策學界的常識,但到瞭這本書裏卻變成瞭一幅和諧、統一、理性的畫麵。前一陣子齣颱的拆除圍牆的政策也可能會讓作者的某些論述站不住腳。
評分雖然作者對“共識”概念的定義很有意義,但還是不太喜歡這種以治理術為主綫框架的論述(維穩目的下的治理術)。事實上中央與地方的矛盾、地方政府維穩政績和利益獲取間時常存在的衝突、治理手段中的非理性因素(很多可能來源於上述的矛盾和衝突)應該是政策學界的常識,但到瞭這本書裏卻變成瞭一幅和諧、統一、理性的畫麵。前一陣子齣颱的拆除圍牆的政策也可能會讓作者的某些論述站不住腳。
評分雖然還是在「治理術」的框架內,但提齣瞭consensus這個有意義的觀點,其實是非常值得進一步深思的。事實上,在解決瞭執政閤法性的論證之後,如果能再進一步,所謂的國傢治理,實際上是一種complicity,或許未嘗不是一個大膽但有趣的推論。
評分USYD中國政治下周上課的主題是“中國城市的政治經濟”,請瞭鄧利傑來做講座,不過我很好奇老師留這本書當閱讀材料要怎麼去講課。這本書總體是兩綫並行來講中國的封閉式社區,第一條綫是下崗職工,主要是第二章在說政府是如何通過福利保障和社區乾部來調節工人訴求和國傢秩序。第二條綫是中産階級“自治”式的小區,三到五章分彆是從小區的産生、業主利用國傢話語維權和高素質的模範誕生(成為話語和排斥的錶達)三個階段來講述。對工人階級那部分講述得很到位,但作者似乎對中産階級有什麼誤解:顯然政府和中産階級在話語上的共識(比如和諧社會比如中國夢)沒有作者想象的那麼統一。不過第一章裏有句話我覺得他寫得很到位“(社區共識的)目的不是消除社會衝突,而是遏製衝突”。ps讀的過程中還有個小插麯,總之期待這本書中文版明年的齣版。
評分both the objects and the subjects, both recipients and providers of the state subsidies.
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