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2025-01-22
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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
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評分斷斷續續看瞭一年多。。
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。
評分感覺寫得有點散,畢竟是長期的田野經曆的積纍。一些部分可以往政府策略上靠,但靠得有點生硬,而且未免腦補得過多,說服力差一點。不過從和諧社會到他並未論及的核心價值觀的脈絡可以看齣,作者的討論還是有先見之明的。不過還是把自己的一些初步的想法和作者的討論靠上瞭。
評分多元的利益主體在日常互動和衝突中用的是一套國傢話語,抗拒性的認同也成瞭“生産”社區共識的資源,進而強化瞭政權閤法性。有點遺憾報告寫完瞭纔看這本書,略感安慰的是作者有時也把20%說成瞭80%,原來不止是我一個人的睏境
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