Dr. Jie Yang, Associate Professor of anthropology, received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 2006. Dr. Yang’s research is at the intersection of two primary areas: linguistic anthropology and China studies. In the first area, she is interested in the analysis of how power and ideologies are embedded in and work through language and how ideologies interpellate individuals and constitute/remold subjectivities. In the second area, Dr. Yang’s research interests focus on the aesthetic, therapeutic and neoliberal governance in contemporary China. Her two current research projects: one is China’s beauty economy, which capitalizes on the female body, feminine beauty, feminine youth, and sexuality. The other is the rise of the therapeutic in China (e.g. psychiatry, ecopsychology, counseling, social work, therapeutic consumption, therapeutic lifestyle). This project engages two areas of research on the notion of the therapeutic: one refers to a certain class of experts and the procedures they use to address psychic and physical problems; the other area of research is the modern welfare state and its ideologies, programs and policies that diagnose and normalize the marginalized groups.
发表于2024-12-22
Unknotting the Heart 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
摘抄了作者在最后一章对此书完整的总结: This book challenges interpretations of the socioeconomic transition in China as peaceful. I look at this massive transformation from a more dialogic and holistic perspective, highlighting this historical development a...
评分摘抄了作者在最后一章对此书完整的总结: This book challenges interpretations of the socioeconomic transition in China as peaceful. I look at this massive transformation from a more dialogic and holistic perspective, highlighting this historical development a...
评分摘抄了作者在最后一章对此书完整的总结: This book challenges interpretations of the socioeconomic transition in China as peaceful. I look at this massive transformation from a more dialogic and holistic perspective, highlighting this historical development a...
评分摘抄了作者在最后一章对此书完整的总结: This book challenges interpretations of the socioeconomic transition in China as peaceful. I look at this massive transformation from a more dialogic and holistic perspective, highlighting this historical development a...
评分摘抄了作者在最后一章对此书完整的总结: This book challenges interpretations of the socioeconomic transition in China as peaceful. I look at this massive transformation from a more dialogic and holistic perspective, highlighting this historical development a...
图书标签: 社会学 人类学 中国研究 心理 海外中国研究 情感 China 政治社会学
Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal “counselors” in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers.
These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and “hearts” of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.
逼近期末后读书速度放缓了。此书写的实在太好了!如何用心理咨询对国企下岗工人进行维稳、建构市场经济转型的过渡、解释性别观念的再塑,这个切入点太牛逼了!详见书评。Chris
评分找到的不多的讲走国的ideology& constitution of subjectivities的书
评分一个很特别的治理术视角。
评分理论使用的效率不是很高,甚至从经验本身来看有些牵强。概念的运用缺少对内涵和外延的框定,所以让psycho变成了一个大箩筐,什么东西都能往里塞的时候也就失去了经验的穿透力。有些地方对governnance和government并没厘清,福柯很好用,但是要小心谨慎呀。
评分一个很特别的治理术视角。
Unknotting the Heart 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书