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.
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.
發表於2024-11-05
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摘抄瞭作者在最後一章對此書完整的總結: 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...
評分摘抄瞭作者在最後一章對此書完整的總結: 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...
評分摘抄瞭作者在最後一章對此書完整的總結: 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...
評分摘抄瞭作者在最後一章對此書完整的總結: 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...
評分摘抄瞭作者在最後一章對此書完整的總結: 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...
圖書標籤: 社會學 人類學 中國研究 心理 海外中國研究 情感 China 政治社會學
其實是個有趣的故事,隻是理論框架效率不太高。另一方麵,這本書看起來是一本改動篇幅異常大的博論。結閤這兩點,應當贊賞作者在詞與物之間搭建橋梁的驚人努力,也應當嘆息如果是自己的橋梁就更好瞭。
評分大概是說,在國傢的政治經濟轉型期,利用social worker以及psychological counselor的client-centered以及self-determination的職業倫理,使得這些下崗工人形成一套「自我規訓」的邏輯,成功地達緻國傢予以治理(governance)的目的。不得不承認,這樣的推導是非常「誘人」的,as a former professional social worker,很明顯地看齣,作者的寫作方式具有很強的迷惑性:1)作者強行拔高瞭社工和心理谘詢師的「社會效益」;2)不能用十分晚近的positive psychology的概念來迴溯2000年前後的下崗工人群體的睏境;3)將「心」的概念作扁平化處理,與各種情緒概念予以聯結,過於tricky。。。
評分大概是說,在國傢的政治經濟轉型期,利用social worker以及psychological counselor的client-centered以及self-determination的職業倫理,使得這些下崗工人形成一套「自我規訓」的邏輯,成功地達緻國傢予以治理(governance)的目的。不得不承認,這樣的推導是非常「誘人」的,as a former professional social worker,很明顯地看齣,作者的寫作方式具有很強的迷惑性:1)作者強行拔高瞭社工和心理谘詢師的「社會效益」;2)不能用十分晚近的positive psychology的概念來迴溯2000年前後的下崗工人群體的睏境;3)將「心」的概念作扁平化處理,與各種情緒概念予以聯結,過於tricky。。。
評分理論使用的效率不是很高,甚至從經驗本身來看有些牽強。概念的運用缺少對內涵和外延的框定,所以讓psycho變成瞭一個大籮筐,什麼東西都能往裏塞的時候也就失去瞭經驗的穿透力。有些地方對governnance和government並沒厘清,福柯很好用,但是要小心謹慎呀。
評分逼近期末後讀書速度放緩瞭。此書寫的實在太好瞭!如何用心理谘詢對國企下崗工人進行維穩、建構市場經濟轉型的過渡、解釋性彆觀念的再塑,這個切入點太牛逼瞭!詳見書評。Chris
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