Mobilizing without the Masses

Diana Fu is Assistant Professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto. This book builds upon her dissertation research at the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, she was a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research has been supported by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, and the Rhodes Trust. Her academic articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and Modern China, among others. Her writing and research have appeared in The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, PostGlobal, and Nicholas Kristof's 'On the Ground' Blog for The New York Times.

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Diana Fu

页数:193

出版时间:2017-11-9

价格:GBP 69.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781108420549

丛书系列:Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

图书标签:政治学社会运动社会学海外中国研究威权主义比较政治政治社会学politics

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When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobilizing without the masses - that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world's most powerful authoritarian state.

用户评价

一篇论文的篇幅硬生生地拖成了一本书...是个不错的提法，可惜没有历史沿革，没有地区变异，也没有对同一个概念的多维度解析。可能是为了凑字数，写作上花了过多篇幅综述既往研究，却没有充分与之交锋以阐明自己的贡献（或者说，贡献局限于个体形式表现的有组织动员这一点上）。书的前后两部分也纯属两张皮。同样是基于民族志的作品，可以对比Andrew Walder对新传统主义的剖析。

作者给我的感觉是已经带着立场在写（虽然立场或许没有错），情绪叙事都到位了，但一看底座就两根木头。第一部分的背景介绍感觉与第二部分的衔接度不高，对行政体系的研究太少，组织形成与framing都只是简单的以“哪里有压迫，哪里就有反抗”回答，与我的预期有出入，反而是她的讲disguised collective action的论文对我更有启发，或许是没想到以作者书中所写的范围而言，能写成一本书吧……不过我语言水平有限，看得比较敷衍，希望没有太多误读吧。

太稚嫩、格局太小了，除在中层加入介于组织与个体间的“无大众动员”外没有理论深度，大概看到倘若我本科直升读博做民族志的后果。上篇笼统地谈了劳工NGO，纵向中央和地方政府、横向不同政府机构对NGO的分散化管控，政府购买社会服务来促使竞争和收编管控。下篇对微观集体行动、个体化有幕后指导的行动、离散性行动三种策略的比较见P91，第一被直接镇压关停，第二采用个体威胁式行为达成诉求相对可行，第三用非暴力合作的文艺手段非常和谐。但是从零星的个体/组织行动到工人集体意识的启蒙到反权威政体意识的觉醒到对民主自由大众动员的乐观，这几步跳的太大了！一边是激进团体地下化去组织化的策略，一边是劳工在组织培训下参与个体抗争，两者完全没有融汇并切入政治+组织社会学理论核心，穿插的四个NGO案例毫无理论比较意义 M

第六章-atomized action原来都是为了达成目的导演好的。有的时候的确需要撒泼，像李敖讲的，缠着他，粘着他，折腾他，让他为我们服务。

正如标题讲的Mobilizing without Masses需要完成Mobilization和without masses两个任务。Diana可以在写作中对casing和framing的利用，来插入organizations在state-individual relationship的作用，全篇其实还是在讲dynamic interaction这个经典话题，只不过有state给予的条件，又有individuals的需求，所以有一个新的theoretical contribution，即处于collective action 和the weapon of weak中间的灰色地带。参看Diana的publications，她更熟练的是state and civil society而非微观组织。