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Mobilizing without the Masses - Diana Fu

Mobilizing without the Masses

Control and Contention in China

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Buch | Hardcover
206 Seiten
2017
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42054-9 (ISBN)
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When it is illegal for organizations to rally people to take to the streets, what do they do? This book theorizes a new pathway of civil society mobilization in contemporary China - mobilizing without the masses. It is for scholars, students, policymakers, NGO practitioners, and the educated reader.
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.

Diana Fu is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an affiliate of the Munk School of Global Affairs Asian Institute. She holds a D.Phil. in Politics and an M.Phil. in Development Studies with distinction from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She was previously a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches contentious politics, Chinese politics, and development studies.

1. Introduction: organizing under duress; Part I. Technologies of Control: 2. Labor organizations in China; 3. Fragmented control; 4. Competitive control; Part II. Coaching Contention: 5. Micro-collective action; 6. Atomized action; 7. Discursive action 8. A political compromise? Appendix: political ethnography; Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 7 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 420 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-108-42054-0 / 1108420540
ISBN-13 978-1-108-42054-9 / 9781108420549
Zustand Neuware
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