作者简介
Luigi Tomba is a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National Univers it y. He is the author of Paradoxes of Labour Reform: Chinese Labour Theory and Practice from Socialism to the Market and co editor of The China Journal.
内容简介
Chinese residential comm unit ies 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 con solid ated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday live s. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is drive n 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 socia list tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater auto nomy 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.
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.
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