Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China

Herausgeber: Brandtstädter, Susanne; Steinmüller, Hans

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines facets of popular politics that are, above all, animated by a quest for justice as law, fairness and public virtue. The aim is to better understand how "the political" emerges in the interstices of state law and local moralities. The contributors to the book focus on the interplay between private and public spaces, between morality and law, and between 'front stage' and 'back stage,' to explore how the common quest for justice, which takes on state slogans but cannot be absorbed by state institutions, changes Chinese society from the bottom-up by creating self-reflective new publics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138228597
• ISBN-10: 1138228591
• Artikelnr.: 48011113

Autorenporträt

Susanne Brandtstädter is Professor and Chair in the Anthropology of Globalization at the University of Cologne. Hans Steinmuller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Judging the State in Contemporary China
1. Battles over Green Space: Land Disputes, Rights Activism, and Emergent
Publics in Urban China
2. Making Personal Life Political: Political Trajectories of Everyday
Conversations in China's Online Communities
3. Marginalizing the law: Corporate social responsibility, worker hotlines
and the shifting grounds of rights consciousness in contemporary China
4. Judging publics and contested exclusion: The moral economy of
citizenship in China
5. Policy Documents: Imaginations of the State and the Struggle for Justice
in a Chinese Land-losing Village
6. What Rights Cannot Do: The Making and Unmaking of Public Goods in the
Yunnanese Countryside
7. Public Buddhist Philosophy: Civic Engagement and Discursive Space among
a Religious Group in Shanghai
8. Concealing and Revealing Senses of Justice in Rural China
Afterword