China's Embedded Activism (eBook, ePUB)

Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
Redaktion: Ho, Peter; Edmonds, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The contributors to China's Embedded Activism focus on the environmental realm - one of the most active areas of civil society in modern China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134080533
• Artikelnr.: 38266222

Autorenporträt

Richard Louis Edmonds is Visiting Professor in the Geographical Studies Program and Member, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. Peter Ho is Professor in International Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), University of Groningen

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Embedded Activism and Political Change in a
Semi-Authoritarian Context Peter Ho 2. Self-Imposed Censorship and
De-Politicized Politics in China: Green Activism or a Color Revolution?
Peter Ho 3. Corporatist Control of Environmental Non-Governmental
Organizations: A State Perspective Ru Jiang and Leonard Ortolano 4. "Of
Seven Mouths and Eight Tongues": Media, Civil Society, and the Rise of a
Green Public Sphere Craig Calhoun and Guobin Yang 5. Political Ecology of
Popular Protest in Mid-Qing China: Changes and Continuities with
Contemporary Resistance Ho-fung Hung 6. Grassland Campaigns during the
Collective Era: Socialist Politics and Local Strategies in Uxin Ju Hong
Jiang 7. Channeling Dissent: The Institutionalization of Environmental
Complaint Resolution Anna Brettell 8. Benefits and Costs of Shanghai's
Environmental Citizen Complaints System Mara Warwick and Leonard Ortolano
9. Not Against the State, Just Protecting Residents' Interests: An Urban
Movement in a Shanghai Neighborhood Jiangang Zhu and Peter Ho 10. An
Alliance between State and Society?: Environmental Activism in Shanghai
Seungho Lee 11. Caged by Boundaries?: NGO Cooperation at the Sino-Russian
Border Yanfei Sun and Maria Tysiachniouk 12. Transnational Advocacy at the
Grassroots: Benefits and Risks of International Cooperation Katherine
Morton 13. Perspectives of Time and Change: Rethinking Embedded Green
Activism in China Peter Ho and Richard Louis Edmonds