Hai Ren

The Middle Class in Neoliberal China (eBook, PDF)

Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Investigating the new politics of the middle class in China, this book addresses three major questions. First, how does the Chinese state deal with problems of national sovereignty and political representation to create the middle class both as a legitimate category of the people and as an ideal norm of citizenship? Second, how does the recognition of the middle class norm take place in the practice of everyday life? Finally, what kind of risks does the politics of the middle class generate not only for middle class subjects but also for the disenfranchised? In answering these questions, this book examines a set of practices, bodies of knowledge, measures, and institutions that aim to manage, govern, control, and orient the behaviours, gestures, and thoughts of Chinese citizens.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136169410
• Artikelnr.: 38242587

Autorenporträt

Hai Ren is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Risk Economy of the Middle Class 1. The State Question of
the Middle Class 2. Cultural Neoliberalization 3. Life Spectacles 4.
Imagineering a Middle Class Society 5. Middle Class Photography 6.
Individualization and Precariousness of Life 7. Conclusion: The Middle
Class Dispositive in Chinese Risk Society